This conflict didn't start with superstition and to continue to hide behind the religious conflict ignores the system on which it continues to be based.
It started with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, which many say was pushed by several Western governments, whose land was cut up by the French and the British for their own purposes, including the Mandate for Palestine. During the fall, Ottoman sided with the British against the Germans during WW1. There were deals made during that time - for the population at that time. Afterwards Balfour promises it as the land of the Jewish people. Until the end, it was being promised to group after group, much in return for aid or support in war efforts. In the end the UN (and America) back a modified Balfour's proposal and the British withdrew after very limited support in actually moving or helping people.
Afterwards, America backs the Jewish state of Israel for...disturbing reasons (the religious Christians of America, who have a lot of political power, believe that once most Jews live within Israel, then their Messiah will return). It backs it financially, politically, and with arms.
It's a conflict based on broken promises and Western ambitions, they don't care about the separate buses or the current proposals of Christian Arabs going to be given more rights than Muslim ones (that likely pleases them) or the forced birth control on African refugees or outright racist remarks from their government, or the number of Palestinian children in jail or babies who die at border crossing from women trying to get to hospitals. Even Mizrahi Jews and African Jews are being oppressed in poverty. It's systematic and it's purposeful, the superstitions are just a veneer over much bigger roots.