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To blame Arab Muslim violence on the
Jewish aspirations to return to the land
of Israel is also ridiculous because if
you know a little bit of Jewish history,
Muslims have been persecuting Jews ever
since Jews rejected Muhammad and refused
to convert to Islam. It didn't matter
where Jews lived. It didn't matter where
they wanted to live. They were Jews and
they were hated and they were a target.
And so this is an excerpt from a very
famous letter written by Mymonities. I
think we've mentioned this before, the
Rambam to the Jewish community of Yemen
more than 800 years ago. It's known as
Egger Tman. The letter was written by
the Rambam to encourage the Jews who
were so demoralized in downtrodding in
total despair because of the murder, the
persecution, and the horrible Arab
Muslim oppression their community
endured living as a Jewish minority in
Yemen. And you see where the green line
is? I'm just going to translate it
directly into English, but this is what
it says. With all this, we will not be
able to be saved from their abundant
evil and violence at all times. And all
the time that we pursue peace with them,
they pursue us with cruelty and war.
And so saying 1967, 1948,
this is 800 years ago, Muslims outside
of the land of Israel were persecuting
Jews. And so what do we do here? Just as
they have persecuted every minority that
has ever had the misfortune of dwelling
in their midst, the Muslims persecuted
the Jews. And today, nothing has
changed. the murderous hate, the
jealousy, the venomous religious anger
toward the Jew, it's rooted deep into
the religious fabric of this war. And so
to any honest observer, it's clear that
this has nothing to do with Gaza,
nothing to do with politics. This is a
religious war. Now, we've gone now to a
deeper level. So, let's keep going. The
Jews were the first people that are
mentioned in the Quran who rejected
Muhammad. And there are many quotes in
the Quran that can be understood to be
really anti-Jewish. And the fact that
the Jews live right now in the heart of
the Muslim world have built the most
successful, thriving, free, attractive
country in the region, surrounded by
defunct, failing, uneducated,
poverty-stricken Muslim countries, is
such an embarrassment for Islam, that
the hate of the existence of the state
of Israel, it's like an existential
hate. It's like a living contradiction
to their entire world view. How can
Islam be the ultimate truth if all the
blessings and prophecies are being
fulfilled through the Jews in Israel and
not through the Muslims around them in
the Middle East?
