ers. All authorities agree that nowadays, when Israel does not have power to drive out nations from the land, the prohibition 'they shall not dwell in your land' has no application. According to many of the greatest authorities, both early and late, the prohibition '1o tehanem' [Deuteronomy 7:27] applies only to idolaters."
Finally, it should be stressed here that Jewish intelligentsia abroad, including those in Canada, no longer have the luxury of rejecting from the sidelines the Palestinian Right-of-Return, nor the full Israeli withdrawal of the Occupied Territories captured in 1967, including Arab East Jerusalem.
As a Canadian Muslim, I sincerely long and pray for peace and justice in the region. This is based on my own personal experience as an eyewitness of the 1956 Israeli invasion of Egypt, the 1967 Israeli attack on Egypt, the Egyptian-Israeli war of attrition of 1968-70, and as an active observer of the Israeli-Arab conflict since my immigration to Canada more than 30 years ago.