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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
In its analysis of the war that has begun between Hamas and Israel, CNN noted on Saturday that the Biden regime was just in the process of pressuring Israel to make a series of concessions to the Palestinians in order to further the cause of normalization of ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia. In this, both the sinister establishment media propagandists of CNN and the sinister kleptocrats of the Biden regime betrayed their fundamental failure, or refusal, to understand why there is this apparently endless conflict between Israel and the Palestinians in the first place.
CNN reported that “as recently as this week, Biden had hoped to be nearing the completion of a major agreement with Israel and Saudi Arabia to establish formal diplomatic ties, potentially transforming the entire Middle East. The expectation had been that the deal would include agreement from Netanyahu on certain concessions to the Palestinians, including potentially freezing settlements and agreeing to an eventual Palestinian state.”
The universal assumption is that freezing settlements and agreeing to a Palestinian state (which the Palestinians have previously rejected on numerous occasions) will bring peace. Yet this is not true, and the Palestinians themselves have made that clear on numerous occasions over the years. Back on Oct. 5, 2018, on “Not a Neighbor,” a program on official Palestinian Authority television, Sharia judge Muhannad Abu Rumi denounced the idea that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was about territory and could thus be subject to negotiations:
People could be deluded or think…that we have no way out with the Jews…The liberation of this land is a matter of faith, which will happen despite everyone. The Jews leaving this land is a divine decree…The war is not only over this strip of land, as you all know the Jews want everything and not just a part. They want to subjugate us, and that we be slaves to their command…
Just a week after that, during a Friday sermon at the Islamic Center of South Florida, Imam Hasan Sabri offered a succinct encapsulation of the principle of “Drive them out from where they drove you out” (Qur’an 2:191): “If a land is occupied or plundered, it should be liberated from its occupiers and plunderers, even if this leads to the martyrdom of tens of millions of Muslims.”
Sabri ridiculed the very idea of negotiations: “Take the Palestinian cause, for example. It is not being plotted against with a deal they call ‘the Deal of the Century.’ Why do they call it a ‘deal’? Because whoever is involved in this treason is not a man of principles. These are peddlers, not men with a cause. All they want are positions and jobs. That is why for them, the cause is nothing but a deal, a matter of give and take. For them, it is nothing but a deal.”
To this, Sabri contrasted the “position of a believing Muslim about the Palestinian cause,” which he characterized in this way: “That Palestine in its entirety is Islamic land, and there is no difference between what was occupied in 1948 and 1967. There is no difference between this village or that village, this city or that city. All of it is Islamic waqf land that was occupied by force. The responsibility for it lies with the entire Islamic nation, and the [Palestinians] should benefit from this land. If a land is occupied or plundered, it should be liberated from the occupiers and plunderers, even if this leads to the martyrdom of tens of millions of Muslims. This is the ruling, and there is no room for discussion or concessions.”
There is no room for discussion or concessions because of the nature of the foe as they communicate it to their people. An Egyptian Muslim cleric, Sheikh Masoud Anwar, on Al-Rahma TV on Jan. 9, 2009, also stated that negotiations with the Israelis were worthless because Jews could not be trusted. He declared: “The worst enemies of the Muslims — after Satan — are the Jews. Who said this? Allah did.” Indeed he did: it’s in the Qur’an (5:82).
Numerous Muslim clerics have for many years contradicted the general assumption that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict was over land and could be settled through negotiations. As Barack Obama pressed Israel to resume peace talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, in the summer of 2013, Sheikh Hammam Saeed, the leader of the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, thundered that eradicating all Jewish presence from the Holy Land was a matter of Islamic law. He termed the idea of a negotiated settlement “heresy, according to Islamic law, because Allah says that Palestine belongs to the Islamic nation, while they say that Palestine belongs to the Jews. Anyone who says that Palestine belongs to the Jews has no place in the religion of Allah, and no room in this creed. This is an issue of heresy and belief.”
Examples of this kind of rhetoric could be multiplied endlessly. Yet in the next few days, Biden and his cohorts will demand that Israel stop defending itself and return to the negotiating table. You know, some men you just can’t reach.
john says
JIHAD is always understood in the Mid East by Moslems as Islam’s required war against all non-Moslems to make entire world Islamic.
Jihad never meant defensive war (except as lie).
– JIHAD IS ALLAH’S COMMAND (Surah 9:29)
– Any Moslem who runs from Jihad will burn in hell (Surah 9:20-21)
– Those who reject Islam must be killed (Surah 4:89)
– For the Unbelievers are open enemies to you (Surah 4:101)
– Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day (Surah 9:29)
– If anyone desires religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted (Surah 3:85)
– KILL the mushrikun (polytheists; idolaters; disbelievers) (Surah 9:57)
Allah’s repeated orders to kill non-Moslems is evidence that Islam is a CONTINUING CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE (CCE) under US laws. RICO SHOULD apply
john says
ISLAM QURAN VERSE OF THE SWORD
Surah 9:5 – Abrogated all peaceful Quranic verses, forever.
“Find and slay the Pagans wherever you find them,
and seize them, beleager them, and lie in wait for
them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent
[convert to Islam], and establish regular prayers and
practice regular charity, then open up a way for them:
for Allah is Oftforgiving, Most Merciful.”
Kasandra says
The West is so utterly ignorant about Islam. How many among even those reading this article know what the “Islamic waqf” is? They should. It is the basis of many territorial disputes around the world. It is Islamic doctrine that any lands converted to, or conquered by, Islam become an eternal endowment for the Islamic community, no matter susequent history. That is why, for example, Islam today considers Spain (Andalusia) to be Islamic territory even though, after conquering it, they were expelled in 1492, over half a millennium ago. And that is why they consider all of Israel to be “occupied” and all of it, “from the river to the sea,” to be Islam’s.
THX 1138 says
Well now I know, thank you for enlightening me. Nevertheless, the fine points of Islam aren’t necessary for the general population to know, if most people could simply understand that Islam is as evil as Nazism the West could defend itself from Muslim Nazism.
Most people even in 1940 didn’t know the fine points of Nazism but they knew it was outright evil.
Anne-Marie says
Thank you for the enlightenment. So by this crazy logic of theirs, the province of Quebec would forever belong to the English, 90% of South America would forever belong to the Spanish, Western Europe would belong to the Visigoths, Vietnam would forever belong to France, and India would belong to the British.
Kasandra says
I think that you are expecting wisdom, logic and reason from the wrong people. For them, if Mohammed said it, that’s all they need.
Brian Rockford says
Ukraine would belong to Nazi Germany as Gothland.
Crimea and Donbas are Russian.
Danzig and Konigsberg were German.
Istanbul was Constantinople.
What became of the Ten Tribes?
And the Khazars?
Birobidzhan
Afrikaners settled before Zulus
Manifest Destiny & Monroe Doctrine.
French in Algeria Bad, Algerians in France Good.
Wales, the Gaza of Britain?
Should Australia hand its industry “back” to the Abos?
And so on and so forth.
“No people owns territory by divine right, but by conquest” (Hitler), but what about Deuteronomy.34.4? Yes, indeed,
“Moses led us to the only promised land in the Middle East without oil” (Golda Meir).
KenPF says
Well, since Saturday Islamists have gone out of their way to prove that there can be no peace with them.
The liberal media have, of course outdone themselves with euphemisms for mass murder, rape, and beheading. They have called these people “activists” “Militants” or “gunmen”, or freedom fighters. “Hamas are even boasting of breaking the international conventions of war, posting videos of their terrorists beheading captured Israeli soldiers. … They approve the rape of women and the murder of children.” Hamas has descended to the levels of barbarism embodied in their predecessors, the Einsatzgruppen. This is to say nothing of beheaded babies.
Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and all their supporters in the west have declared total war on Israel.
They have made peace with them impossible.
Rachelle says
No. Peace with them was never possible.
THX 1138 says
Some men you just can’t reach, yes men who refuse to accept the facts of reality, men who abandon reason for faith.
“I have said that faith and force are corollaries, and that mysticism will always lead to the rule of brutality. The cause of it is contained in the very nature of mysticism. Reason is the only objective means of communication and of understanding among men; when men deal with one another by means of reason, reality is their objective standard and frame of reference. But when men claim to possess supernatural means of knowledge, no persuasion, communication or understanding are possible. Why do we kill wild animals in the jungle? Because no other way of dealing with them is open to us. And that is the state to which mysticism reduces mankind—a state where, in case of disagreement, men have no recourse except to physical violence. And more: no man or mystical elite can hold a whole society subjugated to their arbitrary assertions, edicts and whims, without the use of force. Anyone who resorts to the formula: “It’s so, because I say so,” will have to reach for a gun, sooner or later.” – Ayn Rand
Intrepid says
We will all be reaching for a gun, eventually. Except for you.
Old Fogey says
Islam is a religion of peace, achieved by total victory of the followers of the false god, Allah, over the whole world. Until that victory, the blessed prophet requires lying, subversion, migration, murder, suppression, attack, and whatever else works to conquer the whole earth.
Containing such a cancer is a fool’s errand. The only valid strategy is total defeat. When the civilized world is willing to call evil by its name and act accordingly, there will be hope for peace in the future.
Matt C. says
Work for peace as best as the world can, of course; but, there won’t be a certain peace until the Lord Jesus returns and repossesses the earth under His authority and through the instrumentality of the nation of Israel. 1 Corinthians 15:24 “Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.”
john says
“Islam teaches that Allah is the only authority;
therefore, political systems must be based on Allah’s
teaching and nothing else.”
“Man-made political systems – from democracies to
dictatorships – are considered invalid.” …
“In fact,
religious persecution is commanded in the Quran.”
“Muslims are commanded to kill anyone who chooses
not to convert to Islam.”
“PRINCIPLE: Muslims should enforce jihad on
anybody whose beliefs differ from Islam, especially
Jews and Christians.” – Mark A.. Gabriel, ISLAM AND TERRORISM
See Surah 2:193 / 9;5 / 9:29
Atikva says
“Why There is Never Peace Between Israel and the Palestinians” ? Because we, Westerners, allow – not the palestinians, who don’t even exist – but the jihadis, to follow their iinsane dream of subjugating the entire planet, starting with Israel. Defund these mad dogs in the Middle East as at home, annul their citizenship, and unequivocally state that Israel is here to stay. In other words, admit that we have been fooled for the past 75 years.
David Ashton says
“Palestinians don’t exist”.
Who’s being fooled?
Rachelle says
You are. There is no such country much less no such people. The name was assigned to a region by the Romans in an effort to demoralize the Hebrews living there. Not Arabs. Hebrews. Jews. The false construct of Palestine as a country was invented by the former USSR as it became involved in destabilization of the middle East for its own purposes. One of those was to cause trouble for Israel, which, while socialist inclined, did not go full communist, and in effect denied the USSR a strong foothold in the Middle East. That’s part of it. As to the real,story of the Arabs who now call themselves Palestinians, look it up. I can’t be bothered teaching it anymore.
Lightbringer says
It used to be said of the Germans that they were either at your feet or at your throat. For a while after the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, the Muslims were at the world’s feet, but once the oil got flowing and the West began to feel guilty about its “colonialist” ways, they allowed the Muslims to nationalize the petroleum infrastructure that the West, especially Americans and British, built for them and they got very rich. Now they want to be at the world’s throat. We simply cannot allow that sort of thing to continue.
Brian Rockford says
A religious war with the Islamic world is the logic of this situation, if only to ensure the permanence of Israel. Will this entail nuclear attacks on Tehran, Damascus and Mecca, and their non-Muslim allies in Pyongyang, Moscow and Beijing? Will this result in the 170 million minimum casualties of the Apocalypse hopefully expected by some Christian Zionists? How many Jews will be “born again” in good time to participate in the Rapture, while the rest of mankind is condemned to go from the radioactive gas-chamber on the planet to eternal torture in hellfire?
Yum, yum, what fun promised even for devotees of the “Abrahamic Faiths”!
staffsgt7 says
Read islam’s texts and laws – It isn’t only the ‘palestinians’ it is all moslems and it includes ALL Unbelievers of that ‘god’ of islam. Make peace with them and they are to break it, per their ‘perfect example’ – ol’ moe.
Brian Rockford says
So what should be done?
A world war to wipe out millions of Muslims, the Dahiya Doctrine from Kosovo to Kalimantan?
A Holocaust of 2 billion instead of 6 million?
Any other better ideas?
Walter says
Who suggested a Holocaust of 2 billion?
Better ideas? Sure. Stop letting terrorists flood into the USA across our southern border. Stop giving billions of dollars to Iran and Hamas. Stop getting involved in their perpetual, and nonsensical, squabbles.
A. Barker says
Didn’t Saudi Arabia allow the US to stage troops on their sand in the gulf war? How did that ever happen?