Ali Siadatan is an Iranian-Canadian and a Christian Zionist. He has just written a piece explaining just why the existence of a Jewish state, with the Jewish people sovereign in their own land, constitutes a permanent outrage for Muslims, and a theological challenge to Islam. More of his excellent piece can be found here: “Why Israel’s existence is a theological crisis for fundamentalist Islam,” by Ali Siadatan, All Israel News, September 11, 2026:
Israel presents militant fundamentalist Islam with a problem that no alteration of borders can finally resolve.
Territory can be divided. Security arrangements can be negotiated. Competing national claims can, at least theoretically, be compromised. But Israel represents something larger than territory. It represents the restoration of the Jewish people to sovereignty in their ancestral land, the revival of Jerusalem as the capital of a Jewish commonwealth, and the reappearance of biblical history in the modern world.
For Islamic movements that understand history as the progressive triumph of Islam, this restoration is not merely a political setback. It is a theological contradiction.
The problem was never simply that Jews lived in the Middle East. Jews lived throughout the Islamic world for centuries. The deeper problem is that Jews have become sovereign. They possess political power, command armies, govern Muslims and exercise authority in Jerusalem. A people formerly subordinated under Muslim rule has established an independent state in territory once governed by successive Islamic empires.
Israel therefore presents a unique theological challenge. Fundamentalist Islamic thought sees in the Jewish state an unbelieving people whose national restoration advances an entirely different account of history….
Photography by Dr. Zachi Evenor
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Jews can exist as dhimmis, subordinate to Muslims, but under no conditions can they be allowed to be the sovereign power in any territory that Muslims once possessed. This is contrary to the Islamic order of things, against the will of Allah, and must not be tolerated.
A negotiated settlement cannot resolve a worldview in which Israel’s existence is itself a rebellion against the proper order of history….
Any Arab-Israeli settlement that leaves the Jews with any territory where they can continue to rule over Muslims can only be temporary. Muslims cannot cease warfare, by any means possible — regular combat (qital), terrorism, economic warfare, diplomatic isolation — until they have eradicated the Jewish state.
Iranian strategy, imperial ambition and Shi’a eschatology consequently reinforce one another. The destruction of Israel would not be celebrated merely as a geopolitical victory. It would be proclaimed as evidence that the Islamic Revolution stands at the forefront of history….
The destruction of Israel is the necessary proof that Islam is the right path. Its continued existence is not just an affront to Muslims, but calls into question the Islamic narrative of ultimate worldwide triumph.
Beneath the language of territory lies the question of sovereignty. Beneath sovereignty lies the question of sacred history. Beneath sacred history lies the question that neither diplomacy nor military deterrence can answer:
Who owns Jerusalem—and which story will define the next age of history?
Were Israel to be squeezed back within the 1949 armistice lines, leaving it with only a nine-mile waist from Qalqilya to the sea, which would allow an invader from the east to slice the Jewish state in two within hours — that is, before Israel’s reservists could be called up —the country might not survive. The disappearance of the Jewish state will only whet, not sate, Arab and Muslim appetites for more aggression against the Infidels. The disappearance of Israel would confirm the triumph of Islam, hearten Muslims everywhere, and encourage Muslims in their obvious next step, which will be to attempt to take over Europe by a combination of demographic conquest, political power (the growing Muslim vote), and terrorism. As long as Israel exists, however, Muslim aggression will mainly be directed at the cursed Jews whose sovereign state is a standing insult to Muslims. Only after Israel disappears, confirming Muslims in their belief of the ultimate triumph of Islam, will the full force of the jihad be turned against Infidels elsewhere, beginning with Europe where, in an act of civilizational madness, 44 million Muslims have already been permitted to settle by a heedless and ill-informed political class. If Europeans rightly understood Islamic theology, they would be moving heaven and earth to support Israel in its continued struggle for existence.
Frank Anderson says
Islam does not, cannot, will not ever compromise, reform or moderate on penalty of DEATH. Believing otherwise in deliberate ignorance of its “final, perfect, complete and unchangeable” teaching is delusional. The “negotiators” making headlines “representing” the United States are willfully ignoring or totally ignorant of the basic universal teaching that is true of all Islam regardless of sect or nation.
See, Robert Spencer, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades, Bill Warner, An Abridged Koran, Mark Gabriel, The Unfinished Battle: Islam and the Jews, Wafa Sultan, A God Who Hates.
Wellington says
Good article and why those in the West who are not Jewish fully need to comprehend that the survival of Israel is wrapped up with their own survival. You know, first the Saturday people, then the Sunday people (and others like agnostics and atheists are also part of this “Islamic design”). .
Islam wants it all. The elimination of Israel would just be the first step. Long live Israel.
somehistory says
satan the devil challenged God. The former angel, becoming a *resister* and a *slanderer* against his Maker, set out to prove he was “greater” than God.
muzzies are working for that demon is trying to prove they have a ‘greater’ god than do the Jews.
It must chap the hides of those muzzies who live in the Land of Israel where Jews “rule” over their lives with the laws they have set up to govern the citizens who choose to live there.
Grind their teeth and mutter obscenities against a people more ancient, and with a Greater Book, and which people they are not able to dominate to their destruction.
Walter Sieruk says
To rephrase the title of this article, it could rightly be read “The firm adherence of the religion of Islam strongly with a passion Islamic outrage of jihadist malice hate the Jewish State of Israel.”
Of the many example this Islamic hate for the State of Israel and likewise for the Jewish people o, in that of recent history October 7th 2023 with that Hamas Muslim terrorists invasion of Israel and the most wicked atrocities mass murder and kidnaping along with other jihadists affronts of extreme brutal cruel heinous and vile actions possible
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 “apes and swine.” in human form.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
No matter how strongly those hostile Muslim despots of Islamic regime of Iran , nor how much violent malice those Muslim terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah as well as the proxy /stooge entitles of the “mullah regime “ of Iran hate Israel and want to destroy her, they all fated completely fail achieve that jihad objective because they are all greatly overruled by God , Who greatly favors and stands with Israel .Therefore He will not let the enemies of Israel destroy her.
To explain this in a more detailed way, those Muslim terror organizations, Hamas .and Hezbollah and so forth, are all fated to fail in their Islamic agenda of destroying the State of Israel and replacing with Islamic “state.” The reason that they will lose in the end and lose hard is because the members of those jihad terror entities are striving against the Will of God. The members who compose those Islamic terror groups might be too ignorant to know this, nevertheless the truth is the God had given all this land that now composes the State of Israel, including all of the so called “West Bank”, which in reality is Judah and Samaria ,to the Jewish people. This may be found in the Bible, as seen in, for example, Genesis 28:13-15. 35:10-12. Deuteronomy 32:48,49. Psalm 105:7-11. 135:4.
In other words the Jews have tall this land by Divine Right. Furthermore, the Jewish people should have this land by historic rights as shown in First Kings 4:20,21, 24,25. 8:55, 56.
Still, in all fairness, there is one way for the Muslim members who make up for those despots of Iran along with the jihadists of Iran’s stooge jihad terror /murder entities Hamas and Hezbollah, to convince God to change His Mind about being so much for Israel and then cause Him to turn His back on Israel and then have that nation be no more.
That way is for the members of the jihad origination to gather together and then change the laws of astrophysics, including those laws of astrophysics the control the sun, the moon and the stars. For God had declared in His Word, the Bible, in Jeremiah 31:35,36. “Thus saith the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon and stars for a light by night…The Lord of host is His name. If those ordinances depart from before Me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.”