Ok, I can tell you straight off, as a Catholic, I, in no way, could ever support Israel in it’s occupation.
It is not confined to Muslims to be in opposition to Israel’s occupation.
Just tell me why must it be an “Islamic Apologist” to respond to that?
And just a note: A Muslim citizen of Israel? Yes, they will be well off. “You’re Muslim, you have an arms-smugglers’ tunnel under your house! You’re being evicted, your house being destroyed, and you shall in no way be compensated.” - Do you know HOW many stories of that I’ve heard? Even if they go to Israeli court, it will be biased, even then, if found innocent, little or nothing is done.
The present occupation, and settlement ideology is synonymous with the British occupation of Ireland over the last eight hundred years. As if the Unionists even have a claim to N.Ireland… Why we even recognise it… All due to a president we once had - All Irish produced maps pre-1990 did not have N.Ireland on the map. Heh. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not hostile to the Unionists up north in anyway.
But I will say: There is no reason for the other countries to say what they say about Israel, or to blame their problems (As said above) on Israel (Mainly because 80% of the countries have had little or no troubles with Israel, only that their “Bretheren” have.)
You’re also forgetting the difference in the major religions of the countries - I.e. Shia and Sunni. Palestine is mainly Sunni, and therefore, other nations that are predominently Shia, would not be entirely happy to incorporate their citizens/refugees into their own.
You can complain about suicide bombers as much as you want, so long as you do not forget how many times Israel has killed random Palestinians. I do remember the time a little girl was shot several times (Then in the head) due to the fact they thought her schoolbag was a bomb. No questions. A little girl - Please, justify that (And, all the other murders)
To be honest, any political faction of the Palestinians, in my opinion, are weak. The militant terrorist organisations are very strong. Israel just pulling out, and leaving them to their own devices, to police that area, was rather stupid. They should have helped their political leaders in that area while pulling out, not oppose them. But of course, the only reason for them pulling out, is due to the fact of the population increase - No matter what Israel could have done, within twenty years, the Palestinian population in the occupied territories would explode, ending up diminishing the Israeli population - Making their cry for independance a lot stronger, especially if they were still occupied.
(And as a sign of arrogance, why did Israel feel the need to demolish the settlements, except for the Synagogues? I mean, could they not have left the houses? They destroyed so many houses of the Palestinians, could they not have, at least, given them these houses? And why leave the Synagogues, the only last standing building? Then they complain about them being vandalised? What did they expect?: “Oh, they came, took our land, kicked us out, destoyed our houses, built settlements, finally left, but then destroyed them, and left a building which represents the occupation. I think, with no Jewish people left within five hundred square kilometres, we should leave it!”)
“Promise Land”? I’m not Jewish, by all rights, the New Covenant made that religion (No offence) defunkt. Why start talking about what God promised to people who refused to believe? Don’t bring religion into this area of politics, it actually serves as no ligitimate claim to land - Especially if you’re part of a religion which has deemed those claims to be no longer “ligitimate” in the eyes of God.
The population of Jews in that area, was very little in comparison with the Islamic population, until the 1940s. When it slowly began to increase, then shot up after the creation of the state.
The Muslims, who have been there since the Islamic religion was brought to that part of the Middle East, and not to forget the people who were there since the Diaspora, were promised a Palestinian state by the British during WWI, in response to Palestinian help to rise up against the Ottoman Empire - The British helped to train them, they revolted, the Ottoman Empire was pushed back. Nothing availed for the Palestinians of that victory.
If you start talking about who lived there first, you can go to those who lived there pre-Biblical Israel, (Also Philistine which existed at the same time), those who lived there pre-Diaspora, and ever since. Which, infact, is a longer time.
You’re map is also incorrect, some of the countries portrayed on that map are half Islamic and half Christian (The best example of the entire map is Sudan), also you’re forgetting Turkey and Pakistan (Which, both are only partially visable)
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