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In all the excitement over the bombings of Tehran by Israel and Tel Aviv by Iran, the question has too seldom been asked: what exactly is Iran’s beef with Israel? Why does the Islamic Republic consider the Jewish state to be a mortal enemy, to the extent of repeatedly vowing its imminent destruction?
The answer is not immediately clear or obvious. After all, the two countries don’t border upon one another. They have no competing territorial claims. They have no competing economic interests. From the standpoint of the issues that have ordinarily caused conflicts among nations, Iran’s hostility to Israel makes about as much sense as if the leaders of the United States were suddenly to decide that the chief enemy of our nation was Costa Rica, and began to shower that small Central American nation with endless threats and saber-rattling.
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Siddi Nasrani says
The only reason Iran ( Muslim State ) hates the Jews is that their alleged Holy Book
(Quran) is a instruction manual of hate towards all non Muslims.
Read this for starters.
The holiest book of Islam (most of which is about non-Muslims) draws the sharpest of distinctions between Muslims, the best of people (3:110), and non-believers, the worst of creatures, (98:6). Praise is lavished on the former while the latter is condemned with scorching generalization.
Far from teaching universal love, the Quran incessantly preaches the inferiority of non-Muslims, even comparing them to vile animals and gloating over Allah’s hatred of them and his dark plans for their eternal torture. Muslims are told that they are destined to dominate non-believers, against whom harsh treatment is encouraged.
The Islamic State put these teachings from their holy book into practice during a restaurant siege in Bangladesh during Ramadan 2016. They spared fasting Muslims and fed them their iftar – while torturing and killing those who could not recite from the Quran.
Polished Muslim pundits in the West are fond of using the word ‘bigot’ to describe critics of Islam, but they are rarely challenged on their own view of the Quran. What does the book they claim to be the literal and eternal word of Allah really say about non-Muslims?
There is a lot more. https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/articles/quran-hate.aspx
Tony says
Allah teaches and promotes terrorism, hatred, and violence by Muslims against Jews and Christians because infidelity, unbelief, and blasphemy are a CRIME AGAINST ALLAH(Quran 9:29; 60:4; 98:6-7; and more). Allah in Quran 5:51 says, “O you who have believed[Muslims], do not take the Jews and the Nasara(Christians) as friends. They are friends to one another. And whoever among you takes them as friends, so surely he is of them. Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” See also Quran 2:63-65; 3:115; 4:144; 5:59-60, 82; 7:166.
Allah inspires hatred and enmity when Quran 5:14 says, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up enmity and hatred among them until the resurrection day. Allah in Quran 48:29 says, “Muhammad is Allah’s Messenger, and those who are with him are severe against the infidels but full of tenderness among themselves…”
Walter Sieruk says
The reason why that Islamic regime of Iran hates Jewish State of Israel with such an extreme spiteful passion of deadly malice, is because it’s Qur ‘an based extreme spiteful passion of Islamic malice.
For the Qu ran contains many terribly awful description in it of the Jewish people, 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60.
To elaborate on all that vicious spite and deadly hate filled malice for the Jewish people and likewise the Jewish State of Israel It’s the Jewish State of Israel because of Islam’s “holy book” the Qur’an.
To explain this in more detail Such vicious Muslims hate towards the Jewish people is because according to Qur ‘an n ,which is the entire foundation of Islam, the Jews are “apes and swine in human form.” Such vicious and malice -filled vicious murderous spite and hate of jihadist Muslims ,as those of Hamas ,Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad for the Jewish people is based upon the foundation of Islam’s “holy book” the Qu ‘ran.
The roots of this awful Muslim murderous hostility towards the Jewish people is the result of a firm but blind and unquestioning Muslim faith in the Qu ‘ran. Which instructs in violence and killing for the cause of Islam. As found in, for example, 4: 89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4.
In other words the Qu ‘ran inspires and causes such hideous violence. Furthermore, another role the Koran has in such deadly Islamic terror attacks in the Jewish nation of Israel is that the Koran contains many negative about the Jewish people.
The reason that the Qur ‘an reads as it does have much to do with the history of the founder and prophet of Islam, who is Muhammad. This is for a specific time period of his life Muhammad lived among many Jewish people and he liked them at first.
Later then they would not accept his claim of being of prophet, Muhammad then took is dislike to them that then turned into bitterness and even hate for them. So in the hate and bitterness he spoke many derogatory things about the as even referring to them as “apes and swine.” Such word of bitterness and hate, along with other thing he said, where written down on things and then later after his death those words were together and then eventually, in time went in the composition of the Qu ‘ran.
Therefore, that why the Koran reads and in does about the Jewish people, as in calling them descendants of “apes and swine.” As seen in the Qur ‘ran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60.
Furthermore, as a Christian I can keyboard that there is a chance the Muhammad actually might had been a prophet but the important thing to understand is that Muhammad was NOT a prophet send by God. Instead, Muhammad was a deceptive, lying false prophet send by Satan to lead many people astray and even and straight into hell. Jesus, in fact, had predicted and warned of the coming of such men as Muhammad. For Jesus taught “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:15. In addition, the Bible further warns that “many false prophets have gone out into the world.” First John 4:1.
Walter Sieruk says
The foundation of this whole Islamic “Republic “of Iran is based on the “holy book” of Islam the Qur ‘an, as in 47;4. Some call this religious book, the Qur ‘an, which is very anti-Jewish, as found in for example, 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60. Therefore , it hates the Jewish State of Israel.
All this leads to a very important question: “Is the Quran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?”
The jihadists use many verses from the Qur ‘an as the main source of justification for their violence, mayhem and murders. As found in For example, 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. The answer is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Qur ‘an with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Qur’ an differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical.
Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Qur ‘an to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran.
Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.”
In addition in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Qur ‘ an was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’
Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.”
In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax , therefore that Islamic regime of Iran is built on a foundation of sand.
pfwag says
Is that a rhetorical question? They hate Israel (and all non-Muslims) because their god, prophet,and holy book command them to.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The thing that strikes me about the shi’a is that the main threat to their sect, wherever they have followers, are sunnis. Namely the regimes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and now Syria
The late leader Ayatollah Khomenei was pretty mindful of that, and his main venom was directed against the first 3 Rashidun caliphs – Abu Baqr, Umar & Uthman. He had plans to try & seize Mecca & Medina from the Saudis, as well as encourage shi’a insurrections against sunnis wherever he could. Which made sense
What made less sense was in the 90s, when Iran changed its focus from Iraq, once the war had ended, to Israel. Yeah, I know the islamic imperative to destroy all infidels, but that would still be secondary to the survival of the sect. That wasn’t doing too well in the above mentioned countries, including Saddam’s Iraq but excluding Assad’s Syria. Similarly, the Houthis in Yemen – the biggest attacks on them had come from the Saudis, and the South Yemenis. Yet, Ansar allah’s main slogans are “Death to America, Death to Israel”, although neither of these countries have done to the Zaidi Yemenis anything remotely close to what their sunni Arab neighbors have done
So I do understand why shi’as hate US, Israel & Jews. What I don’t understand is how they prioritize them over their sunni neighbors, why have far more genocidal designs against them, unlike the US or Israel
Winston 101 says
Infidel,
Could it be that the shias can’t get at their sunni neighbors i.e. the Saudi’s, because the United States acts as sunni ,Saudi, security? The Saudis agreed to the military bases the U. S. has in the region in exchange for providing the Saudi’s with protection for their oil shipping system? Wasn’t it part of the Bretton Wood system after WWII? (The catch being you had to ally with the U.S., not the Soviets.)
I think the shia see the sunni’s ability to hurt them as being due to the shia being protected by the Great Satan. The establishment of Israel, the Little Satan, made the problem all the more intractable for the shia as Israel was clearly aligned with the U.S.
The Great Satan and Little Satan frustrate the shia goal of getting at the sunnis, so they are hated first.
gravenimage says
Why Does Iran Hate Israel?
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Not because Israel has ever threatened Iran. Just because Islam hates Jews and preaches their genocide. Iran thinks it will gain enormous influence in Dar-al-Islam if they destroy democratic Israel.