Of course, if conservatives can justify the Crusades as a counter-attack against the Muslim conquest that happened some four hundred years earlier, can't Muslims justify war on Israel as a counter-attack against the Jewish invasion and conquest?
Admitting from the outset what is highly questionable, that these long struggles really were wars undertaken in obedience to God.
Anyway, one assumes the Muslim position - if they were interested in appealing to principles they and the Christians could consistently agree upon, which they are not - would have to be that after a few centuries those who were invaders become lawful or anyway morally rightful occupants, so that efforts to reconquer are themselves righteous only before that length of time has elapsed.
And that very nearly immediate counter-attack continuously kept up for as long as it takes thereafter is righteous.
Of course, the whole question of Israel is ordinarily seen by pro-Arabs in the secular and 20th Century context of colonialism and national liberation.
But never mind.
All this blather is not about getting God on one's side, but justice, decency, humanity, and moral righteousness.
What we secular moderns have instead of God's will.
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