religion isn't the defining characteristic of the israeli-palestinian (or, as noam chomsky says it should be referred to as, the israeli/US-palestinian) conflcit. it's all about US empire. zionist jews may think they have a divine right to the land (which somehow translates into the divine right of the severe repression of palestinians), but the zionist project would not be possible without the support of the US government, which has a vested interest in maintaining israel to carry out its imperialist adventures elsewhere in the middle east.