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Jews therefore have the right to live freely in these lands, but that
right also applies to Muslims, and of course Christians, who have also
lived in them for hundreds of years and believe in the sacred character
of the region. These blessed lands are sufficiently broad, lovely and fer-
tile for all faiths and communities to live together in peace. The right to
life of one does not disqualify others from enjoying the same right.
Therefore, it is the "irreligious, Godless Zionism" that we condemn
and regard as a threat to all mankind. These atheist Zionists, who do
not defend the existence and oneness of Allah, but, on the contrary, en-
courage a Darwinist, materialist perspective and thus engage in irreli-
gious propaganda, are also a threat to devout Jews and devout
Christians. Atheistic Zionism is today engaged in a struggle against
peace, security and moral virtue, and constantly produces strife and
confusion and the shedding of blood. Muslims and devout Jews and
Christians must join forces to oppose this Godless Zionism and encour-
age belief in Allah.
Relations between sincere and devout Jews and Muslims must
exist within a framework of affection, respect and compassion. That is
because this is the moral values and behavior that Allah reveals to
Muslims in the Noble Qur'an and that the Prophet (saas) shows us
through his own life.

The Exiling of the Palestinian People
In the early 1900s, Jews constituted less than 10 percent of the pop-
ulation of Palestine. The number of Jewish migrants, 100,000 in the
1920s, reached 232,000 in the 1930s according to official figures. By 1939
there were 445,000 Jews out of a total population of 1.5 million. From
representing 10 percent of the population just two decades before, they
now constituted 30 percent by 1939. Jewish settlement areas were also
expanded in line with the rise in population. By 1939 the land owned by
Jews had doubled in comparison to the 1920s. By 1947, there were
630,000 Jews in Palestine and 1.3 million Palestinians. Between the par-
titioning of Palestine by the United Nations on November 29, 1947 and