Why do Muslims hate Israel?

Asked Mar 17, 2011

I think it would be unfair to say that all Mislims hate Israel any more than to say all Israelis hate Muslims. Remember Islam is a religion with believers world wide. The historical conflict has been between the Arabs and the Jews.

Their differences go back to biblical times when brothers Isaac and Ishmael went their separate ways. The current issue started in 1917 when the Ottoman Empire was broken up and the League of Nations gave Britan the responsibility of drawing the borders for all of the Arab states.

Foreign Minister Balfor transferred all of the land except Palestine. He considered the jews to be a problem in Europe and witheld the land in Palestine as a jewish "homelend." Between then and 1947, there was some migration of European Jews and fighting began between the migrant jews and the Palestinian Arabs.

In 1947 the newly formed United Nations' developed a plan that divided the land in half to set up two independant states. They were intended to be Palestine and Israel but war broke out before the plan was implemented and it ended with the jews in control of about 65 percent of the land. In 1956 another war broke out and the jews had about 75 percent when that conflict was over.

Since then, generations of Palestinians have lived their lives in refugee camps. To them the jews are occupying their homeland. Unable to win it back by conventional military means, they adopted a strategy of using terrorist tactics.

Today, most Arabs see the injustice for the Palestinians and consider a Palestinian homeland as a minimal step toward normalization while the Israelis use the terrorism being launched against them as a reason to build walls, settlements and a huge military arsenal.

Rob

Answered Mar 18, 2011

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i am a muslim we hate israel because they take plastine and killed small kids and old people and they are studying our religon for 73 years so when the make with us a war like this they can win us and also bec we will make a war with them that is going to happen in 14 -5-2011 and from the things in our religon if we won israel that means that the day of judgement is so near and I am a muslim and I know my religoin but I love chritians bec they are good people not like israel

zeina

Answered May 04, 2011

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I am very sympathetic to what the Palestinians have endured but I believe what you write is a good example of why this problem is so difficult to resolve. Religions are based on what you believe. If they could be proven, all of us would believe the same thing. Politics on the other hand is about how governments should take care of the people's business. The two don't mix.

When government leaders use religion for support and to to justify policies like war and suppression, it always produces grave consequences for their people. The war you predict will only produce more of the same.

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Rob May 04, 2011

Rob, I wish I could vote up your comment.

Zeina, I just showed your post to one of my employees who is Palestinian. He was very dismayed by your language, disagreed strongly with your post, and was quite embarrassed by it. He agreed with Rob.