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As far as I am aware, Mohammed said little on the subject of a Jewish homeland or Jewish control of what was then termed Palaestina and is now Israel/Palestine. When he died Islam had not yet conquered the Levant and it would have to wait until the Caliphate of Omar for the territory to come under Muslim control. With the exception of a few Jewish tribes that ended up opposite of Mohammed during his wars in Arabia, most Jews received Islam well and thought kindly of their conquerors (since they were less barbaric than their former masters).

Since there was no aspiration of Jewish Nationalism since the failure of the Bar Kochba Revolts nearly 500 years earlier, the idea of a Jewish Nationaist Revolt that could upset Islamic expansion was also unrealistic and did not need addressing. However, several Qur'anic verses recall the Promise made by God to the Jewish people concerning Israel such as Qur'an 5:20-21 and it would stand to reason that Mohammed may even have endorsed an autonomous Jewish territory within the future Islamic Caliphate in accordance with God's will. (Of course, it may also have been that his fury with Banu Qurayza may have left him unwilling to concede power to Jews again, but this is all guesswork.)

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