The brutal terror attack against parishioners praying in a Jerusalem synagogue this week demonstrates (once again) that this is not, as it's popularly portrayed, a dispute about territory. Just like it wasn't about territory when Arabs butchered the Jews of Hebron in 1929, or when Jews were slaughtered in Russian pogroms in days gone past.
It's about existence, and it is not possible to compromise on existence. If you don't want me to exist, and I do, there's really not much that I can do to solve your problem.
The sooner we, as the Jewish People, recognize this, the better off we are, because accurately identifying a problem is the first step towards handling it properly.
The bias we find in many of the nations of the world (they may disagree about most issues, but when it comes to Israel they seem to be of one mind) dates all the way back to Esau. In this week's Torah portion, Rebecca is prophetically told that the two fetuses quarrelling in her womb would be the fathers of two nations, and that when one would rise the other would fall. Our sages plainly observed that "Esau's hatred of Jacob" is merely a fact of life.
The good news is that the forces of "Esau" will eventually come around and learn to appreciate "Jacob" and his role in the world. May that time come speedily in our days with the coming of the ultimate redemption.