News & Comment

Falling out of Favor

News:

Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas calls on African states to join a multilateral mechanism to discuss the conflict between “Israel” and the Palestinians after spurning any US role in such negotiations. “Pursuing peace efforts requires the establishment of a multilateral mechanism under the umbrella of the United Nations. We call on the African Union and its member states to have representatives in this mechanism,” he told an African Union meeting in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Sunday.(Press TV 29/1/2018) Comment: Donald Trump announced that the US embassy would move to Jerusalem late in 2017. He then cut assistance to projects in Palestine as a punishment for the Palestinian Authority (PA) not conforming to US negotiation plans for the so called peace process. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump further put pressure on the PA, saying “That money is on the table, and that money is not going to them unless they sit down and negotiate peace,” “Because I can tell you that “Israel” does want to make peace. And they’re going to have to want to make peace, too, or we’re going to have nothing to do with it any longer.” (Washington Post) Selling oneself to America, a colonizer and now led by a pure capitalist bully, who uses money to manipulate, Mahmoud Abbas is running from pillar to post, previously asking the EU to recognize Palestinian rights as a full member of the UNSC and now going to the African Union seeking any kind of assistance and pressure. The acceptance of the current secular political framework in dealing with the problem of the Zionist entity and America’s continuous meddling in the Ummah’s affair is the real problem. It was the secular PLO that turned its back on the aim of liberating Palestine and accepted the two state solution. Then it was the secular PA that agreed to settle for the West Bank and Gaza Strip, working as an incapacitated caretaker for the Zionists and taking what it could and giving up much more. The EU and the AU are also part of the same secular political framework. The political tools of manipulation, self-interest and greed are the values used by all the major political blocs and institutions today. Assistance from IMF, WB, EU, AU, USA, UN and so on are all tainted with the same values. Separating the issue of Palestine from the Islamic solution has led the PA to being fully exposed and also shows that it has failed to see the khair in the Ummah and the potential to liberate this land according to the Islamic criteria. Knowing political realities with clarity and working to change them was shown by the liberator of Palestine, Salahadin Al Ayubi (ra), who despite years of barbaric Crusader occupation and division in the Ummah, at the time, applied the Islamic solution alone to the issue of Palestine. Entering into negotiations and deals on behalf of Muslims and for the sake of the blessed land but removing Allah’s (swt) judgment on this will never lead one to success, but only to humiliation as we are seeing today. Allah (swt) tells us very clearly in Surah al Munafiqun Verse 8

﴿وَلِلَّهِ الْعِزَّةُ وَلِرَسُولِهِ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلَكِنَّ الْمُنَافِقِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ﴾

“And to Allah belongs [all] honor, and to His Messenger, and to the believers, but the hypocrites do not know.” The PA is now falling out of favor with the one it decided to favor when it sold out the Ummah and betrayed Allah (swt), the Messenger (saw), and the legacy of Islam in this land. Begging anyone who will listen for favors and recognition is all we have seen since the so called peace process began. May Allah (swt) hasten the return of the rightly guided Khilafah (Caliphate) on the method of the Prophethood, as this alone will provide the true Islamic political criteria needed to govern Muslims and all their lands.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

by Nazia Rehman