Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem

Communiqué from Hizb ut-Tahrir

The talks on the final status took place at the Camp David resort, in the U.S. state of Maryland on 11th July 2000, after a series of sessions undertaken by the participating Palestinian delegation, headed by senior officials of the so-called Palestine Liberation Organisation, which, ever since it was established by America in 1964, has taken it upon itself to proceed towards winding up the issue. Jamal Abd-un-Nasser succeeded in persuading the traitor Yassir Arafat to join the Organisation in 1968, then the Organisation was recognised at the Rabat summit in 1974, as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinians. Since then, the issue was degraded from an issue that concerned all the Muslims to an issue that concerns solely the Arabs; then it was further twisted to become a dispute between the Palestinians and the Israelis. The issue today is undergoing its most critical periods and the last stages towards its settlement, now that all the other solutions have been neutralised, and now that fear and apprehension of this freak entity and of its protector America became ingrained, and now that every voice that calls for placing this issue on its original plane has been systematically muted and every voice that champions the declaration of Jihad and amassing the armed forces in order to rid the sacred places of the filth of the Jews and the squalor of those behind them from among the Kufr states has been silenced.

What really fills the heart with pain is that the concerned party, who are the Muslims, to whom the whole world once submitted, who conquered the fortresses and the bastions and whose armies destroyed the forces of evil and oppression, did not raise an eyebrow whilst their lands and their sanctities were sold and bargained for at the conference of peace and treason, to the point where peaceful coexistence with the usurpers became acceptable and even welcome. Has the viewpoint towards the issue become one of interests and gains, rather than one of resentment and hatred, and one of certitude of the capability to recover what has been usurped in terms of land and to teach the enemies a lesson that serves as an example to them and to whoever has any designs on the Islamic lands?

The Kuffar have succeeded in deceiving the Ummah into accepting this humiliating reality and to accept the initiatives aimed at settling their sacred cause. The Ummah failed to perceive the real implications of this issue, in order to place it on its rightful plane and solve it in a manner that returns the land to its rightful owners, and restore the standing of the Ummah after what she had experienced since her State was destroyed and the fortress of resistance was fragmented through the concoctions of the Kuffar and their allies from among the collaborators and hypocrites.

Once Britain succeeded in destroying the Islamic State, the protector of the lands, the honours and the sanctities, she established a homeland for the Jews by force, but she could not turn it into anything more than a puppet theatre and a pasture. Even after America had succeeded in turning this homeland into a state for the Jews through threats and intimidation, she could not make it more than a headquarters for a clan that lived for more than half a century facing the rifle and living constantly under the shadow of the cannon and the missile. Even if all the nations of the earth were to come together, they would never be able to turn the dog into a lion, nor dirt into gold, nor the Jews into statesmen, nor the vagabonds of a thousand years into rulers of a nation.

This is the reality of “Israel” and this is the reality of the Jews’ presence in Palestine. Hence, could the Muslims, after all this, remain silent over what occurs in terms of talks and treacheries, without witnessing in any part of the Muslims’ lands a reaction against this high treason? Even their meetings seem to be devoid of any rejection of this evil and this shame. How could they, after all this, refrain from working assiduously and from pressing hard to declare war against the Jews. How could they bear not to fight them?

The point at issue today is different to the time of the Balfour Declaration, and different to the day “Israel” was established. It is also different to the day when the Jews stormed an area of land greater than that of Palestine in 1967. The point at issue today is about the fall of the curtain over this affair. So who is to decide on the fall of this curtain? America, her allies and her irredeemable agents? Or will it be the Muslim archers of Egypt, or the staunch ones of Iraq, or the garrisoned warriors of Al-Sham? Or the rest of the Muslims from among the children of the Ummah, whose Islam will evoke them, thus deciding to uproot the Jews and their freak entity from the whole region and for good? The point at issue is merely an hour of perseverance, in which the Muslims would take a resilient stance, thus ending the farce perpetrated by their rulers and bringing matters back to how they used to be.

It has been fifty years since the nations of Kufr and their states conspired to give the Jews a state, but they could not do so. Tens of traitors from among your rulers and hundreds of agents have been deceived from among your children, have supported Kufr against Islam and helped the Kuffar against the Muslims but, despite this, they all failed in their attempt at turning Palestine into the state of “Israel”. They also failed to give the invasion of the land an aspect of legitimacy, not even a distorted one. Hence, why do you wish to be told today that you have by choice conceded to the usurping Kuffar the right to settle in the Islamic lands and to the Jews to remain in the land that they had usurped and live like your brethren, and like Jews and Kuffar, enjoying what you would enjoy in terms of sovereignty, authority, dominion and might?
 
Those who are planning the rise of the Palestinian state are the very ones who planned the rise of the state of “Israel”. They are the ones who prepared the general mood to accept these two states, after they had engrossed the Ummah in the cheap struggle that consolidated the entity of the Jews in the region. They are the ones who sowed, amidst the Muslims, despair from repelling the Jews and banishing them from their lands. This Palestinian state will only act as a tool to protect the Jews, like the neighbouring states did during 50 years of distorted resistance.
 
The so-called Palestinian state, which Arafat and his mob are working towards establishing, and for which they are relinquishing the rest of Palestine and a struggle that lasted over 50 years and resulted in a catalogue of calamities, destruction and setbacks, is merely designed to lend legitimacy to the Jewish entity so that it becomes an acceptable entity in the region; this is the American solution to the issue of Palestine, which Washington had endeavoured to achieve for more than forty years. This state will only increase the division and fragmentation of the Islamic Ummah instead of uniting her as a whole under one single political entity, that would undertake to liberate what has been usurped in terms of land and deliver it from the claws of the Jews.

O Muslims!

What is happening nowadays on the scene and what happened a few days ago in Camp David, and before that in Madrid, Oslo, Taba, Wye Plantation, Sharm Al-Shaikh and Stockholm among other stations of treason in whose tunnels the brokers of land and servants had entered, is designed to make you despair in order to accept their fallout. Hence, do not be beguiled by these talks progressing or stumbling, nor by being difficult or smooth. Do not be deceived by the portrayal of their treacherous stances as being heroism and steadfastness, for these are designed to delude you into believing that the land and sacred sites’ brokers are struggling to preserve the land, and so that what they agree upon becomes acceptable to you. The longer the talks go on, the more time they have to test your stances, for they fear that you may take a proud stance and stand up tothem. The rounof talks are organising and the referendums they claim they are prepared to carry out are but to implicate you in their treason so that they may exact a “legitimacy” from you; hence, do not allow them to achieve their schemes nor to sell your lands, nor to accept the presence of the Jews over your lands. Neither Yassir Arafat, nor the PLO, nor all the rulers of the Arab states are commissioned by you to concede Palestine to the Jews, nor to hand over one single inch or an atom of dust of Palestine to the Jews. Besides, no Muslim at all has the right to concede one single inch of Palestine to any Kafir from among the Kuffar of the world, let alone concede it to the Jews, the most abject creatures of Allah (swt).
 
O glorious Ummah!

We are witnessing together the calamity nearing in its ugliest of forms, we are sensing together the treason reaching its climax and we are witnessing the blessed land of Palestine being sold under our noses; yet, we do not see the ray of hope that would prevent the calamity from occurring and would return matters to the way they used to be, unless we perceive the solution and unless we sense the path so that we could stand together and face the conspiracies of the Kuffar, their agents and their allies, which are concocted against us and against one of the most sacrosanct of our causes. By Allah, we have no solution except for what our Islam dictates to us and we have no path except for the one our Deen has paved for us. We are indeed capable today of settling this issue if we returned to Allah (swt) and if we consolidated our link with Him and sought help from Him. We are capable of settling this issue if we were evoked by sincerity, the seeking of martyrdom, the sacrificing of bodies and souls for the sake of Allah’s Word reigning supreme, while declaring loud and clear that none of the Muslims reserves the right to concede or negotiate in order to concede one single inch of the land of Palestine to any Kafir from among the Kuffar of the world, let alone to the Jews, the most abject creatures of Allah (swt).
 
Allah (swt) says: T.M.Q. “O you who believe, obey Allah and His Messenger and do not turn away from him while you hear * Nor be like those who said we heard but listen not.” [8-20,21]

Hizb ut-Tahrir

1st Jumada-l-Oolah 1421h
1st August 2000

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