Islam and Israel

The last Muslim Empire came to an end with thethey can create their own state? It would be just a
conclusion of the First World War as the Ottomantiny fraction of their total land mass and they would
Empire was dismembered by the Allied victors.hardly miss it because it is largely unpopulated.
Since then, no Muslim nation has been strong enoughIn almost six decades of fighting, none of the Muslim
to go again on the path of conquest. However,countries from the Middle East or from elsewhere
nations practicing that religion have constantly causedhas ever made such a proposal to the Palestinians.
an inordinate amount of bloodshed.Quite on the contrary, many have brutally repressed
In 1948 the state of Israel was founded and sincethem when the Palestinians tried to carve a power
then, there have been six wars between this countrystructure within those countries.
and its Arab neighbors.When one considers the small geographic size of
These wars have been very revealing of not justIsrael, it is evident that even if all of that land would
the relationship between Jews and Arabs, but also ofbe given to the Palestinians, the Palestinians would still
what lies at the core of Islam.be in possession of just a small country. Israel is
The crux of the conflict between the Jewish statemade of just a very small strip of territory and most
and the Muslims resides in the demands for land ofof it is desert.
the Palestinians. These are quite understandable, butOnce all the above gets taken in consideration, it
one cannot avoid wondering why have the Muslimbecomes extremely hard to understand why the only
countries not directly addressed those demands?approach that Muslims have taken towards Israel is
The neighboring countries claim that the reason whyviolence.
they have waged war against Israel is because ofSuch a mystery becomes rapidly clarified when it is
Arab and Muslim solidarity. If that is so, they shouldremembered that Islam is at its very core a violent
have long ago granted a piece of territory to thecreed. It is a religion that was born out of an act of
Palestinians.violence and which preaches violence through the
In several of those nations, large PalestinianKoran.
populations have lived there for centuries. Such aNo other religion has a founder who waged war to
situation increases further the need to inquire why noimpose his will. No other religion has a holy book that
land has been allocated to them.systemically advocates the use of force. Jesus Christ
Despite the progressive physical expansion of Israelfor example, was a wimp who believed in putting the
over the years, that country remains a smallother cheek whenever he got punched. The
geographic entity with just 20,000 square kilometers.teachings of Buddha are somewhat similar. He was
However, some of the Muslim countries in the vicinityoriginally a prince and a warrior, but once he invented
have as much as 2,400,000 square kilometers. That isBuddhism, he gave up his riches and his warring
a territory 120 times larger than Israel. Israel also hashabits, and became interested only in meditating.
a high population density, while some Arab countriesThe Israeli-Palestinian conflict reiterates what history
have among the lowest in the world.had already witnessed. It shows that Islam is an
Why would it be so hard for those nations to grant aintrinsically violent creed.
piece of their territory to the Palestinians so that