Published: November 06, 2009 10:26 am      

Lasting peace in Middle East unlikely

Numerous American Presidents have attempted to negotiate a lasting peace between Israel and its Arab enemies but none have been successful and it doesn't appear that President Obama will have any better luck than his predecessors.

The big question is, why have all the Presidents failed and will Obama fail too? The answer is yes. And, the reason is that our Presidents are ignorant of the Muslims' ingrained hatred of the Jews and how Islam prevents them from embracing them.

In a recent article Daniel Pipes stated that it is a misguided belief that the Arab-Israeli war can "be concluded through goodwill, conciliation, mediation, flexibility, restraint, generosity, and compromise, topped off with signatures on official documents." For 16 years, Israeli governments, prodded by Washington, have sought to quench Palestinian hostility with concessions and gestures of goodwill. Yet peace today is more elusive than ever.

"Wars end not through goodwill but through victory," Pipes writes, defining victory as one side compelling the other to give up its war goals. Since 1948, the Arabs' goal has been the elimination of Israel; the Israelis', to win their neighbors' acceptance of a Jewish state in the Middle East. "If the conflict is to end, one side must lose and one side win," argues Pipes. "Either there will be no more Zionist state or it will be accepted by its neighbors."

Diplomacy cannot settle the Arab-Israeli conflict until the Palestinians abandon their anti-Israel rejectionism. US policy should be focused, therefore, on getting them to abandon it. The Palestinians must be put "on notice that benefits will flow to them only after they prove their acceptance of Israel. Until then, no diplomacy, no discussion of final status, no recognition as a state and certainly no financial aid or weapons."

Although Pipes says we should let the newest Nobel peace laureate grasp and act upon the above suggested policy, and that “he may do more to genuinely hasten the conflict's end than any of his well-meaning predecessors.” But we don't believe that he can.

It will be practically impossible to get the Palestinians (Muslims) to accept Israel. The primary reason is that all Muslims are under obligation and are required to emulate Mohammed in word and deeds; this is a divine decree and an indispensable doctrinal pillar of Islam. Mohammed hated the Jews…and so goes his followers… the Muslims.

Here is how Mohammed came to hate the Jews: In the early days of his movement, Mohammed learned, borrowed from, and was inspired by both Judaism and Christianity. To triumph over those two religions, he thought it was a good idea to claim that all three religions sprang form the same source, but that the first two, Judaism and Christianity, which were originally intended to be Islam, were corrupted, and that he (Mohammed) was the final prophet. So, Mohammeds plan was for all the Jews and Christians to convert to Islam, with Islam replacing Judaism and Christianity.

When Mohammed declared himself to be the last and final prophet, the awaited messiah to the Jews, he expected them to convert to his new religion, But the Jews declined. Some even made fun of him for his grandiose ideas. When one Jewish poet did so in satirical verse, his head was severed and laid at Mohammed's feet. After the Jews rejected converting to Islam, Mohammad viciously turned against them.

Mohammed's obsession with the Jews did not end until his death. Muslim intolerance and violence against Jews is firmly rooted in Mohammed's actions against them in Medina. The fate of the Jews of Medina is a dark chapter of history that Muslims have found it necessary to camouflage in order to find an ethical justification for Mohammed's violence against the Jews. Thus, they had to be portrayed as evil, sons of pigs, apes, and enemies of Allah. Instead of simply wanting to remain true to their own religion, Jews were accused of betraying Mohammed and Islam itself. Rejection was considered defiance to the supremacist culture of Arabia, and Allah and his prophet Mohammed. Allah made it clear in the Koran that Arabs are the best people ever created. That dark part of Muslim history against the Jews in the later days of Mohammed is very hard to explain away without vilifying the Jews.

If the Jews were not villains, then Mohammed's actions against them were unholy, and he would have been wrong in killing them, and unacceptable sin by a prophet of God. Thus their role as evil and deserving of their destruction must be preserved and hammered into the mind of every Muslim, and it was indeed preserved until judgment day in the Koran and the Hadith. Islam could not have done otherwise. Either Mohammed was evil, or the Jews were evil. The first option would have ended Islam and the supremacy of Arabia.

For this reason, the later sayings of Mohammed differ greatly from the earlier ones. For example, Abu Huraira reported Mohammed as saying: “The Hour of Resurrection will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and kill them. And the Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and the tree will say: “oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, this is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.” With this Hadith, the destiny of the Muslim relationship with Jews was sealed.

Mohammed's deep feeling of rejection by the Jews was not quieted by his beheading eight hundred males of a Jewish tribe and enslaving their women and children. His rage against Jews continued until his death. He left his Muslim followers a commandment they were to follow until the end of time, and order made very clear in the above Hadith. For anyone who doubts the impact of the above Hadith on Sharia laws regarding non-Muslims and on the behavior of Muslims, just look at the history of Muslim attitudes toward the Jews, which persists to this day.”

Reference: “Cruel and Usual Punishment” by Nonie Darwish



Knox Pitzer of San Marcos is a published author of numerous technical articles and papers including both national and international publications.