American Thinker: Why Islam Will Never Accept the State of Israel

American Thinker: Why Islam Will Never Accept the State of Israel: "It is a common belief that the 'Arab-Israeli conflict' is a conflict of two peoples fighting over the same piece of land and is therefore one of nationalism. Rarely, if ever, do we hear or read of the religious component to this conflict.

However, if anything, the conflict is more of a 'Muslim-Jewish' one than an 'Arab-Israeli' one. In other words, the conflict is based on religion -- Islam vs. Judaism -- cloaked in Arab nationalism vs. Zionism. The fact of the matter is that in every Arab-Israeli war, from 1948 to the present, cries of 'jihad,' 'Allahu Akbar,' and the bloodcurdling scream of 'Idbah al- Yahud' (slaughter the Jews) have resonated amongst even the most secular of Arab leaders, be it Nasser in the 1950s and 1960s or the supposedly 'secular' PLO of the 1960s to the present. Indeed, the question must be asked: If this is really a conflict of different nationalisms and not Islamic supremacism, then why is it that virtually no non-Arab Muslim states have full (if any) relations with Israel?"