The Islamic Story with Israel

When you look at the Israeli story, the break is recent, as I wrote yesterday. With the Arab side, this has a far longer story. So let’s start at the beginning. The first thing you need to understand is that this is a religious conflict. And it goes all the way to Mohammad. And the Quran is quite explicit about where Jews belong. However, this is not well known for multiple reasons:

In multiple verses, the Quran affirms that the land extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea was divinely designated as a covenantal inheritance for Bani Israel — the Children of Israel — descendants of Isaac and Jacob within the Abrahamic lineage.

Jerusalem emerges within this framework as the historical and covenantal capital of that land, inseparable from Israelite inheritance. This designation is rooted in scripture, not modern politics, and predates all contemporary territorial disputes.

These Quranic declarations were articulated more than 1,400 years ago — long before modern geopolitics, militant ideologies, and institutionalized narratives reshaped the discourse surrounding Jerusalem. Over time, selective interpretation, political instrumentalization, and organized hostility toward Jewish sovereignty obscured clear Quranic guidance on covenantal lineage and land inheritance. This distortion has influenced international forums, including the United Nations and parts of the Islamic world, where theological claims are often advanced without grounding in the Quran itself. This doctrine seeks to restore that…