niaz
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Niaz, going by this logic, the Jews can also say, they were in this place, much before the Muslims. Hence, its their's. The way forward, will be to accept as is and proceed. This nonsense of not recognising a nuclear armed State has been more detrimental than any help to anybody.
According to the Old Testament, Joshua took this land away from Canaanites. Saul and David took the and from the Philistines, before that Jews were bonded slaves of the Egyptian Pharaohs. Thus the region was never originally Jewish.
States of Israel & Judea had disappeared centuries before the Muslim conquest. The area comprising of modern day Syria, Jordan, Lebanon & Israel was a province of the Byzantine Empire until captured by the Muslim Arab army around 640 AD led by Khalid bin Walid (RA) during reign of the 2nd Caliph Hazrat Umar (RA). There was some Jewish population but most were Arab Christian tribes most notable being the Ghassanids.
During the Omayyad Caliphate majority of the population of the region was Christian. Except for a period of about 150 years of Crusader states; there has been 1000 years of Muslim rule by the Abbasids, Suljuqis, Kurds, Mamlukes and the Ottomans. Until the outbreak of the WW1, there was a sprinkling of Jewish population, but the region was predominantly populated the Muslim & Christian Arabs.
Jewish Diaspora started 2000 years ago, long before the advent of Islam. On the other hand idea of Zionism emerged in the late 19th century in the central and eastern Europe. Political movement was formally established by Theodor Herzl in 1897 following the publication of his book ' Der Judenstaat' (The Jewish State).
I am not anti-Jewish but anti –Zionist. We have to draw a line somewhere. I am using WW1 as the reference point. I maintain that Jews have no legal claim to Palestine and that this is not Muslim versus Jews but Zionists versus the Arabs.
In my opinion, it is okay to acquire real estate as long as the owner is willing to sell it to you without coercion. What Israel state is doing is State Terrorism. They have forcibly evicted indigenous population from their homes and farmland and handed it over the Jewish settlers from all over the world. This is gross injustice.
Arab revolt of 1916-1918 and the Anglo – Arab Army that captured Syria from the Ottoman Turks comprised primarily of Arab Bedouins from Hejaz and Arabia proper. Palestinian Arabs had no part the in Holocaust either. Pray tell me why it is that Palestinian Arabs are the victims of the Israeli wrath?
I do agree that it is irrational not to recognize the State of Israel with the borders as of 1948. This is because the United Nations representing the world community had accepted it.
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