# Will the UAE-Israel deal bring peace to Palestine? *Israel's conduct at state level, and a deal that brought no peace* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/25/ - Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:45:40–1:49:16) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=6340s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/ **Topics:** Palestine and Gaza **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says the UAE deal is not a solution, since it has brought no peace while Israel, acting as a terrorist state, keeps bombing Gaza. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think the UAE deal is a solution, because it clearly has not brought any peace. **Evidence, his words at 1:48:37:** “but yeah i don't think the uae thing is a solution i don't think so because it clearly hasn't broken any peace” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=6517s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says that at a state level Israel acts as a terrorist and has committed war crimes, stressing that this is not antisemitism and that he is not against Jewish people, and cites the UN, Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein on its treatment of Palestinians. He says the UAE claims the deal will broker peace, yet since it was signed there have been almost two weeks of bombardment. He describes Israel's new policy of treating any incendiary device, such as the helium balloons Hamas is said to send, as a rocket to be answered with a missile, and calls it absurd. He says he cannot imagine how Palestinians still function and that the UAE deal is not a solution. ## Sources and names cited - the UAE-Israel normalisation deal (2020) - Noam Chomsky - Norman Finkelstein - Hamas - the United Nations ## Transcript (machine tier, 1:45:40–1:49:16) [1:45:02] is what i've heard allahu allah i don't know whatever i've just heard this but i do think okay with putting that aside i do think look the king doesn't really care these people don't care about what ulama or scholars or whatever and i don't think hamza yusuf had anything to do with it at all so i think just dragging his name into it i don't think is fair this is just my opinion as far as this actual ruling what what do i think about it well look oh look it's israel is not go right okay israel [1:45:39] is a at a state level it is a terrorist at a state level okay this is not anti-semitism i'm not against jewish people um i you know i'm not against people whatever ethnicity they are the truth is at a state level it has committed war crimes and this is something the un are aware of this is something people have written about many people have written about this norm chomsky so many other academics have written uh finkelstein so many people have highlighted the atrocities [1:46:17] that the state of israel has conducted against uh vulnerable really for the most part very vulnerable palestinians so i don't think this is going to really do anything like i understand the uae's proposal is that by presenting this we can broker some peace in the region but in all honesty if you look at since this deal has been signed what peace has there been you know there's been like almost two weeks just bombardment uh okay they claim that hamas has been [1:46:54] setting off these incendiary kind of like balloons helium balloons that kind of go and catch fire somewhere and and they said we're gonna fire we've now got a policy that any fire is to be treated as a rocket so we will retaliate with by any incendiary device like if you send anything with the fire over here like let's say technically it could be like okay petrol bomb if i chuck a petrol bomb let's say uh into israel if the palestinians did then that is technically to be treated any fire is to be treated as a missile [1:47:32] so what that means is this projectile this is a missile a flying kind of fire so it will be retaliated with a missile you know sorry it's not funny but it's the crazy absurdity that makes one kind of like laugh in just confusion of what the other person is saying here like you're like um like what are you actually just saying like did you do you hear yourself like you're saying well missile is this a projectile it's something that comes flying [1:48:11] and any fire that so these balloons helium balloons which come and you know they're coming they're incendiary so they cause fire so it will now be treated as a missile and we will retaliate with a a state you know state-of-the-art actual missile uh highly destructive i mean [1:48:37] and it is it is just a shame for the sheer loss of life and i don't know how the palestinians function honestly i can't even imagine i can't i would be lying if i said i could even imagine how they actually still function because i as a person i would assume one would just have given up on everything but yeah i don't think the uae thing is a solution i don't think so because it clearly hasn't broken any peace you know if you're going to be honest [1:49:15] it hasn't broken anything no peace has happened and i don't really think it matters but the truth is we there does need to be a solution that is true as well another very hard truth is that israel is here to stay i think we as muslims have to accept that that israel is here to stay and as unfortunate as it is and as you know it's like like they say you know put a stone on your heart in certain ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment KWmtt2TQAO0/s/25. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/25/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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