Jewish Terrorism

by Dr. Abdul-Sattar Kassem

Who Is the Terrorist?

The world speaks of Islamic terrorism, and of Islam as a religion of killing and bloodshed. This world has not read the Islamic religious texts — it looks only at the actions of Muslims, and then generalizes to encompass all Muslims and all Islamic religious texts.

Many people have come to feel disgust toward Muslims, treating them as enemies and pursuing them, and it is noticeable that the Muslim and the Arab suffer, at the world’s airports and ports, from an excess of procedures and scrutiny, out of fear that terrorists might enter and tamper with the security of states.

Muslims generally do not deny the existence of terrorists who use the Islamic religion to justify their misdeeds, and it is these people who distort the image of Islam and Muslims, entrenching a prevailing impression that Islam is a bloody religion, dealing with others without mercy. Perhaps ordinary people, at the global level, cannot be blamed, since they are influenced by the media, political statements, and state programs, taking on board what media figures and politicians say — but the blame falls on those who describe themselves as intellectuals and academics and do not read to ascertain the truth of the matter.

“Islam commanded Muslims to fight those who fight them, expel them from their homes, and aid in fighting and expelling them — but if we look at the Torah now in the hands of the Jews, the matter is entirely different, since it establishes a genuinely terroristic ideology in the name of the Lord, one Jews are required to abide by.”

There are European and American media outlets, such as Charlie Hebdo, that never tire of heaping insults and abuse on Muslims, stripping them of their humanity, and they certainly do so deliberately, egged on by others to continue their attack on Islam and the Arabs, the Zionists and their allies especially.

Comparison with Judaism

Islam commanded Muslims to fight those who fight Muslims, expel them from their homes, and aid in fighting and expelling them — but if we look at the Torah now in the hands of the Jews, the matter is entirely different, since it establishes a genuinely terroristic ideology in the name of the Lord, one Jews are required to abide by. And when we speak of the Torah, we are speaking of the Old Testament, which Christians believe in as well, and the circle of obligation under Judaism encompasses Christians just as it encompasses Jews.

Zionist Jews say they are the heirs of the prophets of the Children of Israel, to whom God revealed His heavenly teachings and through whom He sent grace, blessings, and benedictions. They say they are the heirs of the first Children of Israel, whom God cared for and promised to watch over their children and grandchildren after them. They are, accordingly — according to their claim — heirs of wisdom, knowledge, guidance, and love of people, heirs of doing good, establishing justice, and spreading awareness of praiseworthy teachings and commandments. They add that this good inherited legacy has extended across generations to distinguish Jews in their good conduct, and to make of them a candle that many tyrants and despots found unwelcome, and who pursued and persecuted Jews, inflicting torment and destruction upon them.

These are claims repeated again and again in Zionist propaganda in the West, aimed at achieving a number of purposes:

The first was striking the religious chord that finds a receptive ear in the Christian Western world. The Christian West believes the Jewish heritage written in the Torah is the Old Testament, which the Gospel came to complete, and this is bound to generate sympathy in favor of the Zionists in their pursuit of establishing the Jewish national home in Palestine, and turning this idea into a state. Zionist propaganda focused on the Promised Land, inhabited — according to their description — by strangers whom they call “Muhammadans,” who led people astray and turned them away from the religion of Christ.

The second lies in reviving Jewish-Christian solidarity in confronting the people of atheism and unbelief in the Arab-Islamic East. In the name of religion, Christians came to these lands in the Crusades, and the Zionists see no obstacle to stirring the religious element in order to draw sympathy and win support.

The third is creating the impression that Jews have, historically, stood on the side of what is right, and that the persecution they faced was never their own doing, but rather due to others’ inability to see this right.

Torah Thought and Humanity

The Torah speaks of relations with non-Hebrews, or other peoples, at three levels: the sons of our master Abraham from his wife Hagar; the local inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites especially; and other peoples outside the Holy Land, such as the Egyptians and the Ammonites. It is clear from the outset that the Torah colors this relationship with a superior outlook, placing Jews atop the mountain while placing others at the bottom of the valley. This is a view governed by the notion of the Hebrews’ monopoly over the Lord, and His denial of His lordship to others.

They are God’s chosen people, surrounded by His care and attention, while the others are mere wandering peoples enjoying no elevated privileges or respect. This thinking is consistent with the prevailing Hebrew belief that the world is divided into two parts: a people possessing God, His grace, and His love, and other bestial, savage peoples outside the Lord’s care.

The Torah forbids Hebrews from mixing with other peoples, because these peoples are impure and contemptible, mere animals in human form, and since the Hebrews are God’s chosen people, the chosen must not mix with the impure. For this reason, the Torah sets out the reason God created the other peoples: to be subjugated in defeat before the Children of Israel when the Israelites are obedient to the Lord and applying His commandments, and to be used by the Lord to inflict defeats on the Children of Israel when they disobey Him. The other peoples exist only so that the Hebrews may delight in victory over them, or so that God may punish the Hebrews through them.

“The Torah forbids Hebrews from mixing with other peoples, because these peoples are impure and contemptible, mere animals in human form, and since the Hebrews are God’s chosen people, the chosen must not mix with the impure.”

As for the levels of dealing with other peoples, according to the Torah’s texts, they are confined to the following:

1. Killing: The Lord of the Children of Israel prefers the killing of other peoples and ridding the world of their impurity and filth. The Lord repeatedly commanded the Children of Israel to carry out total destruction of others, according to the Torah’s texts. For instance, the Lord commanded the Hebrew army, when it entered Jericho in the time of Joshua son of Nun, to devote to destruction every living soul in it (“devote to destruction” meaning to kill). The Lord commanded them to kill all the people, including women and children, and commanded the killing of animals and livestock, the burning of crops, and the demolition of houses. The Torah boasts that the Hebrew army killed the inhabitants of the town of Ai, located between Jericho and Ramallah, whose population then numbered — according to the Torah — 12,000 souls. In several places, the Torah indicates the Lord commanding killing and slaughter.

2. Expulsion: The second preference of the Torah’s Lord is the expulsion of people from the places where the Hebrews are present. The presence of other peoples among the Hebrews negatively affects the Hebrews, afflicting them with impurity and defilement, and impure peoples must not remain among the blessed, sanctified chosen. It is also likely that other peoples would tempt God’s chosen people, turning them away from worshipping the Lord and into disobedience and sin. Other peoples are astray, and constantly work to lead others astray as well.

Did not the Jewish rabbi Ovadia Yosef call for the expulsion of Palestinians from Palestine because they are impure and “sons of snakes,” as he put it? To this day, Israel’s policy rests on ridding itself of Palestinians, one way or another, and religious Jews consider the presence of Palestinians on the Promised Land — as they describe it — a great sin the Lord will punish them for.

3. Enslavement: The Lord commands the enslavement of other peoples if expulsion is not possible. The Torah tells God’s chosen people that the Lord will make the other peoples their servants, letting them use them however they wish, according to their own desires.

Israel and Zionism have practiced these levels against the Palestinians. Before the state’s establishment, the Zionist organizations deliberately carried out killing against Palestinians, executing a number of massacres against them in accordance with the Lord’s commands. They committed massacres at al-Dawayima, Haifa, Deir Yassin, Tantura, Lydda, and elsewhere, aimed at terror and intimidation, so that Palestinians would flee their villages and cities and take refuge in neighboring Arab countries. They practiced expulsion, too, through massacres.

As for the Palestinians who remained on the land of Palestine, whether in the part occupied in 1948 or the part occupied in 1967, they were enslaved by the Israelis on farms and Israeli facilities, becoming important instruments of production in the Israeli economy.

The Torah does not consider Ishmael among the descendants of Abraham, peace be upon him, saying Isaac is Abraham’s only son, and the Torah goes to great lengths heaping accusations on Ishmael and his descendants after him.

The Land: The Torah’s divine arrangement for the distribution of lands is consistent with the idea of God’s chosen people versus the astray, impure peoples. The Torah writes about the land and deals with it according to the following levels:

a. The first level is the Land of Greater Israel, which the Lord promised to our master Abraham and designated for him and his descendants after him. The Torah says the Lord told Abraham: “Look at this land which you see, to the north, east, south, and west — it is yours and your offspring’s; I give it to you after you.” This land encompasses the whole of the land of Greater Syria, the land of Iraq west of the Euphrates, Sinai, and the land of Egypt east of the Nile. Israel printed the map of this land on its ten-agorot currency denomination, and the map appears clearly in Israel’s own atlas.

“Israel killed about two thousand Palestinians in Gaza in its 2014 war, demolishing homes and displacing women and children. This is terrorism prescribed ‘religiously’ and blessed by their ‘Lord’ — indeed, required of them as a trust they must fulfill to the Lord.”

b. The second level concerns the Promised Land, the geographic parcel the Lord promised to Moses, peace be upon him, detailed precisely in the Torah, encompassing the whole of the land of Canaan, which is historic Palestine. This parcel includes all of present-day Mandatory Palestine except the southern tip of the Negev, Lebanon except for the city of Tripoli and the Akkar region, southwestern Syria including Damascus and a small part of northern Jordan, the Jordan River, the Dead Sea, and the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula including al-Arish.

c. The third level is the Kingdom of David, encompassing the land of Mandatory Palestine, a large part of Lebanon, and the East Bank of Jordan. This content reflects the Jewish conception of the kingdom David, peace be upon him, established, which he was unable to expand to include the kingdoms of Gaza and Sidon.

d. And, finally, the Lord told the Children of Israel that every land their feet tread upon belongs to them, on the premise that they are sanctified, and that the land gains its sanctity and blessing from their feet.

Who Is the Terrorist?

There is much detail in the Torah on subjects of this kind, and I have tried to keep it brief so the message reaches people. If we were to scrutinize the religions closely, we would find that the prevailing ideas about Islam are inaccurate and need reconsideration, and we ought to pay attention to the teachings promoted by Islam’s enemies.

Israel killed about two thousand Palestinians in Gaza in its 2014 war, demolishing homes and displacing women and children. This is terrorism prescribed “religiously” and blessed by their “Lord” — indeed, required of them as a trust they must fulfill to the Lord. Here it is important for me to note that the condition of women in the Torah is no better than the condition of other peoples.

Women are held in contempt in the Torah, described with poor qualities, and are, at times, impure, requiring isolation from the household and from various activities of life. Muslims are accused of holding women in contempt — those leveling this accusation ought to read what they themselves believe before leveling accusations.

Source: Translated from the original Arabic, “الإرهاب اليهودي” by Dr. Abdul-Sattar Kassem.