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 A "just and comprehensive peace" in Arab understanding means the destruction of Jewish sovereignty in their midst. In order to better understand why peace with Israel in the Middle East is a delusion, we need to take a look at the doctrine and thought of Islam. 

Mohammed became the founder of a state and of a religion, when he created a federation of Arab tribes and united them into a socio-religious community commissioned by God to bring its own value system to the world. "The Islamic State, whose principal function was to put God's law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world. It refused to recognize the co-existence of non-Moslem communities, except perhaps as subordinate entities, because BY ITS VERY NATURE A UNIVERSAL STATE TOLERATES THE EXISTENCE OF NO OTHER STATE THAN ITSELF... Mohammed's early successors, after Islam became supreme in Arabia, were determined to embark on a ceaseless war of conquest in the name of Islam. The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both THE UNIVERSALIZATION OF RELIGION AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN IMPERIAL WORLD STATE... Thus the jihad, reflecting the normal relations between Moslems and non-Moslems, was the STATE-INSTRUMENT for transforming territories under non-Moslems into 'Dar al Islam' (the House of Islam)."¹⁴

Separation of State and Religion is therefore incompatible with Islamic doctrine, as is the creation of a "democratic and secular" Palestinian state. Arabs have never known a democritic rule. It is absolutely foreign to their social makeup. Rather, Moslems view themselves as "the middle community bearing witness on mankind," as "the best community produced for mankind," whose function it is "TO ENJOIN GOOD AND FORBID EVIL." Since this requires active reinforcement, so that "there is no mischief and corruption" on earth, the doctrine of the jihad was the logical outcome.

The Koran requires recognition of ALL prophets without discrimination, although considered human and never part of divinity. Abraham, Noah, Moses, and Jesus are considered great prophets, who were vindicated by G-d and saved from their trials. Thus Jesus was not only born of the Virgin Mary, but G-d also SAVED HIM FROM CRUCIFIXION BY THE HANDS OF THE JEWS. Mohammed is believed to be the last of such prophets and the greatest of them all, because in him all the messages of earlier prophets were consummated. 

Within a century after Mohammed's death in 632 C.E. a new Arab Moslem Empire extended from Spain across Central Asia to India. But Christianity's equally aggressive and bloody expansionism led to the disintegration of that Empire and put a halt to its mission. This humiliation by "infidels" is neither forgotten nor forgiven. It has marked Christianity as "evil," and therewith all Western powers. The U.S. as their leader is viewed as the incarnation of "evil" and called the "Great Satan." Israel is viewed as the Christian/Jewish imperialists' "pawn" to obstruct the Arabs' quest and mission and is called the "Little Satan."

A few days after signing his agreement with Israel in Cairo, Arafat addressed English speaking Moslems in South-Africa. Citing Koranic passages he asked them and the rest of the Islamic world to join him in the fulfillment of the Islamic duty of jihad. Jerusalem, he said, was the "first Moslem shrine" and the permanent capital of Palestine. He declared the "Jericho-Gaza-First" agreement merely his FIRST step in his continuing JIHAD TO LIBERATE JERUSALEM. He alluded to the agreement as having followed the example of Mohammed in his dealings with the Quraysh tribe of Mecca: he made a treaty with them, known as "Truce of al-Hudaybiyah," which was to last 10 years. After only two years he broke the treaty. This truce became a model and precedent in Islamic law for ALL agreements with INFIDELS: NEVER permanent, never lasting more than 10 years (with the possibility of another 10 years extension, no more). Islam is NOT PERMITTED to stop its war against non-Moslems for more than this period.

Arafat alluded yet to another treaty: the one between Caliph Omar, the conqueror of Jerusalem, and the Patriarch Sophronius, leader of Jerusalem at the time of the conquest. They agreed that Jews would not be allowed to return to live in Jerusalem. Christians were guaranteed free access to their holy places under Moslem control over all of Jerusalem. What would prevent the Palestinian leader (or "Man of lawlessness") to make a similar treaty with the Pope?! 

Apparently, this is what Arafat has also in mind: a Jerusalem without Jews, capital of an Islamic Palestinian state, in which the Christians will assume again the status of "protected" people. Arafat assured his listeners that the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Patriarch of Istanbul have already been informed of their inevitable fate.