- The conspiracy to occupy and dominate Palestine began since the late nineteenth century. But the Khilafah "Caliphate", especially during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, may Allah (swt) have mercy on him, was an impregnable obstacle in front of this conspiracy in spite of its weakness and its degeneration at the time, and may Allah (swt) bless the Sultan when he said to the Zionists: "If the Khilafah "Caliphate" falls one day, you will get Palestine without a price." This is what actually happened.

-  The conflict in Palestine is not primarily with the Jews who occupy it, it is with the international will, which was behind the founding of the Jewish entity (the Balfour Declaration), which assumes its protection and welfare to this day, and so the battle is greater than being limited to the people of Palestine and the Jewish occupiers.

-  Britain lodged the Jewish entity in Palestine, creating a crisis in the heart of the Arab world, in order to distract the peoples' efforts in the region from working for the liberation from colonialism and the expulsion of Western influence from the countries to engaging in a forged issue that allows the West to be the reference instead of being the enemies to be fought and its influence to be expelled from the land.

- The international will, starting from Britain through to the United States, was able through regional rulers to carry out this plan, they participated in the surrender of Palestine since 1948, and were able to exploit the Palestinian issue to maintain their thrones through the allegation that it is the issue above all issues and it is not permissible for any other issue to divert away from it. The regimes of the region traded with Palestinian issue, and then sold it when it established the PLO and emerged as the supporter for the armed struggle organizations

-  Palestinian resistance movements embraced the arms of the regimes that traded with them, their excuse is that the resistance must have solid base to stand on and to launch from, so the sheep were sheltered by wolves.

-  The stability of the Jewish entity on the land of Palestine throughout the sixty-five years is not produced by the strength of this entity, in reality it is more fragile than a spider's webs. But it is stabilized by the state of paralysis that is plaguing the Ummah which lost the ability to reach the spider's web. In the few cases that showed its will it was was incapable to implement its will, because they lost its central nervous system with the fall of the Islamic State in which through it, could enable it to express its identity and implement its will and aspirations.

- The classification of the issue of Palestine as an issue for the Palestinians alone is a disgrace if not betrayal for the issue. The issue was assigned through the establishment of the PLO and the subsequent resistance organizations to the weakest link in the Ummah, they are the people of Palestine, the prisoners of war who are impacted and do not have land to launch from for the Liberation of Palestine. And the armies surrounding the occupied land are exempted from this sacred mission entrusted by Shariah to the Islamic Ummah, especially the neighboring countries of the occupied territory.

-  All the Palestinian organizations are involved in this offence when they made their demands from neighboring countries limited to support, sympathy, solidarity and shelter; thus agreed to the resignation of the ring countries and neighboring countries of their responsibility to liberate Palestine. They also contributed to their isolation when they linked their policies to some regimes, their alliances often went in opposite direction of the Ummah's issues in the region, and that is when it allied with regimes hostile to Islam and the Ummah. It is ironic that we were asked for so long to accept that resistance is allied to puppet regimes and a traitor to Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw) and the believers, like the regime of Syria and Iran in recent years, and the Iraqi and Jordanian regimes before...

- Making the issue of Palestine an issue exclusive to the Palestinians, is one of the episodes in the segmentation of the Muslim Ummah's issues and to deter carrying a single issue, namely the revival from its decline and weaknesses through the resumption of the Islamic way of life, through the establishment of an Islamic State, which brings together the Ummah and regains its identity by the return of its sovereignty of Islam and the Sultan of the Ummah, and expels the Western influence from the land, and to hold on firmly to the factors of inherent power, to move them towards the Liberation of Palestine and other occupied countries, and to address the complex and interlocking problems arising from the paralysis of the will and the decision in the Ummah for over a century.

- The series of negotiations that began years ago with the occupying Jewish entity in order to reach a settlement with it and to bring peace to place a state of war is a full treason against Allah, His Prophet and the believers, as it is based on recognizing the right of this entity to exist on the land of Palestine, even if on one part of it, but is the recognition of its land, which was approved by the successive UN resolutions, a territory which constitute about 85% of the occupied Palestine, and which has become the world - including many of the countries of the Islamic world - call it "Israel".

- The history of negotiations proved virtually beyond any reasonable doubt that the international will and the will of the Jewish entity teamed up to make the negotiations a way to drain the forces of the people of Palestine and to waste their energies and divert their thinking about the fateful conflict to liberate the land from the abomination of the Jews to the mere detailed bargaining related to selfish daily living demands, which led the main enemy, which sponsors the Jewish entity - the international system along with its agents of the rulers of the Muslims - to become brokers that arbitrates between the victim and the executioner. The closest example of this is these days, is relying after the criminal aggression against the slaughtered Gaza to the agent-regime in Egypt, which has been for long the largest collaborator in the blockade imposed on the people of Gaza, to be the mediator between the Palestinian Coalition Authority and the Jewish entity. Even though the Shariah - as well as the perceived and living reality - dictates that this regime must be taken as an enemy for being one of the accomplices with the Jewish entity and international sponsors.

Allah Almighty says:

((وَلَا تَرْكَنُوا إِلَى الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا فَتَمَسَّكُمُ النَّارُ وَمَا لَكُمْ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ مِنْ أَوْلِيَاءَ ثُمَّ لَا تُنْصَرُونَ))

"And do not incline toward those who do wrong, lest you be touched by the Fire, and you would not have other than Allah any protectors; then you would not be helped" [Hud: 113]

- The request for international protection is a conspiracy against Palestine and is misleading, but cannot fool the sane. The one who thinks that the colonial international forces cares for the blood of Muslims or is concerned with the destruction of their homes is imagining it, on the contrary, they have been a tool in the killing of Muslims and destruction of their homes, as in Srebrenica, Afghanistan and elsewhere. And he is imagining or mislead if he assumes that the forces of countries that support the occupying Jewish state with money and equipment and provide political cover for its crimes will be a backer or peace for the people of Palestine!

The Palestinian Authority's request of international protection of these colonists is seeking to perpetuate the occupation of the Blessed Land  and will replace it with another occupation, which is the embedding of the pursuit of the Authority for the splitting of Palestine from its Islamic depth and extension, which is the pursuit for the destruction of Palestine at the hands of the neo-Crusaders. Rather, it exposes its purpose aimed to exploit the blood that is flowing in Gaza, for the implementation of the American project in the region with the so-called two-state solution! Before and after, it is disobedience to Allah (swt) who says:

((وَلَن يَجْعَلَ اللّهُ لِلْكَافِرِينَ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ سَبِيلاً))

"...and never will Allah give the disbelievers over the believers a way [to overcome them]." [An-Nisa: 141]

Gaza and Palestine are not looking for the protection of Ban Ki-moon or Obama or Holland or Cameron and do not see any sincerity in these colonists, but is looking forward for the likes of Al- Farouq and Salahuddin, the leaders out of their midst, that will move their armies to liberate the Blessed Land and teach the Jews and those who conspired with them a lesson that will make them forget the whispers of devils, and uproot their entity from Palestine from its roots.

- One who is watching this frustrating scene of the way the new rulers have dealt with the issue of Palestine might think that the revolutions were an evil on the Palestinian issue. But the outlook should be more far-reaching and of a wider horizon. As the revolutions are unfinished and the political movement in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen has barely begun.

The revolutions have started spontaneously in these countries without bearing any political project, as it was carrying a prominent Islamic energy that confined its inception to the rejection of injustice, tyranny and bullying practiced by the mighty tyrants over the decades of their rule of the countries.

However, the people of this country after they regained confidence in their ability to determine their own destiny and choose their regimes and determine their policies; and found themselves faced with the necessity of thinking in the political project that should replace the rotten political regimes imposed by the West and its agents on them for decades. This movement indicates since now that the Ummah will only choose the system of Islam for life, society, and the state. Even though it was selected emotionally and superficially within the limits of what was presented to it of the projects and political slogans, the reality emerging challenges it to deeply think about the political project of the real transition to the Islamic way of life again and restores the identity that it lost a century ago, and then the hope will be the largest and greatest for Palestine.

- Let us constantly remember that the first conqueror who opened Palestine, the Commander of the Faithful Omar Bin Al-Kattab (ra) was not a Palestinian, and that  Sultan Salhuddin Al-Ayubbi who liberated Al Quds from the occupying crusader was neither a Palestinian nor an Arab, and that the Khaleefah of the Muslims Sultan Abdul Hammed II who protected and guarded Palestine from the Zionist's conspiracy and refused to sell for tremendous amounts of gold was also neither Palestinian nor Arab, but they were all faithful leaders who were the best reflection of their Ummah and Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw) and those who believe were their support, unlike the rulers of this time who are sincere in loyalty to America and the West and their allies, the Jews. History proves, as well as the Shariah texts that while this Ummah was facing its enemies in its capacity as the Islamic Ummah and not descriptions of nationalism, patriotism or other, and under the Islamic banner, have always had the upper hand, which was the fulfillment of Allah's promise for it:

وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آَمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ الَّذِي ارْتَضَى لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْنًا يَعْبُدُونَنِي لَا يُشْرِكُونَ بِي شَيْئًا وَمَنْ كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُون

"Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them and that He will surely establish for them [therein] their religion which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security, [for] they worship Me, not associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves after that - then those are the defiantly disobedient". [An-Nur: 55]

Ahmad Al-Qasas

Head of Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir

Wilayah of Lebanon