Why Are Some Muslims Fighting for the Israeli Defense Forces?
Anyone who says that the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a war between Muslims and Jews is highly mistaken or is trying to soft-soap the reality of the ongoing situation in the Middle East. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is rooted in religious differences. The Jews believe that they are the chosen people of God through selection when Jacob was born and God chose him over his brother, Esau. The Muslims believe that they are God’s chosen people selected through divine ordinance and identified through their faith in Islam. Muslims believe that the Jews “were” indeed the chosen people of God before the advent of Mohamed and the Koran, but that God broke His covenant with the Jews and gave it to the Muslims through the Koran and Mohamed. Muslims believe that God is no longer with the Jews and therefore they should not control the Holy Land. The Jews believe that the Muslims are in error and that God will never break His covenant with them, the Jews. Therefore, this war has more to do with proving whose side God is on than who owns and occupies a piece of land.
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