The secret documents and minutes of the negotiations are gushing out like the flood of a dam. They expose the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian ‘Liberation’ Organisation for all to see, while uncovering the false nature of their media heroics, lies and wrong stances.
They look for “creative” solutions for Masjid al-Aqsa, and present the Israeli’s with the biggest “Yerushalayim” in history, on a platter. They exchange, with the enemy occupier, one parcel of usurped land for another similar parcel of usurped land, and behind the scenes they abandon the majority of al-Quds, including its oldest districts – no matter how long they claimed they were holding firmly onto it. Their security coordination ensures the safety of the enemy occupier, and hands over our sons so they may be imprisoned and killed; they target the Masajid and the Jumu’ah khutbahs, to please America and the Israelis… the list goes on.
In the light of the details that these documents have revealed, we say the following:
1. Everything these documents reveal only emphasises what we said the day the PLO was formed, in which we specifically warned the people of Palestine and the Muslims as a whole of the goal for which the PLO was established: recognition of the Jewish state and surrendering the majority of Palestine. Likewise they emphasise what we have said regarding the Palestinian Authority (PA), since it was formed and until today: it will complete the work the PLO started, adding to this the protecting of the Israeli entity and its settlers, while concentrating on the killing, destruction and expulsion of the people of Palestine.
2. The simple fact of designating the issues as ‘the final settlement’ means that the PLO and the PA intend, with premeditation and awareness, to hand a document of surrender of the majority of Palestine over to the Israeli occupation.
3. Whosoever accepts negotiation over a single part of Palestine is not angered by negotiations over any another part, which emphasises the foolishness and criminality of any negotiations on Palestine and her people, as well as its status as betrayal of Allah, His Messenger and the Muslims.
4. The steps taken by the PLO and the PA regarding the Palestinian issue do not represent the interests of the Islamic Ummah, her deen or her shariah; instead they represent the interests of the colonialist powers.
5. We emphasise once more that the land of Palestine is a waqf (permanent trust) for the Muslims of the entire world, since the beginning of the mission of the Prophet (saw) until the day of judgement. No man possesses the right to surrender a hand span of it, whether PLO, PA or even the Palestinian people as a whole, who are less than 1% of the Muslims globally.
6. The issue of Palestine currently rests in the hands of a small gang, distant from the culture of the Ummah, who give them not the slightest regard. Instead the colonialists – whether Israelis, Americans, Europeans or Russians – are pleased with them, and attempt to confer on them international legitimacy in order to end the issue of Palestine through them. This is one of the greatest operations of political deception and misguidance in the history of the Islamic Ummah.
Indeed it is waajib (obligatory) upon the people of Palestine and the Muslims generally, particularly the influential scholars, politicians, academics and thinkers to say openly to the men of the PLO and the PA, “take your hands off Palestine, you don’t represent anyone except yourselves! Palestine, the blessed land, is not your property or the property of your fathers. Who are you, and who entrusted you with the right to surrender a speck of her to the Israeli occupiers?” You must raise your voices, because silence over the practices of the PA and the PLO towards the Palestinian issue is a great sin, which Allah will account you for on Yaum ul-Qiyamah. So raise your voices and fear none but Al-Azeez Al-Jabbar.
This is a message to all people, so that they may be warned by it, and know that He is the only God, and so that those who have minds may take heed. [TMQ Ibrahim: 52]
Hizb ut-Tahrir Media Office in Palestine
24th January 2011
Notes on translation:
A. Title paraphrases this verse, “He will say, “Remain despised therein and do not speak to Me. [TMQ Surat ul Mu’minoon: 08]
B. The first paragraph paraphrases this verse, “But they turned away [refusing], so We sent upon them the flood of the dam, and We replaced their two [fields of] gardens with gardens of bitter fruit, tamarisks and something of sparse lote trees. “ [TMQ Sura Saba: 16]
C. The PLO was founded in 1964. Hizb ut-Tahrir published many leaflets in the same year warning the Ummah that the organisation was founded, not for liberation, but for negotiating ‘peace’ with the Israeli entity, on behalf of the treacherous Arab regimes.
