Pray tell, when will the Israelis put their occupation of the Holy Land to an end? The daily news on the surge in torture and killing of innocent Palestinians that we forced to watch are just ample evidence of the Israelis’ violation to human rights and values. They are imbued with the vision of establishing a recognized Israeli state, at the expense of whatever these may have cost.

The ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel involving historical, political, and religious factors is a salient issue that constantly needs to be brought to the fore, talked about, and the likes. Palestine, apart from knowing it as one of the Arab countries, needs to be seen as a place where peace is defined and sacredness of performing religious rituals of the ancient monotheist traditions (Islam, Judaism, Christianity) is preserved. While the Israeli forces refuse to cease their retaliatory attacks even after being continuously urged by some world powers, recently by Arab rulers, they still insist on conquering the state.

Therefore, I would like to rather shed light on another rarely-told point of view, which I address it ‘crime committed by Israel today against one of the prophets, namely Jacob’. Revisiting his biography, we would certainly made explained that Jacob’s title was ‘Israel’ which comprises of two Hebrew words: Isra (slave) and El (Allah), that the title has its completely semantic equivalence to the name Abdullah in Arabic, who is the father of the seal of all the prophets, Muhammad. Thus, the extremely noble title bestowed upon suggests that the prophet, by what he is called, has reached the peak of the most purest devotion to Allah, that all of his actions are directed to only what pleases Him, and that he will not even think of disobeying Him. Such a duly reverence then is supposed to be passed down to the successor or children of Jacob, known as Bani Israel in Arabic. It is also worth noting that the syntactical relationship embedded in the possessive phrase ‘Children of Israel’ is not only limited to its mere function of making such phrase as consisting of a possessed (Children) and a possessor (Israel), but at the same time it indicates that these children should, in turn, possess their father’s or predecessor’s piety.