The Islamic Republic of Iran now claims that the ceasefire agreement with the U.S. was meant to cover Israel as well, so that the Jewish state should also stop its attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon. Both Israel and the United States flatly reject that claim, and a day into the ceasefire, Israel made that point forcefully by carrying out “its heaviest strikes on Lebanon since the latest conflict with Hezbollah broke out last month.”
More on Israel’s latest attack on Hezbollah on April 8 can be found here: “Israel Pounds Lebanon with Heaviest Airstrikes of the War as Hezbollah Pauses Attacks,” Algemeiner, April 8, 2026:
Israel carried out its heaviest strikes on Lebanon since the conflict with Hezbollah broke out last month, even as the Iran-aligned group paused attacks on northern Israel and Israeli troops in Lebanon under a two-week US-Iran ceasefire.
Consecutive explosions shook Beirut, sending smoke billowing across the capital, as Israel’s military said it had launched the largest coordinated strike of the war. More than 100 Hezbollah command centers and military sites were targeted in Beirut, the Bekaa Valley and southern Lebanon, it said….
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said overnight that the ceasefire suspending the six-week-old US-Israeli war against Iran did not apply to Lebanon, and the Israeli military said operations against Hezbollah there would continue.
That position contradicted comments by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, a key intermediary in the US-Iran ceasefire talks, who had said the truce would include Lebanon….
French President Emmanuel Macron said the situation in Lebanon, a former French protectorate, remained critical and called for Lebanon to be included in the deal. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, welcoming the US-Iran ceasefire, said Beirut would continue its efforts to ensure that Lebanon was included in any lasting regional peace agreement.
“Hezbollah was informed that it is part of the ceasefire – so we abided by it, but Israel as usual has violated it and committed massacres all across Lebanon,” senior Hezbollah lawmaker Ibrahim al-Moussawi told Reuters….
To repeat: the Americans have said that Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah is not part of the ceasefire. Israel will continue to hit the terror group, though there are reports that after having hit 100 targets on April 8, it has promised Washington that it will “soften” its future attacks.
Hezbollah realized that if it stayed in southern Beirut, heavily populated by its Shia supporters, the IDF would have little reason to stay its hand. But if Hezbollah moved to areas where it could embed its combatants among Christians and Sunni Muslims, the sworn enemies of the terror group, the IDF would be more reluctant to strike, out of fear of potentially hitting those who oppose Hezbollah, and turning them from friends into enemies of Israel.
“Hopefully a ceasefire will be reached,” said Ahmed Harm, a 54-year-old man displaced from Beirut’s southern suburbs. “Lebanon can’t take it anymore. The country is collapsing economically, and everything is collapsing.”
And who has dragged Lebanon into a war with Israel by launching missiles and drones into the Jewish state? Who has taken over large swathes of Lebanon, in south Beirut, in the Bekaa Valley, and in the area between the Litani River and the border with Israel, and will not allow the national government’s writ to run in those places? Who has refused to disarm by handing its weapons over to the Lebanese National Army?
Outside a school sheltering displaced people in Sidon, pillows and blankets were piled onto cars as some families held out hope of returning home soon. On an astroturf football field, one family had packed plastic bags with clothes, pots and pans, towels, sheets and blankets….
The story does not make clear that these people who have been “displaced” from southern Lebanon are not the victims of the “cruel Israelis,” but instead, had been warned by the IDF to leave certain areas where it intended to bomb. Israel was not trying to harm civilians, but to save their lives. As usual, the media never makes this clear.
Worse still, much of the media — including the BBC and NPR — casts doubt on the American and Israeli understanding of the ceasefire agreement, by saying “though the U.S. and Israel claim that the agreement does not cover Lebanon, the Pakistanis who brokered the agreement insist that it does.” This phrasing certainly gives a rhetorical boost to the Pakistani-Iranian claim.
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Duty of the Muslim Towards These Treaties
Shaykh `Abdul Rahman `Abdul Khaliq
The last chapter from “Verdict on the Treaties of Compromise and Peace With the Jews”
Note: This piece represents the perspective of a Muslim scholar on the peace treaty and is presented here since their perspective is often ignored in the media and is important for the Muslims.
And now comes the most important question, that is:
What is the duty today on the Muslim as regards these treaties?
The answer:
(1) The first duty is to firmly believe in their invalidity and that because they contain invalid conditions they were born dead the very day they were given birth to; because it is not lawful for the Muslim to conclude an agreement with the unbeliever for abandoning jihad and abrogating this religious duty, nor for giving up hostility towards the Jews and affirming love and amity for them; for this is leaving the millah. These treaties also contain provisions making it incumbent to screen out such Ayahs of the Quran and ahadith (statements) of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be on him, that declare this enmity towards the Jews.
This undertaking constitutes a collusion with the unbelievers for concealing the Deen and knowledge and for suspending the Ayahs of the noble Quran and ahadith of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be on him, that explain the essence of obligatory relationship with the Jews; and this in fact is driving the Muslims out of Islam and stripping the Ummah of its belief and history.
And since these treaties contain such conditions and stipulate them clearly, they are therefore invalid and it is not lawful for the Muslim to believe in them.
(2) The second duty of the Muslim is to believe that these treaties do not bind him and that it is not lawful for him to give effect to any of their contents except under compulsion and necessity to the extent compulsion is a valid ground for compliance.
This is so because they contain the above noted invalid conditions and because they have been concluded without the consent and consultation of the men of religion, learning and judgement and because they will spoil the Deen of his sons and progeny, besides spoiling his worldly interests.
(3) The third duty is to work towards overthrowing these treaties. Their position is like the position of every abomination that may be found in the land of Islam and that which it is a duty to abhor and reject according to the conditions and requirements of rejecting as far as practicable, and to see that there does to accrue to it a worse abomination and that an abomination is not met by another abomination.
(4) The fourth duty is to believe that the Jews, as long as they adhere to their false religion, waging war against Islam and its followers, they are members of a community on whom Allah ‘s wrath has fallen. It is a duty to fight and confront them as long as they remain on their course of action in fighting Islam, disbelieve in it and commit aggression upon the Muslims.
To detest them is the Deen to be followed for Allah’s sake by a Muslim.
(5) The duty to unite the Ummah towards attaining this objective of putting an end to the sway of the Jews in the world and to their tyranny upon the Muslims and their capture of the base of the Night Journey of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be on him, and of al-Masjid al-Aqsa.
(6) To believe that the Jews could not have been able to establish their sway in the world to such an extent except after the elimination of Islam from the Arab states and their constitutions and legislation – except as Allah had His mercy – and the slogans of nationalism and secularism had taken the place of Islam and there had taken up this issue the secularists who fought the Jews under slogans other than Islam, and isolated Islam from this issue. Then when they were unsuccessful, and this is Allah’s way of dealing with His creation, and they announced their humiliating surrender and threw themselves under the feet of the Jews, they gave it out as the highest degree of wisdom and reason. Hence they failed in their war and Allah debased and disgraced them in this life before the hereafter, on account of their moving away from Islam and their discarding of the Book of Allah and the sunnah of His Messenger,peace and blessings of Allah be on him. And on that account to believe that there cannot be any victory in this issue and any dislodgement of the Jews from the midst of the Ummah and an ending of their sway in the world except by means of Islam in belief, in method and in jihad.
(7) To pray to Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta’ala day and night that He unite the words of the followers of Islam, that He unite their ranks and that He return them to their Deen; and that He prepare for them the means of their victory over the enemy of Allah and theirs.
And all the praise belongs to Allah, Lord of all beings.
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source:
https://web.archive.org/web/20000816205526/http://www.islaam.com/articles/treaty.htm
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he number of Muslims around the world
Today, Saturday, April 11, 2026, it is estimated that 2,062,041,568 people around the world identify themselves as Muslims, which represents over 25% of the world’s total population of 8,248,166,271.
and
The world Jewish population has reached a significant milestone in 2025, with approximately 15.8 million Jews living across the globe. This demographic represents roughly 0.2% of the total world population of 8 billion people. The Jewish community continues to demonstrate remarkable resilience and growth, particularly concentrated in two primary nations: Israel and the United States. These two countries together account for more than 85% of the entire global Jewish population, making them the undisputed centers of contemporary Jewish life and culture.
and these muslims are obsessed with Jews
how many people in the world has even met a Jew?
What do most people know about Jews or Judaism, other than what their replacement theologies teach them?
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FYI-
Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism
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popular subject
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