Andrew Bostom at [1] FrontPage provides a wealth of long quotations from Islamic sources and historians to trace the devastating effects of the jihad ideology in historical Palestine. In his conclusion he reminds us that that ideology is very much alive there today, including all the institutionalized discrimination of dhimmitude:

After more than thirteen centuries of almost uninterrupted jihad in historical Palestine, it is not surprising that the finalized constitution for the proposed Palestinian Arab state declares all aspects of Palestinian state law to be subservient to the Shari’a, while contemporary Palestinian Authority religious intelligentsia, as represented by Sheikh Salamah and Sheikh Al-Madhi, openly support restoration of the oppressive system of dhimmitude within a Muslim dominated Israel, as well. An appropriate assessment of such anachronistic, discriminatory views was provided by the Catholic Archbishop of the Galilee, Butrus Al-Mu'alem, who, in a June 1999 statement dismissed the notion of modern “dhimmis” submitting to Muslims:

It is strange to me that there remains such backwardness in our society; while humans have already reached space, the stars, and the moon... there are still those who amuse themselves with fossilized notions.

A strange notion for our modern times, certainly, but very real, ominous, and sobering.