Recently there has been an increase in the fierce criminal attack carried out by the occupying Jewish entity against Palestine, its people and its holy sites, which includes settlement expansion and its encouragement in Jerusalem, Hebron and other parts of the West Bank, and assassinations, and the demolition of homes in Jerusalem and attacks on property and the burning of farms, and the desecration of Masjid al-Aqsa, and the excavations that threaten its pillars, and the latest of these crimes, the plans to divide Masjid al-Aqsa between the Muslims and the Jews, which coincided with a draft resolution to make the division of the al-Aqsa sanctuary and the Jews praying in it legal in the Jewish Knesset Parliament, not to mention the presence of indications of the occupation entity’s intentions to start building a “separation wall” in the Jordan valley.

The response of the Arab foreign ministers to the crimes of the occupation after their assembly in Cairo was humiliating and degrading. They agreed to resort to calling for the United Nations General Assembly and UNESCO to put the actions of “Israel” on the table for inquisition. We in Hizb ut Tahrir see that the true response to the crimes of the Jewish occupation entity is by moving the armies of the Ummah against this entity to abolish it and free Palestine completely and rid its people and Masjid al-Aqsa of the crimes of the occupation, and we assert the following:

The shameful disgrace of the Palestinian Authority and the Arab regimes is what made the occupation entity douse in the blood of the people of Palestine and increase its crimes. The Palestinian Authority surrendered most of Palestine to the Jews and confined the conflict to international forums on the ’67 borders and ensured the legitimacy of the Jewish entity in what was occupied in 1948. This Palestinian Authority returned to the treacherous negotiations after America had inflicted it with shame and humiliation. It agreed to return to negotiations after it swallowed all its arrogant statements, without a clear base for negotiations and without the halting of settlements, and it continues its security coordination with the occupation, cultural and economic normalization.

As for the Arab regimes that left Palestine and its people as prey to the occupation and did not move its armies to free them, they rush to maintain the occupation entity’s security and made all the fronts cool and peaceful to the occupation through agreements that protect its security; the Jordanian, Syrian and Egyptian regimes signed a criminal agreement with it, and Iran’s party in Lebanon signed a truce with the occupation and turned its weapons on their brothers’ chests in al-Sham, supporting the tyrant of al-Sham that secured the borders of the occupation for more than forty years. Under the Egyptian regime in the era of Mubarak the foreign minister of the occupation was allowed to announce a war on Gaza from Cairo, and in the era of Mursi made the Hamas government sign a truce with the occupation that protects its security and committed all factions to it, and in the era of Mursi and the Putschists Egyptian forces carried out a fierce attack against the resistance in the Sinai and demolished the tunnels to maintain the security of the Jewish entity.

The crocodile tears that are shed by the Palestinian Authority and the sheepish regimes cannot erase their crimes, for they are the partners of the occupation entity in their continuous crimes, and it is they who protect its borders, and it is they who placed the issue of Palestine in the hands of the enemies of the Ummah, from America, Russia and Europe to the oppressive international forums like the United Nations and the unjust criminal organizations that emanate from it.

So wait for the day when the Ummah takes them by the throat and punishes them for their desertion and disgrace, and the torment of the hereafter is greater and more severe, if they understand.

Palestine, its people and its Aqsa are waiting for the day when the shouts of Allahu Akbar will rise from the marching armies, and its planes, tanks and bullets of its soldiers will eradicate the bastions of the Jews and their roots, so they will be rid of the crimes of this occupation and the Palestinian Authority that cooperates with it. We in Hizb ut Tahrir work within the Ummah and with it for this day by taking the leaders of the Ummah and delivering them to the Righteous Khilafah that implements Allah’s law and makes Jihad for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى, and moves the armies that the people of Palestine are waiting for with believing and content hearts, and on that day the believers will rejoice in the victory from Allah سبحانه وتعالى.

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ اصْبِرُواْ وَصَابِرُواْ وَرَابِطُواْ وَاتَّقُواْ اللّهَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ

“O you who believe! Be steadfast; be supreme in steadfastness; be firm on the battlefield; and have taqwa of Allah; so that hopefully you will be successful.”

(Ali-Imran, 3:200)

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Palestine