That is what I have heard forever as well. But on deeper inspection, the issue is with all the Palestinians that fled after the first war and were never allowed back into the land Israel took / where they lived inside 1948 Israel.  Now I can make sense of that because 700k-1M + people that don’t really like Israel living in Israel is something I don’t think would work out?  But the false narrative that “why don’t the other Arab countries take them in” keeps propagating.  The Palestinians are nothing like the surrounding Arab Nations.  We will never know what would have happened if everyone accepted the 1948 borders and UN agreement.  

But here we are.  And make no mistake. The Likud and conservative Israeli population wants to get rid of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.  They aren’t going about it like Hamas does against Israel, but there are bad things happening to innocent people in Gaza and the West Bank by Israelis.  

I wish it were as simple as Palestinians lay down their arms. But we live in the real world and something must really be done to bring the Palestinians out of the dumpster they are in for them to live in peace.