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In Israel Muslims and Arabs and ethnic Palestinian citizens do live in relative harmony, with all the same rights as Jews, including ability to be in government leadership.
Throughout all of Israel's history it has been cold, hard, fact that if Israel were to give citizenship rights to ALL Palestinians, those Palestinians would have the ability to vote Israel out of existence... To turn it into an anti-Jewish theocracy. And half a century of terrorism and attempts by surrounding countries to wipe Israel off the map shows that they are very inclined to do just that.
That's why Israel angled for a two state solution. Peace WITHOUT the destruction of Israel.
Palestinians lost the right to claim they're not Hamas when they elected Hamas to lead them.
The opposition party only has 14 percent support.
It was Israel who decided that they wanted Hamas to lead palestinians rather than the Palestine Liberation Organization.
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-conflict/
For decades the PLO had shown that they were not interested in peaceful coexistence. And that would prove to be true in the following decades as well.
In funding the PLO's political opposition, Israel was attempting to charge the political landscape, and weaken the PLO.
Remember the PLO might have been secular, but they were still terrorists.
In that context you can see how creating the group that would someday much later evolve into hamas was a bad gamble, but hindsight is 20-20.