I understand that I'm throwing myself into a snake pit, but something should be done to modern Islamic way of thinking about infidels, if you want happy Israel. I mean, look at the border of Islamic world where said borders are not seashores. Central Africa: There are low-intencity wars in Nigeria, Niger, CAR, Chad, Ethiopia, etc.
Middle East: Israel
Balkans: Bosnia, Kosovo
Caucasus: Chechnya, Karabakh, low-intensity Islamic guerilla in Dagestan, Ingushetia, Cherkessia
Central Asia: there was vicious civil war between Islamists and seculars in Tajikistan in 1991-1995 and secular dictatorships of Stans are waging permanent low-intencity repression campaign to keep Islamists under the proverbial lid
Subcontinent: Pakistan and India. Do I need to say more?
China: East Turkestan
Indochina: Islamic guerillas in Thailand, Moro rebellion in Philippines, Aceh, East Timor.
One might claim that "other" side isn't blameless in those conflicts too and I'll be the 1st one to agree. Russia or China are hardly pillars of human rights and Balkans were murderous free-for-all for centuries. However, if you're fighting with
all your neighbours at once, it is so much easier to assume that something is not quite right with you than to blame rest of humankind for your woes.
Secular Zionists had no problem coexisting with the Arabs, (baring in mind there were nowhere near as many of them in the early 20th Century as there are today).
It was the religious element that had a problem, the element that believed that a Jewish homeland should either be only for Jews, or that if non-Jews were to be there, they should be as a subservient class.
U R wrong. Religious Zionists are relatively new phenomena and they became a political force long after conflict had been shaped. I would say that POD should be well before 1921 (before 1st Jerusalem Pogrom in Mandate), and religious Zionists are nowhere to be found before 1930s.
There was a path to a Happy Israel it was called the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement. Basically the President-elect of the World Zionist Organization got together with the Shariff of Mecca (via his son) and hammered out a deal where there would be a Jewish homeland in what is today Israel/Palestine with bits of OTL Jordan Syria and Lebanon. In return for the land the Jews would provide capital,educated people and connections to help build up the planned Arab state.
It all sounds fine and dandy, but are you sure that "Arab street" would wholeheartedly support Hachemites in implementation of this agreement? After all, they were not too successful in winning popular support.