The Problem With the War In the Middle East

The conflict in the Middle East is older than most people alive today. Since 1948 there have been 19 officially declared wars documented in the history books involving Arab nations and Israel. None have resulted in peace for the people of either side. In fact, all we have seen is political manoeuvring and manipulation over the decades without any real resolution in sight. All the while the children from both sides suffer from the tit-for-tat violence, which only seems to escalate without a foreseeable and conclusive outcome. At best, we have seen temporary pauses in the violence over the decades and this tends to become a huge political spectacle, with a lot of press coverage proudly announcing to everyone that the politicians know what they are doing and can be trusted because they are in charge. Generally though, we see the world trumpet disapproval in favour of one side or the other but nothing seems to solve the problem, the status quo continues. The demonisation of both sides is not something new, but we have seen that it is nothing more than lip service driven by hidden political agendas. 

The political class have failed, at every point in time where they tried to reach an agreeable resolution due to their inability to bring both these sides, each driven by faith to stand for their rights to the “Holy land,” to compromise or respect the rights of the other side. We have never seen anybody come forward and address both sides with clarity or divine authority. Any religious authority that ever did get involved made no significant contribution to the welfare of the people on the ground on either side of the conflict, instead they only added to the tensions. We have seen many clerics call the people to support and stand up for the Palestinian people - fatwas have been issued in the past calling for violence while more moderate voices called the people to pray for the Palestinians and to try and help by sending donations to them. 

What makes this entire saga completely farcical, is that neither side has a legitimate divine connection to the land and yet both sides claim that they have a God-given right to claim the land, and that their religious attachment to the land defines who they are. Well, if we were to analyse these claims we would find much to contradict them in scripture and in the history books. 

In the case of the Jews, they themselves admit that they were banished from the land of Israel by God as a punishment for breaking God's laws.  There are some sects within Judaism today, like the anti-zionist Haredi Jews, which claim that the current state of Israel has no legitimate right to exist, since they believe that any Jewish independence prior to the coming of the Messiah is a sin, based on their own holy books. 

The exile and exodus of the Jewish people from the land of Israel are well-documented, they are also portrayed in popular culture as injustices endured by the Jewish people throughout time. 

The atrocities of World War Two are also widely recorded and portrayed in popular culture. It was the end of this very war which brought about the formation of the state of Israel, after the Balfour declaration of 1917 had officially vowed British support for the formation of this Jewish state in Palestine openly. The end of the Second World War facilitated the ideal circumstances to realize and achieve the formation of Israel as it is known today, a Jewish state in the area known as Palestine. The state of Israel today is the adopted child of the US, created by the UK, and for a very long time these two countries actively worked to garner political support for Israel at the UN, while opposing any condemnation directed at it and history has recorded this fact. 

As for the Muslims, they believe that the prophet Mohammed ascended from this land to the heavens during his night ascension and, therefore, on that basis, this land is very holy for them. This belief is not true according to the Islamic history books. They document the building of what is known as Al-Aqsa mosque during the Umayyad dynasty, which came long after the death of the prophet Mohammed. So how could the prophet Mohammed have led the prophets in prayer in a mosque that was not even built yet during his night ascension?

The Umayyad tribe was openly hostile to the family of Mohammed, going so far as to orchestrate many of their murders. The death of prophet Mohammed brought about the opportunity for treachery, betrayal, disbelief, and the lust for power to take root and manifest as witnessed in the leadership struggles seen throughout the Arab and Muslim nations over the centuries. The Saqifa of Banu Sa'ida gave birth to the illegitimate line of leaders or caliphs in the Muslim world. The relevance of this is that the betrayal and reneging of the oath of allegiance, declared at Ghadir Khumm to Ali ibn Abi Talib, opened the gate for misguidance and corruption to enter and find permanence in the Islam of Mohammed and, of course, allowed for the distortion of the history books. 

With that being said, the illegitimate caliphs of the Umayyad Caliphate were the ones responsible for establishing the mosques of Jerusalem and designating them as holy sites for the Muslims. Abd Al Malik ibn Marwan, the fifth Umayyad Caliph, had the present day Al-Aqsa mosque originally built in the current location around 705 AD. It was destroyed in an earthquake in 746 AD and then rebuilt by the illegitimate Abbasid Caliph Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Manṣūr, the second Abbasid caliph, in 758 AD. According to Islamic tradition, a small prayer hall (musalla), which would later become the Al-Aqsa Mosque, was built by Umar ibn Al-Khattab, the second caliph of the four Rashidun Caliphs, during his reign, 634 - 644 AD.

Umar, and his predecessor before him, Abu Bakr, were participants in the Saqifa of Banu Sa'ida, and their betrayal gave birth to the chaos we see in Islamic history. The Saqifa of Banu Sa'ida aimed to overrule the oath of allegiance given to Ali ibn Abi Talib in the presence of Mohammed at Ghadir Khumm, by establishing a new oath of allegiance to the elected Abu Bakr, disobeying the instructions left by Mohammed prior to his death regarding the rightful leadership after him. Mohammed fulfilled his divine obligations by documenting the names of the 12 Imams in his final will and testament. Those 12 Imams that he named in his will were killed off one by one until the 12th Imam, Mohammed ibn Al-Hassan Al-Askari, went into occultation. The Muslims have been without an Imam or a Divinely appointed khalif since then. 

There has not been any Caliph since the fall of the Ottoman empire in 1924. The Muslim world has been governed by various leaders from differing backgrounds, each with their own political inclination and jurisdiction. The Muslim countries themselves were established in the aftermath of the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916. The Balfour Declaration came in 1917, committing Great Britain to the establishment of a Jewish state in the land of Palestine. This goal could not be ratified without some kind of consensus from other leading powers, and so it took a total of 21 years for its fruition in 1948.

The Jewish state of Israel today is considered by many to be an apartheid with various human rights violations perpetrated against the Palestinians by the Israeli state. Meanwhile, the Palestinians are considered by many to be uncivilised and ruled over politically by terrorist organisations and militias with violence as their bargaining chip. Both sides mislead the people with political agendas masked as religious obligations. Both sides manipulate fear and hatred of the other side to drive the people to support conflict and further aggression. Both sides suffer deeply whenever an innocent child dies in the resulting violence. 

So, to say that the claims both sides have to this plot of land, and hold onto, are based on falsehood is to trivialise the matter, since many millions of lives have been shattered by this conflict over the decades. It is a tragic and deep deception, which both sides have been content to embrace and use to justify their hatred of the other side, due to a sense of pride and obligation which has only led to annihilation and destruction. 

Today, this saga is continued by the elite political traitors on both sides, as they lead each side into battle while they remain seated a very safe long distance away from the front lines. None of the political leaders of the region send their own kids to fight their wars, instead they send the children of the masses to fight for them. They distract their people with the violence while they fill their pockets up with all kinds of lucrative deals here and there. 

The sad fact is that throughout history, most of the political figures from around the world have failed to make any progress in settling this ideological conflict and do not show any trustworthy stance on the matter either. This is especially highlighted when we hear voices like Noam Chomsky and Norman Finklestein calling out the inhumane behaviour of the state of Israel in their treatment of the Palestinians under occupation for 58  years. 

What is worse than that, is the fact that the Arab nations that were previously united and willing to go to war with Israel to defend their fellow Palestinian Arabs have now completely sold them out, preferring to negotiate trade deals and establish ties with Israel instead. 

We see today the lengths to which the Arab leaders go to in order to please their  masters in the political game, pacifying their people with platitudes aimed at keeping the game going while the people on the ground suffer. The welfare and condition of the Palestinian people is irrelevant as long as the leaders can carry on being in charge. What is nothing short of shameful is that these Arab leaders egg on the defiance and struggle of the Palestinians themselves but offer nothing more than words in support. Leaders like Salman and his son Mohammed, El-Sisi, Abdullah II, Mohammed bin Zayed and their likes all pay lip service to the Palestinian cause but do very little, if not nothing at all, to really help. Instead, they issue bans and restrict their own people from speaking out or rallying support online or anywhere else. 

President of the US, Donald Trump, is proud of his Abraham Accords, which he instigated in 2020 to normalise relations between the state of Israel and the neighbouring Arab nations. It seems that since then, tensions have only increased between the Palestinians and Israel, while relationships have improved between Israel and the Arab nations involved, namely Bahrain, Morocco and the UAE. Of course there is the public discourse of political manoeuvring and the prime example of this is the Jordanian ambassador being the only one withdrawn from Jerusalem during the most recent war which began on the 7th of October 2023. Saudi Arabia does nothing more than give meaningless political statements on the topic of Palestine and the Palestinians. 

The hypocrisy of the Arab leaders is flagrant and clear for all to see. Mohammed bin Salman just agreed with Donald Trump to “invest” one trillion dollars in commercial deals with the US. One trillion dollars. That's one thousand billion dollars. 

Donald Trump has been proudly boasting of his accomplishments from his most recent Middle East tour. He managed to convince the leaders of the various Arab nations to hand over four trillion dollars in trade deals with the United States. The US, which is widely known as the guardian and caretaker of the state of Israel and has been for decades, can command trillions out of the pockets of the Arab nations while it props up Israel financially, militarily and politically. The support given to Israel by the US is unparalleled anywhere else in the world, and yet the Arab leaders fool their populations into accepting their dealings with the US as something beneficial and something to be proud of.  The hypocritical position of the Arab nations that made these historic deals with the US under Donald Trump, is to now not commit any substantial sums to the welfare of their brothers and sisters in Palestine because it is no longer their responsibility. The Palestinians live in rubble while the wealthy Arab nations develop their economies to become wealthier. 

The reality is that the US is the leading force in the arms industry and it profits immensely from the wars fought using the weapons they produce. So while the Arabs buy weapons from the US for whatever proxy war they are engaged in with other regional powers like Iran, the US supplies Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians. Of course, this entire equation is fed by the understanding and doctrine of “me first” - my welfare first before the welfare of others. This translates into the mantras we see copying the "America first" mantra of Donald Trump. This in turn is pushed using the global democratic political system, the same system which was revealed by Aba Al-Sadiq Abdullah Hashem as the system of the Antichrist. When we consider the facts, we can confirm without a shadow of a doubt that the US is indeed the greater dajjal that was warned of in various prophecies. We can also confirm that it is indeed the very same Antichrist beast described in scripture. 

In light of the recent sermons of Aba Al-Sadiq, we are now at a pivotal point in time. He has declared openly to the world that the US is the Antichrist dajjal. He also addressed the Muslims and the Jews in a direct sermon whereby he called upon both sides to end the violence and put their hands together to build the third temple of Solomon in Jerusalem. 

The importance of this sermon will come to be understood in the future when it is viewed through the lens of hindsight. Aba Al-Sadiq Abdullah Hashem provided a solution to the conflict in an episode from The School of Divine Mysteries aired on his YouTube channel on the 28th of July 2023.

In this episode he laid down the perfect method by which to solve the conflict between both sides and he called for this peaceful solution as a public challenge to both sides. He was ignored. 

He repeated his stance and position in his sermon on the 8th of May titled The Mahdi Wants Peace Between Israel & Palestine, calling both sides to the table to negotiate a long-standing peace with him as mediator. He declared the intent to build the third temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, only he did not exclude the Arabs from this ambition for the first time in history. He stood and declared this shared interest for the Abrahamic faiths as a symbol of peace between all three faiths and to allow for peace in the region permanently. Nobody else in the past 1000 years has made such a bold statement, a statement which can potentially be seen by the future generations as the moment when the world recognised the authority of God on Earth. The moment when the long-standing Israel - Palestine conflict was peacefully resolved through Divine love.

This declaration was picked up by the press and it has launched Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq into a new sphere of influence, forcing the world to pay attention to the Divine decree instilled in him through the Holy Spirit of God. Will the people heed his call and come together to build the third temple peacefully? Will Netanyahu release the two million Palestinians from their open prison of rocks and rubble? 

I pray they do. For their own sakes.