Israel's war crimes, UAE ties & possible solutions? (full context) | Mufti Abu Layth

so we've got uh right something a bit more uh unfortunately dark and unfortunate that uh what israel has been doing for almost you know the most part of two weeks now it's been bombing dropping uh crazy bombs on gaza um not many people as you can see there speaking about it uh but amidst all of that you have got um if i we've got something uh that a lot of people have been speaking about

and that is the uae and the israel deal which has been brokered recently to recognize israel and with it you will see if i can just bring up here uh right just one moment right uh trump is expecting ksa i don't know if that's true but he's expecting ksa to sign up to that deal as well pretty soon kingdom of saudi arabia that is so whether they will or not allah that's just

to so what is going on here what are my thoughts about this so first and foremost my doors heartfelt to ours my thoughts go out to all those people who've been unfortunately who have suffered the lot first of all the loss of life or the loss of loved ones or just harm and injury as a result of what's been going on in the past two weeks so you know may allah make things easy

right as far as the uae thing is concerned a lot of people have been messaging me as well of the you know you speak about this what are your thoughts yeah i mean first of all i just want to say about people are going at sheikh abdullah binbaya and they're going at hamza yusuf i do think that's a bit unfair to be honest i think that's not not a bit that is i do think it's unfair um because i don't think in all honesty the the kind of king the ruler of

uae really gives a crap i don't really think he even cares about what sheikh abdullah bin bayer has to say about anything whether he may pretend on certain things but they don't really care i don't think they they will just have people you know hold a council on something and i did hear that this is what i've heard from sources close to sheikh abdullah binbaya that sheikh abdullah wasn't actually pleased about the treaty but he had just agreed in saying that when the king has passed a ruling

then that king's ruling so the uh the uae his ruling is to be honored um not that he was happy with what the kind of details were in fact this is what i've heard allahu alam 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 youssef 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 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 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 setting off these incendiary kind of like balloons helium balloons that kind of go on 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 a 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 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 hmm 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 and any fire that so these balloons helium balloons which come and you know they're coming the 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

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 don't 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 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 p's you know if you're going to be honest 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 languages the proverb is what 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 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 gonna happen

um i then would argue 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 uh relocated and comfortably with compensation and accommodation and education paid for

in different parts of the arab world 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 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 and 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 that you guys have to stay there and you have to put up with these because

this is the holy land you're defending 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 will 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 you came in with money and it was brokered 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 [Music] as opposed to saying oh you know it's like so jordan and these other countries are glad that there is this buffer zone so there's a lot of politics going on here people but i honestly feel that and even this whole thing i know that's my people won't agree with me on the whole jerusalem thing but to me jerusalem was never that sacred anyway from an islamic viewpoint it was something the the real

glorification like it was there as i've mentioned before it was there uh it was associated with prior prophets but it wasn't seen as this mega the way it seemed today and the glorification of jerusalem began with abdul malik the caliph who who creates this rival city to makkah and medina to kind of especially to makkah not to medina but to distract people from um up to leibniz obeyed and to allow them to come to a pilgrimage in the rock you know dome of the rock so this um and then ever since people have you

know they've added stuff and added stuff and then it's become this really holy site but even if look let's say let's go with the argument i know people ain't going to agree with me on that and i've i've never believed that was muslim al-aqsa anyway muslim in my understanding would have been the farthest point would have been in the heavens because al-aqsa the farthest point is not jerusalem why is that the farthest point on earth so the al-aqsa would have been in the heavens in my understanding but even if you take it let's say you take the fact that jerusalem is a really holy site in islam let's

just say it's not holy as a you don't have to do a pilgrimage there and to be honest no matter how holy it is to us it's arguably that area is more holy and more sacred to the jewish people so if they took it they're only going to take care of it they're not going to you know they're not going to go around turning that area into a toilet or doing something like that remember it's sacred territory for them as well in fact i would feel it's more sacred for them so even though it's a different religion but tkr you know it doesn't it's only

bricks and mortar you know it's not it's not life more valuable it's you know allah didn't send us on this earth just to preserve some bricks preservation of life trumps all and at the end of the day look they they just want to set up a temple if they want to set up the temple and they take over and they won't be killing people and it's what dedicated to the israeli prophets who by the way are all in the quran so okay but we have to just accept that this battle is this war is lost there's no point fighting a lost war

because it's just what is really tragic is the amount of people dying and muslim and i think even though muslims are making a big deal about that which is rightly so but they don't seem to be making a big deal about like they seem to be glossing over the fact that wait a minute why are we we guilt-tripping these people to put up with it we should be life comes before place like if you had if you had the choice to save a life or the kaaba the hadith teaches you that

if the hadith says a muslim not even his life his honor is much more important than the entire kaaba being destroyed rebuilt destroyed rebuilt destroyed rebuilt destroyed goes up to seven times the honor of a muslim it says here you've got entire hundreds thousands lives being killed blood being shed and people you know yeah they're upset about it but they're like yeah but the holy land what the hell is the holy land yeah what is this holy land you know the holy land the holy land we

need to realize that look human life comes first these people who are tyrants are not gonna back off so you you know what does allah say in the quran the prophet said that the whole earth is a sacred place for for us to to bow down we don't need jerusalem so i feel that look we it's we need to this is my understanding that we need to know when a fight is lost that this against israel is lost and you need to you know you need to just we need to kind of like just accept that

and and realize that these tyrants israel is a tyrant terrorist state it is not going to back down it is going to butcher a missile children so and there needs to be some kind of this needs to stop but how do people stop it they're never gonna it doesn't seem like they're gonna stop so this is my suggestion but you see the irony is i bet you people all of a sudden wouldn't care about the palestinians because they were they only care about them so long as they're in palestine they wouldn't care about them if oh yeah let's get them relocated and living in a another place in another nice city

somewhere they wouldn't all of a sudden all of a sudden that care would just go away you'd be like stay in palestine and die ah that's my thoughts on it mine i don't know um and i'm very look and this is not and you can rewind and watch what i've just said in case you've missed it i'm not saying i'm being very clear that israel is is it being a terrorist state that's what it's doing but we have to realize like if there's a person here and you know it's look i

i did a while back i did uh escrima yeah which was uh it was stick knife sword kind of fighting but there was an emphasis on stick and knife but i remember the teacher he told us look there's a simple rule in life he said like if you ever confronted with a knife right he said look the first thing don't look he said that listen to this the first thing is run do not it's not look you have to realize that there's certain things that are not

they're not it's it's not it's a handicapped thing it's too easy to be stopped he said however if that's not an option that's where this skill comes in to try and defend to try and block to try and turn the attack but by the first means is you're not an equal option here don't try and punch the person and do like if you can get away that's because if a person a similar if person has a gun obviously now he's going to shoot he'll have to do some zigzags but the point is so actually if they've got a gun i think it's better to fight them

i would actually charge them if they had a gun but i would run if they had a knife so the the point is that look you've you've got to understand that this these people are not going to back down and they're going to butcher relentlessly and mercilessly so i would say that yeah so i hope that doesn't upset certain people but yeah but this uae thing i don't think it's done jack okay i don't think he's broken any piece and i do think that the king of uae is just doing it to kind of he just got his own deal maybe israel's

paying him a bunch of you know you must definitely be getting a huge whack for doing that maybe america said to them look if you do this we'll broker a deal with you so there must be so many backhanders going on with that and i think it's unfair to put the sh the the price of that on the shoulders of sheikh abdullah bin bay and sheikh hamza yusuf because i don't think they really had any hamza yusuf i don't think had anything to do with themselves even though he does kind of like sign off for the king and stuff like that but then you know he's kind of stuck as well you know you got to be honest it's not

like i don't think he would be happy with that uh and now i've heard from my sources that he's not happy with the decision either cool right all right let's uh mufti what about the kashmir issue yeah i feel that look the kashmir issue similarly if that is an option um if it is an option that they were to relocate them all then fine you know but then personally i would say that it's slightly different i would see some differences

because you see the difference with the kashmir issue is it's a heavily militarized zone it's not a um it's not exactly like for like because what you have is in gaza it's not a militarized zone it's just a cut off kind of prison which they just keep bombarding in kashmir it's more that there's a military an overkill military presence who then just by their very existence will torment the the the kind of residents because they see them as different so the question here is india

wouldn't really in my understanding ever be up for as far as i'm aware to kind of relocate all those kind of people comfortably i don't think they ever would because india is indian government is like a cheap government they would never consider that yeah they might just kick the man tell them get lost they'd be happy to do that but i wasn't saying that for the palestinians just tell them get lost i was saying that i'm pretty sure they could broker a deal where they would happily pay because i'm sure they would be happy to pay so yeah but ideally for the kashmir issue i would see this is what i ideally opt for is that

kashmir could just become independent um so as in not part of pakistan not part of india just independent that i think would be the solution um and i think um i think it could be done if what they did is in the kashmir issue they you see a certain part of kashmir maybe not all of it certain part of it they gave it independence now whoever wants to be a part of that could then move to that part it could work like that i think because they would never give up the

whole of it because then it would make pakistan too vulnerable because obviously if they gave up the whole of kashmir um if pakistan gave it pakistan would never give it up because then it would be a problem to it'd be too close to islamabad and if it got infiltrated by india they would be too close so if they kept maintained buffers and just gave a certain region like the valley and certain parts they made that independent and some other parts i'm not too you know whatever they can but these things would never happen but i wish they would right