Muslims have killed many Muslims

 ² Muslims have killed many Muslims

Fighting seems to be a way of life for many Arabs in the Middle East.

400,000 Syrians have killed each other in 11 years of brutal civil war that produced 12 million refugees. This is the biggest humanitarian disaster since the second world war. Unless we compare it to the 2 million deaths and missing people in 1947 when India and Pakistan became separate nations. There were 11 million refugees that were displaced from one country to the other. This was a Hindu-Muslim conflict between people who had previously lived peaceably together.

Then in 1971, West Pakistan fought East Pakistan which wanted to separate as it became Bangladesh. 10 million refugees from East Pakistan fled to India. 30 million refugees inside east Pakistan were displaced. West Pakistan president Yahya Khan wanted his military to kill 3 million of the East Pakistanis. Political scientist Rudolf Rummel estimates that the death toll was one-and-a-half million. This was more of a Muslim-Muslim conflict as the majority of people in both west and east Pakistan were Muslim.

Once again, Muslim people were fighting each other.

An eight-year war of independence, 1954 to 1962, in Algeria saw 1 million Algerians die as they fought against France to get rid of the French. But, in addition, during that same time 500,000 Algerians were slaughtered by fellow Algerians during vicious Arab-Arab betrayals and fighting amongst the different factions. All factions were Muslim.

In 1992 a civil war broke out in Algeria. By 2002 it had claimed 200,000 lives as well as 15,000 Algerians who just forcibly "disappeared". An extreme example of Arab-Arab hatred despite all of them being Muslim.

The eight-year war from 1980 - 1988 between Muslim Iraq and Muslim Iran was the longest war of the last century which left a million people dead and in the end the two armies were in exactly the same position as when the war started. A new tactic by Iran was to give their teenagers motor bikes and make them drive into minefields to explode the mines so that the soldiers could advance safely. Their logic was that teenagers were cheaper to lose than soldiers who had cost a lot of money to train. Iran and Iraq were both basically Shiite Muslims. But a shared faith did not stop the blood-letting.

Afghanistan is consistently subject to violence between different sectarian Muslim groups. When the Russians were driven out of Afghanistan, the Afghan warlords then turned their violence on each other. This allowed the Taliban to rise up, and they continue with the killing of fellow Afghans.

A full-scale civil war in Yemen saw 16,000 people killed between 2015 and 2017. Arab-Arab violence keeps exploding despite their common Muslim faith.

Egypt is full of dissension that flows over into violence.

When Muslim Ayatollah Komeini took over Iran from the Shah, some 70,000 Iranian Muslim opponents were killed.

It seems that certain Arab factions hate other Arab factions, and then wish to settle differences using violence and murder.

Thus violence is not limited to the Jews and the Palestinians.

Violence seems to be the default mode in the Middle East.

Lebanon has a mixture of sects and religious groupings. But this did not spare them a devastating civil war from 1975 - 1990 when 120,000 died and 1 million refugees left Lebanon. Today there are still 76,000 displaced persons.

For over 3,400 years, Jerusalem has been regarded as the Jewish capital by the Jews. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem (1948-1967), they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.

In the Jewish Old Testament Bible, Jerusalem is mentioned over 669 times and Zion (which usually means Jerusalem, sometimes the Land of Israel) 154 times, for a total of 823 times. The Christian New Testament mentions Jerusalem 154 times and Zion 7 times.

Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.

Jerusalem is also not mentioned in the Palestinian Covenant.

King David established the city of Jerusalem as the capital of the whole Land of Israel. Mohammed never physically came to Jerusalem. Jerusalem remained under Turkish Ottoman Empire rule from 1517 to 1917, and under British rule from 1917 to 1948. Then Jordan ruled it from 1948–1967.

So the Palestinians as such, have never ruled Jerusalem.

Most of the Arabs in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza in the West Bank of Jordan River have complete autonomy under the rule of the Palestinian Authority.