Press Release
The Arab Summit in Bahrain, Renewed Betrayal and Disappointment
(Translated)

The Arab Summit, held on Thursday, 16 May 2024, in Bahrain, called in its final statement for the deployment of international UN peacekeeping forces in the Palestinian territories to protect civilians until the implementation of the two-state solution. The Arab leaders collectively called for an international conference under the auspices of the United Nations to resolve the Palestinian issue based on the two-state solution and in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions, aiming for a peaceful coexistence with “Israel”. The countries called for an immediate cessation of the war, the withdrawal of the “Israeli” army from all areas of the sector, and the provision of humanitarian aid. The statement also called on all Palestinian factions to unite under the umbrella of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which it considered the legitimate and sole representative of the Palestinian people.

Arab rulers continue their path of betrayal and disappointment regarding the issue of Palestine, its people, and its fighters with disgraceful and shameful decisions that reflect nothing but humiliation, inferiority, and deep collusion with America and colonial powers. They call for the deployment of additional international occupation forces in Palestine under the guise of international forces and peacekeeping forces, placing Palestine under the clutches of Jews, America, Britain, and all criminal colonial countries, thus bringing together all the forces of evil, colonialism, and corruption against Palestine and its people.

Instead of mobilizing the Muslim armies stationed in their barracks to rescue Gaza, liberate Al-Aqsa Mosque, and all of Palestine—an achievable task within hours—they have settled for issuing statements of condemnation and appealing for a ceasefire to the war and the delivery of aid, fearing for their precarious thrones from populations ready to rise, rather than out of concern for the people of Palestine.

These rulers have not only abandoned the people of Gaza but have further promoted and called for leaving Palestine to international resolutions and legitimacy, hoping to achieve the treacherous two-state solution that leaves three-quarters of Palestine to the Jewish entity to live there in peace and security, alongside a fragile and submissive state in the remaining parts of Palestine. They urged the Palestinian factions and movements to operate under the umbrella of the PLO, which has undertaken the task of compromising Palestine and granting full legitimacy to the Jews in the blessed land of Palestine.

What prevents the rulers of Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the Arab countries from rushing to support Palestine and mobilizing the great armies of the Ummah, other than their betrayal of Allah, His Messenger, and the believers?

These treacherous agents aim to consolidate and perpetuate the betrayal in the Blessed Land of Palestine and want the people of Palestine and the factions and movements to be part of their treachery and subservience to establish the Jewish entity, which spreads corruption, kills women, children, and the elderly, and desecrates Al-Aqsa Mosque and the rest of the Blessed Land.

The Islamic Ummah and the sincere people of power should reject these rulers and their conspiracies; and overthrow their decaying thrones to establish a Khilafah Rashidah (rightly guided Caliphate) on the method of the Prophethood, uniting the Ummah and mobilizing its armies towards a liberated and rejoicing Palestine. We have had enough humiliation and disgrace under these criminal rulers.

[يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ اسْتَجِيبُواْ لِلّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُم لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْ وَاعْلَمُواْ أَنَّ اللهَ يَحُولُ بَيْنَ الْمَرْءِ وَقَلْبِهِ وَأَنَّهُ إِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ * وَاتَّقُواْ فِتْنَةً لاَّ تُصِيبَنَّ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُواْ مِنكُمْ خَآصَّةً وَاعْلَمُواْ أَنَّ اللهَ شَدِيدُ الْعِقَابِ]

“O you who have believed, respond to Allah and to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life. And know that Allah intervenes between a man and his heart and that to Him you will be gathered.” [Surat Al-Anfal:24]

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in the Blessed Land – Palestine