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        <title>Middle East — Christian Debate</title>
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        <title>Alleged occupation of the Holy Land by Israel</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Let me pick up another thread, where there was a comment about Israel's occupation of the land of Palestine.</p>

<p>I don't think that there is an occupation. The Jews have taken back rightful possession of their land.</p>

<p>Proof from the Old Testament, New Testament and the Qur'an.</p>

<p>Men—brothers and fathers—listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, and said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your relatives and come to the land that I will show you.’ Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, he caused him to move to this land in which you now live. And he did not give him an inheritance in it—not even a footstep—and he promised to give it to him for his possession, and to his descendants after him, although he did not have a child. Acts 7:2-5</p>

<p>When Abram was ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, “I am El-Shaddai; walk before me and be blameless so that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you exceedingly. And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land in which you are living as an alien, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting property. And I will be to them as God.” Genesis 17:1-2 and 8</p>

<p>Remember Moses said to his people: “O my people! Call in remembrance the favour of Allah unto you, when He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave you what He had not given to any other among the peoples. “O my people! Enter the holy land which Allah hath assigned unto you, and turn not back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin.” Surah 5:20-21</p>

<p>Among Muslims, it might not be the common interpretation, but it is in fact the interpretation of a small minority, and the Quranic text is pretty much straightforward on the question.</p>

<p><span data-youtube="youtube-EweR3yxy6gY?autoplay=1"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EweR3yxy6gY"><img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/EweR3yxy6gY/0.jpg" width="640" height="385" border="0" alt="image" /></a></span></p>

<p>So where does the view come from that Israel would be an occupying force, if not from Jihadists who want to exterminate Israel from the map?</p>
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