# What does Mufti Abu Layth think should happen to the Palestinians in Gaza? *Israel is here to stay: a two-state solution that will not happen, and a proposal to relocate Palestinians* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/m6r6pnmtg0w/s/3/ - Date: 2021-05-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Israel's war crimes, UAE ties & possible solutions? (full context) | Mufti Abu Layth (7:57–13:14) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6R6PNmTG0w&t=477s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/m6r6pnmtg0w/ **Topics:** Palestine and Gaza; Middle East and the wider world **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Since Israel is here to stay and a two-state solution will not happen, Mufti Abu Layth proposes relocating the Palestinians of Gaza and the blockaded areas across the Arab world with compensation, housing and education, spread out rather than in ghettos. He says Muslims guilt-trip Palestinians into staying and Arab states value them as a buffer zone. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth holds that Israel is here to stay, that a two-state solution would be ideal but will never happen, and that the Palestinians of Gaza and the blockaded areas should instead be relocated with compensation, housing and education across the Arab world rather than guilt-tripped into staying. **Evidence, his words at 9:39:** “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” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6R6PNmTG0w&t=579s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says a hard truth is that Israel is here to stay, which Muslims must accept and bite the bullet on, so the question is how to move forward. Ideally there would be a two-state solution, but he believes Israel will never accept it, assuming that a Palestinian state would arm itself and attack. He then argues for a complete exit of the Palestinians from Gaza and the areas blocked in by Israel, relocated comfortably with compensation, accommodation and education paid for, spread across the Arabic-speaking world rather than in ghettos, and says Israel might even be happy to pay given what its bombing costs. He sees two obstacles. First, Muslims coward-shame and guilt-trip Palestinians into staying and suffering because it is the holy land; he says people object that Arab countries would not take them, but countries refuse refugees because they are a burden, whereas people arriving with a paid-for apartment and money in the bank under a brokered deal would be accepted. Second, there is politics: Arab countries such as Jordan are glad Palestine sits between them and Israel as a buffer zone, preferring that the next man be beaten up while they watch from a safe distance. ## Transcript (machine tier, 7:57–13:14) [7:45] 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 [8:25] 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 [9:03] 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 [9:39] 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 [10:18] 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 [10:58] 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 [11:37] 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 [12:16] 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 [12:55] 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 ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment M6R6PNmTG0w/s/3. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/m6r6pnmtg0w/s/3/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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