Thoughts On “Michael Oren: Israel Offers Peace—Again”
Oh, the ‘muslims living in the area of palestine in the 20th century are uniquely special in the course of world history’ view.
Why shouldn’t there be a Jewish state? Israel is, after all, surrounded by Islamic states. Why is Egypt a Muslim state when a substantial number of its citizens are Christian? Why is Turkey a Muslim state when Muslims committed ethnic cleansing and genocide against Armenians, Greeks, and others–and after all, the Ottomans stole the whole country from the Byzantines (Greeks) in the first place. I could go on. IIRC, the whole Middle East was Christian until the Muslims raped, pillaged, and enslaved their way to dominance.
The inequality is this: When Muslims conquer lands from others, their righteous, god-inspired victories make those lands Muslim forever–dar al islam–becuz god sed so. When others push back and reconquer (through Muslims’ own military folly and misadventure) say, their homeland that Muslims stole from them, then those are occupied lands that must be liberated and it matters not that the current owners have been living on the land more-or-less continuously for 3000 years.
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