Does Israel want to destroy Iran?

Answer 1

Because that the koran (their holy book) says that Israel will never rise again and

shall never be a nation. and the islamic look and guess what they see?..yes Israel.

God's Holy Nation still standing. and the falseness of their religion keeps telling them

otherwise.. and in order to "help out their god" they want to kill or erase them out

of the map.

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Another contributor drops in to comment . . .

I've seen this so often before, and I just don't understand it:

Why in the world do you put this question in the category ?

Why not in categories devoted to Iran, Islam, Holocaust, Middle East, etc. ?

When you want to understand somebody's motives, don't you have the best chance

of getting an answer if you ask that person ? How would anyone else know ?

Especially the people they want to do it TO?

Answer 2

Answer 1

They are not yet at open war. The fighting takes two forms:

1...Iran is an aggressive and dangerous regional power, aiming its force at many states, including Israel. They are developing atomic weapons with the declared aim of 'wiping Israel from the page of history.' This is the proximate and sufficient cause of conflict.

2...Israel is responding (almost certainly with the assistance of the Iranian opposition) by sabotaging the production of fissile material and by killing the scientists directing the work.

The reason for Iran's aggressive stance is expressible in one word: religion. For centuries, Muslims have hated Jews and oppressed and exploited them almost as often as they could get away with it. Iran is a theocratic Islamic state. Hatred of and aggression against a Jewish state follows as night follows day.

Answer 2

Iran and Israel are the two major regional powers in the Middle East, however, Israel has consistently maintained the top position. This has resulted in Iran wishing to take hegemony away from Israel and become the dominant power in the Middle East. To this end, Iran has supported the Syrian Alawite Government (Bashar Al-Assad), the Terrorist/Paramilitary Organization of Hezbollah, the Terrorist/Paramilitary Organization of Hamas, and several other groups intending to weaken Israel and its position. Iran has consistently stated that it believes that Israel is a cancer and must be wiped off the face of the map (even though they make it clear that "they will not do the wiping"). Using these secondary forces to oppose Israel makes it appear like Iran is a peaceful country since Iran did not declare war on Israel, Hezbollah did or Hamas did. It gives Iran an odd deniability.

Israel has responded by killing Iranian nuclear scientists and consistently derailing Iran's nuclear program. Israel has focused its energy in defending its borders and trying to contain retaliation to its source, not the proxies. However, Israel went to war with Hezbollah in 2006 as retaliation for the kidnapping of Israeli border soldiers.

Answer 3

Answer 1

They do not want it destroyed, Muslims lived there before the war :)

It was Palestine, but when the war broke out it became Israel on the maps before the war even ended. (It hasn't ended yet.) (Edit: The prior comment is an inaccurate statement. There has never been a Palestine state in history. You will never find one on any map. The Jews have had a Jewish state on 3 occasions in this same location. Islam is 1,400 years old. Israel is over 3,000 years old. So, the UN decide to restore to Israel land that they had always owned.)

The Jews lived all across the world and wanted a country, they got their rights conquer this land by the UN and now it's being destroyed. =)

Recent documents prove that America has given a little help to make Israel a country.

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Answer 2

Aside from the false accusations that Israelis are "physically destroying the country" which they are not, as such action would require consistent bombing or pounding of the Earth, which neither the Israeli people or government have done, the answers in the Islamic World for the removal of the Jewish State (and its subsequent replacement of an Arab State) are as follows:

1) It's Not Just Holy to Jews: Since the Holy Land does not only have Jewish Holy Sites, but also has Christian and Muslim Holy Sites, there was opposition in these communities to Jews having a physical monopoly and control of these holy sites. Therefore, these communities oppose the idea of a Jewish Nation State that could do exactly that.

2) Palestinian Indigenous Rights: The indigenous Palestinians were and remain aggrieved that people from abroad would come to the land that the parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents had lived on and worked for as long as they could remember and buy that land from the Ottomans without consulting them. Moreover, these people had a particular agenda to establish a state on the land they called their own. Understandably, the Palestinians are opposed to the Zionist project for these emotional and political considerations.

3) Arab Nationalism: Arab Nationalism as a movement crystallized in the 1930s and came to the political fore in the 1960s. Arab Nationalism was a movement that sought to create an Arab State or multiple Arab States based on common cultural and historical markers. This movement began to make a tether between Arab cultural identity and Islamic religious identity. This was especially keen in places with large non-Muslim communities because those communities typically worked closely with the European colonizers seen to be repressing the Arab identity. Zionism, which was a movement based on a European cultural identity and a Jewish religious identity was antithetical to the Arab Nationalist movement ideologically and also claimed territory claimed by Arab Nationalists putting them at odds politically.

4) Islamism: Islamism, the political philosophy that Shari'a or Islamic Religious Law should be the grounds upon which a state is ruled, strenuously opposes any Western-style of government because it does not uphold Islamic moral standards (for example: gays and haram meats are permitted). Israel, as a secular, Westernized State is opposed for this reason. Israel, specifically, is also hated by Islamists for two reasons unique to Israel. The first is that the Jews are the ones in power. In the Islamist conception, only Muslims should be in power in the State and any non-Muslim minorities should have a secondary role if they should have one at all. Second, Israel is situated in territory which used to be governed by Muslims for nearly 1300 years (with a century-long break under the Crusader States). As a result, Israel is considered a usurpation of historical Islamic authority whereas European countries (for example) never had Islamic authority before.

It is worth noting that not all Muslims are opposed to the State of Israel and there are several Islamic arguments in favor of the State of Israel, such as those advocated by Sheikh Hadi Palazzi, Irshad Manji, and Tawfik Hamid. None of these individuals, though, is an Islamist. Of the Muslims who oppose the State of Israel, not all of them are Islamist either, many are Arab Nationalists or have no general political affiliation and oppose the State of Israel for one of the many other reasons listed here. Finally, Islam/Muslim/Islamic is the religion and Islamism/Islamist is the political philosophy; the two are different.

5) Anti-Semitism: This should be self-evident. The Logic goes thus: Anti-Semites oppose any Jewish aspiration to freedom and/or power. Zionism promotes Self-Determination for the Jewish people which is an aspiration to freedom and power. Therefore, Anti-Semites oppose Zionism and Anti-Semitism is quite common in the Muslim World.

6) Anti-Colonialism: While Arab Nationalism was an anti-colonial movement, the general principles of the anti-colonialism led to a rejection of States based on European values in non-European locations with a large number of non-European (ethnically speaking) inhabitants. This sentiment was felt most strongly towards (South) Rhodesia, South Africa, and what would become Israel. Anti-colonialists believed that Asians and Africans had the right to Self-Determination pursuant to their cultures. However, Rhodesian and South African institutions could eventually convert to being African nations (in the true sense of the term) because their racist infrastructure could be reformed. Zionism is by default a government by the Jews and would cease to be Zionist if the Jews were taken out of the leadership position. Thus Zionism catches the ire of anti-colonialists, many of whom are Muslims.

7) Political Antagonism: If State A has a lot of wars with State B, State A and B will develop a mutual animosity towards each other and their raisons d'être. There are a number of politically independent or partially independent Peoples and States that came into conflict with the Halutzim (Jewish Pioneers in the British Mandate of Palestine), the Haganah et al. (Jewish Militias), and Tzahal (the Israeli Army). The vast majority of these states and belligerents were religiously identified as Muslim, fostering this antagonistic relationship.

8) Anti-Nationalism: In today's world, as things trend more to globalization, cultural diffusion, and mixed ethnicities in major districts, the Zionist model of a Nation-State dedicated to one race or religion seems anachronistic. Germany, founded on the same model, now has the issue of integrating Turks (and their children) into the German state, but since Germans always lived in Germany and constituted a majority there, as opposed to being a reorganized Diaspora, nobody suggests that Germans should "return" to a more cosmopolitan type of existence. This is, however, oftentimes suggested by Anti-Nationalists and Post-Nationalists concerning the Jews and their State.

Answer 4

(October 2015) Yes, and they proclaim this explicitly and publicly.

Israel is portrayed as an evil country by some of the media, by many U.N. and E.U. statements, and by much of the Arab and Muslim world.This despite the fact that Israel has better human-rights than any other country in the region (click on the blue text for details).

Israel has been boycotted for decades, and its citizens have suffered from the conflict, yet it continues to be optimistic and it enjoys God's protection.

The presence of the Jews in Israel is questioned by some, despite the Jews' history in and from Israel, and despite God's clear words bestowing Israel to them. Words which are recognized by Islam as well.

Those who condemn Israel for its side in the conflict, fail to condemn the actions of Israel's enemies, no matter how heinous.

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Answer 5

Iran is not at war with Israel, but on many occasions, has announced

its intention to be, sooner or later.

Answer 6

I think not; however, Israel is determined that Iran not have nuclear weapons.