Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem

The Middle-Eastern Issue

The success of Ehud Barak in the recent elections in (Israel) and the statements that he made with regard to his vision for the next phase and his relations with various parties fall within the wishes of the United States in settling the issue and its ramifications, namely the issues of the refugees, the final status of Al-Quds and the shape of the Palestinian state and its relationship with Jordan. The statements of Ehud Barak were in line with the other countries of the region and with the policy of the United States. He was quoted as saying during his speech before the Knesset on 6 July 1999, to win the vote of confidence: "The total victory of Zionism would not be complete until a comprehensive and secure peace is achieved with Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinians, while preserving the vital interests of the state of Israel." He added: "I say to president Hafiz Assad, that the new government of Israel is determined to achieve peace as soon as possible on the basis of the two United Nations resolutions 242 and 338." The pressure that the United States exerted on the outgoing Netanyahu government, the European harmony with this policy and the cries of Arab solidarity led by Syria and Egypt, then the Jordanian submission to the American conditions, followed by the new trends that emerged in the wake of king Hussein’s demise, all this had a major effect in Barak’s success and in the current transformations that are taking place within the (Israeli) society. This will strengthen the hand of Barak in proceeding according to the American plan. It will also alleviate any domestic confrontation against him. Hence, it will be easy for him to propose the issue of withdrawal from the Golan heights. The Yadut Ahranut newspaper reported that "The United States had drafted a host of detailed plans with regard to the security arrangements between Syria and Israel, and she will propose them to Barak. These plans include the deployment of America troops in the Golan." America’s praise of Syria’s stance just before Barak’s visit was aimed at preparing the atmosphere and exhorting the progress forward according to the formula that America wants.
 
Barak stated that the final solution would take up to 15 months, and this is aimed at winning more time and allowing all parties concerned to undertake the appropriate preparatory measures in order to proceed according to the formula of the final solution. In order to clarify the picture further within (Israel), Barak had stated earlier that: "It would be possible to achieve a comprehensive peace if it were based upon four pillars: Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon together, and obviously the Palestinians." He added: "I recognise the suffering of the Palestinian people, so let us work together in order to achieve a comprehensive peace that secures the future of both our peoples."
 
Barak mentioned during his meeting with Clinton in Washington a host of red lines, because these are a real problem from a geopolitical aspect, whether in terms of the manner in which the settlements are spread or in terms of the final status of Al-Quds. These red lines however do not affect the serious initiative to progress towards the solution, especially since Barak put the emphasis during his statement on the Palestinian people as oppose to the people of (Israel); he also put the emphasis on rejecting any multinational force to be deployed west of the Jordan River, so that the matter remains confined to Jordan, the Palestine Authority and (Israel), just like Washington had wanted in terms of the shape of the forthcoming state and the manner of its protraction.
 
Jordan and The Palestinian Authority will continue to reinforce the role of both Syria and Lebanon and their link to the peace process, while at the same time, they will coordinate with Egypt. The boosting of Syria and Lebanon’s role does not in any way mean that a peace agreement will be signed between them and (Israel) before reaching an agreement with the Palestinians. The rallying of the opposition groups around Arafat and Hamas’s hinting at resuming the military operations is merely designed to bolster Arafat’s negotiating position.
 
In order to promote progress in the peace process the way she wants it, America has exhorted the European states to offer their help to Jordan and to the Palestinian Authority and to write off Jordan’s debts. On the other hand, the return of Russia to boost her role in the Middle-East issue, as a sponsor of the peace process, indicates the seriousness in proceeding towards establishing the final solution to the crisis, especially now that the last decade had discharged a great deal of defeatism and surrender, which touched all the rulers of the Arab states, who rushed eagerly to please the United States and to embrace this freak entity, which is nowadays feeding these atmospheres that are filled with conspiracies against the Ummah and with abuse of her resources and her future.

The success of the United States in resuming what is referred to as the peace process will enable her to forge ahead with what she is concocting in terms of new policies for the Middle-Eastern region. These policies will cover what she is about to establish in terms of international relations and conventions, and in terms of what will secure her continuous unilateral dominance over the international situation. Hence, she set about calling for a range of democratic reforms, privatisation laws, free trade agreements and the rights of private ownership. These policies have effectively been put in motion by the ruling systems in the region. Furthermore, the United States endeavours to set up a host of regional, strategic and economic blocs, such as Iran and the GCC member states, and on the other side, there is the Turkish, Israeli and Jordanian strategic alliance which will curtail (Israel) and keep her prisoner within the nature of this alliance and within the sphere of the American influence.
 
As for the United States’ continued unilateral dominion over the international situation through her handling of the Middle-Eastern issue, this is reflected in the establishment of a host of new entities and the merging of other entities; the first of these entities will be the Palestinian state. It is also reflected in her endeavour to establish military bases, sign a host of military alliances and deploy her forces in various places which the Golan heights and Northern Iraq will not be the only ones.

America will be eager to turn her policies towards the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, as well as the refugees an existing and incorporated reality, especially now that she had made of these policies a fait accompli in Kosovo, i.e. Central Europe. Hence, it is expected that as soon as the talks between Syria and (Israel) resume, steps will be taken to seriously and practically review the positions of Iraq and the Kurdish issue in the region as a whole, for it is likely that the sanctions against Iraq will gradually be lifted, especially after America had shown some unusual flexibility towards the Chinese, French and Russian initiative and also the joint British and Dutch project. Meanwhile Kofi Annan continued his efforts to solve the Iraqi crisis. Meanwhile, Iraq’s return towards having normalised relations within the region has become imminent, especially in the wake of the statements made by Saddam Hussein, during the celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of the Baath party seizing power in Iraq. He encouraged the Arab states to proceed in the (peace process) after Barak’s arrival to the rule, and he expressed Iraq’s willingness to play a part in the process.

This is the fallout of the Middle-Eastern issue and all the implications surrounding it. The United States’ eagerness to grasp the issue and conduct all its episodes, together with the international and regional pressure that she had applied upon others to proceed in the (peaceful solution) and according to her own final designs for the region as a whole, is due to her genuine desire to tighten her grip and impose her hegemony upothe region. She realises that whocontrols the Middle-East can control the whole world. It is America who established the state of (Israel) and concentrated it as an alien body in the region, and she is now endeavouring to establish the (Palestinian state) in order to make a band from among the people of the region the protectors of her presence and to enable her to maintain her influence, through a bunch of collaborating rulers and political circles who sold themselves to Satan and gambled with the Ummah’s resources and future. The consequences of this current political situation will shift the area towards a new transformed era in its affiliation to the West, and in surrendering the resources to America from an international and a regional aspect. It will also be a new obstacle that will prevent the natural disentanglement from the noose of Kufr and from the hegemony of America’s surrogates who usurped from the Ummah her authority and enslaved people, unless the efforts were exhausted and the sacrifices were multiplied.

By establishing her total control over the Middle-Eastern issue, the United States will have, by the end of this century, effectively eliminated regionally the former European political influence over the region which was reflected in the outcomes of the "Sykes-Picot" treaty, after she had eliminated it internationally since the early seventies. This was the result of a host of changes that America occasioned in the structure of the ruling systems and the agents she had recruited as well as the political circles she had established to support them. It was also the result of concentrating the Jewish entity amidst us and making her puppets compete to embrace it, execute her plans and reinforce her hegemony.
 
The Europeans will acquire what America decides for them and what she will allow them to achieve in terms of investments, economic activities and construction projects, through the relationship of cooperation and under the umbrella of partnership for peace. As for the people of the region and the children of the Ummah, they are the ones who will have to shoulder the burden of determining their future and the future of the next generations, especially those who have pledged themselves as guardians of the Ummah’s Aqeedah. Anyone from amongst us whose veins carry the blood of dignity and who is nourished by his aspiration to see the light of Islam engulfing the entire earth, will have a heavy burden; his days will be long and his nights will be short. Anyone from amongst us who realises that the Islamic Ummah has for 14 centuries sacrificed rivers from the blood of her own children, as martyrs in the way of Allah, in order to spread His Deen, establish ascendancy for His Word, and salvage humanity from injustice, oppression and corruption, he must roll up his sleeves and join the nights with the days in order to uproot the influence of Kufr and its surrogates and circles, and to engage in a political strife in order to eradicate it, invalidate its values and corrupt concepts and rid humanity from its evils and extravagance, so that the values of the supreme Islamic Aqeedah may prevail in order to shade humanity with its justice and guidance and to illuminate the path of guidance and righteousness for all peoples and nations, instead of the darkness of ruin and corruption.
 
The states of Kufr, headed by America, realise that there is no intellectual vitality and no behavioural effectiveness with sublime values apart from the vitality of Islam and the personality of the Muslim believer. They sense the build-up of Islam, yet with no state for it, and they witness the struggle and the sacrifices of the Muslims, yet with not authority to shade them and no guardian to take them under his wing. Despite all this, their arrogance and their vainglory inspire them to prevent Islam from returning and to keep the Ummah subjugated under their oppression and injustice, no matter how much they pretended, how hard they tried to disguise behind their sheep’s clothing and no matter how many crocodile tears they shed. Allah (swt) described the likes of them by His saying: [8-36] "The unbelievers spend their wealth to hinder people from the path of Allah, and so will they continue to spend but in the end they will have only regrets and sighs. At length they will be overcome; and the unbelievers will be gathered together to Hell." T.M.Q.

This is the current position of the international situation and all the relevant fallout. Nevertheless, the states that assume the reins of the international situation do not remain constantly in the same position. Although it is unlikely for any genuine radical changes to occur at the international level and in the foreseeable future, within the human standards and according to the available information, in relation to states, peoples and nations, changes that may influence the nature of the current international situation, it is however only natural for the leading superpower in the world and the others to realise that human societies are in a constant scramble, struggle and competition, regardless of their number. These struggles flare up at times and cool off at other times, and sometimes, they may subside for a while. However, they do not remain static in the long term. Hence, the leading superpower will continue to design the plans and the styles towards the various issues, according to her priorities, from her own human specific viewpoint and according to the necessities of her interests. On the other face of the coin, the leading superpower will exhaust a great deal of her capabilities and energies on what she designs in terms of styles and preventive countermeasures and on what she establishes in terms of conventions aimed at preserving her hegemony and unilateral leadership, regardless of the other states’ opinions and regardless of whether they agreed or disapproved, and regardless of whether they became convinced by them or simply submitted to them. This will entail major negative outcomes and a host of telling effects especially if they were to pile up as time goes by. These styles, countermeasures and conventions will effect the relations of the leading superpower with other states and other issues, which will put her credibility, leadership and what she stand for on trial and under scrutiny. The omens of such undertakings have began to emerge when the American administration decided to impose custom duties on some European, Japanese and Brazilian commodities, ranging between 40 to 100%; something which contradicts what America is calling for in terms of a market economy and free trade agreements. Also America is facing a host of domestic problems, namely physical (terrorist) actions perpetrated by her own citizens, she is also facing the rise of a host of American ethnic and religious groups and gatherings attracting Americans of non European origins.

Out of these information and current events, and out of this profound political perception of the leading superpower’s reality, and what may become of this state and these relations in terms of changes that necessitate accurate pursuance and sound linkage, it is possible to determine the situation of the Islamic World, in order to eradicate America in her quality as a head of Kufr and a state of corruption. At the same time, the hope rests on those who work towards resuming the Islamic way of life to press their ranks closely together, rally their forces, gather the faculties of the Ummah and activate her dormant powers of goodness, under the international conditions that drive nations and various human societies to search for higher values and aspirations than the existing ones, amidst the fierce domestic struggles and the cauterisation by the corrupt values of the Western system and its economic, cultural and social policies, as well as its colonial legacies. Now that the means of diffusion, pursuance and knowledge have become diverse and sophisticated, it is no longer easy to conceal the facts from peoples and nations, and it is no longer easy to get away with the acts of deception and distortion in the long term. Hence, the policies of ecprivatisation, the markeconomy, the so called democracy and the fight against dictatorship will have direct adverse effects upon the relationship of the ruling factions and the political circles, with the peoples and the rest of the various sections of society. This will lead to instabilities in the viewpoint about the nature of the current relationships in society and will expose the reality of the authority that supervises such relationships. This in turn will pave the way, in an effective manner, to rob them of their sleep and to shake the earth beneath them. It will also develop peoples’ and nations’ desire to seek the right to determine the reality of their respective authorities. Hence, the antecedence in deciding which direction the settlement of this aspect should take will undoubtedly be in favour of those who seriously work in the field of resuming the Islamic way of life and within a sound programme. This necessitates from the Da'awah carriers to have a tremendous determination and a formidable mettle, to work assiduously towards pressing close together the ranks of their Ummah and to be her weapon in her war against the Kuffar, so that they succeed together in implementing Islam, uproot the influence of Kufr, restore the light of Islam and its political entity, remove the leading superpower from her position and rearrange the international relations according to what Islam stipulates in terms of justice and mercy.

Allah (swt) says: [9-33] "It is He Who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the Deen of Truth to proclaim it over all religions even though the unbelievers may detest it." T.M.Q.
 
The Media Forum of Hizb ut-Tahrir

14 Jumadah-l-Oolah 1420h
26 August 1999

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