The interests are unbalanced. The people of Gaza are in a political and economic limbo, never having had any sovereignty over their own destiny, always under military control of a foreign power, better off and more secure under the United Arab Republic that Egypt and Syria formed in the 60's, but still never in a stable or secure position. They are militarily and economically under Israeli control. Americans have a very biased and skewed perspective of their presence because they are Muslim, even though their ancestors were in Palestine, where there was no Jewish state in existence before 1948, going all the way back to the first century before Christ.
It was the Ottomans, under Suleiman, who were the first to initiate and welcome the return of Jews to Palestine, which was under their control until 1917. Of course, democratic societies don' t keep the peace with absolute power and military supression. But I wouldn't say that the democracies, especially the British influence, was ever all that successful at bringing the sense of security and prosperity to the middle east when they wanted to run it for their own economic interests, did they?
Getting at, and resolving the root problems of violence is not easy, and it requires a level of understanding, especially when the cultural differences run so deep, that has been beyond the reach of anyone who has held the reins of power in the Middle East.
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