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8 December 1999 Zionists
are our enemies, Jihad is our way to freedom
Statement
issued by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Our
Palestinian People, The
people of heroism and sacrifice, These days coincide
with the anniversary of the blessed Intifada (uprising) and the
establishment of Hamas while we are standing at a dangerous crossroad:
whether to resume the glorious days of resistance for freedom and dignity
or to establish the life of humiliation and submission to the ugly
occupation under the justification of a final resolution that is dictated
by the Occupation State. Our steadfast People
on the Holy Land, martyrs and heroes! be an insurmountable barrier in the
face of the conspiracies and challenges and reject all projects of
submission and humiliation. You, the people who made the greatest
revolution in our contemporary history, the people who drew with their red
blood the borders of your homeland, the people who wrote the cleanest
record of heroism and sacrifice with the blood of your martyrs, and the
people who firmly faced the most impudent enemy known to mankind, have
patience and steadfastness. Our
hero People, How it is great that
we observe in these days the anniversary of the blessed Intifada sparked
by our Palestinian people making the greatest revolution in the
contemporary history of our people. And how it is great that we observe
the anniversary of the launching of the Islamic Resistance Movement
(Hamas) that carried the injuries of the homeland and advanced towards the
time-honoured victory, resisting the enemy with one hand and alleviating
the suffering of our people with the other in order to enhance the hopes
and create facts to realize God’s victory. Blessed are our People
on the anniversary of the Intifada and the launching of Hamas. Salutations
to the blessed martyrs, to the hundreds of thousands injured whom their
injuries did not deter them from their goal, to the thousands of freedom
prisoners in the oppressive jails of the Zionist Occupation, and to our
brothers and leaders of our Jihad who have been absented in the jails of
the self rule authority, especially our brothers Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi,
Dr. Ibrahim Maqadma, Jamal Mansour and Mohammad Jamal Natsheh. Greetings also to the
martyrs Yahya Ayyash, Imad Aqel, Kamal Kehail, Muhiel Deen Sharif and the
brothers Adel and Imad Awadallah. And greetings to the martyrdom bombers
in our country who plant death and horror in the hearts of the Zionists
and seed victory and dignity among the Palestinian People and who prove
that we are a non-dying people who do not surrender and who are able to
extract victory and defeat the enemy: “God has decreed: It is I and My
apostles who must prevail.” Our
Palestinian People, our Arab and Islamic nations
These two great
occasions pass while the self rule authority is still insisting on going
ahead with the final status negotiations, which endanger our future in our
land, our rights and the history and Jihad of the Palestinian People in
favour of the Zionist Enemy. They also come in difficult circumstances
while the Zionist Enemy continues to exhibit arrogance against our People
and our Nation, supported by the United States. Therefore, we, in the
Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), would like to stress the following
principles: First:
The aims to which the blessed popular Intifada were launched were to
remove the Occupation, liberate the land, clean the holy places, and to
build our independent State on the whole soil of our Palestinian homeland.
These aims still exist; they did not change or come to an end. Therefore,
we are requested to continue our Jihad and resistance until we achieve our
goals. Second:
We and our Palestinian People reject the idea that the price to be paid
for the Oslo accords and the consequent unfair agreements be the
sacrifices of our People and our Nation. Therefore, we emphasize our
rejection of all humiliating and fragile agreements which ignore the
rights of our people to liberate their land, to return to their homeland,
to build their own State and to liberate their holy places. We also
emphasize that the Intifada and the sacrifices of our People and their
national and Islamic forces should not be by any means used to establish
the occupier’s foothold or to legalize its domination over our land and
holy places. Third:
We, in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), on this blessed occasion,
warn of the consequences of running after the fata morgana of the
so-called peace agreements, calling on the self rule authority to promptly
stop the final status negotiations and not to mislead the Palestinian
People by alleging that it is able to restore some of their rights, which
it cannot achieve without relinquishing the historic, religious and
national rights in Palestine. Fourth:
We call upon the Palestinian Authority to seize the anniversary of the
blessed Intifada to release all of the Palestinian detainees from its
jails, to end the corruption within it and not to protect the
corruptionists, to stop the confiscation of public freedoms, and to
release our People and allow them to protect their rights, unity and Jihad
against the Occupation authorities which dominate all of our lands and
holy places. Fifth:
We emphasize that the two parts of Jerusalem, the eastern and the western,
are a unified Palestinian, Arab and Islamic city and that no one has the
right to abandon any part of it. We also do not accept any attempt to
abandon our right in Jerusalem and the holy places. Our People will never
accept Abu Dis or any other place as an alternative to Jerusalem. Sixth:
We emphasize that our People’s right of return to their homeland is a
sacred right that cannot be abolished by any agreement or bypassed over
time. Seventh:
We call upon all our People in the Occupied land and in Diaspora to
protect their unity and enhance their steadfastness and to work jointly to
resist the Occupation and not to give a chance to those who want to
relinquish our land, holy places and rights. Eighth:
We call upon all Arabs and Muslims to support our People and their
steadfastness and Jihad. Again we stress Hamas’ policy of its keenness
to foster relations with all Arab and Muslim countries and peoples. We
also stress Hamas’ keenness to protect their security and stability,
especially those Arab States that surround Palestine. Ninth:
We stress our keenness to have a special relationship with our dear Jordan
and its dear people, who are our people, calling on the Jordanian
government to reconsider the arbitrary measures it recently took against
Hamas and some of its leaders. Our
Arab and Muslim Nation, While we in the
Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) stress—on the anniversary of our
movement—on grasping our right to resistance and Jihad until the
liberation of the whole national soil, while rejecting all humiliating and
fragile agreements that abandoned the rights of our People and which were
signed without their will or agreement, we vow before our Palestinian
People and our Arab and Islamic Nation that we shall continue the
resistance and the Jihad, and we shall not forget our brothers who are
imprisoned in the Zionist Enemy’s jails and will do our best to free
them. Hamas, as you know her, will continue its resistance for liberation
and freedom. It will remain a force to serve its people and nation; it
does not deviate from its direction; it will remain honest, protecting its
nation and the nation’s resources; it will remain keen on protecting the
security and stability of the Arab and Muslim world because it is aware of
the fact that Palestine, as it is a cause for Palestinians, is also a
cause for Arabs and Muslims everywhere. It
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