by Odemgbe

Created on: December 23, 2008

"Allah does not forbid you, with regard to those who do not fight you on account of your religion nor drive you out of your homes, to treat them with goodness and to be just to them; truly, Allah loves those who are just. Indeed, Allah forbids you (only) with regard to those who fight you on account of religion and drive you out of your homes and assist (others) in driving you out, that you turn to them (in friendship); and whoever turns to them (in friendship), they are wrongdoers".

Quran 60:8-9.

The Holy Quran is very clear on the rules on dealing with non Muslims: fight those who fight you on account of religion or chase you away from your homes. Kindness to non Muslims is not forbidden and all non Muslims are not enemies of Islam as some terrorists would make one believe. In fact, certain non Muslims, Jews and Christians, are known as People of the Book, and possess a relationship of mercy and spiritual kinship with Muslims. So, the crisis between the Palestinian people and the Israelis contradicts Islamic tenets. There are two key issues that underlie a solution the crisis: did the Israelis chase the Palestinians out of their homes? Does the Israeli Government fight Muslims based on their religion or single out the criminal minded? The answer to these questions lies in the history of the conflict.

The 1917 Balfour Declaration drew out the preliminary conditions for the relocation of Jews back to the "Homeland" given centuries of anti-Semitic purges especially in Europe (the Spanish Inquisition , Portugal, England in 1290, France in 1306 and 1394, Belgium in 1370, Czechoslovakia in 1380, Russia in1510 etc).The Western world was forced to take action after the Second World War in which an estimated six million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany in a xenophobic massacre known as the Holocaust. The British Government was in charge in the Palestinian territory under trusteeship and was under pressure to arrange the return of the Jews, who were frightened and in danger of further attacks from escapee Nazi Officials. The Arab community under King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, had an agreement with Britain with a guarantee of independence for Arab territories previously under Turkish rule. The Arabs refused to share the land and objected to the migration while Jewish terrorists attacked the British Army, who were war weary. This led to the exit of Britain from the peace process and the commencement of hostilities between Jews and Arabs; culminating a six day war

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