The Intellectual Dimensions of the Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Middle East: A Biblical Perspective

Abstract

    Conflict is a powerful idea in existence through which man seeks to justify his actions towards himself and others. Anyone who has insight into Jewish theological texts will find many of them working to justify criminal acts through belief in ideas that have no real connection to the teachings brought by Moses (peace be upon him). They represented human efforts that created a clear intellectual rift in the mind of the Jewish individual, who was raised and educated in a radical way with an aggressive outlook towards Mesopotamia as a result of the emotional charge of what is known as the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, carried out by Nebuchadnezzar. This worked to falsify Jewish theological visions and replace them with an aggressive outlook that works to reject and hate the people of this geographical area with all their intellectual and ideological affiliations. Like the Torah and the Talmud, they are a fundamental source of ideas that the individual grew up with and his ideas were ideologized, after the Zionist fundamentalist policy employed the connotations and meanings of those texts and translated them into reality. The statement of the current Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, when he said (We are the children of light and they are the children of darkness), aroused a similarity in describing the conflict between Arabs and Jews inside and outside the Zionist entity according to the prophecy of Isaiah, who is one of the prophets of the Jews according to the writings of the Old Testament.