Stop All Aid to Palestinians and Other Terrorists. Every Bit of It

by Kerry Dougherty

On Saturday morning Hamas terrorists unleashed Hell on innocent Israelis. As Israel’s ambassador to the US pointed out, given the population of Israel 600 dead Israelis is the equivalent of 20,000 dead Americans.

This was Israel’s 9-11. Their Pearl Harbor. Some say it was the most deadly day in history for the Jewish state.

And all I can say today, after this weekend of horror in Israel, is thank God for Elon Musk.

Had Musk not spent a chunk of his personal fortune on Twitter, many of us would not have seen the horror Hamas inflicted on innocent Israelis. No way Jack Dorsey’s crowd of left-wingers would have allowed citizen journalists to tell the real story, the unfiltered truth, about the unimaginably grotesque attacks throughout Israel.

We wouldn’t have seen the graphic videos of these fanatical men driving around in a Jeep with the dead body of a young woman in the back like a slaughtered animal, stopping to allow cheering bystanders to spit on her mutilated corpse.

We wouldn’t have seen the bloodied woman – clearly a rape victim – being dragged by her hair into the street by men screaming about Allah and then shoving her into a car overloaded with men who were grabbing for her. God rest her soul. Chances she survived the next few hours are slim.

We wouldn’t have seen the bawling children being shielded by their parents as they were savagely herded into cars and taken as hostages.

We wouldn’t have seen the stacks of bodies.

Nope.

All we’d have is sanitized references to “Hamas militants” – as if this is a regular army – and criticism of “Israel’s right-wing intelligence” for failing to thwart the unprovoked attack on civilians. Oh and lots of whataboutism about how hard life is in Gaza for Palestinians and that Israel is to blame.

This is just the media’s prelude. In a few days corporate news outlets will condemn Israel for its “disproportionate response” to the attacks.

I agree with Ilya Shapiro who recorded a brief message on CenterClip Sunday morning saying that no response – however robust and deadly – will be disproportionate. There is no appeasing Hamas. Its goal is the genocide of the Jewish people and the abolition of the Jewish state. There is only one way to deal with terrorists: Finish them.

The legacy media was diligent in reporting the verbal support for Israel coming from the White House, without reminders that Biden has been busy appeasing these Death-to-Israel, death-to-America radicals in the MidEast for three years.

They saw no link between the $6 billion in “humanitarian” aid to Iran that Biden just freed up in some cockamamie prisoner exchange/ransom and what happened this weekend in Israel.

They never mentioned the $75 million we just sent to Palestinian “refugees” either.

Here’s an account from a pro-Hamas news organization called “MEMO Middle East Monitor.” Two days ago they published glowing praise for the Biden administration for funneling money over the objections of pro-Israel members of Congress to UNRWA, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East.

In “Under The Radar The US Approves Release of $75 million Aid To Palestine,” the pro-Hamas journalists wrote this:

In a quiet move bypassing Republican obstructionism, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has approved the release of $75 million in crucial food assistance for Palestinians just hours before the funds were set to be redistributed elsewhere.

Blinken’s decision came after months of pressure from Democratic lawmakers and dozens of civil society groups, who warned that blocking the aid would create a humanitarian disaster for over one million Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

The aid had been held up by Republican Senators who are said to be seeking to use the funds as leverage for political concessions. Senator Jim Risch and Representative Michael McCaul, the top Republicans on the Senate and House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committees, have since late July been blocking the State Department from providing the funds to the UN’s Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA).

The Biden administration and Democrats in Washington have been playing a deadly game of footsie with the most bloodthirsty terrorists on earth. They stupidly believe that money — in the guise of humanitarian aid — buys you peace and goodwill.

There is only one thing that money buys: Weapons.

Republished with permission from Kerry: Unemployed and Unedited.


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55 responses to “Stop All Aid to Palestinians and Other Terrorists. Every Bit of It”

  1. Teddy007 Avatar

    So creating more terrorist is a way to acheive something totally undefined in the future?

    What the U.S. and Israel need to do is apply the Powell Doctrine to all military operations including defining what the goal is, how success will be measured, and what the exist strategy is.

    One would think that after wasting 20 years in Afghanistan, Americans would have learned to not make policy based upon vengence.

    1. DJRippert Avatar
      DJRippert

      “What the U.S. and Israel need to do is apply the Powell Doctrine to all military operations including defining what the goal is, how success will be measured, and what the exist strategy is.”

      Great doctrine.

      Now, apply it to Ukraine.

      The goal – complete removal of all Russian forces from pre-2014 Ukraine borders.

      How success will be measured – the steady retaking of land occupied by Russia since 2014.

      The exit strategy – stop providing funds and arms after Ukraine achieves total and complete victory.

      Another philosopher had what seems like an extension to the Powell Doctrine:

      When Mike Tyson was asked by a reporter whether he was worried about Evander Holyfield and his fight plan he answered; “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”

      Is Ukraine winning? Are they on the path to clear the Russians from the entirety of pre-2014 Ukraine? How much more time and money will be required for that goal to be accomplished, if it is ever accomplished?

      It’s been 594 days since the Russians invaded Ukraine this time (Note: They also invaded in 2014 and Obama / Biden effectively did nothing).

      Is it time for a new plan?

      1. Teddy007 Avatar

        Russian invaded the Ukraine without thinking about the Powell Doctrine, without defining success, and without having an exist strategy. The invaded country does not get to use the Powell Doctrine. It is for the country that has autonomy. At best, the Ukraine could hope for a negotiated peace where it gets most of the land back and a payment from Russia.

        1. DJRippert Avatar
          DJRippert

          It’s the American reaction that should be subject to the Powell Doctrine.

          And I agree with you that a negotiated peace is the only way out.

          When does the US call for such a settlement?

          1. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            That was never going to happen with Netanyahooty moving in with the extreme Right. Not that I saw this coming, nor care except we are the eventual losers, but somebody should have seen it.

            Historically, it takes 90 years to establish a lasting peace. Reset the clock, would ya?

  2. William O'Keefe Avatar
    William O’Keefe

    This strikes me a as a knee jerk, politically biased reaction. Time and thoughtful analysis will be the best judge of this blogs accuracy. The strength of the Hamas attack and how well it was coordinated is clear evidence that it was months or years in the making.
    We need to take a very open eyed, thoughtful but tough look at our experiences in the Middle East. None have gone the way that we hoped and planned.

  3. May the IDF make Dresden look like a Girl Scout weenie roast

  4. Stephen Haner Avatar
    Stephen Haner

    Being old enough to remember the ’67 and ’73 wars, as well as 9-11 and the poorly-thought out invasion of Iraq, I recognize the hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach. This does not end well. I agree, brave talk back here in the safe area (uh, is it?) is just hot air. There will soon be American boots on that ground and American planes in that airspace. The didn’t send the USS Ford just to linger around. At least right now I don’t have a brother or son in uniform, as I did the last few times I felt this hollow pit.

  5. DJRippert Avatar
    DJRippert

    Where was America’s vaunted intelligence apparatus? Hamas built, staged, and fired 5,000 rockets and we didn’t see anything coming? Sounds like another 9-11 type intelligence failure. No doubt the Deep State apologists will be out in droves trying to defend this latest failure.

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      Us? Who lives next door?

      1. DJRippert Avatar
        DJRippert

        Israeli intelligence failed too. Bigly. But that doesn’t excuse us.

        1. Nancy Naive Avatar
          Nancy Naive

          Why? Who made us the world police? I thought you Conservative types loathe that role?

          Hey, maybe they just didn’t like the music?

          1. DJRippert Avatar
            DJRippert

            More like the world’s nosey neighbor. Hopefully, we won’t get directly involved in this one.

            But … we spend a vast fortune on intelligence. How many three letter agencies are involved? CIA, DIA, NSA, etc.

            If our spending doesn’t allow us to detect 9-11 or the Hamas attack, stop spending so much money!

          2. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Uh oh, bad news. We actually need to spend more. Because SigInt and the other passive forms of intelligence gathering were becoming really good, we dropped the ball on HumInt. We really need to dump more money there, but then, we can’t elect a loose-lipped guy who can’t follow security protocols.

            Hey, it’ll give the Right a reason to look for someone else.

          3. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            We are a meddlesome lot, even among ourselves. Would have thought Lawrence v. Texas would have reduced it a bit, but Dobbs just inflamed it.

    2. James Wyatt Whitehead Avatar
      James Wyatt Whitehead

      I am so glad Uncle Joe carefully vetted each one of the 2.8 million immigrants who crossed our border in 2023. I feel completely safe. No way what happened in the Holy Land can happen here.

      1. Vet migrants? The Biden Administration can’t even find the time to vet his own Department of State.

        Google “Iran spy ring in Washington”

    3. “Where was America’s vaunted intelligence apparatus?”

      Sentenced to death.

      Iran captured 17 spies working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and some have been sentenced to death, Iranian media reported on Monday.

      Iranian state television published images it said showed the CIA officers who were in touch with the suspected spies.

      There was no immediate comment on the Iranian allegations by the CIA or U.S. officials.

      https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-iran-usa-spies/iran-says-breaks-up-cia-spy-ring-some-sentenced-to-death-idUSKCN1UH0JD

      But Iran’s spy operation in the U.S. was doing just fine until very recently.

      High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington

      https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/iran-spy-ring-robert-malley-lee-smith

  6. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    Netanyahoo made clear two years ago things weren’t going to get better.

    1. Stephen Haner Avatar
      Stephen Haner

      When a political stalemate fueled by religious hatred and economic grievance has festered into violence for 75 years, that gets to be an easy prediction. He will be blamed for failure and rightly so, but the Israelis will sort that out later, to their credit.

      1. Nancy Naive Avatar
        Nancy Naive

        The center and left coalitions made offers to give Bibi room to move. He did, further into the extreme racist regime. We have commitments to them. We should at least look like we’re living up to them, but we should make sure we get some movement. Israel cannot continue with Gaza as a huge prison.

        1. What does race have to do with it?

          1. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            I dunno, but Issac’s and Abramhan’s houses seem to think themselves racial different. I don’t pretend to understand it, but the extreme Right in Israel even consider othe Israeli Jews as being somehow less Jew.

            Truly, I wish we would wash our hands. Pilate reference intended.

          2. The conflict has nothing to do with race or ethnicity.

            In Islam, it is forbidden for any land that has been conquered by Islam to thereafter be ruled by infidels. Not an inch, ever.

          3. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            So where did all these Palestinians come from? Surely they didn’t just pop into existence. They aren’t refugees like Syrians in Sweden. They’re not economic immigrants like Mexicans in LA, “Hey, Israel sounds like a cool place; let’s move there!”

            Surely the UN in its sanction creating Israel must’ve mentioned something about “indigenous peoples”, didn’t they?

            And I’ve heard rumors that some of their properties are bulldozed and just given to others… this can’t be right, can it?

            Wow, sounds like they have some grievances.

          4. “So where did all these Palestinians come from?”

            Most are descendants of nomadic Arabs who came from the Arabian peninsula.

            “Palestinian villagers generally trace the origins of their clan (hamula) to the Arabian peninsula. Many avow oral traditions of descent from nomadic Arab tribes that migrated to Palestine during or shortly after the Islamic conquest.”

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Palestinians

            Many others came after the Jews started to migrate and rebuild there in 1882.

          5. So where did all these Palestinians come from?

            Jordan? Syria?

            Other than that I don’t know, because there has never been a nation called Palestine. It’s a region of the Middle East.

          6. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Michael? Or Michael B.?

          7. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            They keep calling it a “country”, and at points had autonomous rule. But if being an independent nation is some kinda something important, Texas and Hawaii are good to go, but the other 48 are questionable.

            https://www.britannica.com/place/Palestine/Roman-Palestine

          8. “I dunno, but Issac’s and Abramhan’s houses seem to think themselves racial different.”

            Isaac is Abraham’s son. They do not represent different “houses.”

            I believe you mean Ishmael vs Isaac.

            https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ishmael-son-of-Abraham

          9. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Houses of Issac and Ishmael. See? That’s how much I care.

        2. Gaza is an example of what happens when Israel gives up “land for peace.” The Palestinians use the land to make war with Israel.

          At great cost to Israel, the military forced out all the Jewish settlers from Gaza and were rewarded by the Palestinians in Gaza electing Hamas to power. There has been no election since.

          THE COVENANT OF THE HAMAS

          It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.
          (Article 6)

          Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.
          (Preamble)

          The land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [Holy Possession] consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day. No one
          can renounce it or any part, or abandon it or any part of it.
          (Article 11)

          Palestine is an Islamic land… Since this is the case, the Liberation of Palestine is an individual duty for every Moslem wherever he may be.(Article 13)

          [Peace] initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement… Those conferences are no more than
          a means to appoint the infidels as arbitrators in the lands of Islam… There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility.
          (Article 13)

          https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/880818a.htm

        3. Gaza is an example of what happens when Israel gives up “land for peace.” The Palestinians use the land to make war with Israel.

          At great cost to Israel, the military forced out all the Jewish settlers from Gaza (September 2005) and were rewarded by the Palestinians in Gaza voting Hamas into power (2006). There has been no election since.

          THE COVENANT OF THE HAMAS

          It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.
          (Article 6)

          Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.
          (Preamble)

          The land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [Holy Possession] consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day. No one
          can renounce it or any part, or abandon it or any part of it.
          (Article 11)

          Palestine is an Islamic land… Since this is the case, the Liberation of Palestine is an individual duty for every Moslem wherever he may be.(Article 13)

          [Peace] initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement… Those conferences are no more than
          a means to appoint the infidels as arbitrators in the lands of Islam… There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility.
          (Article 13)

          https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/880818a.htm

          1. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            We should take in the 2 million Palestinians. Hey, we could set a “special minimum wage” of say, $5/hr, and then even the average Republican could have nannies, maids, and gardeners… legally.

          2. Arab countries could easily take them in if they wanted to. They won’t.

          3. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            So that abdicates our responsibility? Your neighbor could call the police about the noisy neighbor…

          4. “So that abdicates our responsibility?”

            We could take our share and encourage other countries to do the same, but it will never happen. The Palestinian refugees serve a purpose for Islam.

            If you don’t understand Dar al-Islam vs. Dar Al-Harb, you cannot understand what’s happening in Israel.

            Why are Palestinian refugees still in camps from 1948 while refugees from other Middle Eastern areas have settled elsewhere?

            Syria alone has settled more refugees in the last few years.

            If the Palestinian issue were ever to be settled, that would solidify the Jewish state. That’s unthinkable to extremists.

            Why do you think this attack happened over the weekend?

            Iran’s support for Hamas fans suspicion it’s wrecking Israel-Saudi deal
            Tehran’s remarks will feed speculation Iran is whipping up conflict to prevent a US-brokered normalization of Saudi-Israeli ties.

            https://www.politico.eu/article/iran-hamas-attacks-against-israel-palestine-jerusalem/

            They were very close to a deal.

          5. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Well, actually “Palestine” was Roman lands. It’s even mentioned in songs dating waaaay back to Roman ttimes, i.e., “Five-foot nine/ Eyes that shine/ Walks the streets of Palestine/ Has anybody seen JC?”

          6. Roman emperor Hadrian, determined to root out Jewish nationalism, changed the name of the province from Judaea to Syria Palaestina.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea#:~:text=Roman%20emperor%20Hadrian%2C%20determined%20to,from%20Judaea%20to%20Syria%20Palaestina.

            The Romans named the land after the enemies of the Jews (Assyrians & Philistines) as a deliberate insult.

            Palestinians as a distinct people is an invention of Yasser Arafat who was born in Cairo, Egypt.

            Palestine is a region, not a people. If you read accounts of Israel’s war for independence, there are numerous accounts of Jews referring to other Jews as “Palestinians. ” That was a way to distinguish Jews who were born there from those who came from elsewhere to support the effort.

            The Ottomans ruled the area for 400 years. There was no need to create a homeland for “Palestinians.”

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_the_Ottoman_Empire

          7. Well, actually “Palestine” was Roman lands.

            Not exactly…

            https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07075332.1980.9640202

          8. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            The point was the song…

  7. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    “They saw no link between the $6 billion in “humanitarian” aid to Iran that Biden just freed up in some cockamamie prisoner exchange/ransom and what happened this weekend in Israel.”

    You mean the $6B in oil waivers to China, India, South Korea authorized by Trump allowing the exchange of oil for humanitarian goods? Is that the $6B?

    1. LarrytheG Avatar

      geeze, what a buzzkiller NN!

      1. Nancy Naive Avatar
        Nancy Naive

        This is the current internet lie. The “Biden freed up” must refer to the transfer from South Korea to Qatar who manages the fund. BTW, the US monitors that fund very closely.

        Trump authorized the waiver for those oil transfers to keep the sheeple happy from rising gasoline prices.

        1. DJRippert Avatar

          The monitoring of that fund is irrelevant. Money is fungible. Here’s an example the Biden Crime Family ought to be able to understand:

          A crack addict is spending $2,500 per month on an apartment. Some “do gooder” decides to pick up the rent tab for the crack addict. The money is ONLY for rent and is closely monitored. What does the crack addict do? Take the funds that he would have used to pay the rent and use that money to buy more crack.

          Even Blinken admitted that the $6B from Biden could free up funds to support terrorists.

          Only Sleepy Joe thinks Americans are too stupid to see through his ridiculous “we’re monitoring that fund closely” absurdity.

          1. LarrytheG Avatar

            No question the money is fungible but pretty questionable as to whether the Iranians actually needed it to support Hamas or others.

            It’s basically yet another political cudgel.

            Sorta like asking did Trump make Mexico pay for the border wall like he promised.

            I can see DJ that you’re probably gonna vote for Trump AGAIN based on your narratives here of late!

          2. Nancy Naive Avatar
            Nancy Naive

            Not in this case. We still maintain strict oversight.

            “Q President Raisi says it’s up to them how they use the money.

            MR. KIRBY: He’s wrong.

            Q How are you going to guarantee that? Because once the money is — money is fungible. So, once —

            MR. KIRBY: No, ma’am.

            Q — it’s released —

            MR. KIRBY: No, ma’am. No, ma’am. It’s not fungible. He’s just wrong. He’s just flat-out wrong. The way this — the way this deal is arranged is that these — these — the $6 billion, which is Iranian money, will go to a Qatari bank — Qatari National Bank.

            The Iranians can request withdrawals for it for humanitarian purposes, and the Qataris — and it will be — and us — we will have oversight — sufficient oversight into the request itself to validate the request and then to deliver funds appropriate to that request.

            The money will be then — will then go to qualified vendors to purchase and deliver the food, the medical supplies into Iran. So, it will go directly to aid organizations or appropriate relevant organizations inside Iran so that the Iranian people can benefit from it. And that’s an important point, too.

            While we certainly have issues with the regime, we don’t have issues with the Iranian people. And this funding will be a — will be important to helping them get over some tough times.”

            https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2023/09/13/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-chair-of-the-council-of-economic-advisers-jared-bernstein-and-nsc-coordinator-for-strategic-communications-john-kirby/

        2. LarrytheG Avatar

          lying is what they do these days… otherwise the narrative just goes to heck in a handbasket!

    2. Politifact:

      The role that a recent U.S.-Iran hostage agreement may have played in the Oct. 7 attack in Israel is in dispute. But experts say that Biden’s critics, and his administration in its own defense, make legitimate points.

      In August, the U.S. announced an agreement with Iran to secure freedom for five U.S. citizens who’d been detained in the country. In exchange, the U.S. allowed Iran to access $6 billion of its own funds that had been frozen in South Korean banks since 2019. The money consisted of Iranian oil revenues.

      Biden administration officials said in multiple TV appearances that the deal could not have hastened or aided the Oct. 7 attack because the money hasn’t been dispersed to Iran yet. Also, they said, the agreement required that Iran only use the funds for humanitarian items, such as medicine and food. But Biden’s critics counter that money is fungible, meaning that the money could be diverted to fund terrorism or simply free up money elsewhere in the Iranian government’s budget to be spent for non-humanitarian needs.

      https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/oct/09/fact-check-trump-on-about-bidens-6-billion-to-iran/

      1. Nancy Naive Avatar
        Nancy Naive

        Critics can say whatever they like, but 1) Iran is the most heavily sanctioned country in the world, and 2) they still ain’t got the money yet, and 3) if the US directs that the account be frozen, they will have blown a wad of credit.

        You should have read your whole link…
        “ Despite having some reservations about the merits of the hostage agreement, “I don’t see any tangible connection between the $6 billion and this Hamas war,” said Matthew Levitt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank that focuses on the Middle East.

        “Iran was already spending significant funds on Hamas and Hezbollah (another Iranian-backed terrorist group based in Lebanon) before this deal,” Levitt said. For years, Iran’s government has “prioritized supporting militant and terrorist proxies over providing services for its own people,” he said.”

        I love it you used a factcheck on Trump for evidence that Biden is lying… rich.

        1. Former U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman reacts to the surprise attack on Israel.

          https://www.foxnews.com/video/6338660131112

        2. “I love it you used a factcheck on Trump for evidence that Biden is lying… rich.”

          I chose Politifact purposefully. If left leaning Politifact admits there’s a legitimate argument (which they do), then only a Biden partisan would dismiss the possibility altogether.

  8. Egypt borders Gaza. Will they allow Palestinians (fellow Arabs and Muslims) to flow over the border to safety?

    Egypt warned Israel on Monday that the Egyptian sovereignty is not to be violated, high-level Egyptian sources told Al-Qahera News.

    The warning came against pushing civilian Palestinians from war-hit Gaza towards the Egyptian borders in mass displacements.

    https://en.amwalalghad.com/indias-tci-sanmar-chemicals-signs-150mln-investment-deal-in-egypt/

  9. It is absolutely impossible to understand this conflict without an appreciation for Dar al-Islam vs. Dar Al-Harb. Here’s a brief summary:

    A crucial distinction made in Islamic theology is that between Dar al-Harb and Dar al-Islam.

    To put it simply, Dar al-Harb is understood as “territory of war or chaos.” This is the name for the regions where Islam does not dominate and where divine will is not observed. It is, therefore, where continuing strife is the norm.

    By contrast, Dar al-Islam is a “territory of peace.” This is the name for those territories where Islam does dominate and where submission to God is observed. It is where peace and tranquility reign.

    This attitude is exacerbated by the belief that if any territory that was once a part of Dar al-Islam comes under the control of Dar al-Harb, then that represents an attack on Islam. It is, therefore, the obligation of all Muslims to fight in order to retrieve the lost land.

    This idea motivates the fanaticism not only in the opposition to secular Arab governments but also the very existence of the state of Israel. For extremists, Israel is an intrusion of Dar al-Harb upon territory that properly belongs to Dar al-Islam. As such, nothing short of restoring Islamic rule to the land is acceptable.

    https://www.learnreligions.com/dar-al-harb-vs-dar-al-islam-250224

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