# What is the solution for the Palestinians in Gaza? *Israel is here to stay: a proposal to relocate Gaza's Palestinians* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/26/ - Date: 2020-08-24 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #179 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:49:16–1:54:29) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=6556s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/ **Topics:** Palestine and Gaza **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth accepts Israel is here to stay and, seeing no two-state solution, argues for Gaza's Palestinians to be relocated with compensation across the Arab world. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says he would argue for the Palestinians of Gaza and the blockaded areas to be relocated comfortably, with compensation, to different parts of the Arab world. **Evidence, his words at 1:51:12:** “now i feel that they should be relocated and comfortably with compensation and accommodation and education paid for in different parts of the arab world” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmtt2TQAO0&t=6672s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says a hard truth is that Israel is here to stay and Muslims have to accept it. He says the ideal would be a two-state solution, but thinks Israel would never accept it, so he would argue for the Palestinians of Gaza and the blockaded areas to leave, facilitated with compensation, accommodation and education, spread across the Arab world rather than in ghettos. To the objection that Arab countries would not take them, he says they would not take refugees but would accept people arriving with money under a brokered deal, which Israel might even pay for. He says Muslims guilt-trip Palestinians into staying to defend the holy land, and that Arab states like Jordan prefer Palestine as a buffer zone. ## Sources and names cited - two-state solution ## Transcript (machine tier, 1:49:16–1:54:29) [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 [1:49:53] languages the proverbial in this case to to you know to to kind of like we have to bite the bullet and take the dagger and we have to just accept that it is what it is you see israel is not going to go away and it is established and it is the so now the question is how do you move forward so i would argue that um i would actually say i know nobody would accept this because i would say the ideal thing would be to have then a two-state solution which i think would never [1:50:32] happen because israel in its state of mind would never accept it because they know the moment we accept that they will just oh the assumption sorry not that they know the assumption is if we give them a state where they can fly in fly out do whatever they want they will just set up so much armory and then they'll just attack us so we're never going to let that happen so that's one thing the other thing is that so ideally it ought to become two-state solution but i feel that that's never going to happen i then would argue [1:51:12] for a complete exile of all palestinians i would say that all palestinians should leave palestine and it should be facilitated for them sorry by palestine i mean the gaza strip and and the parts that are um kind of blocked in clearly by israel now i feel that they should be relocated and comfortably with compensation and accommodation and education paid for in different parts of the arab world [1:51:51] arabic speaking world so acclimatizing is not difficult for them and they shouldn't be set up as ghettos or clusters but kind of spread out and there's many arab countries in the world and i'm sure that that could even happen and israel probably would even be happy to pay for it because the amount of money it spends on even bombing them is these things don't come cheap so but the problem with this thought that or this kind of a solution is one people people will coward shame the palestinians you see [1:52:30] you know the way people do things like they shame one another you hear things like they i think i was discussing the other day where people will kind of shame sometimes men shaming men women shaming women there's this kind of thing of like oh you so you have these terms sometimes like [ __ ] shaming and this kind of stuff muslims do that to palestinians muslims do it what they do is they guilt-trip them like you guys have to stay there and you have to put up with these because this is the holy land you're defending [1:53:09] some somebody said like arab countries wouldn't even take them but this is what i'm saying if there was a deal to not as refugees see they won't take refugees but if they came in at a level like if if you had a middle class kind of and they were spread out spread thin so you don't create ghettos you so if if you if you had a middle-class apartment fully paid for in in in another city like let's say in tunis somewhere some and you've got compensation you've got money in the bank you can just move right in and continue to live a lifestyle like that countries would accept you if [1:53:49] you came in with money and it was broken as a deal they won't accept you as a refugee because you're just a burden to them so yeah but coming back to my point that muslims guilt trip these palestinians secondly there's a lot of politics you know there's arab countries are happy that palestine is between them and israel because it creates a buffer zone because if israel was to just take over that completely then they would be the next target for israel so they would rather that the next guy is getting beaten up and they're just at a safe distance saying ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment KWmtt2TQAO0/s/26. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/kwmtt2tqao0/s/26/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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