Until the advent of materialism and 19th c. dogma, Western Civilisation was superior to anything Islam had developed. Islam has not aided in the development of the modern world; in fact civilisation has only been created in spite of Islam. Proof of this resides in the 'modern' world and the unending political-economic and spiritual poverty of Muslim states and regions. Squatting on richer civilisations is not 'progress'. Islam is pagan, totalitarian, and irrational.
Arab Moslems have engaged in Jihad against Jews since the founding of the Meccan moon cult. Al-ilah means the Lord, it does not mean God in the Judaic sense of the word. The Lord of Mecca was Baal, famous within the Old Testament as a cult of evil, which included child sacrifice, polygamy, bloody animal votive offerings, and little in the way of morality or ethics. Hub'Al or Hu Baal was the Meccan Baal.
In the time of King David and his son the profligate and highly overrated Solomon, Gaza was Jewish territory. So too was the West Bank. Samaria was populated by the 'Samaritans', transplanted Babylonian Jews who settled there post 540 BC and who had a different interpretation of Jewish scripture. They were shunned by the more Orthodox Jews, but Samaritans still considered themselves Jewish. Long in advance of the Meccan moon cult, the Jewish empire and its lands which at one time extended from Gaza to Damascus was a salient geo-political fact and force. Destroyed first by the Assyrians [722 BC], then by Babylon [587 BC]; the Jewish state was reconstituted under Cyrus the Persian in 540 BC.
The fact is that the Jewish state and its lands, including that of Gaza pre-date the Meccan moon cult by at least 1600 years. So who is squatting on whose land ?
The violence emanating from Hamas, Fatah, Hizbollah and other Moslem-fascist groups against the Jewish state will never end. The reason is simple – Koranic and Moslem anti-Semitic culture. The Koran mandates the destruction of all Jews [and all Christians as well]. Blaming the Jew for Moslem violence and Jihad is an apogee of stupidity. If Hamas and the Gazans were to forswear violence, destroy their rockets and tunnels, and turn their energies to commerce, education and development, peace would reign. But this will never happen as long as Islam and its Koranic fascism hold sway over any society, including the non-culture in 'Gaza', yet another example of a failed Arab-Moslem state.