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16.9 Islamic Roots of the Palestinian Arab Conflict with Israel
The woke left tends to view everything through the lense of oppression. They see the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians as a conflict between the oppressor (Israel) against the poor innocent victims (Palestinian Arabs). They see Jews living in Israel and view that as oppressive occupation of Palestinian land. They don't see reality which is that the conflict between Palestinian and Israeli is caused by Islamic antisemitism against the Jew. Leftist administrations pressure Israel into giving up valuable land for peace and peace never comes. Every now and then some drastic event happens that should wake up the woke left but doesn't. One of those events was reported by the Associated Press and happened during the Oct 2023 surprise attack of Hamas against Israel. Social media was replete with videos of Hamas fighters parading stolen Israeli military vehicles through the streets and at least one dead Israeli soldier within Gaza being dragged and trampled by an angry crowd of Palestinians shouting Allahu Akbar (God is greatest). The entire war is evidence that religion and not territory is the cause, because Israel ceded the territory of Gaza to the Palestinians hoping that peace would result. The Palestinians have been firing rockets at Israel from that territory and launched the October war against Israel from there.
Hugh Fitzgerald in an article entitled The Scorpion Pass Massacre wrote:
The Palestinians like to justify their terrorism against Israelis as being prompted by the Jewish state’s control of the “occupied West Bank.” But before Israel came into possession of the West Bank (the name that Jordanians gave to those parts of Judea and Samaria they had seized in the 1948 war) in 1967, when tiny Israel was even tinier than it is today, with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea, there were hundreds of terror attacks on the Jewish state, from Jordan in the east, from Egypt in the south, and from Syria in the north between 1949 and 1967.
One approach to answering this question of what is the cause of conflict in the Middle East is to ask how many conflicts are Jews and Muslims involved in that have nothing to do with the Middle East. The answer for Jews is none. The answer for Muslims is conflicts all over the world including remote parts of Africa which have nothing to do with Jews or Israel. As I write this there is a news item about Muslims murdering 17 people working their fields in the Congo and beheading some of them with machetes. Muslims are murdering non-Muslims and Muslims from different sects of Islam in Syria as well as Christians and Druze. Another question is who commits acts of terrorism in countries such as Canada where Muslims burned a Jewish children's school bus and then a Jewish children's school? Why aren't Jews burning Muslim buses in Canada? I saw this report about a school bus the same day I read about the murders in the Congo. There are many more outrageous incidents like this one. Who fights the police in Western countries, Jews or Muslims? Who occupies university campuses, Jews for Israel or Muslims against Israel? Could there be a connection between Muslim violence in the Congo and Muslim violence in Israel? Yes there can and there is. The reason for the attacks in the Congo is religious, it is Muslim against infidel. That is the cause of Muslim violence against Israel. Israel is forced to defend itself and Muslim propaganda then portrays Israel as the aggressor but the Muslims are the ones who force Israel to defend itself.
One way to get an idea of who causes conflicts is to find out who helps people and who doesn't. Muslims in Lebanon killed Christians there, Israel helped the Christians defend themselves and allowed Christians to flee to Israel. Israel provides refuge to the non-Jews, Muslim countries won't even provide refuge to other Muslims. For example Egypt refused to allow in Muslims from Gaza.
Although Muslims tell Westerners their cause is liberation of Palestine they tell each other a lot more than that. İsmet Özel, a well-known Muslim poet from Turkey, said at a conference: “Muslims are terrorists. The first duty of Muslims is to be terrorists. Kafirs [infidels] should be afraid of Muslims. If they are not afraid, then a Muslim is not a Muslim.” One of the frightening things about the video of Ismet speaking is the applause after he spoke.
Ephraim Karsh in his book Palestine Betrayed explained the root causes of conflict in the Middle East when he wrote how the Mufti of Jerusalem inflamed the Muslim masses. Dr. Karsh wrote:
..the Mufti utilized the immense inflammatory potential of Islam, which had constituted the linchpin of the Middle East social and political order for over a millenium, and its deep anti-Jewish sentiment. Reflecting the prophet Muhammad's outrage over the rejection of his religious message by the Jewish community, both the Koran and later biographical traditions of the Prophet abound with negative depictions of the Jews. In these works they are portrayed as a deceitful, evil and treacherous people who in their insatiable urge for domination would readily betray an ally and swindle a non-Jew, and who tampered with the Holy Scriptures, spurned Allah's divine message, and persecuted his messenger Muhammad just as they had Jesus of Nazareth and other previous prophets. For this perfidy, they would incur a string of retributions, both in the afterlife where they would burn in Hell, and hear on earth, where they were justly condemned to an existence of wretchedness and humiliation. "I never saw the curse denounced against the children of Israel more fully brought to bear than in the East," wrote an early nineteenth century Western traveler to the Ottoman empire, "where they are considered rather as a link between animals and human beings, than as men possessed with the same attributes."
An outstanding article that discusses the Islamic roots of conflict in the Middle East was written by Arieh Stav in the January 1996 issue of Outpost called Arabs and Nazism. The section. The following are some of the relevant paragraphs from that article.
The destruction of Israel has become a theological imperative for Islam. At the fourth Islamic conference in Cairo, in 1968, Sheik Nadim el-Jasser of Lebanon said that Allah had posed a challenge to the Moslems with the establishment of the Zionist entity, and their salvation could only come if they first destroyed Israel. In the Egypt of the 1980s, el-Jasser's thesis was expanded to argue that the destruction of the Jews was no longer merely an Islamic theological problem, no longer a regional issue, but a categorical imperative for all humanity, whose redemption will come only after it recovers from the cancerous growth that has spread over the body of mankind.
According to this view, the existence of Israel is intended to solve the logistical problem of gathering the Jews into one place in order to make it easier to destroy them. Jahia al-Rahawi amplifies this theme in Al Ahrar, the Arab daily published by Egypt's Liberal Party. "When the State of Israel was established and recognized by many in both East and West, one of the reasons for this recognition was the desire to get rid of as many representatives as possible of the human error which is called Jews. There was an additional purpose, a secret one, namely to place them all in one location so that they might be extinguished at the appropriate moment. In this confrontation, we see how that great man Hitler, may Allah have mercy on him, one of the wisest of men, dealt with this problem. Out of compassion for humankind, he tried to destroy every Jew, but despaired of healing this cancerous growth that spread in the body of humanity." This was published on July 19, 1982. On October 22, 1986.
Sheik Yusef Badri, one of Egypt's senior theologians, was quoted as saying: "We are waiting for the day when the Jews will be gathered in Falestin and it will be a day of enormous slaughter. The Jews will hide behind stones and rocks but each will call to a Moslem and say 'A Jew hides behind me. Come and kill him.' "
When Berlin fell, Hitler said that the destruction of Germany was appropriate for a nation that had failed to fulfill its purpose. In 1982, Ahmed Ben Bela, knowingly or not, repeated Hitler's words when he expressed his willingness to destroy the Arab world so long as Israel was destroyed. If there is no other solution, he declared, there will be a nuclear war and so that matter shall be finished once and for all.
An excellent article about this is called Pedagogy of Hate and was written by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook (1/4/2004). In the article they write that:
If you want to know what's really at the heart of the Palestinian conflict with Israel, don't ask politicians or diplomats. Go to Palestinian children.
Unlike the rest of the world, they've been paying close attention to what their leaders and educators have been teaching. And they are ready to practice what they've been taught.
For instance, children interviewed on PA TV last week state without reservation that Israel has no right to exist, and that the goal for which they're willing to sacrifice their lives is Israel's destruction.
The Arabs would have us Westerners see the Palestinians as being caused by oppression of the little oppressed David (The Palestinians) by the evil Israeli Goliath. Is this really the case? Not according to Zuheir Mohsein who in 1977 when he was a member of the supreme council of the PLO said (1)
There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity, because it is in the interest of the Arabs to encourage a separate Palestinian identity in contrast to Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity is there only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new expedient to continue the fight against Zionism and for Arab unity
There are many more quotes by Arabs supporting Mr. Mohsein's statement. What Zuheir is saying besides the shocking statement that the Palestinian Identity is a hoax is that the conflict against Israel is really between the Arab nation and Israel. Framing the conflict in this way portrays Israel as a tiny David in a sea of hostile Arabs and is an argument one would expect he would make to Arab and not Western audiences. Though we may never know the reason for this momentary lapse of foolish honesty the message is an important one, the struggle is between the Arab Nation and Israel and the Palestinian Identity was created to gain Western sympathy as part of that struggle.
The following is a recording of a Hamas terrorists excitedly telling Mom and Dad how he killed 10 Israelis. In it he says it was for Allah (God).
In the video below the late Mordechai Kedar, explains what the woke left doesn't want to hear, the religious roots of the conflict against Israel. This video was created before the 2023 war between Israel and Hamas.
Oxford University held a debate in December 2024 about whether Israel is an apartheid state committing genocide against the Palestinians. One of the people making the case, that that is not true was Jonathan Sacerdoti. In his talk he said that the cause of the Arab massacre of Jews on October 7, 2023 was Islam. In order to make his point he quoted the invaders in the clip below.
Islam creates antisemitism and antisemitism is at the root of the conflict with Israel. You can view testimonies of Muslims about how their religion teaches them to hate the Jews here.
One would think that if the cause of conflict in the Middle East is religion then as long as there are Muslims and Israel there will always be conflict. Mordechai Kedar explains why he believes there can be peace in the next lesson.
To view the next lesson:
A good article about the October conflict with Israel is:
You-Know-Who Is to Blame for Hamas' Bloody New Jihad Offensive Against Israel
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