ISLAMIC HISTORY
EXPERT: MOSLEM PEACE WITH ISRAEL? NEVER!
September
15, 2006
By Ezra HaLevi
Islam History Professor Moshe Sharon of Hebrew University told a counter-terrorism conference Thursday,
"There is no possibility of peace between Israel
and the Palestinians whatsoever - ever.”
Sharon, speaking at the annual conference of Herzliya’s Counter Terrorism Institute, said that
Iran is dead serious about obtaining and
using nuclear weapons in order to bring about its vision of an Islamic End of Days.
The veteran expert on Islam says that Western officials fail to grasp that the Arab and Islamic world truly see Israel’s establishment as a “reversal of history”
and are therefore unable to ever accept peaceful relations with it. From Moslems’ perspective, “Islamic territory
was taken away from Islam by Jews. You know by now that this can never be accepted, not even one meter. So everyone who thinks
Tel Aviv is safe is making a grave mistake. Territory which at one time was dominated by Islamic rule, now has become non-Moslem.
Non-Moslems are independent of Islamic rule and Jews have created their own independent state. It is anathema. Worse, Israel, a non-Moslem state, is ruling over Moslems. It is
unthinkable that non-Moslems should rule over Moslems.”
Sharon dismissed various peace treaties signed by Moslem and Arab officials over the years as
"pieces of paper, parts of tactics and strategies… with no meaning."
Sharon’s
assessment focused on the danger posed by Iran.
From studying Iranian culture, literature, newspapers, broadcasts and interviews with major players in the Islamic regime,
Sharon concludes that a deep belief in a Shiite messiah is at the root of Iran’s nuclear project. “They truly believe that
the Shiite messiah, the 12th Imam (also known as the Mahdi), is here, and that he will reveal himself… What moves the
Iranian government and leadership today is first and foremost the wish to bring about the 12th Imam."
Addressing the theological doctrine of how exactly the this Messiah will be revealed, Sharon explained: "How will they bring him? Through an apocalypse. He
(the Mahdi) needs a war. He cannot come into this world without an Armageddon. He wants an Armageddon. The earlier we understand
this the better. Ahmadinejad wants nuclear weapons for this!"
Sharon has in the past insisted that the Western world was engaging in great folly by differentiating
between radical and peaceful Islam. “All of a sudden we see that the greatest interpreters of Islam are politicians
in the Western world,” he wrote sarcastically. “They know better than all the speakers in the mosques, all those
who deliver terrible sermons against anything that is either Christian or Jewish. These Western politicians know that there
is good Islam and bad Islam. They know even how to differentiate between the two - except that none of them know how to read
a word of Arabic.”
“The difference between Judaism, Christianity
and Islam is as follows: Judaism speaks about national salvation - namely, that at the end of the story, when the world becomes
a better place, Israel will be in its
own land, ruled by its own king and serving G-d. Christianity speaks about the idea that every single person in the world
can be saved from his sins, while Islam speaks about ruling the world. I can quote here in Arabic, but there is no point in
quoting Arabic, so let me quote a verse in English: ‘Allah sent Mohammed with the true religion so that it should rule
over all the religions.’
“The idea, then, is not that
the whole world would necessarily become Moslem at this time, but that the whole world would be subdued under the rule of
Islam.”
That, Sharon
insists, is the plan, in black-and-white, of the Iranian regime.
“This
is why [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad seeks nuclear weapons,” he emphasized. “The faster we realize this,
the better.”
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