Israel-Palestine - One State

Coming from a country where we have two very difference ethnic races bound together by a constitution - I believe the solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is not a two state solution, but a one state solution.
Yes even here in New Zealand we have problems between the Maori and Pakeha (as they call us) - but nothing on the scale of what is happening in Israel.

I don't think a two state solution is ever going to work for a couple of reasons.
The first reason is who gets Jerusalem? They both want it and under a two state solution they both can't have it.

The second reason is that many of the Palestinians just want to go home - where their ancestors came from or where there family came from. Many of these places are in Israel. Of course they can still live there, but as Israeli citizens not Palestinians. This isn't entirely fair however, and is like the British dividing up New Zealand into two parts, one for the Maori and one for the British - New Zealand never would have worked under that arrangement. The Palestinians the Maori people have a spiritual connection to their land.

However the big difference between New Zealand and the Palestine/Israel situation is that Maoris make up only around 13% of our population - so the British were naturally quite happy to 'share' the country with them. We outnumbered them after all so having a democratic government was to our advantage (funny how it's turned out now though).
Over there, almost as many Palestinians as there are Israelis - and sharing equal power with their most hated enemy might be a tough thing to swallow for many of them.

I'm sure many people disagree and may feel I'm being too sympathetic to the Palestinians, however I'm not.
I'm not advocating that the Palestinians get to claim Israeli land like the Maoris can claim land here, and I certainly don't feel that Israel should make any concessions until the terrorism stops.
What I am advocating if these people really want to live in peace they are going to have to live together under a democratic state with one law for all the people, a state that they can all claim as their own and live where they want.

Is this ever going to happen? I really don't know, while almost too much damage has been done for these people to live together, reform is coming to the Middle East one way or another.