1 August 2001

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

The change in Zionist aggression necessitates qualitative leap in the struggle

“If then any one transgresses the prohibition against you, transgress ye likewise against him.”

Yesterday the enemy committed a new massacre killing eight of our people including two of the political leaders, the martyrs Jamal Mansour and Jamal Salim.

A few days ago other massacres were committed in Fara refugee camp, Khalil, Bethlehem and Gaza strip in which scores of civilians were killed in addition to members of our people’s resistance organizations.

Then there was the serious step of storming and desecrating the holy Aqsa Mosque by enemy soldiers and policemen and the attempt to lay down the foundation stone of their alleged temple on the ruins of the Aqsa!!

Our patient, Mujahid Palestinian people:

Our honest Arab and Islamic masses:

This means that Sharon is committing continuous attritional massacres and an all-out war of annihilation … this means a serious qualitative change in the aggression that necessitates an important and inevitable leap in the struggle on the part of the Palestinian people and the Arab and Islamic peoples.

Our steadfast people on the land of Palestine:

The inevitable Palestinian change should entail:

1-an open confrontation in each and every part in Palestine using all means.

2-mobilizing all Palestinian combat potentials: the factions, police and all those owning weapons in the Palestinian Authority and among our people.

It is not religiously or nationally acceptable that guns of tens of thousands within the PA remain curbed in face of such Zionist massacres! All Palestinians are targeted, so let all of them participate in the combat and the defense.

3-there should be a serious plan in which all should cooperate to terminate once and for all the dangers of agents who serve as the enemy’s eyes and dirty tools.

4-there should be no other alternative to resistance and intifada. All those advocating more contacts with the enemy, a ceasefire and dealing with American and Western attempts to calm down and end the intifada should shut up! All must unite over the resistance program.

Our Arab and Islamic masses everywhere:

It is a shame on Arabs and Muslims to stand idle by vis-à-vis the daily and continuous extermination of an Arab, Islamic people on the land of Isra’ wal Mi’rage!

There is no excuse today for the Nation for not shouldering its duty towards Palestine and its people.

Consequently, it is high time for an Arab and Islamic change to take place quickly and seriously. This necessitates among other things:

1-Jihad against the Zionist Jews in this stage is a compulsory duty on all not only the Palestinian people, but rather on each and every Arab and Muslim concerned with the Aqsa, the first Muslim Qibla, and concerned with Al-Quds and Palestine, and concerned with his Palestinian brother who is slaughtered daily and who is fighting alone with modest weapons against an army equipped with a huge military arsenal and supported by all world Jews.

It is no longer acceptable to say that Arabs and Muslims are not capable of launching Jihad! Rather each and every Arab and Muslim is capable of launching Jihad against the Zionist Jews when he is true with himself and really intends to perform this duty.

Don’t the Jews fight your brothers and target you all whether in the east or west?

What will Sharon and the Zionist entity’s criminals do if they finish off your brothers in Palestine, God forbid?! And will regret be of any use then?

Each and every Arab and Muslim believing in these facts that lie before his very eyes should be content with Allah’s permission to defend himself, his brothers and sanctities: “To those against whom war is made, permission is given (to fight), because they are wronged; and verily, Allah is Most Powerful for their aid.”

2-The Islamic and national movements and factions in our Nation should bear their responsibility in this open and ferocious battle. Otherwise what will they utter before Almighty Allah? What will they tell history and future posterity? What will they say to the convoys of martyrs: the children, women, the old and men?

Why is the Palestinian, Arab, Muslim always the target of murder at the hands of Zionist occupiers? why don’t the Zionist Jews be targets as well?

Do not wait for that from the Palestinian people alone, for despite their presence in a big prison and tightening siege around their cities, villages and camps, they fight with all what they can and sacrifice their dearest men, heroes and leaders. It is about time to perform your role and Almighty Allah will ask you about that; and history does not have mercy on anyone. Your life is meaningless without sharing your brothers in Palestine in the duty of Jihad.

“O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the Cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter.”

O Allah we have said what we have to say so be our witness

The Islamic Resistance Movement
Hamas – Palestine
Wednesday 11^th Jumada Awal 1422H
1^st August 2001AD