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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
President Donald Trump announced on Saturday afternoon that peace in Gaza was at hand:
After negotiations, Israel has agreed to the initial withdrawal line, which we have shown to, and shared with, Hamas. When Hamas confirms, the Ceasefire will be IMMEDIATELY effective, the Hostages and Prisoner Exchange will begin, and we will create the conditions for the next phase of withdrawal, which will bring us close to the end of this 3,000 YEAR CATASTROPHE. Thank you for your attention to this matter and, STAY TUNED!
This followed his declaration on late Friday afternoon that “based on the Statement just issued by Hamas, I believe they are ready for a lasting PEACE.” Yet Trump’s call to “STAY TUNED” was apposite, as what will happen next is even more unpredictable than usual. Hamas may indeed release the hostages and abide by the conditions of the peace agreement, at least initially. One outcome, however, is certain beyond any doubt whatsoever: Hamas will eventually break the agreement and resume its jihad against Israel. Whatever they may be telling Trump now about being ready for a lasting peace, and however much he may or may not actually believe them, there is no chance whatsoever that Hamas will lay down its arms and start telling its people that they’re just going to have to live in peace with Israel.
This is clear from Hamas’ founding charter, which quotes Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna saying: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” On the surface, it’s an odd statement: a religion, Islam, will supposedly destroy a nation-state, Israel. Yet that is exactly what the jihadis of Hamas intend to do, and why they are fighting. The war against Israel would rage on even if Israel were no larger than a postage stamp. It will never be solved by negotiated settlements, for its guiding principle is the Qur’anic command: “Drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191).
For a pious, believing Muslim, this command is no less divinely inspired, and no more subject to negotiation or alteration, than the Ten Commandments are for believing Jews and Christians. The command to drive the Jews out from where they drove the Muslims out does not depend upon the events of 1948, or the claims that Israeli forces at that time compelled at least some of the Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes.
The land of Israel was once part of the Ottoman Empire, the last Islamic caliphate, and before that by the Abbasid caliphate. As such, by the lights of Islamic theology, it belongs to Islam forever, and Muslims have a responsibility before Allah to drive out those infidels who rule this land now. That responsibility cannot be negotiated away, no matter how skillful the negotiator may be, or how favorable the terms of the proposed agreement.
Although the fact that the war against Israel is a jihad is universally ignored among mainstream foreign policy analysts and policymakers in North America and Europe, Islamic leaders frequently mention the fact, and have done so for many years. As far back as March 1936, Sa’id al-Haj Thabit, the speaker of Iraq’s Parliament, visited Palestine and repeatedly called upon the local Muslims to wage jihad against the Jews.
Two years later, the Muslim Brotherhood proclaimed that such a jihad was an “inescapable obligation on every Muslim.” In 1943, Ibn Saud, the king of Saudi Arabia, explained to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt that there was “religious hostility…between the Moslems and the Jews from the beginning of Islam…which arose from the treacherous conduct of the Jews toward Islam and the Moslems and their prophet.” Accordingly, the king was happy to discuss proposals for peace in Palestine with “anyone of religion except (repeat except) a Jew.”
Amid the Arab rage after the UN partition vote late in 1947, the ulema (Islamic religious scholars) of Cairo’s venerable al-Azhar, the foremost institution in Sunni Islam, declared that “the liberation of Palestine” was “a religious duty for all Moslems without exception, great and small. The Islamic and Arab Governments should without delay take effective and radical measures, military or otherwise.” They declared that any Muslim who dealt with Jews (even in such trivial matters as “buying their produce”) “is a sinner and criminal…who will be regarded as an apostate to Islam.” This would carry serious consequences: “He will be separated from his spouse. It is prohibited to be in contact with him.”
In April 1948, Sheikh Muhammad Mahawif, the mufti of Egypt, issued a fatwa stating that jihad against the Jews in Palestine was an obligation incumbent upon all Muslims, because the Jews were working “to take over…all the lands of Islam.”
This language about the “liberation” of Palestine from the Jews’ being an “obligation incumbent upon all Muslims,” an “inescapable obligation on every Muslim,” was rooted in Islam’s theology of jihad. A manual of Islamic law certified by al-Azhar as conforming to “the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni Community” stipulates that “when non-Muslims invade a Muslim country or near to one,” then “jihad is personally obligatory upon the inhabitants of that country,” and indeed, obligatory upon everyone “able to perform it, male or female, old or young,” when “the enemy has surrounded the Muslims.”
The Jews may not have surrounded the Muslims in the military sense, but they could be found everywhere in Palestine, and Muslim leaders considered them to be hostile invaders. Hence every Muslim was obligated to wage jihad against them.
That obligation will remain in the minds of many Muslims as long as Israel exists, and as long as Islam exists. Thus the one outcome that we can be sure about amid all the prevailing uncertainty is that the jihad will go on. Hamas, or its successor, will sooner or later resume its efforts to destroy Israel. Allah demands nothing less.
Mohammed’s feud with Israel has been one for the ages and far too many generations have been inculcated to continue it.
The Mohammadans have been at war with Israel since it was re-founded in 1948 and with Jews ever since islame’s inception in the fourteenth century but Israel ceased to exist in the first century – 135 AD – when after their third revolt, Emperor Hadrian dispersed the majority of Jews worldwide in their coincidentally third diaspora. The Mizrahim Jews never left the Holy Land but nobody ever seems to mention them.
Like you wrote, the Mohammadans continue their war against Jews. It’s worldwide now. It’s a war against Christians, too, who are persecuted even worse than the Jews. It’s waged on every continent except Antarctica. They’d wage it there too if they could, but there are no comfortable Western or Eastern cultures for them to infiltrate there and they’re pussies. Antarctica is much too harsh for those cowardly weaklings, the jihadis.
Islam has been at war with Israel since 678 CE Khaybar massacre.
So the solution is to keep all muslims away! Do not allow any in your Nation!
Or a new Crusade. 🙂
So I guess you are a ‘no way’ for the ‘eternal peace’ President Trump promised.
Someone with knowledge of the Middle East should endeavor to bring him back to planet earth. Combining optimism with absurdity is not an especially good look.
Yeah, Big Don let us down on this one. Nobody bats 1000.
After Hamas PRETENDED to agree with President Trump’s peace deal (the ten point list of demands they issued says otherwise,) he reportedly called Netanyahu to tell him the “good news.” How he knew before Netanyahu, I don’t know but it could be true. Netanyahu correctly said “there’s nothing to celebrate” and “it doesn’t mean anything.” Trump told him “I don’t know why you’re always so f***ing negative. This is a win. Take it,”
Sorry Big Don but you haven’t won shit. The word of Hamas is less than worthless and ALWAYS a lie, Hamas has not disarmed and they never will unless the IDF does it forcibly. And where are the hostages, assuming any of them are still alive? They sure aren’t home. If any are alive, they’re still in the Hamas rat warrens being tortured.
Hamas has not surrendered, it will not lay down its arms and leave Gaza willingly, and it has not renounced its war against its patron, Israel and the Jews. That’s right, patron. Gaza is part of Israel, albeit the worm ridden butthole of Israel, and the Psuedostinians are the worms.
Whether Hamas remains in Gaza or not, another outcome is certain beyond any doubt. A military coalition of surrounding Islamic nations will ve formed n the name of regional “peace and security” for one sole purpose: the destruction of Israel. It is a prophetic inevitability. The writing is already on the wall.
Ezekiel 38:2-5, 39:4, “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal [Turkey]; prophesy against him … Persia [Iran] … will be with them … On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you …”
Joel 3:11-12, 14, “Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves … come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations… Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near …”
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3, “… the Day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. When they say, ‘Peace and security,’ then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains come on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.”
Is it just me or did Hamas issue a ten point list of demands for concessions and refusals to honor the peace deal? Yeah. Like they’re going to give up their guns and bombs. And I haven’t seen them give up the prisoners yet, even though they get what, 100 jihadi terrorists in return for each one? Hamas has already broken the agreement.
Muslim’s hostility towards Jews is only one part of mulim’s evil plot to conquer the world.
Every single non-muslim in the world is a target for death or forced conversion.
Every non-muslim nation is a target for invasion and destruction.
What can defeat muslim is a global unity against them. That’s what muslims are most scared of. That’s why they are not too vocal about killing all Christians. Despite their history of commmitting genocides against Christians.
There are too many Christians, so they play two games. Lies and deception And dividing Christians more and more into different sect to create internal conflicts. To weaken Christianity.
Muslims have a temporary truce with leftists as well. Some wrongfully call it an alliance.
Muslims use leftists as a weapon against the conservatives.
Muslims use the LGBTQ against Christians and conservatives as a weapon.
Meanwhile they influence conservatives to hold on to their “values” and not fight back the same way the leftists or muslims do. A formula for a certain defeat.
The evil plot to destroy the entire civilized world has been advancing unchallenged so far. Muslims are getting bolder every day. Not too long ago nobody could have imagined large numbers of people in the free world coming out in support of worst savage islamic murderers in history. And it will only get worse.
The world needs a savior. A message loud enough that will reach everybody who is a target for destruction by muslims.
A unity not only on national level, but also on a global level. To declare a war against all muslims. Yes, WWIII. There is no way around it. If there is a will to save all the humanity, freedoms and civilizations.
War is a natural part of human condition. Peace and love advocates are delusional and as much of a threat as the enemies who want to kill us all. They advocate surrender instead of eliminating the enemies.
Muslims main strategy is “surrender or die.” The correct answer to that is “fight back or die.”
There is no other options.
A bad deal from the start that rewards Hamas in too many ways for their savagery on October 7th. There can be no peace until Hamas is no more. Why is that so hard to say out loud? This “deal” is the end of the beginning of the final take-over of Israel by Hamas and Islamic terrorists.
Not so sure. Israel are not asleep, nor unwary. They have a solid history to be alert and watch well. They may agree to the terms but as soon as the mozzies, like a dog to his vomit, turn again to their usual ways, Israel will step up and take the necessary action.
If only our well-intentioned, but very naive and misguided, President would read this excellent and blunt article.
Don’t allow for Muslim Extremists to enter America and force everyone to convert to Islam Keep them Out and move the whole UN to Moscow or Beijing without America to pay for their upkeep
There might be short-lived, temporary peace in the Middle East
but the terror of Hamas or some group just like it will ignite again.
Because the core belief in Islam – the subjugation/murdering of
Jews, Christians and everybody else – guarantees it.
Thank you for your tireless voice that has been sounding the alarm for decades. Would that the West and all the civilized world would educate themselves and act accordingly. Instead, we get decade after decade of ignorance, foolishness, and nonsense. There is no excuse for it. Many (though not nearl enough) ordinary Americans have learned about this grave and persistent threat thanks to people like Robert Spencer and others. Yet political leadership maintains what appears to be willful ignorance, cowardice, and/or a naive sense of hope. As long as this status quo continues (and I see no evidence of it changing anytime soon) there will be more mistery and death heaped upon us in the name of Allah. G-d bless you Robert Spencer.
Even the old “unconditional surrender”. will not work with Islam. Only utter destruction, and salting their lands will solve the Islam “problem”. I do not advocate cruelty toward Muslims. Just death.
Islam is NOT a religion–it is an all consuming ideology that includes a religion.
It’s a war cult of Mohammad, who may not have even existed. According to Spencer, those sand monkeys are venerating a fictional character. Nobody ever accused an islamopithecine of being intelligent. They have animal cunning and are adept parasites but the Nobel Committee doesn’t give out prizes for that, and they’ll never belong in human society.
Gaza should have been decimated on October 8th, 2023, hostages and civilians be damned. That Hamas still exists or is considered a negotiating partner is beyond absurd. How many Israelis have already died to save these hostages, many of whom died in captivity after suffering miserably? How many more will die in the future as the “Palestinians” have been taught that terrorism and hostage-taking pays? How Trump (and Jared Kushner) fell into this trap, I’ll never understand.
Why would you even negotiate with Hamas? This is never going to end until either Islam isn’t a thing or Judaeism isn’t a thing. It will be never ending conflight.
Sadly, I think Trump is beginning to believe his own ‘shiite’. He should listen to Netanyahu. Talk about deja vu. This time it will be Turkey re-arming the Paleostinians. When someone hates you more than they love themselves, it’s time to give them their wish.
Rome dealt harshly with Carthage, but it was probably the only way to end it all. There will never be peace with the Phonystinians until every last one of them is gone. And then another Cain will step forward to try and slay Abel.
I’m quite sure President Trump understands the potential dynamics of the current peace deal including the Hamas tendency to stall for more concessions, since its worked in the past. The main focus seems to stipulate the release of the 46 hostages (dead or alive) first before going forward with the rest of the 20 point peace plan. I’d trust Hamas to abide by the current treaty stipulations as far as I could throw Gaza!