Are sentences having same meaning?
[1] Conflicts between Jews and Palestinian Arabs are now, and always have been, more about the control of land, settlements, and access to water than about religion.
[1] As now, the conflict between Jews and Palestinian Arabs was less about religion than control of land, settlements, and access to water.
[2] Islamism is a grassroots religious revival in Islam that seeks political power to curb what are seen as dangerous secular influences; also seeks to replace secular governments and civil laws with governments and laws guided by Islamic principles?
[2] Islamism rejects political power