Khamenei: Muslims Should Force Israel to ‘Retreat to the Point of Demise’

For Khamenei and other Muslims, the conflict between Israel and the “Palestinians” is not an issue of settlements, or borders, or negotiations. It’s about how Islam must dominate and not be dominated. It’s a religious issue, an Islamic issue. No negotiated agreement will ever bring peace. Notice how Khamenei frames the conflict here yet again as a religious issue, as something that concerns Muslims and Islam. But Western leaders refuse to acknowledge this.

“Khamenei: Muslims Should Force Israel to ‘Retreat to the Point of Demise,’” Breitbart, April 5, 2018:

Ynetnews reports: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Wednesday on the people of Muslim countries to defeat Israel. “With an intense and planned struggle, they should force the enemy to retreat toward the point of demise,” he said.

Any move to negotiate with Israel would be an “unforgivable mistake”, the cleric added, after Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Israelis were entitled to live peacefully on their own land. Supreme Leader Khamenei later tweeted, “On days when escalation of oppression & barbarism by the Zionists, in Gaza has saddened and angered those who care for Palestine, we reiterate the perpetual stance of the Islamic Republic regarding the issue of Palestine.

“The return of dignity and power to the Islamic nation is exclusively linked to resistance…