What Is Hudna

What Is The Meaning Of Hudna And How Does It Shape Future Peace In The Middle East

Throughout our lives we have seen peace treaties negotiated and signed to prevent future conflicts from recurring again in the future. To come to an agreement to end hostilities among two nations that both agree to conform to the demands of the accepted and signed results of negotiations. This definition of a peace treaty is more in line with what Westerners and many other parts of the world believe. In the Muslim World this is not the case unless it is between two Muslim nations.

Peace treaties among Muslim nations are acceptable However a peace treaty between a Muslim country and a non-Muslim country is not. This is where the word Hudna comes into play. A few non-Arabic speakers attach complicated meaning to “hudna,” but in reality, its definition is simple. Hudna in different variations can mean calm, tranquillity or an intermission. In the language of politics, “it means the cessation of hostilities, which does not necessarily imply the end of the conflict,” said Rashid Khalidi, the director of Columbia University’s Middle East Institute. “It’s the standard term for an armistice.”

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Hudna is an greement that Muslim nations enter into with non-Muslim nations. Hudna is the Islamic process of covenant or peace treaty with non-believers. It is not meant to be kept. There are two reasons that Hudna is important to Islamic nations and militant groups.

One is to gain concessions in the peace process. Get everything you can so that it will be easier for you when you break the peace treaty and you will be stroner as a result. In essence the Muslim nation would want to utilize the peace process to make their next conflict more favorable to them.

The second reason to go through with a Hunda is to regain your strength. It is a time to lick your wounds in essence. Gain troop and supplies strength. To gain support from other Muslim nations or anyone else that can make you stronger for when you break the truce that the nonbelievers are inept enough to believe that you will follow through with.

We see Hudna in the conflict between Israel and Hizballah. It seems that Hizballah calls for peace after the conflict heats up and begins to experience too much damage at the hands of the more superior and better armed Israeli forces. It is never meant to be a lasting peace. It is the same with the Palestinians. They enter into peace treaties such as the Oslo Peace Accords that the rest of the world saw as a peace treaty in the Western sense, but in the end it was only meant to get as many concessions as the Palestinians could get as well as a time to regroup and be rearmed so that in the next battle they will be in a stronger position. There was never an intent for lasting peace on the side of the Palestinians nor Hizballah in these laughable agreements. It is like calling a timeout. In their eyes the only peace is an end to the state of Israel. Hudna will become more important in the near future as more conflicts between Muslims and non-Muslim nations occur such as the looming Iran and Israel dilemma that we are seeing unfold in the Middle East.

The length of a Hudna is not meant to last for more than ten years.