The photo accompanying the article at PJ Media shows Isaac Herzog and Mahmoud Abbas.
Since the Oct. 7 jihad massacre in Israel, we have seen Muslims, along with their leftist allies and useful idiots, demonstrating in favor of Hamas all over the world. We have not seen Muslims demonstrating in favor of Israel, or even just against Hamas. Now, however, a major head of state has denounced the Hamas atrocities and declared that they do not represent Islam. Is he the head of state of Iran? Pakistan? Egypt? Saudi Arabia? Alas, no: he is the president of Israel.
The largely ceremonial Israeli head of state, President Isaac Herzog, said it Thursday and emphasized that his statement was not meant just for his audience in the town of Rahat in southern Israel, but for everyone. “I tell the world,” he proclaimed, “that this is not a war of Jews against Muslims. It is a war between the people of light and the people of darkness, between good and evil, between doing good and doing bad, this is the war.”
Inspiring words, but the more one ponders them, the less they signify. Herzog is right on the face of it: this is indeed a war between good and evil, but it’s also important to remember that the evil side doesn’t think of itself as such, but believes it is right and righteous. Hamas, and its Palestinian and Muslim supporters in general, are engaging in a practice that no less a luminary than the prophet Isaiah warned about: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.” (Isaiah 5:20) The people who carried out the massacre in Israel on Oct. 7 believe that the creator of the universe has ordered them to “kill them wherever you find them,” (Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, cf. 9:5), even if you have to paraglide into a music festival to do it.
Herzog is right in another way: this is not a war of Jews against Muslims, but it is certainly a war of Muslims against Jews. Obviously, not all Muslims are fighting this war or are even interested in it, but those who are fighting it consistently explain the conflict in Islamic terms. Hamas top dog Ghazi Hamad said last week that Israel “constitutes a security, military, and political catastrophe” not just for Palestinian Arabs, but for the “Islamic nation.” The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Religious Affairs recently published guidelines for preachers in mosques that included the notorious Islamic tradition in which Muhammad tells Muslims that they can hasten the onset of the end times by murdering Jews: “The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.” (Sahih Muslim 2922)
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Keith O says
Herzo is smart.
Too state otherwise would give reason for every mudslime, not just in the middle east but in the world to og to war against Israel and every Jew in the world. Which is exactly what Hamas wants.