The document discusses the emerging of a potential future Islamic Empire that could cover much of the Old World by the middle of the century. It presents a map showing the expected borders, with Israel located near the center. Several assumptions and factors are listed as a basis for predicting the rise of such an empire, including the human urge to form large organized states, the growth rate of the Muslim population, and the central role of religion in human existence. The author argues that humans should be defined as "Homo Religioso" rather than "Homo Sapiens" due to our inherent need to believe. Preparing for the emergence of an Islamic Empire is presented as important for Israel's future security and existence.
1. Zvi Sever, Ph.D
Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Indianapolis, USA
P.O.B. 39671, Tel-Aviv 61396, Israel, SEV@NETVISION.NET.IL
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The Emerging of Islamic Empire
The expected borders of
The Coming Islamic Empire
ISRAEL
Copyright 2006 by Zvi Sever
Hebrew version: December 2006
English version: July 2008
Tel-Aviv, Israel, July 2008
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2. Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................... 3
The Emerging of Islamic Empire .................................................................................... 4
Main topics and the map ................................................................................................. 4
A comment on the map of the Islamic empire................................................................ 5
The history of the Empire phenomena............................................................................ 6
Base assumptions in presenting the emerging of Islamic Empire .................................. 7
List of assumptions that deals with the existence and creation of the Empire â
Organization and management of the population ....................................................... 7
The analysis method used to define the borders of the Islamic Emerging Empire..... 7
List of assumptions that deal with the centrality of the religion believes in the
existence of the human beings. ................................................................................... 8
The affiliation of the modern human with 4 entities................................................. 10
Additional thoughts about the Emerging Islamic Empire .......................................... 12
The state of Israel as an answer to the emerging Islamic Empire................................. 12
Terror as an ingredient in the emerging of the Islam Empire ....................................... 12
Violence as a developmental stage â or â The Islamic terror? It is just a matter of
growing up, it will pass............................................................................................. 12
The advancement of Gifted Iranian children and the possibility of the development
of ânuclear suicide beltâ............................................................................................ 13
The affinity of the state of Israel to the Christian world in the Islamic Empire age..... 14
The pushing out of Christianity from the Old World ............................................... 14
The characteristics of the Christians in Israel during the age of the Islamic Empire 15
Israel as a Christian Democratic Out Sourcing of the USA...................................... 15
The coming into power of Islam via Democracy.......................................................... 16
The attitude to the Islam â A request from the USA and a remark to Israel ................ 17
Culture and Religion war .............................................................................................. 17
Preparation for the Emerging Islamic Empire. ........................................................... 19
A suggestion â The preparation of the State of Israel to the process of Islamic Empire
Emergence..................................................................................................................... 19
The four main reasons why Israel might not prepare for the emerging Empire ....... 20
The need to organize the old world to the process of Islamic Empire Emergence....... 21
The inclusion of the USA in the attempt to prevent a wide Islamic Empire ................ 22
Part of the ârange of activitiesâ that will be required during the preparation process.. 22
Epilogue ........................................................................................................................... 23
Words of Thanks............................................................................................................. 23
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3. Introduction
About four months following the assassination of the Israel Prime Minister âYitzhak
Rabin (November 1995), I submitted to Mr. Shimon Peres, his replacement in the post of
Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, a short document (a page and a quarter), in
which I asserted that a regional Islamic process might be underway, and we, the citizens
of Israel, must be prepared for such a process. In 2000, I gave to Major-General (Ret.)
Uzi Dayan â in his capacity as Head of the National Security Council, a document titled
âPreparation for existing in parallel with an Islamic Kingdomâ. I than waited for an
additional opportunity, and it arrived when Lt.-Gen (Ret.) Shaul Mofaz, with whom I
have been acquainted in several commando operations in Syria1, was appointed Minister
of Defense. In November 2003 I gave him a presentation2 about the huge area of the
empire and the need to be prepared for such a development.
For various reasons, I have not succeeded in setting the responsible national bodies in
motion in order to prepare for the possibility of an Islamic Empire coming into existence.
For us â the State of Israel â such a possibility is highly meaningful, and could constitute
a danger to our existence as the State of the Jewish nation.
This booklet aims to present the reader with some of the topics related to the predicted
coming into existence of the Islamic Empire, in the hope that following the reading of
this booklet, many will find a way to become involved in the process of preparation for
the incipient empire, which will cover most of the âOld World" (Europe, Asia, Africa and
Oceana â see map on next page).
Should a public discussion ensue in Israel, Europe or even in the âNew Worldâ, I will
feel that I have been rewarded for presenting my ideas in public. My hopes are, that
above all, real active processes will emerge âsome of which are presented in this booklet,
in preparation for these events.
Since 1987, when I was an Operations Officer, at the special units headquarters, I read
certain documents, articles and many books that deal with Islam, regional security, etc. In
order to ensure accessibility for this booklet's readers, to the âcentral messageâ â âAn
Islamic Empire will exist, but it is possible to prepare and continue to exist as a Jewish
State in the heart of this empireâ, I have chosen not to quote sources, unlike in scientific
writing. There are many resources available on this topic, and all readers can reach them.
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Sever, Z. (editor) 2005. The paratrooper Commando Unit â 30 years following the operations in the
October 1973 War. 41 pages, approved for publication by the military censorship in January 2006.
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Sever, Z. 2003. The Islamic Empire coming into being, a presentation, 22 pages
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4. The Emerging of Islamic Empire
Main topics and the map
According to my perception, by the middle of the present century, an Empire will come
into existence, bigger than anything that existed in the past human history â the Islamic
Empire that will cover most of the Old World, from Western Europe up to North and East
Mongolia and down to South-East Oceana and South-West Africa.
Map: The limits of the incipient Islamic Empire and the location of Israel almost in the
middle.
Map of Islam in the Old World â based on the demographic percentage of the Islamic
population.
Based on data from December 2005 (Yellow= 10%). I have decided to mark Yellow
ribbons in China as even though only 3% of the Chinese population are Muslim. These
3% represent 40 millions people.
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5. The map of the Islamic Empire with Israel in itâs heart
A comment on the map of the Islamic empire
In the map that I have drawn at 2003, I have marked âformally Yugoslaviaâ as the North-
West corner of the Islamic Empire coming into being. Currently it became apparent that
the rate of growth of the Islamic believers in a year, is greater then any other religion, and
thus the number of Islam believers in France is more then 10% of the population.
Accordingly I have included in the current map, most of West Europe, Strengthening this
point is Sever Plozker, in his article in the weekend supplement of the Yediot Achronot
newspaper 9.4.2004. The reporter asserts that the intention of Islam is to establish in
former Yugoslavia an Islamic State, (in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia) and he names
their Islam âBalkanian Islamâ. The dispersion of the entire Moslem population in Europe,
of which some are already second generation., he calls âThe Religion Islamic Stateâ
(in contrast to naming one of the combining components of the former Yugoslavia he
names âThe geographic Islamic Stateâ) and his assertion is the two state, the religious
and the geographic, will lead the âIslamic revolution of Europeâ).
In order to convince you to take part in preparations for the coming into being of the
Islamic Empire, the following chapters are written.
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6. The history of the Empire phenomena
The initial phenomena of âMega Stateâ â EmpireKingdom is tightly linked, embryonic
link and maybe even conscious link, to Judaism and the Asian continent, meaning the
monotheistic religions and the old world. 2000 years have passed since the beginning of
the imperialism till the phenomena has included also Africa, and 2700 years passed until
it included Europe also due to the marches of Alexander the Great.
The first empire, Mesopotamia, that included Ur (later known as âUr Casdimâ), the place
where our forefather Abraham was born, is the cradle of the human culture, and includes
also the Fertile Crescent, the source of domestication of plants and animals, that
have brought to the human being economic security and the acquiring of surplus
economical means, which has enabled additional achievements following this phase.
⢠Maybe due to the fact that Mesopotamia is the âcradle of the human
cultureâ, it is difficult to perceive now, that this region is also the source of
âthe destruction of the human cultureâ and terrorists all over the world
regard Ben-Laden and others, that live in caves between Iraq and
Afghanistan, a source of inspiration for destruction of the cultural assets
and cancellation of the âdo and donâtâ agreements between the nations of
the world.
With the development of Christianity and later of Islam, the phenomena of great empires
always included the three continents Asia, Africa and Europe in various proportions.
Only in the second half of the second millennium as dated by Christianity, 4700 years
past the beginning of the great empire phenomena, new areas of the Hinduism and
Buddhism are joining the empires â India and Oceana, and on the other hand, the new
world is joining following the conquest of the British Empire.
The British Empire is the greatest empire in the history of the human being, and just now,
if the new Islamic Empire is realized, we will face the existence of an empire that is
bigger then the British Empire.
If we compare these two greatest empires on the basis of âwhat is their goalâ, while the
British Empire goal was to satisfy the economic goal of the English rulers, the Islamic
Empire's goal is supposed to satisfy the religious goal of those who will head it, to
generate a continuous area where all who live there abide by the Islamic way of life and
the law of the Sharia !!!
Remark â The great empires of the new world â Maya, Aztecs and the Inca are not
discussed in this paper, as they were limited in the area they covered. The Mongol empire
which existed during the 14th century could have been included in this discussion, being
greater then the Islamic empire that proceeded it by 700 years, but since it would not
have changed the record size of the British Empire, I have decided not to include it.
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7. Base assumptions in presenting the emerging of Islamic Empire
List of assumptions that deals with the existence and creation of the
Empire â Organization and management of the population
⢠There exists an âImperialistic urgeâ in humans, being depicted in the great
empires that have been referred to in previous pages.
⢠When a powerful personcommunity has the ability to createdefine a
kingdomempire, it will eventually occur.
⢠The history of the state phenomena proves that it is possible to manage
huge communities inside defined borders.
⢠The active Islam believers are not different than other populations, and
thus âthe collective sub conscious of the Islamâ strive to define
organizational borders to create a Mega Empire.
The analysis method used to define the borders of the Islamic
Emerging Empire
⢠In order to draw the border line that defines the Islamic Emerging Empire,
the selection criteria was regions that have an Islamic population that is
more then 10% of the total population in that region.
⢠If we refer to use âmodestâ borders, and draw a border line using a criteria
that included regions have more then 20% Islamic population in the entire
population, we will still have a huge area in the old world.
⢠Taking into consideration the dynamics of the processes and the rate at
which Islam is developing, we will find out that we are living in times,
where the growth rate of the Islamic population is increasing, and also
there are regions where Islamic penetration is massive.
⢠We consider the Islamic Emerging Empire as one organizational structure,
geographically united, tightly tied into the Islamic holy places, and created
in the area between Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. We have not included
in this stage the Islam regions in the new world.
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8. List of assumptions that deal with the centrality of the religion
believes in the existence of the human beings.
Definition of the human being as â Homo Religioso
The scientific community was wrong to define, two hundred fifty years ago, the scientific
name of humans as Homo sapiens, meaning a smartclever human. Not that the human is
not smart and clever, but the difference from other animals, lies in the quality and
quantity, and not in the essence.
When a scientific name is given to a species, it is best defined using a âdifferential
diagnosisâ- a âunique attributeâ that will clearly separate it from other species. If we
want to use this method to clearly define the human being we must find the âdeferential
attributeâ, and in my opinion the attribute is religion â the urge of the human to believe
and his ability to implement this urge in various ways of thought process and religious
activities.
Considering this, we should have named the human â Homo Religioso.
The religion concept is the continuum between religion and faith. I would like to
emphasis that during the development of the monotheistic religions, different groups took
upon themselves the task of being intermediates between God and his believers and
misrepresented the faith. This have caused sometimes discomfort and even anger
resulting in loving the religion and hating the religious human, or hating those who set
themselves as God's chosen representatives.
I would like to assert that if Moses was not rescued from the Nile water, and would have
continued to float with the current to the Mediterranean sea, and would have continued to
travel via the tide waves, and would have landed on the shore of a green island, and the
baby Moses would have been able to feed himself and grow into adulthood healthy in his
body and mind, we would have found that the person is a believer, a religious man. He
might have been an idol worshiper that prays to trees and stones, and believes in the wind
in the sky, or he might have built a corner where he would meditate to one God, but I
have no doubt that the urge to believe in an omnipotent power is the nature of human
being and will be found in any human born, and will be found even in those who were
not raised by humans. Thus I think we must define the human as a Believing human,
religious human, and this is what set him unique from all other creatures, and this fact
will be revealed to us wherever we travel around Godâs land, we will find believing
tribes, from idol worshipers in the South America forests, Pagan tribes in New-Guinea
Papua or religious Muslim groups in Pakistan, Confusions believers in China, Christians
in the US and Jews in Ethiopia.
We can present several explanations to the fact that the human is âforcedâ to become a
believer and the following explanation is one of the reasonable explanations:
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9. In my appreciation, the human âNon stop working brainâ leads him into cross-sections
that has no way out without the intervention of an omnipotent power. I can almost declare
that the human would have gone out of his mind if he was enforced to find by himself the
solution to the many conflicts generated in his brain, while he is thinking and
contemplating, and only by introducing a non-natural factor, dimensionless, having
unlimited ability, enables the human to generate the solutions to the human existence that
he is forced to deal with.
âThe tree of the knowledge good and evilâ is now loaded with a wide meaning, that
includes the total knowledge of the human being in all areas of life and not only those
who are related to moral knowledge. The tree of knowledge does not enable the human to
ignore facts revealed to him personally and those that are transferred to him from his
predecessors, which eventually lead to nontrivial, intellectual conflicts with no simple
logical solution, and luckily the concepts âGod existsâ and âGod has the solutionâ, in a
simplistic way enables us to sigh and makes it easier for us to pass the day, the year and
life under the burden of our brainâŚ.
The comeback of Religion â or the return to the basic characteristics
In the second half of the previous century, the impression was that âReligion is OUT and
money is INâ as depicted by the two powers that were leading the world: The USA that
lead a capitalistic society whose esteemed citizens were those who acquire more capital
in the âfree competitionâ system, and the USSR that lead a communistic society sanctied
the sharing of capital and the lack of competition between its citizens, and the
âCollectiveâ system.
The communistic system collapsed form inside and the American system has brought
wellbeing to many and some of them became rich, but has failed to satisfy the basic need
of human beings â the need for internal and deep values, a need that is apparently
satisfied by religion. Thus the human society that has tried to achieve various
satisfactions, found itself going back to the primal need â Religion.
Accordingly, the âWesternâ human (those who are West to the areas of the Eastern
Religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Genism, Sikhism, Confucianism, etcâŚ) is deserting
now the âGod of Moneyâ(Communism and Capitalism) and goes back to the âRealâ God
that exists in the heart and heaven, which represents a return to his origin, to the
âGenuineâ characteristics, meaningful, basic to the human being. In the near future it will
be more and more visible the return to religion regardless of the âGlobal farmâ and the
term ânon-religious personâ will be rare and any human will affiliate himself religiously
(the Jewish âaffiliate yourself with a Rabbiâ or the Christian âGoing to my Churchâ
etcâŚ).
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10. The affiliation of the modern human with 4 entities
The human in current society has several basic affiliations based on their chronological
order. These four entities, to my opinion, are: Human, Religion, Nation and State.
⢠Human â Every human belongs to the âSmart Humanâ â Homo Sapiens
The human is born into this affiliation, and all humanities are belonging to this affiliation.
We are all human. The other affiliations involves a kind of choice, at least in adults:
⢠Religion â Every human has a religion, an ingredient that characterizes
him, as stated before, even if a human would have arrived as a baby in a
cradle to a deserted island, he would have become in his adulthood, a
religious person !!!
In the societies that lie west of the far east religions, there was seemingly a process of
going away from religion andor the development of the daily life not around the
religion, as I have described before â âMoneyâ tried to replace God. The âGod of
Moneyâ has failed, and now human return to religion and create active religion life.
⢠Nation â Each human belongs to a greater group named Nation
The inclination to include everyone under one society, the globalization, that attempted to
give humans a âMega Affiliationâ has proven wrong with the disintegration of the USSR,
Yugoslavia and others, and the insistence of the disintegrated âpiecesâ to belong to
different nations, is an example that testifies that it was too early to mourn belonging to
an affiliation, to a nation. This requires consideration by great and small nations as well.
⢠State â The largest organizational and institutional affiliation in the new
age is the state.
Currently a human must be affiliated with a state, because of the fact that this kind of
organization has spread all over the world, and one need to belong to a state to have his
interests and the interests of his group protected.
The history of the state phenomena is more recent than any of the four entities, but
appears to be the most robust organizational structure, that needs to be considered by
those who âplanâ to build an empire.
Note â According to Huntington (âThe clash of civilizations?â, 1993) we should add a
fifth entity â Civilization. But we have no clear definition of civilizationâ and the feeling
of belonging to a civilization is not inherently based on my feelings, (a human that is
asked about his affiliation will answer; religion, nation or state, but not civilization) and
is too loaded to attribute it to someone without getting his prior agreement.
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11. In contrast, to being born as a human, which is not a decision that has to be taken by an
adult, Religion is chosen by a human, and thus we need to attribute a great weight to the
basic and primary entity that an adult human is choosing. Accordingly, we need to
consider seriously the transition of many Muslims from passive religion to an âActive
Faithâ. There are those who commit suicide as a âShahidâ to portray the activities of an
active practicing religion. The most explicit example of moving from passive to active
religion , are the Bedouins, that we are familiar with, who were always defined as
Moslems in their history, but many of them have now turned into active believers, and
build Mosques and pray there several time a week.
To summarize this chapter - The open question is: Why this religion danger have
landed on the citizens of earth? It seems that religion is returning to take its central place
in the life of the human beings and this fact helps to motivate the Muslims to transfer to
âActive believersâ and advances the increase in the number of those who convert to
Muslim and the spread of Islam.
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12. Additional thoughts about the Emerging Islamic Empire
The state of Israel as an answer to the emerging Islamic Empire
The State of Israel, that has been founded to give an answer to the needs of the
Jewish nation, finds itself as a factor in the emergence of the Islamic Empire.
The presence of the State of Israel in the heart of the Arab Muslim world is being used as
a catalyst to âwakeâ the passive Muslims and turn them into active Muslims, which is one
of the preconditions that is required for the founding and coming into being of the Islamic
Empire.
Remark â The mega terrorist attack in the train station in Madrid, the capital of Spain, on
April 3rd 2004, may testify that there exists a critical mass of Muslim in Europe, and the
way they are treated can initiate âenough anger and hatredâ to arouse them up and
transform them into being active, in parallel to other centers in the world that are
awakening the Muslims.
The meaning is â Israel might be losing its importance as âthe generator of more and
more active Muslimsâ and thus the leaders of the Islam will not avoid a process of
discussion between the Palestinians and Israel and between the Muslims and Israel,
because we have lost our vital position in the development of the Islam world.
Terror as an ingredient in the emerging of the Islam Empire
Violence as a developmental stage â or â The Islamic terror? It is just
a matter of growing up, it will pass
It might be that heading to war and violence is an essential developmental stage in a
religion, that is unavoidable, same as the inability to prevent the burst of testosterone that
impact youngsters (throughout history communities have directed these energies towards
training: preparations for war in the nomads, and gymnastic training in urban societies).
There is a possibility that groups of people might undergo the same processes as the ones
that an individual goes through. Like the development of the baby into a child, and into a
youngster, with all the implications arising from it, who only later, past the stage of
entering adulthood becomes a grown up person, who acts with better thought process and
evaluation of a situations, a group of humans might go through the same process in the
case that the group possess a âCritical Massâ of participants and enough time to exist.
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13. Present religions are well suited to examine this possibility, as they are existed for more
then a thousand years, not only those who originate in East Asia, but also the
monotheistic religions.
Accordingly, Christianity, dating more then a thousand years, entered the âadolescenceâ
stage and as a result, almost as if it was forced into it, initiated by internal forces, the
crusades, that were a burst of violence that motivated hundreds of thousands of
youngsters, under the religion flag to leave their homes in Europe and take the long road
to Asia, focusing on the Holy places on the Mediterranean sea shores, and here, they
expressed during two hundred years of killing and assassinations all their internal urges
that originated from the stage that the religion group they belonged to were at that time.
Once this development stage has ended, they returned to their homes, and laid down their
arms, but Christianity retained the âgrowing painsâ that tell us the story of what has
transpired during this difficult and frustrating stage. This is a simplistic description, and
we must not disregard the heavy payment of their environment, paid for the need of
Christianity to grow up. Environment means the Jews and Muslims that were the âAgnus
Dei - Lamb of Godâ that were sacrificed on the altar of Christianity growing up.
If there exists a basis to the fact that a group of humans, being a team of organisms, is in
fact a biological entity that goes through stages of biological development similar to the
individuals comprise the team, we should expect now that a religion like Islam, that has
hundreds of millions followers, and is close to its maturity (Islam started around 622
A.C., but became a âmassâ religion at around the 10th century), will find itself with much
violence and indeed, we are aware of the internal forces that are active in Islam, almost
forced on Islam. The result of these forces we currently feel, as it is depicted in the global
terror and its messengers that are named shahids after they die.
If the wave of Islamic terror is only a necessary stage in the development of the Islam,
that will end once Islam reaches âReligious Maturityâ, all that is needed by the citizens of
this world is to be patient, and almost repeat the slogan ânot to worry it will pass soonâ,
as any parent tell his teenager during adolescence.
The advancement of Gifted Iranian children and the possibility of the
development of ânuclear suicide beltâ
In Israel, gifted children are almost ignored. In Iran on the contrary, they have started a
bout 8 years ago a national program for advancement of this valuable human resource.
While in Israel they test at 3rd grade, all Israeli pupils in order to identify the gifted 2.5%
and to develop the gifted 0.25% until 9th grade only, in Iran they test all the pupils at 8th
grade, and choose the best 680 and they notify their parents that they are transferred to a
special school in Teheran, affiliated with the best University, and they get a special
education until 12 grade in wide areas of life: science, arts, world religions, creative
thinking etc⌠Then to test them in comparison to world standards, they are flown to
international youth competitions where they succeed to win first places in computer
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14. science, robotics, mathematics, etc⌠On their return to Iran, they sign a 9 years of
service in the army and they descend to the research and development basement of the
Iranian army.
You do not need much imagination to understand what 5,300 gifted scientist could
generate in a country that provides them with unlimited monetary resources to realize
their potential.
Whoever that thinks that Iran is investing all the effort of its human resources in research
and building of an Atomic bomb, is ignoring the fact that the main research in this area
has been already finished by the middle of the previous century, in Los Alamos in the
USA (the âManhattan Projectâ during 2nd World War) and that the implementation of
such application requires only enough cash since the disintegration of the USSR and its
Atomic Reactors are owned by rich people that are more then happy to add capital to
their bank accounts.
This is why we should be more creative in our attempt to comprehend what these 5,300
talented army members are doing. The only area that I would like to suggest is the
development of a Nuclear Bomb belt.
Iran as a Muslim country is prohibited from using nuclear bomb on Israel, since it will
contaminate the Holly places in Jerusalem for a long time in the best case, and will
destroy them in the worst case. That is why it is plausible that they are using these
talented youth to develop nuclear bomb belts, a handy nuclear bomb, which can be used
to destroy a city area with a pull of a lever. Having reached this stage, they could send
suicide bombers to our cities having full control on the level of destruction effected by
the nuclear reaction.
Remark â this chapter deals with possible options in the developmental directions of
terror, meaning the local nuclear terror, that is apparently not vital in the discussion
regarding the preparations for the Emerging Islamic Empire, but cannot be ignored as it
meaningful in the process and the scientific achievements of the Islamic world are part of
his power and will play a major role in his influence in his vicinity.
The affinity of the state of Israel to the Christian world in the
Islamic Empire age
The pushing out of Christianity from the Old World
In order to comprehend the chances of the State of Israel to continue to exist, related to its
connection to the Christian world, (as depicted for example in the relations with the
USA), one must try to look into a time which is beyond the current decade and beyond
the region, and not to neglect the possibility that the western old world ( the one that is
West of the Hinduism Buddhism Genism Sikhism Confucianism) is changing into
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15. becoming Islamic, including Europe, and that Christianity will be pushed out from the
old world and its core will be moved to the new world. This in one to two terms, the Pope
will not be chosen in Rome, and that will continue until the Vatican will be free from the
Islamic Empire and will be free again to chose the Pope.
Under such conditions, the existence of remnant of the Jews and Christians in the old
world, and the existence of an autonomic Jewish State with an affinity to the Christian
world is under great doubt.
The characteristics of the Christians in Israel during the age of the
Islamic Empire
We are witnessing currently, great changes in the characteristics of the Christians in
Israel. When you talked about âIsraeli Christiansâ before the immigration of the million
of the former USSR âJewsâ, you meant Arab Christians, but now most of the Christians
in Israel are âimmigrantsâ from the USSR, numbering more then 300,000 (the Central
Census Office named them âother Jewsâ or âNot Arab Christiansâ, and the Internal Affair
Office characterize them with a specific numeral in their ID cards), compared to the
130,000 Arab Christians, It is not clear if there is any meaning to the origin of the
Christians in Israel, in terms of their survival in the age of the Islamic Empire, and will
the Muslims tolerant the Arab Christians more than Christians that originate from the
Russian Church.
Israel as a Christian Democratic Out Sourcing of the USA
Many of us wonder about the place of the State of Israel in the region and what the
Americans told Sharon that made him agree to the âRoadmapâ and influenced his
decision to start the âdisengagement processâ (summer 2005).
I would like to suggest two factors:
One- the Americans presented the Israeli Prime Minister with the budget of the State of
Israel, and have threatened to subtract their supporting part in the budget.
Two â they have hinted about Israelâs place in the region, as they perceive it, and here is
the situation, according to my understanding:
The State of Israel, as the Christians in the USA perceive it, is an outsourcing entity that
is used to keep democracy in the Middle East and safeguard the Christian Holy places.
An Evangelist Christian President, like the current president Mr. George W. Bush, is best
suited to guard these two interests in parallel (two at a price on one âŚ)
Unfortunately the existence of Israel for more then 58 years in this region, has not set a
goal of guarding those two targets and maybe, its existence, is a component in a process
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16. that is working towards an opposing direction, meaning that the existence of Israel, is a
factor that arouses and instigates and antagonizes the people living in the region and
helps to convert the âLight Muslimsâ into âHard Muslimsâ â turning passive Muslims
into active Muslims, that go to worship in the Mosque 5 times a day , and set out to the
streets to set on fire the Israeli and American flags and Shout âalla Acbar â God Is Greatâ
and :Itbach el Yahud and Americana â Slaughter the Jews and the Americansâ, anytime
they are called to the flag. The hatred to Israel amidst all these, contributes to help to
achieve Muslim majority in local and Parliament elections and in the region (notice the
election in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank by end of 2005, Iraq and later Lebanon
where the Hezbollah have entered into the Government).
The process that leads the region to be more and more Islamic, make it clear that a real
danger is possible to the Christian communities and that Islamic control, might even cast
doubt about the survival of the Christian Holy places, as under Islamic control, there will
be no access to Christian pilgrims and might even destroy all Christian Holy places. As
part of this situation, it is not sure that Israel can exist in an âIslamic Seaâ that will flood
the region and also safeguard the Christian Holy places that are inside its territorial state.
Under such condition Israel will stop to be an Out Sourcing that can be relied on âThat
will deliver the merchandiseâ to the Americans who will be fed up by Israel's inability to
help stabilize the region in a direction that is acceptable to them( safeguard of democracy
and free access to the Christian Holy places), might try to handle their main interests
without preserving the existence of Israel as a vital part of their interests.
Meaning that the existence of Israel is not guaranteed and not only because of the threat
from our neighbors and the emergence of the Islamic Empire, but because of the new
conditions that will happen as part of the process of the Islamic Empire emergence that
might cause our friends not to act to safeguard our existence.
The coming into power of Islam via Democracy
The seemingly Democratic process that the Americans are setting in the region will end
by bringing Islam governing these countries. Islam will be in the governing position via
a full democratic process, achievement that was prohibited in the past by tyrant leaders
like Assad in Syria and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and the control of Syria over Lebanon
etcâŚ
As Jews and Israelis we must remember that Hitler came into government via a
democratic process and due to such process, because if he were living under a
dictatorship, he would have found himself inside jailâŚ! Only once he went into a ruling
position, did he annihilate the democratic process and replace it with a Nazi dictatorship,
in which â we the Jews paid with almost 40% of our people.
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17. It is quite plausible that we are living now in the beginning of a new era in the
characteristics of the leadership of the countries that are neighbors to Israel and beyond
them, meaning that we are witnessing the last of the secular leaders in these countries,
and in one or two terms, they will all be replaced via a democratic process by religious
leaders, probably Muslims.
Remark â Under this view, the promotion of piece process with the current secular
leaders seems like âfighting the previous warâ and must be replaced with an aspiration to
generate âNone War agreementâ that will enable their successor religious leaders to abide
by these treaties.
The attitude to the Islam â A request from the USA and a remark
to Israel
On September 11, 2001, the biggest terrorist attack in the history of humanity occurred
in the USA! 3 airplanes collided with 3 buildings and caused the death of about 3
thousand humans, mostly grownup people, that represented the society, economics, and
science and culture and government in the USA and the countries that are aligned with
the USA.
Following this tragic event, the USA declared a total war on those who sent these
terrorists, using strong language against the Fundamental, Extreme Islam.
It is quite difficult to require the citizens of the USA and their leaders, after this highly
difficult event, not to use such language, but still we must ask them to choose their
language, when they speak about a religion that has more then one billion worshipers.
The American must act decisively against terror, but still should speak with the
appropriate respect about a religion when they talk about Islam. It is also advised that the
State of Israel, that is placed in the heart of the Arab world and whose many citizens are
Muslims, that in parallel to the activities for terror prevention and safeguarding its
independence, should decisively object at any point in time if someone will speak about
Muslims in an inappropriate way.
Culture and Religion war
Remark â The discussion is about the âWestern Worldâ, meaning the humanity that is
west of the Eastern Religions. The East has not undergone a meaningful change during
the last hundred years, and the people were and are religious in their day-to-day life. It
seems that for now, they stay out of the âstruggleâ that is beginning to happen between
the big monotheistic Religions, and the huge development process in the Far East is an
interesting process but is not preventing the development of the Islam. It is probable that
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18. in the year 2030 we will witness an Islamic Empire with an additional ChineseIndian or
other super-power.
Additional remark is related to the science and technology achievements â in my
perception the changes that have already occurred in the world ( the advancement of
education, science and technology, improvement in the level and the standard of living
etc) have skipped the 3rd world, that most of its inhabitants are part of the Islamic world.
Also even those who have been benefiting from these achievements have the feeling that
the answer to the âHuman Soulâ is not there, and as I have previously asserted the return
to the source, the religion, to the Homo Religioso that is inside us, is the answer. Meaning
that as a rule, developments in science and technology is not blocking the religious
inclinations.
In light of the disappointment from the other Gods (money achievements) and the return
to âthe sourcesâ, faith and religion, we should not be surprised that more and more
citizens in the USA are Christian worshipers to its fullest active meaning and at the same
time, many Muslims around the world are not sitting on the fence, but expect themselves
to act, and prove the depth of their faith. It boils down to the fact that in the Western
world there are more than a billion and a quarter Muslims and about 2 billion Christians
that are preparing for the âBig Fightâ a kind of âGog & Magogâ that is approaching near.
On both sides, the attempt to differentiate between religion and culture is not natural and
thus they are actually one entity. Most of the Muslims are linked with the Arab culture
and most of the Christians are linked with the liberal democratic culture. Thus the
religious war is also a culture war and when it will happen in the historic battlefield, it
will include a battle on the basic characteristics of the daily life of humans.
(A quantitative remark â today the Christian world is about 32% of the world population
and the Muslims are about 19%, but up to 2025 we expect to have a âdramatic changeâ
and the Muslim world will be 30% of the world population and the Christians only 25
%.)
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19. Preparation for the Emerging Islamic Empire.
A suggestion â The preparation of the State of Israel to the
process of Islamic Empire Emergence.
The existence of Islamic Empire that includes inside, almost at its heart, the State of
Israel, concerns us and might even present a threat to the future of the State of Israel as a
Jewish state. The Islamic reign does not usually allow an autonomic Jewish under their
control, but only allow for Jewish life with several limitations. If the State of Israel insists
on its own autonomy we must act to preserve such autonomy, so not to repeat the event
of the Jewish nation being expelled again from its land.
In order to prepare for the coming of the Islamic Empire (a process that towards itâs end
will be visible, consolidated, core government, that will somehow govern the âhuman
mixâ that will build the empire), I would like to suggest that we initiate a âpan regionâ
process to prevent the development of a full scale empire, that will be centered around
Europe, the USA and emerging forces in the East, and in parallel to initiate regional
meetings with the most extreme leaders of the Islam.
If we manage to âwakeâ Europe, on the eve of the emergence empire, before it will wake
up to a different morning, it might prevent the creation of the outlines that are necessary
to the building of the long border lines of the empire.
An empire in the old world might not present the USA with a problem, as it is located in
the new world, but in case that the empire will have the attack power that many Islam
countries have currently, it can pose a direct threat to the residents of NY or even the
Capital Washington D.C. and thus it is possible to recruit the USA to be involved in
prevention of full scale empire.
The Far East is undergoing big changes and it might turn out that these changes will lead
to the development of one or more powers that need to be part of the preparation in this
area that will share a border with the Islam Empire.
In parallel to enlisting the old world and new, but mainly Europe and the USA to take
part in the activity, our share of the effort will be to build âa bridge of communicationâ
via âbrotherhood bondsâ, that will require to take part in meetings with all level of the
Islamic population in the world including the 100 extreme Muslim leaders, during a
period of 5 years, that will take place in four human waves in which all the Israeli
representatives will take part:
First wave â The representatives of all religions in Israel that will meet Islamic
representatives
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20. Second wave â The representatives of the municipalities will meet with Islamic
religious representatives and Islamic municipalities representatives
Third wave â Representatives of school teams and education authorities and
research and academic institutes will meet with Islamic religious,
and Moslems teachers and scientists
Fourth wave â Representatives of the government and the political representatives in
Israel will meet Islamic religious leaders, authorities representatives and
politicians in the Arab and Islamic world.
If indeed we will start this five year process within the current year, then by the end of
these meetings between the âhuman wavesâ by 2012, we will still be left with about
twelve years to be partners in the activities of the old world on the eve of the
consolidation of the Islamic Empire.
The activities on the international level and national level will happen to ensure the
continuation of the existence of the State of Israel as an autonomic Jewish state at the era
of the Islamic Empire.
If Israel will prepare and makes these meeting between the human waves, with the
Islamic world, it will be able to be in the future a âbridge of communicationâ between the
Western world and the Arab Islamic world.
The four main reasons why Israel might not prepare for the emerging
Empire
The unstable organizational structure of the State of Israel
The instability of the Israeli Governments, that whenever they topple, the Ministers,
General Managers and top civil servants are being replaced about every 20 months, is
not enabling the state to deal with long term issues. When the tool is missing (the
organizational structure), it is worthless to try to work on substance.
The State of Israel is not the Homeland of the Jewish Nation
The state of Israel is existing for 58 years, but with only less then half of the Jewish
world population (5.3 million Jews from 14 millions about 38%...). In the current
situation it seems the âState is not the Nationâ meaning that the nonexistence of the state
is not leading to the nonexistence of the Jewish nation. Anyone who is not acting before
the results of the Islamic process will be enforced on us, is actually supporting the
approach that asserts that the Jewish Nation can dream about Jerusalem, but better live
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21. far away form Jerusalem in the Diaspora, far from Israel, away from the danger that is
presented by the Islamic Empire.
Adopting the strategy of âfall and do not reactâ
The Palestinians were wrong when they refused to accept the âreal truthâ in the process
of the return of the Jews to their country, and many of them were exiled because of the
success of the Jews (read about the topic of the refugees). âSit and do nothingâ behavior
by us during the emerging of the Islamic Empire is like wise dangerous (A person who is
falling from a high-rise that is 100 stories high, is right to shout to some one looking at
him on the 58th floor, that thank God Iâm still alive âbut this is not granted to be
appropriate for the future⌠meaning âfall and not actâ is not the right wayâŚ).
The need to organize the old world to the process of Islamic
Empire Emergence
The terms âold worldâ and ânew worldâ are geographical Euro centered terms, meaning
that European researchers wanted to emphasis, that the âold worldâ is the one that is
known to âeveryone, again the citizens of Europe, and includes the continent of Europe,
Asia and Africa and also Oceana (Australia and its vicinities). The new world was
ârevealedâ by researchers like Columbus and others that sailed away from the old world.
The citizens of America have founded and destroyed cultures, belonging to different
religions and attained achievements in various areas, but unfortunately did not set the
terms of the modern geography.
Anyway, the new world includes he continents of America (North, Central and South)
and even though there exist several Islamic communities that are growing in the last two
decades, but their long distance from the Islamic Holy places, the limitation of their
ability to control over such distance and some additional factors will mean that the
Islamic Empire will be based on the old world, and will have some influence on the new
world, but will never control most of its citizens.
The State of Israel will be impacted by its inclusion inside the empire, but has limited
abilities and thus, it is essential for it, that larger communities and organizations will take
upon them the âmain effortâ in getting ready for the establishment of the Islamic Empire.
Accordingly, it is for the best, from our point of view, that the whole old world will
organize for the possibility of preventing the Islamic Empire from coming into being, or
to help to limit it to a small part of the old world. If for example, we will succeed to enlist
Europe to âwake upâ on the eve of the emergence, before it wakes up to a morning of an
Islamic Empire, which includes most of its area, and if we can influence the raising
powers in the Far East to comprehend that their development is not detached from the
processes that are happening in the Westâ, it might prevent the creation of the outlines
that are necessary to build clear border lines of the empire.
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22. As part of the preparations of the Israel towards the emergence of the Empire, we must
present the contents of this booklet to the communities of the old world and motivate
them to take part in the required activities to prevent the creation of the Empire in its
entirety.
The inclusion of the USA in the attempt to prevent a wide
Islamic Empire
An empire in the old world might not be a problem for the USA, that is located in the
new world, but in the case that the Islamic Empire will include West Europe and West
Africa, then long range missiles having a range of 5,800 Km, that will be installed on the
West coasts of the empire, the coast of France, Spain and Morocco, will be a direct threat
to the inhabitants of New-York and the Capital Washington DC (based on current reports,
the Muslim leaders have in their arsenal missiles with a range of 2,500 Km (A trans
continental missile) and it is plausible that in about twelve years they will have missiles
with double range and even more).
The danger of the missiles is enough to have a solid basis to claim that it is possible to
enlist the USA to the process that has a goal to prevent the coming into being of a wide
area Islamic Empire. The chapters in this booklet that discuss Christianity and the culture
war, just support the assertion that the USA has more then one reason to prevent the
existence of the Islamic Empire on most of the area of the old world.
Thus as part of the preparation of Israel to the emergence of the Islamic Empire, we must
present this booklet to the American communities and motivate them to take part in the
required activities to limit the size of the empire.
Part of the ârange of activitiesâ that will be required during the
preparation process
The sub list of the required actions, in order to face the process of the emergence of the
Islamic Empire includes:
⢠Search for an alternate energy resource as a replacement to oil â an
alternative energy resources will eliminate the dependence that exists
between the Arab and Muslim countries that produce oil, and the
consumers that avoid using defense means that will endanger the oil
production, in parallel to eliminating the use of oil revenue to generate
threats.
⢠Advancement of inhabitants of the third world â Backward communities
are fertile ground for inciting, and thus we must allocate resources and
influence to help them, so they can benefit from these resources so they
can enjoy the achievements of the human race.
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23. ⢠Locating revolting communities â getting assistance from those who
refuse âto take partâ in the empire borders.
⢠Strengthen those growing in strength in the East â we must encourage and
enlist India, China and other to be part of the process.
Epilogue
This booklet is written in an associative method, since in my opinion there is no other
way to expose such a complex topic, both to the public community and also to the
professionals (the document is multi disciplinary and thus even âprofessionalsâ is a
limiting term, since each one is a professional in his field, but is as the âpublicâ out of his
subject matter expertise, like myself). I have tried to write with humility and I do not
pretend to present myself as someone whose academic studies have dealt with all the
areas that are required for such a topic.
I expect from those who read this small booklet, to act in the spirit I have tried to build in
its writing, meaning to take part in a process that will cause the preparation, that will lead
to preventing a wide Islamic Empire. During this time, we need to start to talk with the
Islam world, so the outcome of the process will be â the existence of an Independent
Jewish State in the land of Israel, in spite of the existence of a greater Islamic entity.
Zionism has sprung into life on the eve of the decline of the Islamic empire that
controlled Israel (the Ottoman Empire). We must ensure that Israel will not end on the
morning of the coming into being of the Islamic Empire of the 21st century.
Words of Thanks
I would like to thank my family for their advice and patience and to all those who have
dedicated their time, experience and ability to comment and enlighten the many drafts.
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