Betraying God: The Good, The Bad And The Ugliness

The Good:





  The Bad: ... one of very many
"If we have murdered, we fought for our people."

Esmat Mansour (Accessory to Murder:  Aged 36, a Democratic Front activist from Deir Jarir, a village in the West Bank. On October 29, 1993, he aided the terrorist cell that murdered Haim Mizrahi in a chicken farm in Beit El. He led the murderers to a hiding place behind the chicken coops, brought rope to tie up the victim and helped them load the dead body into the trunk of the car. Sentenced to 22 years imprisonment.)

The Ugliness: 

“Reaching a Two-State Solution is to Betray God”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Hirsi Ali says that the two sides, the Israelis and Palestinians, have diametrically opposed concerns, and this has lead to the current stalemate.

“…the main problem is that you may speak of a peace process, but what you get is a process, not peace. And why is this process so prolonged? Because for the Israelis this issue is a territorial problem. For the Palestinian negotiators, on the other hand, it is not a territorial problem but a religious and ethnic one, It is not only about Palestinians but about all Arabs. Most of all, it is a religious problem.”

Hirsi Ali continues: “But there is no agreement as of today, because on one side it has become religious jihad of all or nothing, while on the other side it is still a territorial issue. Of course I know that there are Israelis who also perceive this as a religious problem; but their numbers pale in comparison to the Muslim side.”

Describing Islam as an “Orthopraxy”— something that must be fought for, Hirsi Ali says that what is needed most— compromise—is unlikely to be attainable.

“More and more leaders see that this conflict is not going to be resolved Western-style, namely that all conflicts are resolvable and no-one leaves the table empty-handed,” she says. “In a culture dictated by honor and shame – in addition to the religious issue – defeat of any kind, accepting a compromise, is to leave the room empty-handed. Compromise is loss in this culture. It is very hard to explain this to contemporary Westerners.”

Hirsi Ali says to betray this rigid doctrine would mean certain death for any Palestinian leader 

“even if he is secular, even an atheist — to leave the negotiating room with the announcement of a two-state solution would mean that he would be killed the minute he walks out.”

“Many liberals perceive Israel to be one of their kind; another liberal, white, rational state, etc.

P.L.O.

Therefore they expect you to approach matters the way they would,” she says.

“Among Western liberal elites there are those who have actual experience and those who have not. Those who have actual experience with any aspect of Islamic culture or religion…come out — after years of endless abortive attempts — with a completely different perspective,” she continues, before charging: “I think that whoever acts on the presumption that we are all the same and that we are able to solve this — is uninterested, indifferent, and inexperienced.”

She further adds: “Idealism is a good thing. But when idealism encounters reality, you must not try to manipulate it to fit your utopia.”

The reality, she says, is rather a matter of making peace among the populations on both sides.

“The negotiators themselves are of no importance. They are a few individuals who may tomorrow be out of power or dead.

Sahih Bukhari Hadith Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177: 

The Book Pertaining to the Turmoil and Portents of the Last Hour
 (Kitab Al-Fitan wa Ashrat As-Sa`ah) 

Narrated by Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, 

"The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."