Hate’s too deep: Don’t expect peace with Islam

The war against Jews in the Middle East “will be forever,” and to survive, Israel must convince her foes that she “is invincible forever,” Dr. Mordechai Kedar told the Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation’s 21st annual benefit on Sunday night.

“Nothing is new in what we witness today,” he said, referring to the recent wave of terror in Israel. “It started with their prophet Muhammad, who slaughtered, with his own hands, hundreds of Jews in Medina, in the oasis of Khaibar. It started 14 centuries ago and continues today.”

The killers in Israel sing of Khaibar’s glory, he said.

Kedar spoke at the dinner of an organization that’s been working since 1995 to preserve Rachel’s ancient tomb and to reclaim the midos of the matriarchs and patriarchs. The event was held at the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center in Brooklyn.

With the perspective of someone who is fluent in Arabic, Kedar traced Islam from its inception into today’s headlines, defining the conflict in which Israel finds itself as primarily a religious one that “will be forever.”

 “Of course, there are newer layers — nationalism, territorial issues, legal issues — but the foundation is religious before it is anything connected to territory, human rights or political freedom.”

Muslims consider that they’ve supplanted both Judaism and Chris- tianity and the notion of Jewish nationalism is incomprehensive to them.

“The problem is Jews before it is Israelis or Zionists,” he said.

“It is not the occupation of 1967, it is the occupation of 1948” to which they object, Kedar continued. “Jews have no right, according to their view, to even a square millimeter of Tel Aviv not to mention Jerusalem [which] is most problematic because Jerusalem resembles the revivalism of Judaism, the coming back to life of Judaism which they cannot fathom because in their view Judaism is null and void.”