The status of Jerusalem isn’t part of the Israel-Palestine dispute. It is the Israel-Palestine dispute. Everything else might be resolved by negotiation. …The slogan “from the river to the sea” is unambiguous. Ever since the so-called “nakba”, the Arabs’ goal was to make the entire land of Israel Judenrein. And that is still the goal. Not just “Al-Quds”. All of it.
Well, strictly speaking, it was Islam’s goal. Until Islam came on the scene, there wasn’t any motive for Arabs to oppose Zionist ideas any more than anyone else to do so.
The Allah of Islam is a bully god. He is a spiritual dog in the manger. What he conquers, he also makes barren. Only hefty subsidies from Christianized countries, like the historically recent oil fortunes of many Middle East countries, counter that tendency. Before big oil business, Islam was a “manageable menace.” Conventional armies and navies could and did whip it. Now the west and Islamic countries are in a dangerous embrace.