May God forgive me and guide me regarding anything that would have been misinterpreted in this study and elsewhere. May He always guide us to a better understanding of His profound scripture so we can purify ourselves and increase our knowledge.

What does the Quran say about the return of the Jews to Palestine and the creation of the State of Israel? Will Israel last or will it disappear? Is it possible to derive dates for these events from the Quran? Verses 17:1-8 enlighten us on this very important subject, which we will then comment in order. We will afterwards address the question of the doctrine of Zionism, its notion of Jewish racial supremacy and divine right to the holy land, the fact that the notion of the chosen people was revocable, before dealing with the question of the prophecy of the return and end of the State of Israel. Finally, we will ask why God allowed the Jewish people to reconquer Palestine and discuss the prospects for peace in Palestine.

(17:1) Praise be to Him who ascended His servant by night from the sacred mosque [of Mecca] to the farthest mosque [in heaven], the surroundings of which We have blessed, in order to show him some of our signs; Indeed, He is the one who hears, and sees.

(17:2) And We gave the book unto Moses, and We made it a guide for the children of Israel: “You shall not have any protector other than Me”.

ذُرِّيَّةَ مَنْ حَمَلْنَا مَعَ نُوحٍ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ عَبْدًا شَكُورًا

(17:3) Posterity of those whom We carried [in the ark] with Noah: Indeed, he was a grateful servant.

(17:4) And We decreed unto the children of Israel in the book, “Surely, you will spread corruption on earth twice, and, surely, you will be elated with great arrogance.”

(17:5) So, when the first of the two prophecies came to pass, We raised against you [O children of Israel] servants of Ours, endowed with great military might, and they entered inside [your] homes; and the prophecy was fulfilled.

(17:6) Afterwards, We granted you [O children of Israel] revenge over them, and We empowered you with wealth and children, and made you more numerous.

(17:7) If you do good deeds, you do so for your own benefit; but if you commit evil, you do it to your own detriment. So, when the second prophecy came to pass, We grieved your faces [O children of Israel], and they entered Al Masjid (the Temple), just like they entered it the first time, and utterly destroyed that which they had conquered.

(17:8) Your Lord may have mercy upon you: But if you return [a third time], We [also] will return [afterwards]; and We have assigned hell as a penitentiary for the unbelievers.

Table of contents

1. Al masjid al Aqsâ is not the mosque or temple of Jerusalem

2. The children of Israel spread corruption on earth twice

2.1 Definition of “children of Israel”, “Jews”, Difference between the children of Israel and the Jews and more

2.1.1 Definition of the children of Israel

2.1.2 Definition of “Al Yahûdu”

2.1.3 Meaning of “alladhîna hâdû” and “hûdan”

2.2 Destruction of the first temple

2.3 The destruction of the second temple

3. 17:8: The return of the children of Israel in Palestine

3.1 The prophecy of 17:8

3.2 The Zionist doctrine of Jewish supremacy

3.3 Was the privilege of being the chosen people revocable?

4. Does the Holy Quran prophecy the year of the return? When will the state of Israel end?

5. Why did God allow the Jewish people to reconquer Palestine?

Conclusion

The mosque built at the Temple Mount at the original location of the first and second temples. Photo by Yasir Gürbüz on Pexels.com

1. Al masjid al Aqsâ is not the mosque or temple of Jerusalem

The “Al Aqsâ mosque” is known in Sunni and Shia Islam to be the name of the temple of Jerusalem. Sadly, it is misinterpretation of the Quran due to the nefarious influence of hadiths and we are going to prove it.

(17:1) Praise be to Him who ascended His servant by night from the sacred mosque [of Mecca] to the farthest mosque [“Al Masjid Al Aqsâ” in heaven], the surroundings of which We have blessed, in order to show him some of our signs; Indeed, He is the one who hears, and sees.

17:1, 17:60 and 53:1-18 describe the very same event, namely the celestial ascension of Muhammad from Al Masjid Al Harâm (the sacred mosque of Mecca) to paradise (53:15) and its temple (Al Masjid Al Aqsâ, 17:1) where God revealed to him great signs (53:18), including the future “vision” (17:60) of the conquest of Mecca, “vision” fulfilled in 48:27.

Note: Despite the fact that Muhammad is not mentioned by name in 17:1, we know for sure that the word “His servant” (عَبْدِهِۦ, ‘abdihi) in the verse refers to him because the same word occurs seven times in the Quran (17:1, 18:1, 19:2, 25:1, 39:36, 53:10, 57:9) and consistently refers to Muhammad except in 19:2, where it is immediately specified that it refers instead to Zachary to avoid any confusion (19:2: A narration of your Lord’s mercy regarding His servant Zachary). I mention this in passing because too many people easily fall for conspiration theories, and since Moses is mentioned in 17:2 (after “His servant” in 17:1, otherwise if it referred to Moses, he would have been mentioned before because the Quran follows consistent rules in order to avoid any possible doubt or confusion per 2:2) some Quranists have claimed without knowledge of Quranic rules that 17:1 refers to the celestial ascension of Moses instead of Muhammad. When you reconcile all verses regarding the celestial ascension in the Quran (17:1, 17:60, 53:1-18, 48:27), such a theory simply does not hold water whichever way you look at it: For instance 48:27 informs us that “the (premonitory) vision” (ٱلرُّءْيَا, al ru’yâ) that had initially been revealed by God to Muhammad during the celestial ascension showing him entering Mecca as a victor and performing the hajj was fulfilled in the verse. That same premonitory “vision” (ٱلرُّءْيَا, al ru’yâ) is initially mentioned in 17:60 (sura 17 is named “al Isrâ, the night journey). If 17:1 and 17:60 referred to Moses instead of Muhammad, 48:27 would lose its Quranic context and would not make any sense anymore. This is how the Quran destroys conspiracy theories.

This major episode in Muhammad’s life is known as “Al Isrâ” (الْإِسْرَا, the night journey). “Al Masjid Al Aqsâ” (literally, “the farthest Mosque”) has nothing to do with Muhammad’s alleged journey to Jerusalem as Sunnis claim. In reality, Muhammad’s soul was directly elevated to paradise, which is why this event is called “the celestial ascension”.

Artistic representation of Al Buraq: Reproduction of an Indian miniature (Moghul), 17^th century.

Hadiths claim that Muhammad, riding Buraq, a fairy-tale horse-like creature reminiscent of the mythical Pegasus in Greek mythology (see Sahih Al Bukhari 3207), first travelled from the sacred Mosque of Mecca to the temple of Jerusalem (which they believe is “Al Masjid Al Aqsâ”) and then ascended to heaven. In reality, Mohammed’s soul was directly elevated to paradise from the Sacred Mosque of Mecca to the Sacred Mosque in Heaven, which is why this event is called “the celestial ascension”.

We know for sure that “Al Masjid Al Aqsâ” is not the temple of Jerusalem for two reasons:

The first reason is that the temple or mosque of Jerusalem did not even exist at the time of Muhammad as it had been burned and razed to the ground by the Romans in 70 CE and never rebuilt since then despite two and possibly three failed attempts:

1. The first one occurred during the Bar Khokhba Jewish revolt (132-135 CE) led by Simon Bar Khokhba. Originally named ben Kosiba, He was named Bar Kokhba, meaning “Son of the Star” by the leading Jewish Rabbi Akiva and others prominent rabbis (Gershom and Aha), who regarded him as the promised Messiah, This messianic surname was an attempt to fulfill the star prophecy of the Messiah in numbers 24:17: “There shall come a Star out of Jacob”. Bar Kokhba and his army defeated the local Roman legions and briefly captured Jerusalem and its surrounding areas in 132 CE. Bar Khokhba created a Jewish state called “Israel” which lasted approximately three years and crowned himself with the title of Nasi (“prince”), in accordance with rabbinic messianic claims. Some disputed sources claim that the Jews began to rebuild a temple on the Temple Mount by laying its foundation, but such work could, at best, never have been completed because there was never enough time to complete such an ambitious project: It took 7 years to build the first temple in a time of peace, and 46 years for the second temple. Emperor Hadrian arrived in person with his army in Palestine in 135 CE. The Jewish resistance led by Bar Khokhba was so fierce that he had to resort to scorched earth war tactics that costed the lives of as many as 580,000 Jewish soldiers before defeating and decapitating the alleged messiah and his army.  

2. Emperor Julian granted permission to the Jews to rebuild a temple in 363, but the two terrible consecutive earthquakes of the 18 and 19 May of the same year epicentered in Galilee destroyed the project in its infancy, which Christians at the time viewed as a divine intervention to prevent the construction of a third Jewish temple. Cyrille, Bishop of Jerusalem, reported that half of the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by a seismic shock “at the third hour, followed by another one at the 9^th hour of the night”.

3. The Sassanid empire conquered Jerusalem a first time in 610, defeating the Byzantine empire with the help of a Jewish army. As a reward, the Sassanid empire granted permission to the Jews to rebuild a temple and create a vassal state which barely lasted a few months, before a Christian revolt brought its demise and destroyed the temple construction project that had just started.

Note: We mentioned the three failed Jewish attempts to rebuild the temple not only to underscore its absence at the time of the celestial ascension, but also to demonstrate that a Divine Omnipotent Force prevents them from doing so because of their iniquities.

The second reason why “Al Masjid Al Aqsâ” cannot be the temple of Jerusalem is that when the Byzantine empire briefly recaptured Jerusalem in 615, they turned the Temple Mount into a garbage dump in retaliation, and it was still used as such when the Byzantines recaptured Jerusalem in 629 CE and when Khalife Omar conquered Jerusalem:

“Almost immediately after the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in 638 CE, Caliph Omar ibn al Khatab, reportedly disgusted by the filth covering the site had it thoroughly cleaned (Michael D. Coogan The Oxford History of the Biblical World, Oxford University Press, 2001 p.443), and granted Jews access to the site.” (Wikipedia, “Temple Mount”).

Sura 17, a late Meccan sura (17:1 clearly indicates that Muhammad ascended to heaven from “Al Masjid Al Harâm” in Mecca), was revealed in 621, about one year before Muhammad’s migration (Hegira) to Medina in 622. We can therefore say with confidence that at the time of Muhammad’s celestial ascension, the Temple Mount was used as a garbage dump.

My point is: Do you really think that Muhammad could have travelled in person at a supernatural speed riding a mythical creature inspired by Greek mythology named Al Buraq to a garbage dump with no mosque nor temple, and only then would he have ascended to heaven? I don’t think so.

As usual, we have confirmation that Bukhari and Muslim hadiths are illegitimate oral sources forbidden By name in the Quran (45:6 etc…). Jews, Christians and atheists regularly use the legend of Buraq to ridicule Islam. In addition to be ridiculous, it is even blasphemous, especially when you consider that hadith Bukhari 3207 not only mentions the legend of Buraq, but also alleges that Moses advised Mohammed while he was in paradise to negotiate with Allah to gradually reduce the number of daily prayers from fifty to five!

To conclude this section, “Al Masjid al Aqsâ” is the mosque in paradise where Muhammad’s soul was transported from “Al Masjid Al Harâm” during the celestial ascension when God revealed premonitory visions to him, and not the mosque of Jerusalem which did not even exist at the time despite two or three failed attempts to rebuild it and which site was used as a garbage dump.

2. The children of Israel spread corruption on earth twice

Moses, the book he received, and the children of Israel are mentioned in verse 17:2. Verse 3 states that the children of Israel descend from the posterity of Noah, just like any other human being on earth by the way.

Verse 4 is a pivotal verse as it states that it was prophesied in “the book” (i.e. Biblical revelations) that the children of Israel were going to spread corruption on earth twice (primarily idolatry, the greatest sin) and that they are filled with great arrogance.

2.1 Definition of “children of Israel”, “Jews”, Difference between the children of Israel and the Jews and more

Before we continue commenting the verses, let us define what “the children of Israel” are and what the difference with “the Jews” is, as both are found in the Quran:

2.1.1 Definition of the children of Israel

Verses 17:2-8 refer specifically to “the children of Israel” (بَنُوٓا۟ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ, banu Israïl). They are the descent of Jacob, who was renamed by God “Israel” (Genesis 32:28) after struggling with an angel during the night. “Jacob” and “Israel” are therefore interchangeable. There are several interpretations regarding the meaning of “Israel”. Possible meanings include “God” (El) “rules” (from the verb “sara”, “to rule”) or “God” (El) is “upright” (from the verb “Yashar”, “to be upright”). I am personally very doubtful of the meaning “He struggled with God” referring to Jacob struggling with an angel (Genesis 32:28), which is the mainstream interpretation, as nobody can struggle with God.  

Jacob/Israel had twelve sons, from whom the twelve tribes of Israel descend, which is why the descendants of the twelve tribes of Israel are called in the Quran “children of Israel”. The expression “children of Israel” occurs 41 times in the Quran.

2.1.2 Definition of “Al Yahûdu”

“Al Yahûdu” (الْيَهُودُ, the Jews), singular “يَهُودِيٌّ” (yahûdiyyun, a Jew), comes from the Hebrew word “Yehudah” (Judah), referring to one of the 12 sons of Jacob and the tribe of Judah from which David and Solomon descend. The kingdom of Judah was named after the tribe, which comprised Jerusalem, David having reunited the northern kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah. After the death of Solomon, the twelve tribes were divided between a northern kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah.

Judaism (Yahadut in Hebrew) is also formed after the word “Yehudah” (Judah) and therefore the kingdom of Judah. “Al Yahûdu” are thus the descendants of the kingdom of Judah who practice Judaism. Therefore, “Al Yahûdu” signifies “the Jews”, meaning people who actively practice the religion of Judaism and are descendants of the twelve tribes of Israel through the kingdom of Judah. “Al Yahûd” (the Jews) focus on ethnicity (in their view “race”) and do not accept conversions in my opinion according to the Quranic definition, but we will see in a few paragraphs that some people among “those who practice Judaism” (alladhina hadû) do accept conversions.

“The children of Israel” and “Al Yahûdu” are not synonyms as most “children of Israel” today do not practice Judaism nor even believe in God. “Al Yahûdu” are the part of the children of Israel who practice Judaism, but not all children of Israel do so.  

“The Jews” cannot possibly be a race as there is only one human race according to the Quran (5:18), but the children of Israel do form an ethnic group that descends from Jacob/Israel.

According to the Quran, “the Jews” (الْيَهُودُ, “Al Yahûdu”) in Arabia at the time of the prophet held the deviant belief that “Uzayr is the son of God” (9:30) and that “God’s hand is chained” which resulted in their being cursed (5:64). Such beliefs do not reflect the belief of Jews in the world today.

“Al Yahûdu” are always mentioned negatively in the Quran and occurs 8 times in the plural form and once in the singular in 2:113 (2), 2:120 (1), 3:67 (1), 5:18 (1), 5:51 (1), 5:64 (1), 5:82 (1) and 9:30) (1). For instance, Jews and Christians are shown criticizing each other claiming that the other side has no basis (2:113). Jews and Christians refused to follow Muhammad unless he would have accepted to submit to their impure religious practices (2:120). In 3:67, God points at the fact that Abraham was a pure monotheist Muslim, not a Jew (يَهُودِيًّا, we saw that the word is linked to “Judah”, one of the sons of Jacob/Israel, who was not even born at the time of Abraham!) or a Christian (Jesus was born about 1800 years after Abraham), religions which had gravely deviated at the time of the prophet. They both claim to be the “children of God”, while God warns that such a belief is impure (God does not have children), correcting that they simply are “human beings” created by God (5:18). God warns us not to take Jews and Christians as allies, pointing at the fact that they form alliances (5:51), the creation of Israel being a perfect example; God also indicates that Christians are closer to Muslims than Jews and polytheists (5:82).

2.1.3 Meaning of “alladhîna hâdû” and “hûdan”

In 7:156, we find the expression “innâ hudnâ ilayka” [إِنَّا هُدْنَآ إِلَيْكَ, Indeed, we have turned to You (in repentance)]. The root “HâDa” (هَادَ) means “to turn to God (in repentance)”.

“Alladhîna hâdû” (الَّذِينَ هَادُوا۟) means literally “those who turned [to God] (in repentance)”, but refers specifically to those who actively practice Judaism in the Quran and are not necessarily descendants of Israel (they can be Jews descendants of the twelve tribes of Israel, converts or descendants of converts). Unlike the literal meaning “those who turned to God (in repentance)” (“Alladhîna hâdû”) could make it seem, those who practice Judaism are not always righteous in the Quran, far from that, only a minority are. Given the fact that “Alladhîna hâdû” (الَّذِينَ هَادُوا۟) are not always descendants of the twelve tribes of Israel but can be converts, I translated the expression as “those who practice Judaism”:

(2:62) Indeed, those who believe (The Muslims), those who practice Judaism (alladhîna hâdû), the Christians, the Sabians: Whoever believes in God and the last day and does good deeds will find their reward at their Lord. They shall have no fear, nor will they grieve.

We learn in 4:46 that some of “those who practice Judaism” (الَّذِينَ هَادُوا۟, alladhîna hâdû) are cursed because they defame Islam.

In 4:159, we learn that all people of the book” (أَهْلُ ٱلْكِتَٰبِ, ahlu-lkitabi) are mandated to believe in Jesus before they die, meaning that Jews, Christians and Sabians must believe that Jesus is the messiah, a messenger and prophet, and, in addition, God warns them that Jesus himself will be a witness against them on Judgment Day as not only is he the messiah, a messenger and prophet, but he is not divine in any way.

(4:159) And there is none among the people of the book who is not required to believe in him (Jesus, the messiah) before his death. And on the Day of Resurrection, he will be a witness against them.

(4:160) Moreover, as a result of the transgressions of those who practice Judaism (“Alladhîna hâdû”), we prohibited to them good foods that used to be lawful for them, as well as for their repelling many from the path of God.

The expression “those who practice Judaism” (الَّذِينَ هَادُوا۟, alladhîna hâdû) occurs 10 times.  The plural word “hûdun” (هُودٌ, judaists, people who practice Judaism) is derived from the verb “hâda” [هَادَ, “to turn to God (in repentance)”] and occurs in the Quran three times as “hûdan” (هُودًا) in the plural accusative indefinite form. The singular form of the word is “hâ’idun” (هَاﺌِدٌ, Judaist, a person who practices Judaism) and does not occur in the Quran. “Hâ’idun” (هَاﺌِدٌ) also carries the meaning of “repenting” and “returning to the truth” (Lane Lexicon).

In 2:135, we read “They say, “be Judaists (هُودًا = hûdan) or be Christians that you may be guided…”“ (وَقَالُوا۟ كُونُوا۟ هُودًا أَوْ نَصَٰرَىٰ تَهْتَدُوا۟), which illustrates the fact that some Jewish denominations (not all) allow conversions to Judaism (they would not advocate converting to Judaism otherwise). Again, “Hûdun” (هُودٌ) are “judaists”, meaning that they practice Judaism whether they are descendants of the children of Israel or not, while “al yahûdu” (الْيَهُودُ, the Jews) are descendants of the twelve tribes of Israel who practice Judaism.  

(5:18) And the Jews (al Yahûdu) and the Christians said, “We are God’s children and His beloved.” Say [O Muhammad], “Why then does He punish you for your sins? In fact, you are [merely] human beings amongst other [human beings] that He created.” He forgives whomever He wills and punishes whomever He wills. To God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and everything between them, and to Him is the final destiny.

To sum up:

– “Banu Israïl” (بَنُوٓا۟ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ, “the children of Israel”) are the descendants of Jacob, who was renamed by God “Israel” (Genesis 32:28) and are therefore descendants of the twelve tribes of Israel, but may or may not actively practice Judaism, which is why it is the expression chosen by God for the prophecy of Israel in 17:2-8 as it is a fact that most of them are atheists and do not practice Judaism.

– “Al Yahûdu” (الْيَهُودُ, the Jews), singular “يَهُودِيٌّ” (yahûdiyyun, a Jew), are the descendants of the twelve tribes of Israel through the kingdom of Judah (and not just the tribe of Judah) who actively practice Judaism but focus strictly on ethnicity (which they view as “the Jewish race”) and do not accept any conversion.

– “Alladhîna hâdû” (الَّذِينَ هَادُوا۟) are “those who practice Judaism” in general. They are mostly but not necessarily descendants of the children of Israel like “al yahûdu” (the Jews), as they or their descendants may have converted to Judaism. “Alladhîna hâdû” designates all people who practice Judaism whether descendants of Israel or not.

– The plural word “hûdun” (هُودٌ, judaists, people who practice Judaism) is found in the Quran three times as “hûdan” (هُودًا, judaists) in the plural accusative indefinite form. The singular form of the word is “hâ’idun” (هَاﺌِدٌ, Judaist, a person who practices Judaism).

King Solomon consecrates the Temple in Jerusalem. Painting by James Tissot or Disciple, c. 1896-1902

2. 1 Destruction of the first temple

Verse 5 indicates that the first of these two prophecies (destruction of the temple of Solomon and Babylonian captivity of the Jews) was fulfilled when God raised against the children of Israel servants of God with a great military might who seized the kingdom of the children of Israel in Palestine (the kingdom of Judah). This first prophecy was foretold several times in the Bible (Isaiah 22, Micah 3:12, Jeremiah 6:2-5) as the Quran indicates in 17:5. Several prophets such as Jeremiah warned the children of Israel to cleanse themselves from idolatry and other sins and to repent, but to no avail.

The Babylonians, under the command of Nebuzaradan (under the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II) invaded the kingdom of Judah: After the siege of Jerusalem, they destroyed the temple in 587 BC, which was originally built by Solomon in 1000 BC on the Temple Mount. The first temple was burned to the ground as well as the entire city of Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:9). The Children of Israel were subsequently held captive by the Babylonians for 70 years (Jeremiah 25:9-13), which is known as the “Babylonian captivity”.

The Jews were eventually freed and Solomon’s temple was replaced by the second temple, built at the same site, and dedicated in 516 BCE, which is echoed in the Quran which recounts that the children of Israel were going to return and be granted again “wealth and children”, and be “more numerous”.

Siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE by the Romans (painting by David Roberts, 1850).

2. 2 The destruction of the second temple

Verse 7 then describes the destruction of the second temple, and alludes at the same time to the fact that the first temple incurred the same fate by saying, “when the second prophecy came to pass, We grieved your faces [O children of Israel], and they entered the temple, just like they entered it the first time, and utterly destroyed that which they had conquered.”

Note: The temple of Jerusalem is called “al masjid” (the mosque) in the verse (translated as “the temple”) because Jews at the time of Solomon and Jesus performed the ritual prayer exactly like Muslim do, by standing, bowing and prostrating. A similar example is the fact that Christians built a “masjid” over the tombs of the seven sleepers of Ephesus when they passed away (18:21), which illustrates that Christians still prostrated during their prayer at the time. Since “Al Masjid” is the literal Quranic name of the mosque at the Temple Mount in 17:7, it is in my view how we should call it today.

As indicated in the Quran, the destruction of the second temple was also prophesied in the Bible: (17:4) And We decreed unto the children of Israel in the book, “Surely, you will spread corruption on earth twice, and, surely, you will be elated with great arrogance.”
The prophesy of the destruction of the second temple is closely tied to the coming of the Messiah (Jesus) in the Bible and is a vast subject. We will keep it simple by only mentioning two major prophecies. The first one is the one revealed to prophet Daniel:

Daniel’s prophecy of the coming of the Messiah and the destruction of the second temple

(Daniel 9:21-27) ²¹While I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. ²²He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. ²³As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision: ²⁴Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy. ²⁵Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One (literally in Hebrew: “ad Masiah”, meaning “until Messiah”), the ruler, comes there will be seven ‘sevens’, and sixty two ‘sevens’. It will be rebuilt with trench, but in time of trouble. ²⁶After the sixty two ‘sevens’, the Anointed One (literally: “Masiah”, “Messiah”) will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. ²⁷He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven’. In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.

Translation: New International Version.

Daniel’s prophecy foretold by name the coming of the Messiah (verses 25, 26) followed by the destruction of the second temple (verses 26, 27) by saying that “The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary.” Since the destruction of the second temple occurred shortly after Jesus’ death, how can you even deny that Jesus was indeed the Messiah foretold by Daniel?!

I will ask to the Jews the following question: If Jesus was not the expected messiah, then who is the messiah who was foretold by Daniel to come before the destruction of the second temple? Still waiting for the messiah two thousand years after the destruction of the second temple does not solve the problem, does it?

The second temple was destroyed following a Jewish rebellion against the Romans in 66 CE. when Romans legions led by Titus recaptured the city and destroyed the temple and most of Jerusalem in 70 CE.  

That major historical event was also famously foretold by Jesus in Mark 13:

(Mark 13: 1-2) ¹As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “look, teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings! ²”Do you see all these great buildings?” replied Jesus. “Not one stone here will be left on one another; everyone will be thrown down.”

Translation: New International Version.

Furthermore, Jesus removed any possible doubt regarding the destruction of the second temple by stating the following:

(Mark 13:30) Truly I tell you; this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.

Considering that Jesus died around the age of 33 and that the temple was destroyed in 70 CE, there were less than 40 years between the two events and the generation Jesus was referring to had therefore not “passed”.

To conclude this section, do verses 17:1-7 predict in any way the creation and future defeat of Israel? The answer is a resounding no, as they simply recount the destruction of the two sacred temples of Jerusalem predicted by the prophets of Israel in the Bible. But what about verse 17:8?

3. 17:8: The return of the children of Israel in Palestine

3.1 The prophecy of 17:8

(17:8) Your Lord may have mercy upon you: But if you return [a third time], We [also] will return [afterwards]; and We have assigned hell as a penitentiary for the unbelievers.

We saw earlier that Jews have already unsuccessfully attempted to rebuild the Holy Temple of Jerusalem possibly three times before the revelation of sura 17 in 621 CE, shortly before the Hegira of the prophet in 622 CE. The Jews never regained control of Jerusalem between the Quranic prophecy of sura 17 and the creation of Israel on May 14, 1948. In other terms, the Quran correctly predicted the subsequent return of the children of Israel to Jerusalem and Palestine in verse 8. Otherwise, there would have been no reason to say “But if you return [a third time], We [also] will return [afterwards]”, and the same verse therefore also predicts their subsequent defeat at some point in the future.

3.2 The Zionist doctrine of Jewish supremacy

Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer was the first Jew to articulate the doctrine of Zionism in 1862 when he published his tractate “Derishat Zion” (the Quest of Zion).

Theodor Herzl, the architect of the Final expulsion

But it is usually Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) who is credited to have created in 1897 the secular modern Zionist movement that led to the creation of Israel. Right from the start, Herzl made it clear that the Zionist agenda and takeover of Palestine was going to be an ethnic cleansing. He wrote in his diary:

“We shall try to spirit the penniless population [Palestinians] across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”

The above words speak for themselves: The Zionist agenda was, right from its inception, devious, deceitful, ruthless, malicious, heartless, in one word, satanic.

Many people believe that Israel is a religious country, but it is only partially true. Hertzl was an atheist until his death in 1904, like many famous Zionists such as David Ben-Gurion the founder of Israel.

In the final analysis, the foundation of the state of Israel was the result of a Zionist alliance between secular (often atheist) and ultra-orthodox Jews.

The Zionist belief justifying the conquest of Palestine and the unilateral creation of Israel is largely nourished by the conviction of the superiority of the Jewish race, “the chosen people” (Deuteronomy 7:6), and the inalienable and exclusive divine right to inhabit the Holy Land (Genesis 12:7, Isaiah 65:9), which perfectly illustrates the extreme arrogance of the children of Israel described in 17:4. We will provide concrete proofs that even atheist Zionist Jews, out of sheer hypocrisy, invoke the religious belief that they are the chosen people that has an exclusive right to inhabit the holy land. It the cornerstone that justifies the crimes perpetrated against Palestinians.

Most Jews believe that only a descendant of the twelve tribes of Israel can claim Jewish status, which explains why the majority of them do not accept conversions. If a non-Jew does convert to Judaism, he is often considered inferior because he was not born with the right genes. In their mind, belonging to Judaism is a purely racial concept.

It is that chosen race concept, that Jewish supremacy belief and related extreme arrogance described in 17:4 which in 1948, when Jews unilaterally declared the independence of Israel, justified in their eyes the attack of Palestinian towns, the destruction of 530 or more villages and the unjust massacre of 15000 people, causing the mass exodus of 750,000 Palestinians, or as much as 85% of the Arab population at the time, an almost unprecedented ethnic cleansing. Let us also not forget that at the time 75,000 Palestinian Christians were also expelled from Palestine, or half of the Christian population. This tragedy affected all Palestinians and the Zionists would never have dared to do such a thing to European or American Christians, but because they were Arabs, that is to say considered inferior in a still colonial era, the end justified the means.

Golda Meir, prime minister of Israel between 1969 and 1974, made the following statements:

“This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God himself. It would be ridiculous to ask Him to account for His legitimacy.” Golda Meir, Le Monde, October 15, 1971.

Note: Golda Meir was a noted atheist, but it is very typical even for atheist Jews to invoke God and the alleged eternal divine right of the Jews to the holy land when it comes to justify the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. We are dealing with profound hypocrisy.

“How can we return the Palestinian territories? There is nobody to return them to.”

Golda Meir, a heartless and faithless woman, couldn’t care less about the millions of Palestinians who had been living in refugee camps for over twenty years at the time she was uttering these horrific words.

“There was no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state?… It was not as though there was a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country from them. They did not exist.” (Golda Meir, Sunday Times, June 15, 1969).

David Ben Gurion, executive agent of the final expulsion

David Ben Gurion, primary founder of Israel, future prime minister between 1948-1953 and 1955-1963, and president of the Jewish Agency until he declared the independence in 1948 was not the type to beat around the bush. He wrote the following in 1937:

“We must expel Palestinians and take their places”. (Ben Gurion and the Palestine Arabs, Oxford University Press, 1985).

David Ben Gurion is the Jewish hero who materialized Theodor Herzl’s Zionist visionary dream to expulse the Palestinians in order to found a Jewish state.

“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. We are originally from Israel, it is true, but that was two thousand years ago. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: We have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”.

David Ben Gurion, quoted by Nahum Goldmann in “Le Paradoxe Juif” (The Jewish Paradox), page 121.

Note: After having survived the final solution under Adolf Hitler while their Zionist agenda was well under way, Jews have never been able to put the blame on Palestinians for their horrible suffering to justify their ethnic cleansing. The malevolent Zionist masterplan regarding the final expulsion of Palestinians from their ancestral land predates World War II by over four decades. It is very troubling that instead of learning from the lesson of the horrific persecution they endured which Hitler justified by the alleged superiority of the Arian race and necessity to purify it, they insisted upon their own claim of superiority of the Jewish race and alleged divine and exclusive right to the Holy Land and did not hesitate to inflict immense sufferings to a population legitimately established in Palestine for over a millennia.

Despite the previous quote where he invokes God’s promise of the promised land, David Ben Gurion admits his atheism:

“Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don’t personally believe in the God it postulates… I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders of Israel believers. Yet, their passion for this land stemmed from the Books of Books … [the Bible is] the single most important book in my life.”

Just like Golda Meir, we see in the two previous quotes that David Ben Gurion invokes the divine and exclusive God given right to inhabit Israel, and on the other hand admits his atheism. This is again typical widespread hypocrisy among Jews who are mostly atheists but justify through this lie stealing the ancestral land of Palestinians and evicting them.

“We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return.”

David Ben Gurion, in his diary, July 18, 1948, quoted in Micheal Bar Zohar’s “Ben Gurion: the Armed Prophet”, Prentice Hall, 1967, page 157.

Beyond the incredible arrogance, deviousness, deceit and racism of Zionists, the Bible clarifies who shall inherit the Holy Land:

Genesis 12:7: Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Translation: New King James Version

We see clearly that God promised to the descendants of Abraham (the Arabs and the Jews) that they would inherit the land of Canaan (Palestine), and not exclusively to the Jews, who are gravely guilty of having rejected the messiah (Jesus) and Muhammad, both clearly predicted in their own scriptures (see the article “Muhammad in the Bible” on this site). The most numerous descendants of Abraham, by far, are the descendants of Ismael (Genesis 22:16-17, the Arab people), and not those of Isaac (the Jewish people). But the Jews, through sheer racism and manipulation of the Torah, claim that Ismael (Abraham’s first born and a prophet of God) was an illegitimate son and that the above prophecy (Genesis 12:7) only applies to the Jews. It is an indisputable fact that Abraham got legally married to Hagar, his wife (Genesis 16:3), and such a despicable attack regarding Abraham’s character alleging that he had an illegitimate son is therefore disingenuous, ignorant and gratuitous.

Furthermore, you have to be a fundamentally vile person to even come up with the idea that a child can be illegitimate, as the book of God makes it clear that no one is responsible for other people’s sins (6:164). Therefore, the claim that Ismael was an illegitimate child is very telling regarding the character of such people while that of Abraham and Ismael was noble (11:74, Genesis 17:20).

Jews altered the Torah in Genesis 22:1-2 out of jealousy towards the Arabs by claiming that Isaac was Abraham’s first born, when it is most obviously Ismael (Genesis 16:4-11), and they replaced the name of Ismael with that of Isaac in verse 2 (see the article “Abraham’s sacrifice” on this site for extensive evidence).

The Jewish people, the chosen people:

Deuteronomy 7:6: For you are a people holy unto the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Translation: English Standard Version

The Quran echoes the same message:

يَٰبَنِىٓ نِعْمَتِىَ ٱلَّتِىٓ أَنْعَمْت ُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَأَنِّى فَضَّلْتُكُمْ عَلَى ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ

(2:47) O Children of Israel, remember My favor with which I have bestowed upon you, and that I have preferred you above all the universe.

It is an indisputable fact that the children of Israel were the chosen people, just like it is an indisputable fact according to the Bible and the Quran that they repeatedly transgressed against God (idolatry, rejection and murder of their prophets, plot to kill Jesus, the Messiah, rejection of Mohammed, the last prophet, etc…).

3.3 Was the privilege of being the chosen people revocable?

A crucial question arises: Was this privilege of being the chosen people and divine right to inhabit the holy land revocable?

Leviticus 20:22: You shall observe all my laws and my judgments and do them, so that the land where I am leading you to dwell there does not vomit you out.

Translation: Louis Segond Bible.

Obviously, and they cannot deny it, the Jews were, in the words of Leviticus, “vomited” out of the holy land on several occasions because of their immense transgressions, and the blessing of being the chosen people was permanently removed when they beheaded John the Baptist and plotted to kill Jesus, the long expected messiah, resulting in the destruction of the second temple. Jesus himself announced this through the parable of the barren fig tree (allegorically symbolizing Israel and where Jesus represents the gardener of the vineyard and God is the owner) which indicates that the Jewish line of prophets and divine favor granted to the children of Israel was going to end by the conclusion of his ministry (Luke 13:6-9).

We also know that the Second Temple was the last time in human history that there would be a Jewish temple on the Temple Mount and that God has permanently prevented the Jews from rebuilding it despite their temporary return to the holy land and the foundation of the state of Israel, their military power, and a strike force of 90 nuclear-tipped missile. No force in the universe can reverse God’s decree.

The Zionist arrogance which in their eyes justifies the abuse against the Palestinians is therefore based on an alteration of the Torah, a false pretense of racial superiority (sorry, there is only one human race), and an erroneous and racist reading of the Bible which ignores the fact that the notion of the chosen people was purely subordinate to their submission to God and that otherwise they would be ousted from the holy land (Leviticus 20:22). In any case, they permanently lost the title of chosen people since they plotted to kill Jesus.

We will explain in section 5 why God temporarily authorized their return, which has nothing to do with a divine redemption but is largely due to the sins of Muslims who abandoned the Quran and Islam.

Ironically, when you dare to tell it like it is regarding Zionism, Jews claim that you are antisemitic. Sorry, it was not Muslims who invented the concept of Jewish racial supremacy and the inalienable, eternal and exclusive divine right to inhabit the holy land: Secular and ultra-orthodox Zionists and all Jews who give credence to such racist beliefs did, while any Muslim worthy of the name knows full well that there is only one human race on earth (5:18) and therefore cannot be racist.

4. Does the Holy  Quran prophecy the year of the return? When will the state of Israel end?

The Quran is a multi-dimensional prophetic scripture that holds infinite secrets, and you can be sure that one way or another, it contains very specific prophetic signs regarding the return and the end of the state of Israel.

We are here simply going to calculate the gematrical values since the beginning of verse 17:8 until the predicted return of the children of Israel:

Note: The League of nations adopted a mandate for Palestine in July 1922 after the British conquest of Palestine in 1917-1918 from the Ottoman Empire. But the mandate became officially in force only on September 29, 1923, which corresponds to Safar 17, 1342. Therefore, it is a possible interpretation.

The official start of the British mandate at the beginning of 1342 AH (After Hegira), or 1923, can certainly be considered as the key moment that made the return of the children of Israel in Palestine a reality since the British government was 100% pro-Zionist and is unquestionably the main culprit regarding the creation of the state of Israel historically. The British mandate ended on May 14, 1948, which is the date when the Jews unilaterally declared independence and marks the official date of creation of the state of Israel, but the fate of Palestinians was most definitely sealed when the British mandate officially took effect.

We will mention in passing that 1924 marks the beginning of the fourth Aliyah (Hebrew word for the immigration to Israel) when an unprecedented wave at the time of 87,000 Jewish migrants emigrated to Palestine, triggering an Arab uprising.

Could the beginning of 1342 AH (1923) be the year chosen by God to acknowledge the return of Israel in the Quran based on gematrical values? The truth is: God knows best.

Let us now calculate the gematrical values of 17:8 until the predicted return of Islam in Palestine:

If the above interpretation is correct, God willing, it would signify that the return of a Muslim state in Palestine will be accomplished in 1467 AH, that is to say in 2044 or 2045. It would mean that the total duration since the official return of the children of Israel when the British mandate took effect (on 29/09/1923) will be 125 lunar years (121 solar years), and 100 lunar years even (97.02 solar years) since the official creation of the state of Israel (May 14, 1948 = 14/05/1948 = 5 Rajab 1367 = 5/07/1367).

The above is not a prophecy but merely an attempt to decipher secrets of the Quran. The truth is, God alone knows whether this is the correct interpretation or not. He alone guides, and He Alone knows the future. Only time will tell. But one thing is certain: The state of Israel will come to an end as prophesied in 17:8 for all the reasons invoked in this article, and much more.

5. Why did God allow the Jewish people to reconquer Palestine?

As this article was written, Israel has existed for 75 years and that may seem a long time. The reason why God allowed Muslims to temporarily lose Palestine to the Jewish people, most of which is secular, is the very same reason why they lost Jerusalem twice to the Christians in the past (1099-1187, 1229-1244) and why God allowed the pillage of Mecca and profanation of the Ka’bah by the Qarmatians in 930, a pagan Ismaili sect which did not even believe in the divine origin of the Quran and sanctity of the sacred mosque of Mecca and the Ka’bah: As the Quran states in 25:30, Muslims have “abandoned the Quran” and practice a different religion today than the one decreed by God in His Holy Book and follow hadiths instead, which are forbidden by name in the Holy Quran (7:185, 12:111, 17:46, 31:6, 39:23, 45:6, 56:81, 77:50).

So, when will Muslims be able to reconquer Palestine as predicted in the final revelation to mankind? When they purify themselves is the answer, or when Jewish people massively embrace pure Islam. One or the other, or both. Although Israel has an ultra-sophisticated army and the atomic bomb, no force in the universe will be able to prevent the Quranic prophecy in 17:8 from coming true.

We studied that the Quran documents in 17:4-7 two major divine punishments of the children of Israel which resulted in the destruction of the first and second temple. They have unsuccessfully tried to rebuild the temple twice, and possibly even three times and still can’t today despite the creation of Israel and a formidable army for the simple reason that God Himself is preventing them from doing so for a number of reasons:

Jews have regularly engaged in polytheism in the past, and today, Israel has become a secular state in which most ethnic Jews do not even believe in God nor in the afterlife.

The children of Israel almost systematically rejected their prophets throughout their history and even killed a number of them (4:155). For instance they killed Zechariah (stoned to death, 1 Kings 10:4), Isaiah [allegedly sawed in half according to the Jewish Talmud in Yevamot 49b:8, which reports a ridiculous legend (of the same caliber as al Buraq) describing Isaiah pursued by Jewish people and miraculously hiding inside a tree, subsequently sawed in half, and resulting in his death] and John (decapitated, Matthew 14:10). Jews also plotted to kill Elijah (1 Kings 19:10, Elijah referring in the verse to the Jews having killed many other unnamed prophets) and, of course, they plotted to kill Jesus, the Messiah.

In fact, God did allow a third temple to be built in Jerusalem at the Temple Mount (above), but it is Islam, the only religion approved by God (3:19), which was blessed to achieve that phenomenal and historic accomplishment. Khalife Omar is the one who first rebuilt a mosque at the very site of the first and second temples after the conquest of Jerusalem in 638. It was later rebuilt and expanded several times after earthquakes.

It is very obvious that any attempt by Israel to touch one single stone of “Al Masjid” (“The Mosque”, the literal name of the mosque of the Temple Mount in 17:7, and which cannot be “al Masjid al Aqsâ” as proven earlier) in an attempt to build a Jewish temple would immediately unite the Islamic world and trigger a third world war.

Note: In 17:7, we read “and they entered Al Masjid (The Temple, The Mosque), just like they entered it the first time, and utterly destroyed that which they had conquered.”. As a matter of comparison, we read in 48:27: “Assuredly, you will enter Al Masjid Al Harâm (The Sacred Mosque, proper name) God willing, safely…”. In both cases, the verb “to enter” is respectively used with the words “Al Masjid” and “Al Masjid Al Harâm” (clearly a proper noun) and we understand why both can be viewed as proper nouns. The mosque originally built by Khalife Omar at the very same location as the first and second temples is therefore also named by definition “Al Masjid”. Let us not forget that Muhammad prayed for about 13 years facing Jerusalem, before God commanded him in 2:142 to pray towards “Al Masjid Al Harâm” instead in 622 shortly after the Hegira (July 19, 622). Sura 2, which announces the change of Qiblah, is the first Medinan Sura and was revealed the same year.

The reason why Muslims originally used to pray towards the Temple Mount is most obviously because it was the Qiblah of the prophets of the children of Israel since Solomon, and it remains sacred after the change of the Qiblah, even though not at the same level as the Sacred Masjid.

Another clear sign that the state of Israel does not deserve to be blessed by God is that it allows research on GMOs, imports genetically modified foods, particularly from the United States, despite the Torah clearly prohibiting genetic manipulations (Leviticus 19:19, Deuteronomy 22:9-11). Such a prohibition is known in Judaism as “kil’ayim” (prohibition to “mix diverse kinds’).

We will also note that Israel was the most covid vaccinated country on earth, using the vaccines by Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Novavax, all genetically modified, and has therefore permanently poisoned nearly its entire population.

The very same prohibition of genetic modification is found for instance in 4:119 and 30:30 and is a fundamental tenet of Islam as God says that the prohibition to change God’s creation is “the correct religion” (30:30). Any country that allows GMO crops and imports is a country that rebels against God’s natural order and embraces satan. It is one of the greatest sins, and a form of idolatry because it amounts to claiming that a human being can perfect God’s creation.

The fact that some orthodox Jews understand the GMO prohibition is one example among others which demonstrates that there are plenty of good people among the children of Israel, as acknowledged by the Quran (3:75, 3:113), and do not count on me to fall in the trap of antisemitism because I have a lot of respect for people who strive to follow the light of the Torah and are not aware of the signs and miracles that prove that Islam is the religion approved by God. The GMO issue is a test that really shows what is in your heart when it comes to faith and that many people fail, including many so called Muslims.

Since 2006, Israel has recognized homosexual unions performed outside Israel. Additionally, it is extremely likely that same sex marriage will be legalized in Israel very soon as a vast majority of Israelis support equal LGBT rights. Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel, has the largest proportion of LGBT people in a nation’s capital in the world (25% of LGBT according to recent estimates).

It is also a capital which is home to one of the largest gay pride parades in the world with 200,000 participants. The rainbow flag even flies in Jerusalem, including at the US embassy, and Jerusalem has held gay pride parades regularly since 2002.

Basically, Israel, originally largely a secular state, has now logically become a woke state. Does that reflect the alleged superiority of the Jewish race, the chosen people that has an exclusive and eternal right to the land of Canaan (Genesis 12:7) according to orthodox Zionists? You be the judge.

Like Sunnis and Shias, the overwhelming majority of practicing Jews follow man-made innovations (the Mishnah and Gemara) similar to hadiths instead of exclusively following the Torah, which is a form of idolatry.

These are unmistakable signs of a community that has abandoned God. The sins mentioned above (except for GMO) were the main reasons that caused the destruction of the first and second temples. They reject the Messiah (Jesus) to this day despite clear Biblical prophecies such as Daniel 9:21-27 which clearly establishes the connection between the coming of the Messiah and the subsequent destruction of the second temple. And of course, they also rejected Muhammad and the Quran despite numerous Biblical prophecies and his being mentioned by name in Songs of Songs 5:16 (revealed to Solomon). Finally, most Jews do not even believe in the afterlife despite the clear message of the Torah, the Psalms, the Gospel, the Quran and of all the prophets and messengers who warned them.

Since the creation of Israel, Jews have persecuted Palestinians stealing their land and homes with the complicity of colonial powers (mainly England and the United States) and treat them as third-class citizens. They have broken their peace treaties (approximately half a million Jewish settlers currently live in the occupied Palestinian territories (the West Bank) in flagrant violation of international law), and they indiscriminately bomb and kill Palestinians every single time there is a conflict.

Ultimately, it is more than clear that the State of Israel is in a declining phase and that no two-state solution is tenable nor just.

Palestinian terrorists like Hamas are no better than they are. Terrorism is forbidden in the Quran which proclaims that the life of one human being is equivalent to that of all mankind (5:32). The Quran indicates that this command was originally decreed to the children of Israel and they are well aware of it despite regularly violating it.

We have witnessed atrocities committed against civilians during the Hamas surprise attack on Oct. 7, 2023 which caused about 1200 victims. This is not Islam, but the signature mark of satan and the worst form of disbelief.

No, Islam is not about killing innocent people and planting bombs in buses. It is not the right way to regain Palestine. Following the Quran alone is the only way.

Despite the terrorist attacks committed by Hamas, Pro Israel Jews need to look at themselves in the mirror before condemning Hamas. In 1948, Zionist Jews killed 15,000 Palestinians, attacked major Palestinian towns and destroyed approximately 530 Palestinian villages or more, unilaterally annexing 78% of historic Palestine, and causing the exodus of at least 750,000 Palestinians, which represented 85 % of the Arab population at the time.

At the time I am writing this article during the war following the attack of Hamas on October 7, 2023, the Israeli army has already killed approximately 20,000 Palestinians (among whom 70% of women and children!) by randomly destroying buildings from the air in Gaza (over 100,000 buildings have been destroyed or heavily damaged to this day, or about half of Gaza!), thus killing indiscriminately civilians and fighters.

1200 Israelis killed against 20,000 Palestinians and more than 100,000 buildings destroyed or heavily damaged in Gaza, and the armed response of Israel seems to be far from over: Who are the greatest terrorists?

Again, these crimes and ethnic cleansing are justified by the Zionist belief in the superiority of the Jewish race and inalienable God given right to inhabit the Holy land, and perfectly illustrate the extreme arrogance of the children of Israel described in 17:4.

The rest of the world and non-pro-Israel Jews have every right to condemn Hamas, not Pro-Israel Jews. What they did in 1948 and to this day against Palestinians (Muslims and Christians alike) is 1000 times worse than what Hamas did.

The illegal creation of Israel in 1948 and the horrific crimes Palestinians have endured are commemorated on 15 May, named “Nakba Day” (the day of the catastrophe).

6. Prospects for peace in Palestine

This section is a very modest reflection regarding a possible resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which we all know is an extremely complicated subject.

Let me be clear: I am not advocating any form of violence to resolve the immense injustice committed in Palestine, but a peaceful one-state solution based on the fear of God, reparation of the wrong that was committed against Palestinians, common sense, respect, and restoration of a mutual love between Jews and Palestinians.

Extraordinary things are going to happen in the world of Islam and faith in the years to come because the miracle of the Quran is going to be become undeniable for all of mankind, God willing. If Jews, Christians, Sunnis, Shias and people who believe in other faiths are sincere, they will have a unique chance to purify themselves and many conflicts around the world could be solved without resorting to violence, God willing.

I pray that Jews, Christians and Muslims can come together to create a true democracy in Palestine and that all forms of apartheid cease, because it must be said, Israel is a state based on a malevolent Zionist agenda, injustice, apartheid and ethnic cleansing.

Jews, Christians, Muslims or other: anyone must have the right to rule Palestine based on free elections. A country where only a Jew can be president or prime minister after said country has been usurped with the connivance of a colonial power is the very definition of an apartheid state.

I would propose a solution of true democracy to the Jewish people in Palestine under the protection of the United Nations and a large neutral police and military force.

The Jewish community would restitute the 530 villages destroyed by the Zionists, and their land, as well as Palestinian towns and the historic Christian and Muslim neighborhoods in Jerusalem seized in 1948 as documented by non-Zionist historians. The Palestinian people has a right to a real return to the existing state of Israel, and repairing the Zionist crimes is nothing but justice. If any destruction occurred on the land restituted, the Jewish community and the perpetrators would be held accountable for rebuilding.

The management of the Temple Mount would be transferred from Jordanian to Palestinian Islamic authorities according to a system of direct democracy that would allow Palestinian Muslims to elect a Muslim council for instance every seven years, making sure that all peaceful Muslim denominations can perform the ritual prayer at the Temple Mount. The Jewish community would obviously retain the right to pray as usual at the Western Wall.

There are currently approximately half a million Jewish settlers who live in illegal settlements in the West Bank. I propose their complete departure making sure that they do not destroy anything. Otherwise, the rest of the Jewish community and the perpetrators would be held accountable for rebuilding.   

Palestinian refugees currently living in refugee camps would have a priority right to inhabit the communities left by Jewish settlers over other refugees, provided that the accommodations are inhabited full time.

An accelerated and viable real estate master plan in the West Bank and current state of Israel over forty years would accompany the return of Palestinians still living in camps. Also, Palestinians registered as refugees on the day of creation of the new state of Palestine elsewhere in the world would have a preferred right to purchase new real estate developments until all those who state that they want to come back do so. Jews, Christians and Muslims with the Palestinian nationality would have the same right to buy existing real estate not located on land seized in 1948 and after.

Displaced Jewish settlers (including Jews who currently live in the 530 original Palestinian villages and Palestinian towns seized in 1948) who could not be accommodated in Palestine could primarily immigrate to the United kingdom and the United States because they are the countries mainly responsible for the Palestinian injustice. All this is about one simple thing: Repairing a historic injustice, and there should not be any hard feelings about it.

After creating a one state solution and preferred initial return of Palestinian refugees over a period of forty years, anyone holding the Palestinian nationality in the new state could live anywhere in Palestine, including the West Bank, regardless of the religious status.

I understand that at the time I am writing this article, there are approximately 5.6 million Palestinians registered as refugees with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). and Works for Palestine Refugees in the Near East), among whom 1.5 million live in refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. The truth is, it is a very daunting task to relocate that many people, and no solution will ever be perfect.

A disturbing issue is the prospect of a possible future nuclear war between Israel and the Muslim world that would raze 100% of Israel and Palestine and would potentially kill tens of millions of people or more in the Middle East and elsewhere. This will never happen in my opinion, God willing, given the prophecy in 17:8 which clearly indicates that Muslims will “return” to Palestine. Palestinians could not “return” to a nuclear wasteland, at least not for decades.

Israel possesses 90 nuclear warheads and has to face the reality that, between Jews and Muslims, they are no longer the only ones to possess nuclear weapons. Pakistan already has 170 nuclear warheads, and other countries like Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Algeria have the potential to build nuclear weapons in the short or long term, not to mention that some Muslim countries could possibly purchase some from Pakistan. Despite substantial military power, and whether supported or not by the United States, Israel is extremely vulnerable due to its size, barely the size of New Jersey, one of the smallest states of the US.

A one-state solution is the only viable solution. If you divide Palestine (two state solution), Jews and Palestinians will continue to fight and hate each other because of the horrific crimes committed against Palestinians, because of Palestinian and Jewish terrorism, and because of mutual racism, and it will never work. But if you unite Jews, Christians and Muslims in one state under a powerful UN umbrella, they will be forced to learn to live, work, and eventually found families together.

If the Israeli government refuses to abandon the idea of a Jewish state in the future and make peace acknowledging the historic crimes that they committed, the Jewish community of Israel will turn down a historic chance for many Jews to live a peaceful and happy life in the land they cherish and love.

The most important thing by far is to avoid repeating the horrible mistakes of the past, namely resorting to violence. Jews have the right to live in Palestine if they are willing to accept a true democracy and recognize that the creation of the state of Israel was unjust and founded at the expense of the Palestinian people, perpetrating the most horrific crimes.

Muslims must interact with Jews keeping in mind that the Quran prophecies that Islam will prevail on earth (9:33, 61:9) without forcing anyone to embrace Islam in accordance with 2:256. Islam based on the Quran alone will prevail thanks to the manifestation and knowledge of the endless miracles of the Quran and the Bible, and all other religions including Judaism, Christianity, Sunnism and Shiism will be become an extremely small minority or vanish completely, inch’Allah.

Conclusion

Al Majid Al Aqsâ in 17:1 does not refer to the temple of Jerusalem as Muhammad could not have travelled riding a horse-like mythical creature (Al Buraq) reminiscent of a Pegasus from the sacred mosque of Mecca to a temple that did not even exist at the time (it was burned to the ground and razed by the Romans in 70 CE), not to mention that, at the time of the celestial ascension, the Temple Mount was used as a garbage dump. Such a fairy-tale worthy of the Arabian Nights comes from hadiths, which are forbidden by name in the Quran (45:6, etc …). Instead, Al Majid Al Aqsâ refers to the sacred temple of God in paradise where Muhammad’s soul was elevated in 621, about one year before the Hegira.  

After recalling the destruction of the first and second Jewish temples associated to the great sins of the children of Israel in 17:2-7, the Quran successfully predicted in 17:8 that they were to going to return and conquer Jerusalem and Palestine.

Did you know? The first and second Jewish temples were destroyed on the same day of the Hebrew calendar, namely the 9th day of the month of Av (the 5th month), and under the same division of priests (the division of Yehoyariv, the first division to serve in the history of the temple). The temple had a total of 24 divisions of priests, which served the temple according to a very specific order or rotation. All this indicates not only that God severely punished the Jews for their iniquities, but that He also manifested to them indelible divine signs regarding the curse they are facing as a result.

Let us not shy away from the truth: despite all their immense sins, God eventually allowed the children of Israel to reconquer Palestine and found the state of Israel mostly because Muslims have abandoned the Quran (25:30) and follow instead a corrupt religion based on hadiths.

The Jewish people conquered Palestine by developing a Zionist doctrine based on a compromise between secular atheism and Jewish orthodoxy, both of which rely upon the belief in the superiority of the Jewish race and inalienable and exclusive right to inhabit the holy land of their ancestors. We demonstrated that even notorious atheists like Golda Meir and David Ben Gurion, out of sheer hypocrisy, invoke God’s promise to the children of Israel regarding the holy land to justify the usurpation of Palestine. It is that racist, Machiavellian and inhuman doctrine which justified the persecution of Palestinians and their ethnic cleansing in 1948 when Jews illegally and unilaterally declared the independence of Israel.

We proved that the Zionist doctrine advocating an inalienable and exclusive right to the holy land is false from a Biblical standpoint. The divine right to inherit the land of Canaan (Palestine) was granted to the descent of Abraham (Genesis 12:7), that is to say to the children of Ismael (the Arabs) and Isaac (the Jews), and not exclusively to the Jews.

We also demonstrated that the Jewish status of chosen people was revocable and depended upon their ability to follow God’s commandments (Leviticus 20:22), which they repeatedly broke throughout their history until they were cursed (after the plot to kill Jesus, the messiah).

The return of the children of Israel in Palestine will not last, as the Quran also predicted in verse 17:8 that Muslims will return afterwards, which implies that Palestine will be restored to people who embrace the true faith, that is to say Islam.

This prophecy will come to pass, God willing, because the Word of God is infallible.

As I write this article, the State of Israel has celebrated its 75^th anniversary. The children of Israel have proven once again that they do not deserve a third temple nor a Jewish state because they still reject the messiah (Jesus) and Mohammed despite so many clear biblical prophecies, and have established a secular woke state where the persecution of Palestinians, atheism, homosexuality, GMOs, and other sins are entrenched in society. God does not like corruption (2:205).

The fact that some orthodox Jews try to abide by the Torah with all their hearts, condemn the persecution of Palestinians, understand the GMO prohibition, condemn homosexuality, and sometimes even condemn the creation of the state of Israel are examples among others which demonstrates that there are plenty of good people among the children of Israel, as acknowledged by the Quran (3:75, 3:113), and it is a great hope for the future.

Jews, Christians, Sunnis, Shias and the entire human race will have a unique chance in the relatively near future to reconcile without any bloodshed, God willing, if they allow themselves to be sincere in view of the profound miracles that will expose their deviance and embrace Islam based on the Quran alone.

Many people among the children of Israel will have a unique opportunity to stay in Palestine in the long term, God willing, if they accept to forfeit the idea of a Jewish state by definition based on apartheid and ethnic cleansing, and agree instead with a one state solution – Palestine – based on real democracy and national reconciliation under the protection of the United Nations. Such a solution would mostly erase the Zionist injustice.

The Quran professes peace and justice in the world. Let us pray that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be resolved peacefully very soon.

Article published on 12/31/2023