JONATHAN POWER: How do you see it?

ADNAN OKTAR: In the course of time, Israel might of course have created a rage in the hearts of people. That is because they have shed a lot of blood in Palestine, the blood of many Palestinians have been shed. And they have of course responded with suicide attacks. A mutual tension has formed. As a result of this, a rage could have been formed in some people. However we are in the End Times and we are in a very beautiful period of time, we are in a beautiful time. In the Torah, there is the mentioning of King Messiah who will guide the Jews to salvation, who will be instrumental in enabling the Jewish people live in peace. As you know this is one of the basic beliefs. The King Messiah is an individual that they have been waiting for 3000 years; he is a descendant of David. Messiah, the son of David. They define him as the King of the world.  We call that individual the Mahdi (pbuh). This is the person known as the Mohammed Mahdi in the Islamic belief. The time of the Mahdi has come according to the Torah and according to the hadiths. I mean the time of the King Messiah, known as Shiloh has come and we believe that the King Messiah -that is the Mahdi- is on the earth at this very moment. The Mahdi will put an end to this dissension, this disturbance and Israel and Arabic countries will embrace each other, other countries will embrace each other as well.  Moreover according to the expression used in the Torah, children will play with the snake and the snake will not have an effect on them. The children will play with lions and the lions will not harm them.  We have come to such an age. We will put aside the grudge and rage. If we look at things with grudge and rage, no one can ever be friends with another. For instance, if you look at things with this mentality an American animosity might develop because America had made an enormous bloodbath in Afghanistan and in Iraq.  I mean millions of people have been slaughtered, millions have been martyred. If we look at things with this mentality, we should not forgive America under any circumstances. But that would be very illogical because the American people have no fault in that. Those who are at fault are a handful of administrators. We believe that they are the ones at fault. We evaluate the American people separately. We evaluate the Israeli people separately. Peoples are in general innocent and inoffensive. None of them would support war. People hate wars. A handful of administrators under the influence of satan drag them into the blood, sufferings and pain. There were a very few people who supported Hitler at his time. But with the mass psychology, a significant part of the German people supported Hitler. But now, they are feeling embarrassed because of this. We do not feel an ongoing hatred, rage towards Germans.  We feel anger towards those who are at fault there, we feel rage towards those and we want them to be punished. But we believe that the German people are innocent and immaculate. The events should be evaluated with this mentality. If one does not evaluate things with this mentality, no country could ever be friends with any other country.  Then we would have to feel hatred for Greece, we should hate the Russians as well. We should then hate the Serbians, the Greek, the Arabs; we should hate everyone. That is very very wrong. What happened in the past stays in the past. We are at the time of the King Messiah, we are at the time of the Mahdi(pbuh). By embracing each other with love and compassion and by apologizing from one another, this matter should be closed. Otherwise this world would turn into a living Hell and we will not let that happen.