Jews are dhimmis: They cannot have a state
The conflict between the Arabs and the Jews is not about borders: Israel is not interested in not even a square inch of Lebanese territory. It is not about the lack of a Palestinian state: The Palestinians rejected in year 2000 a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank, with Jerusalem as their capital, proposed by President Clinton and accepted by Israel. (It had been already proposed by the UN in November 1947, accepted by the Jews, and rejected then by the Arab countries who waged war and invaded Israel when it proclaimed independence in May 1948.)
Since the 7th century, as Arabs conquered vast lands in their expansion from Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, to the whole Middle East and the Mediterranean countries in Northern Africa – what in modern political science would be defined as military conquest and colonization, and the Arabs as the epitome of colonizers – a doctrine was developed whose basic tenet was, and still is: lands conquered by Muslims belong to the Umma (the Islamic Community) and cannot be surrendered. Never. Jews in Muslim countries can, at best, achieve the status of “dhimmis”, a state of constant legal, social and psychological submission.
My recent book, “The land is ours: Jews are dhimmis” (June 2026 edition) describes in detail how this medieval Islamic ideology has shaped the modern relations (or the lack of them, and the endless conflict) between the Muslim world and Israel: Dhimmis cannot have a state, and should be subservient. Or be repeatedly attacked, again and again, until they are reduced back to their dhimmi status, or physically eliminated, as the Hamas founding covenant of 1988 explicitly states, or as the Ayatollah’s regime of Iran has tried since 1979.
This is the root cause of the conflict between the Muslim world and Israel.
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The above is a letter I lately sent to representatives in Congress, accompanied by a paperback copy of the book.
Digital copies of the book can be downloaded for free from the ResearchGate website:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/405240572_The_land_is_ours_Jews_are_dhimmis
A Spanish edition of the book, titled “La tierra es nuestra: Los judíos son dhimmis”, is available as well.
