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Internationalizing The City Of Jerusalem Is Rejected - The Supreme Islamic League
8 June 2009
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Supreme Islamic League in the occupied city of Jerusalem said Saturday that any attempt from any party to internationalize the city was strongly rejected, and would be opposed with firmness. In a press release it issued, the SIL pointed out, "The people of Palestine in particular, and the rest of Muslims world-wide had rejected the idea of internationalizing the city of Jerusalem since it was first proposed in 1947 as part of UN resolution to divide Palestine between Jews and Arabs, and the main reason for that rejection was the article pertaining to Jerusalem". It added, "Since then, all the projects to internationalize the city were strongly confronted, rejected, and foiled; yet, here comes [US president} Barack Obama reviving the proposal again with the pretext that the city comprises the three religions, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism". Moreover, the SIL explained that Jerusalem was first handed over to Muslims peacefully during the era of the second Muslim Caliph Omar Bin Al-Khattab, who gave Christians in Palestine the pledge of safety, which Muslims preserved over the past 14 centuries and until now. "There were no synagogues in the city at that time, but if there were any, Omar would have given the same pledge to preserve those synagogues", the SIL underlined in the statement. In this regard, the SIL stressed the sanctity of the city for Muslims, and that it constitutes part of Muslim faith, and thus, Muslims would protect and preserve the Muslim identity of the city at all cost. Since the city fell under the Israeli occupation in 1967, the successive Israeli governments strived and still are striving hard to judaize the city and to distort its Muslim and Christian landmarks. Finally, the SIL supported the religious edict issued by scholars of the Muslim Ummah prohibiting internationalizing the city or conceding, selling, and exchanging an inch of its soil. The PA ignores the roadmap’s part related to settlement activities Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the acting speaker of the PLC, stated Saturday that the PA in Ramallah implements the first part of the roadmap plan through hunting the Palestinian resistance fighters and does not consider the other side of this plan which stipulates an end to all settlemetn activities in the West Bank and judaization in occupied Jerusalem. This came during his speech at a women’s march organized by Hamas at noon today in protest at the frenzied campaigns carried out by the PA security apparatuses against the Palestinian resistance fighters in the West Bank. “What are your goals? Is it the satisfaction of the Zionist enemy,” Dr. Bahar said addressing the PA team in Ramallah, highlighting that the killing of Palestinian resistance fighters in Qalqilia would be the beginning of victory and liberation. The acting speaker also criticized those who voiced optimism about US president Barack Obama’s statements in Cairo in which he demanded Israel to stop settlement activities, saying that Israel would not stop the annexation of Palestinian lands in order to expand its settlements. In a related context, Dr. Atef Odwan, a member of the Hamas parliamentary bloc, said that there is a joint policy agreed upon by both Abbas’s authority in Ramallah and the Israeli occupation aimed at liquidating the Palestinian resistance fighters in the West Bank whether they are wanted or not. Dr. Odwan underlined that the PA-Israeli joint aim and their alliance to liquidate the Palestinian resistance became more crystal clear following the successive events in the past ten days. The lawmaker urged the Palestinian resistance fighters, in light of the PA-Israeli vicious attack waged against them, to defend themselves by all means, stressing at the same time the need for the popular support for the resistance against the PA-Israeli alliance.
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