Most Arabs and Muslims (and some of their friends) refuse to recognize Israel. Most people in the world think it is a matter of the difference of religion, while, in fact, it is a natural response to the nature of this strange regime. I’ll try to explain why.

Firstly I’ll take a brief history of what’s called now “Israel”.

As we can see, for more than 7,000 years the Canaanites (Palestinians) lived continuously uninterrupted on the land of Palestine. During the 7,000 years more than 20 invading powers including the Jews occupied parts of Palestine but they were all defeated by the Palestinians or other invading powers the Palestinians never left the land through out history. The Jews came in 1186 BC and the last Jews left in 135 AD after being defeated by the Romans.

The ideas of Zionism where raising. As a secular movement, using Judaism as a tool, they convinced the whole world that Jews have the historical right to live in Palestine, when it was easy to spread lies among people. One of these lies was that Palestine is "a land without a people for a people without a land." Its original form is, "a country without a nation for a nation without a country," this was penned by Lord Shaftsebury.

The rise to power of Adolf Hitler in Germany in 1933 produced a powerful new impetus for Zionism. Not only did it create a flood of Jewish refugees but it undermined the faith of Jews that they could live in security as minorities in non-Jewish societies. Jewish opinion began to shift in favor of Zionism, and pressure for more Jewish immigration to Palestine increased. But the more Jews settled in Palestine, the more aroused local Arab opinion became, and the more difficult the situation became in Palestine.

By the early 1900s illegal Jewish immigrants started arriving at the shores of Palestine and immediately they formed armed Jewish gangs terrorizing Palestinian citizens. In 1920, as we saw, Palestine came under British mandate and more illegal Jewish immigrants were allowed in Palestine and more gangs were formed. And in May 15, 1948, the British rule in Palestine ended and Britain handed control over to Jewish gangs who attacked Palestinian towns and massacred whole families and they massacred all the inhabitants of the town of Deir Yasin in a clear attempt at ethnic cleansing.

The Jew, Weizman, referred to the massacre as this "miraculous simplification of our task," and Ben Gurion said that "without Deir Yasin there would be no Israel." Americans are not told that ten percent of the Arabs killed by the Israelis in 1948 were Christian, and that ten percent of the Arab property confiscated belonged to Christians. Nor are they told that Israel's massacres and military actions forced 100,000 Christians to become refugees.

Accounts by Red Cross and United Nations observers who visited the scene said that the houses were first set on fire and the occupants were shot down as they came out to escape the flames. One pregnant woman had her baby cut out of her stomach with a knife. The head of the International Red Cross delegation in Palestine, Jacques de Reynier, drove into the village and was met by a detachment of Irgun terrorists. In his report of the massacre the previous night, he wrote: "All of them were young, some even adolescents, men and women armed to the teeth: revolvers, machine-guns, hand-grenades, and knives, most of them still blood-stained. A beautiful young girl with criminal eyes showed me hers (knife) still dripping with blood, she displayed it like a trophy."

For more information about the Zionist crimes, click here.

More than 54% of the Palestinian towns were destroyed by the Zionist gangs and the Israeli government in 1948 and the early 1950s. On May 15, 1948, there were more than 771 cities, towns, villages and tribal areas in Palestine. By December 1949 only 371 of these towns left standing more than 400 towns were destroyed and the civilian population were either killed by Zionist gangs and Israeli forces or they were forced to run for their lives to neighboring countries.

And If we wanted to forget about these historical facts, the Arabs still have reasons to refuse the existence of ‘Israel’. For:

• Israel is a Jew-only state, Zionists made their best to make their land empty of any other religion. More than 6 million refugees were forced to flee to the neighbour states. There is still an Arab minority and they are suffering from racial discrimination. Recently, they were banned from advertising in their language (Arabic), and Arab student is paid much less than the Jewish student. In the last war with Lebanon, Arabs inside Israel were less protected than the other Israeli citizens.

• Israel is still occupying the West Bank and still holding Gaza strip (see this video), and more than 10,000 prisoner including women, children and old people. Israel is also still occupying the Golan highs which belong to Syria and Shaba’a lands that belong to Lebanon in addition to the prisoners of Syria, Lebanon and even Jordon.
• Israel is not responding to the UN security council resolutions that demand the withdrawal of the lands that it invaded in 1967 war and to let the Palestinian refugees go back to their lands while any Jew can live in Israel with very simple steps. (see my post about the Palestinian refugees here)
• Israel is still digging under one of the holiest Islamic and Christian places, al-Aqsa mosque and the neighbouring churches, which is very afraid that it will be destroyed by these diggings.
• Israel is also building what is called ‘security fence’.  “The Apartheid Wall will be 8m high and probably 1.000km long. For comparison, China's Great Wall – the only human-made object seen from outer space – is 6.700km long, whereas the Berlin Wall was a dwarf, just 155km long and 3,6m high. Keeping silent on this gigantic project and its genocidal implications, meant to prevent any fair future settlement (not to mention the Road Map), is a moral crime, of which almost the entire Western media is guilty.” -Ran HaCohen
  This wall is not only stealing more lands, but it is also touching the everyday life of the Palestinians. Some of them can’t go to their work anymore. The olives fields of others have been destroyed in order this wall to be built. The wall requires 10 spare meters on both sides, and since this wall is built in the heart of the Palestinian territories, hundreds of homes have been destroyed.
• In addition to 200 nuclear weapons, it almost equals the nuclear power of the UK (see this video) 

So these are the reasons why Arabs do not recognize Israel, aren’t they right? Why should they recognize a state that continues to aggress on their lands and people? And what Israel should they recognize? The Israel of 1948? 1967? Or 2007? Or what? Israel does not have even a constitution, wonder why? It is just because Zionists want to steal more and more lands. A constitution needs a clear drawing of the map of the state, but they can’t just accept the 1967 borders. They want, as in the flag that has the stolen Arabic star called “David’s Star”, the big Israel, from the Nile to the Euphrates (that what the Israeli flag refers to).

How can we achieve peace? Israel is the very only one that has the key of peace. Without the real good will towards the Palestinians and the neighboring countries, I think it is hard to talk about peace.

For the recent reasons that I’ve talked about, many people have real concerns and doubts about the solution of two states, Palestine and Israel, while the solution of one state is rising among the new generations, which has worked before in places like South Africa.