15 July 2000

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

There is no justification for Arab and Islamic
silence towards the Camp David conspiracy

The convening of the Camp David summit in the American capital grouping US president Bill Clinton, prime minister of the Zionist enemy Ehud Barak and head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Yasser Arafat, leads the Palestine cause to a very serious stage that it never experienced over its history.

No doubt Arafat’s Authority is largely responsible for deterioration of the Muslims’ central cause. However, this does not mean that Muslims are not involved in that sin if they remain silent towards surrendering the holy land and the first Qibla to grandsons of the monkeys and pigs.

The Ummah has passed through times of weakness during which its enemies such as the crusades, the moguls and others had the upper hand but he Ummah, despite its weakness, never recognized what the usurpers had occupied of Muslim land. The Ummah remained pending hopes on an end to the period of weakness and a return of Jihad to uproot the usurpers. One such example was the Hitteen battle in which the hero Salahuddin was able to wipe out crusade armies and managed to liberate most of Sham areas and restored Al-Quds (Jerusalem) to Islamic sovereignty after a hundred years of crusade occupation. When the Ummah was weak again in face of the moguls, capital of the caliphate rule Baghdad fell in their hands along with other Islamic cities. However, the Ummah did not give up and two other leaders Dhaher Beybars and Qutuz were able to defeat the moguls in the battle of Ein Galout on the land of Palestine.

The Ummah’s current weakness, during which those on whom the wrath of Allah is ordained have seized a part of Muslim land that is dear to hearts of all Muslims and established on it their alleged entity, is nonetheless a temporary period. It does not mean that the Ummah should accept solutions endorsing the Zionists’ rights on the land of Palestine as the negotiations in Camp David now target. The excuse that the PA represents the Palestinian people and that its decision was theirs is a kind of evasion from responsibility and an unacceptable pretext. Events have proven that Arafat’s Authority only represented a limited section of the Palestinians and acted in accordance with personal interests along with American and Zionist pressures that made it ready to give up the Palestinian people’s rights in their country and lands. That Authority further served as the persecutor of the living popular forces who are insisting on the Jihad and resistance option. It also worked for corrupting the Palestinian people’s moral values and spreading indecency in their lines.

Hence, any agreement concluded by that Authority with the Zionist enemy is null and void for that Authority represents only itself. Our right in our land and sanctities will remain solid regardless of the lapse of time and of heavy sacrifices.

We ask the Muslim Ummah, especially the Islamic movements, groups and parties, to shoulder the responsibility towards that sacred cause. They should all check that Authority’s concessions and should warn it against repercussions of capitulation. They should also voice out loud such a stance whether through issuing communiqués, organizing angry demonstrations, torching Zionist flags and condemning the Authority’s humiliating stands through speeches and lectures. They further should declare insistence on Al-Quds, with both its western and eastern sectors, as a sacred Islamic city that was and will remain for the Ummah of Isra’ not for the killers of prophets. They also should declare their rejection of the American-Zionist conspiracy that is currently being hatched in Camp David and refuse its consequences. They must genuinely support steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their Jihad movements to restore the rights, abort the Zionist project and purge the sanctities from the dirt of Jewish occupation.

That is the least the Ummah should do out of its duty towards Palestine so that Al-Quds would not be judaized, the Aqsa demolished, the Azan silenced, the star of David hoisted over the lands of Palestine and the jews allowed to penetrate all Islamic countries.

“Be not weary and faint-hearted, crying for peace, when ye are the uppermost: for Allah is with you, and will never put you in loss for your (good) deeds.” (47/35)

The Islamic Resistance Movement
(Hamas – Palestine)
Saturday 15 July 2000