I agree with a lot of this.Personally, I think relocation but that would never fly because war crimes and stuff. So since that is off the board, you basically have periods of relative calm while the weaker side builds itself up and then spasms of violence to break them back down and then pray for a miracle.
Or, if you have a religious bent, you wait for the Messiah/Jesus to come sort it out (or for the Muslims, their version of that). Frankly, I am more on the religious side, I don't think we are sorting it out and my good book says I should be really weary of the guy who says we got a 7 year peace deal. That gets you criticized around here so I tend to stick to that which is humanly possible even though w.r.t. this topic I don't think anything humanly is likely to fix it.
Some would say that is likely part of the problem and perhaps there is some truth to that. However, I think even without the religious context that the land dispute alone would be enough to keep this going. When two groups claim the same land, the only past solution was to let them duke it out. The winner got the land and the loser had to go somewhere else. And if there was nowhere else to go, the loser was beaten and killed by the winner until they were so small of a threat that it didn't matter anymore. And then they would somewhat assimilate into the governing structure of the winner. Modern western ethics and morals do not allow for that anymore so we end up with forever conflicts. Those low intensity issues that carry on for centuries are viewed as a better outcome than a mass casualty war. So someone who says, "You know, we should probably basically ethnically cleanse them out of the Israel controlled borders and force them into Egypt and Jordan" is seen as an evil extremist while the alternative of, nah, force them to live together until they figure out "peace" is the statesman like approach. The deaths along the way on that road are just the toll to be paid.
The Palestinians in that interview are correct on one thing. There is no 2 state solution, only one. Which is why I have advocated letting Israel annihilate them to the point where they realize that the one state is never going to be Palestine. Like ever.
I do wonder if we (or at least I) as an American don’t appreciate well enough some cultures’ deep ties to their ancestral land.
Are you thinking of other prolonged conflicts too when you refer to forever wars? Palestine/Israel seems unique.