They won’t like hearing it, but the loudest supporters of both sides of the Israel/Palestine conflict are misguided. The struggle is not an existential clash of civilizations, competing nationalisms or religious fundamentalism vs. liberal democracy. Even comparative devastation — horrific, albeit asymmetrical, what some have called a competitive “Olympics of suffering” — is not the key issue. At the risk of being unduly reductive, this struggle is one of territory; literally, the soil — the soil of homeland, not just dirt. From the perspective of 30,000 feet and 3,000 years of history, no one has an exclusive claim to the...