“so have others”
There is no real difference between
Palestinians, Syrians, Jordanians and Lebanese,
in terms of language, culture, history, religion, literature etc…
besides the interactions of some of them with Jewish immigrants.
They all live in Ottoman Palestine.
They never called themselves or were they called by others
“Palestinians” except in the sense of people
who lived in a placed called Palestine,
much as you might refer to some people
as Iberians or Anatolians.
The uniqueness of this division of land as a political and historical entity
existed only in the minds of the Jewish people.
Those “others” never had national aspirations.
They have more interest in Jews not having a state,
than in having one for themselves.
Ernest Bevin said this (paraphrased) in Feb. 1947
in a note to the British government.
Despite your condescending question,
Israeli Arabs live better than Arabs in
neighboring non-oil-producing countries.
Those in Gaza or the P.A. live under their own government
with their own prerogatives.
And now a counter-question.
How about building on the Hitnatkut (disengagement from Gaza),
instead of giving Israelis every reason to think it was a mistake?
How about Palestinian leaders telling their people the goal of the
eventual peace talks is reconciliation and a final peace,
and that it won’t be achieved without compromise?