by Gerald A. Honigman
I just finished reading an excellent analysis by Uri Kurlianchik and offered by astute observers at “Future of Jewish”regarding the Iran-Israel war which echoes my own previous commentary on this same subject…
Despite the supposed cessation of current hostilities between Iran and Israel, I quickly assessed that the basically eternal war being waged between adherents of a non-compromising, supremacist, conquering Islam—whether in its original Sunni Arab, or both in its somewhat later Shi’a Arab and non-Arab traditions—could never make true peace with “kafir” non-believing Infidels, who not only resisted the forced Arabization/Islamization process, but had the tenacity and audacity to somehow triumph in maintaining their freedom and independence from both Sunni and Shi’a would-be masters.
While the above is true for hundreds of millions (billions?) of other either non-Arabs and/or non-Muslims who are still trying to resist repeated attempts to slaughter them and acquire their lands in the name of the Dar ul-Islam (think the recent Indo-Pakistani war, continuous massacres by Islamistized blacks of Christians and other non-Muslim blacks in sub-Saharan Africa, etc.), the conquest of the hated “kilab yahud” Jew dogs is still foremost to Muslims of both stripes. For some reason, most regard “man’s best friends” very unfavorably.
While countless numbers of Muslims have killed each other over the differences between Shi’a and Sunni traditions (and simply for more mundane reasons of control and power), for the most part, they can all still agree that Jews must be made subordinate to themselves, conquered, and slaughtered if they resist.
In an imperfect analogy, it’s similar to the animosity between Catholics and Protestants at various times and places. but their overall coalescence in agreement regarding “spawn of the Devil, “god-killing” Jews. I won’t capitalize HaShem’s reference in the latter blasphemous words.
The alliance between Shi’a Aryan mullahs in Iran and Shi’a Arab mullahs in Lebanon’s Hizbullah with the Sunni Arabs of Hamas, Fatah, and Islamic Jihad are an example of this.
Given such a mindset, the age old 4,000 year history, corroborated by numerous historical accounts of neighboring non-Hebrew sources (in addition to Hebrew and archaeological evidence) of the land of Israel being the Jewish People’s ancestral homeland means nothing to Arab and non-Arab Muslim jihadis of either group.
Here’s just a few of numerous examples of such ancient, non-Hebraic sources corroborating the land of Israel being the Jews’s ancestral homeland, please read accounts from ancient Moabite, Persian and Egyptian sources, as well as contemporary Roman historians as well here:
Contemporary Roman historian accounts of the Judaean (Jewish) struggle for freedom and independence against the mighty Roman Empire:
Please note, there wasn’t such a people known as “Palestinians” back then; indeed, they were a creation of the mid-20th century C.E. See here, but be aware of graphic photos taken by Hamas butchers and their just “ordinary” civilian Arab accomplices on their invasion of Israel on Simchat Torah, October 7th, 2023.Be sure to also read the two internal links in order to gain much further insight to the overall conflict between Arab and other Arabized/Islamicistized Muslims and their “Jew dogs” in the region:
Of course there are always exceptions, and in the new age of increased contacts between peoples, some progress can be has already occurred. Think Abraham Accords and such.
But the vast majority of the Islamic world still reads the passages in the Qur’an itself which call for the beheading and slaughter of Jews to be required behavior.
And yet, while not in the majority by any means, there are Islamic commentators who cite certain surahs in the Qu’ran which support the historical claim of the Jews to the land of Israel. I quote them in my own book, and you can find them here as well:
Finally, since a look at just the recent past regarding Arab and other Muslim genocidal actions towards Jews, both in Israel and elsewhere, this continuing violence, whether it’s Jewish infants being microwaved and beheaded by Sunni Arabs of Hamas, Fatah, and Islamic Jihad, or Jews being recently bombarded by hundreds of powerful ballistic missiles by previously Arabized Iranian Shi’a mullahs, the extermination or complete humiliating subjugation of Jews and the obliteration of their sole, age-old, resurrected nation remains the goal.
My own earlier conclusion regarding what’s necessary facing such an existential enemy can be found below…
Islam is a dogma or cult, not a religion.
It takes several thousand years of evolution to create a decent religion which has the kinks ironed out. Islam has a very long way to go, just as Sikhism does, another violent religion with weird customs.