The only time Eretz Yisrael has been peaceful is when it was part of a very large and powerful empire, and was in the middle of said empire, and had no serious civil disorders (probably due to having eliminated all dissent). This is rare (briefly under the Romans after they got rid of most of us, until the Arabs came). It was also fairly peaceful for a while under the Turks (from when they had solid control of the region, until when they didn’t).
If Ha-Shem wants us to have a quiet peaceful out of the way place, we would have been taught seamanship and moved to someplace that was then uninhabited (3000+ years ago) and far removed from other peoples, such as New Zealand or Iceland or Madagascar. Eretz Yisrael is at a cross roads of many cultures and by its location will usually be “in the news”, so we should assume that has something to do with Ha-Shem having placed us there.