You expect the Jews and the Palestinians to live together as one nation with the Palestinians in their current state of mind? I...don't...think...so.
As to your prior question about why Egypt and Jordan don't want their former territories returned let me answer this way:
I think that most people miss the real story in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and that is why do the Israelis act the way they do?
There has been no 'Jewish Army' in the past 2,000 years or so. The Jews have been booted about at the whim of the rulers of whatever lands they have lived in. At any moment, no matter how secure they had become in their current homelands, they were subject to ejection and often were. The discriminatory treatment, humiliations and oppression were pretty much a constant.
Everyone, OTOH, has heard of the Muslim armies, those charming fellows who created a religion by the sword. As an aside doesn't anybody wonder why the Muslims are so outraged that they have lost Jerusalem? After all, they have lost it the same way that they got it.
At any rate, here come the Jews, those famous warriors and ravening despoilers of nations and peoples, onto a sliver of land, opposed by millions determined to crush them, and suddenly, out of nowhere, the Jews turn out to be monstrously depraved, murderous lunatics plotting barbarous tortures on a helpless and cowering defeated people?
What a laugh. The Israelis do what they do because they, to their horror, are compelled to do it. The Egyptians and Jordanians are, in effect, saying "Thank goodness we were able to dump that mess off onto them. Whew!"
A couple of passing thoughts and then I'm done with it.
No Jew has broken into a Palestinian house, hunted a mother and her two children into a back bedroom where they were crouched into a corner and shot them to death.
A few years back a proud avenger of the Palestinian cause detonated a bomb in a nightclub full of Russian immigrant teenagers. Across the street from that nightclub stands a Mosque. Where are the Temples in the Palestinian territories?
In your vision of a democratic state for the region, one suddenly supported by a Islamic political party, whom would you chose to be your neighbors? The Armenian Copts, the Orthodox Christians, the Jews or the Palestinians with their closests full of Kalashnikovs and their bomb-belt undergarments? I'll leave out that you might also have to listen while they murder their sisters and daughters for having sex.
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