My question is this: Palestine allies with Muslim/Arab middle eastern states. Arab/Muslim middle eastern states ally with Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) basically Russia and China. Israel allies with USA and NATO. Question #1: Is the conflict about --choice 1-- [Islam, land, Sharia law, Palestine, Mohammed] or is it about --choice 2 -- control over the [Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Iran pipeline to Pakistan/India, Israels hegemony, Arab state hegemonies etc] If it were about #1 Israel will never be able to reason because they are primarily Jews. Demanding Israel's Jews to convert to Islam is not ethical. #2 seems more reasonable to assume (with #1 as a front or cover). So if #2 is the problem, then really this is not a Palestine-Israel issue at all. This has much broader implications. The Palestinian refugee situation could be used by other Arab-states as a way to spread anti-Israel hatred. By keeping the conflict alive, and forcing the Palestinian people stay in the meat grinder by not allowing them to merge into other Arab states. Then they can file human rights abuse charges through the United Nations against the State of Israel. This huge Vote of the UN alliance (SCO for example) could be used unjustly to assail Israel and exploit the Palestinian issue to deliberately prevent peace, and use the world's hatred of Israel as a weapon to attack the USA with. In this case the alliance of Israel and USA is bad for Israel because Israel serves the US against the SCO and is hated for it, and bad for the US because of its support for Israel, while Israel has been made to seem worse than it is because of the unbalanced UN alliances voting in favor of the SCO states. So what about this? If the conflict is caused by the USA & NATO alliance with Israel (because of the geopolitical strategies of that western alliance) and the SCO and pro-Islamic world powers are allying against US hegemony in the middle east (and they are backed by China and Russia), then I ask.... What about Israel and the Jewish people's interests, which must be respected? Lets think of Israel in a vacuum of idealism for a moment, and just pretend. Ideally, to create peace in the middle east, Israels militaristic, economic, geopolitical aspirations must be "in line" with the same aspirations of the Arab states and SCO members. What would it take to merge those interests? Could Israel align itself with Russia and China instead of the USA? If the threat #1 above was not the real problem (and the, 'all Jews must be killed for Islam' nonsense was curbed) and Jews (who have a lengthy history as middle eastern people regardless of whether Muslims believe the Jews are really the true Israelites of the Old Testament or not, and that Muslims are, etc) were respected as a middle eastern people and allowed to remain and control the State of Israel as a Jewish state as it is... could an alliance be built (and why not)? Israel aligning itself with the SCO (laughable it seems, I know). But if this could happen. Israel would be aligned with those middle eastern powers and could have peace...ideally (assuming #1 Jew/Muslim prejudices are stopped). Like in the Godfather "All our ships must sail in the same direction." (Otherwise war and death is inevitable - note all the WWIII scenarios that have been popping up lately). So, what is the downside? The US loses some geopolitical ground in the middle east. So what? This would be a solution for Israel at least, would it not? Israel gets out alive, the middle eastern states don't have Mossad spies breathing down their neck, it becomes harder for the USA to operate in the region, but they can operate from their bases in Iraq. Forget about what happens for the US, I would just like to know why uniting with Russia and China (SCO) is not in the cards for Israel, especially with the possible impending collapse of the US economy and the rise of a strong militaristic China? Many Jews are from Russia, many Jews were in power in Russia before the creation of Israel. Many Jews have socialist philosophies in Israel who came from Russia and Old Europe. Could this realignment work for Israel, and why not.