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Your saying that Gaza is a conflict that has nothing to do with religion?
Don't get me wrong there's a lot of fighting over supposed territorial boundaries. But Israel is a Jewish State and Palestine is a Muslim State. I'm not going to condescend you with a history lesson but let's not forget the Palestinian Arabs explicitly told Britain and the Jews that Israel would not work.
It's not like putting a people who are hated for religious reasons next to the people that hate them is going to cause trouble right?
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Jews and Muslims and Christians coexisted peacefully side-by-side in Palestine for centuries. For most of the time since Muhammed founded Islam, Jews have been far safer in Muslim countries than in Christians. It's only really since the late 19th century that things have been going downhill. And that's largely as a response to Jewish nationalism and an increase in Jewish population in the region. So, as I said, nationalism and territorial possessiveness.
You could argue that both Jewish and Islamic nationalism and territorialism comes from the religious history/myth. And that would be true. But it would also be against the point, because we were talking about the religious laws, not the history.