That's actually not true- they are calling for a state in which all would live as equals- to oppose that, you have to assume that Palestinians are inherently barbaric, and to disregard the centuries on centuries in which Palestinians and Muslim or Christian Arabs treated Jews- and in the Middle East, the indigenous Jewish population, the Mizrahi, are also Arabs, they are simply Jewish Arabs- far, far better than Christian Europe ever did.
For myself, I don't think this model is workable as yet- though it could be on a long-term basis- and that the best model for Israel/Palestine would be a Belgian-style federation, in which there would be a largely Palestinian region, a largely Israeli-Jewish region(though both regions would in effect treat people of both national communities as equals) and Jerusalem as a Brussels-style nonsectarian city shared by all.
That kind of a model could work- what can NEVER work is the endless Israeli insistence on screaming "Admit you're wrong! Admit it's all YOUR fault! Admit you never acted out of anything but irrational hatred of us" at Palestinians and Arabs, an endless insistence on demanding that Palestinians and Arabs, in effect, agree that they are inherently barbaric and inherently incapable of treating anybody else as human beings- so why stay with what we all know doesn't work?
As a start, how about admitting that Palestinians were largely treated unjustly in the 1947-48 era? That there was no reason to drive hundreds of thousands of them away from their homes and never allow them back? That anyone, anywhere, would resist such treatment?
Israel doesn't have to be atavistic and mindlessly rigid to defend the community it purports to exist for- and, in practice, its mindless rigidity actually does that community far more harm than good- especially when it is combined with the absurdly fascistic practice of teaching all Israeli-Jewish children that everyone else on the planet wants them dead when that obviously isn't true and when it obviously isn't possible to create a sustainable society with paranoia as its organizing principle?
In short, why stay with any part of the status quo when none of it works?
