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Thanks for the post, will. I think it's a little problematic to tell this story by treating these different actors as people. It's just not a very precise analogy; when we talk about Shlomo, he's not really a single continuous entity but a string of Jewish social leaders and then successive Israeli governments from opposing parties and with different approaches to the conflict. Muhammad also has internal schisms at various times (the largely external PLO until Oslo, internal modernists and reformers, internal radicals). There's also no real extra-regional context in your story, except the United States and WW2 Europe; i.e. no Arab-league or regional politics, and no USSR.
I just think it's too complicated a story to boil it down to a character-based parable, at least if you're going for political accuracy. What stories can do is tell a different kind of truth altogether, and if nothing else I think your narrative gives a very accurate version of the terms in which most Arabs view this conflict.
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