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Publish Date : 21 June 2017 - 22:32

Qods’ Date of Destiny with Liberation



Kayhan Int’l Political Desk
       "If the world’s billion plus Muslims, each pour a bucket of water, Israel will be drowned.”  (Imam Khomeini)  
      This was not any burst of emotion on the part of that Sage of the Age, when he called for the eradication of the cancerous tumour known as Israel from the region.
      In fact, Imam Khomeini (RA), as a Man of God who was well acquainted with the past and whose vision pierced the future, fully knew every word that he ever expressed.
      For the Father of the Islamic Revolution, since the days of British colonialism were over and inflated might of the Americans punctured, the illegal entity they had planted in the heart of Palestine ought to be weeded out.
      Confident that one day, the Ummah will close ranks and mobilize its resources for the liberation of Islam’s former qibla (focal point of prayer), the al-Aqsa Mosque and the entire city of Bayt al-Moqaddas, along with the whole of Zionist-usurper Palestine, he took the historic step of designating the Last Friday of the Fasting Month of Ramadhan (Jummat-al-Weda), as World Qods Day.
       His statement in 1979, shortly after the founding of the Islamic Republic system of government in Iran, read:  
      "In the Name of Allah the All-Compassionate, the All-Merciful
      "For many years, I have been notifying the Muslims of the danger posed by the usurper Israel which today has intensified its savage attacks against the Palestinian brothers and sisters, and which, in the south of Lebanon in particular, is continually bombing Palestinian homes in the hope of crushing the Palestinian struggle. I ask all the Muslims of the world and the Muslim governments to join together to sever the hand of this usurper and its supporters.
       "I call on all the Muslims of the world to designate as al-Qods Day the last Friday of the blessed month of Ramadhan — which is itself a determining day and can also be the determiner of the Palestinian people's fate — and through rallies demonstrating the solidarity of Muslims worldwide, announce their support for the legitimate rights of the Muslim people.
       "I beseech God Almighty for the victory of the Muslims over the infidels.”
      The prophetic words of Imam Khomeini continue to ring in our ears, as we see the significant growth in the rallies in Iran and over the world on this day that brings in Muslims of every denomination on the platform of unity, for not just voicing support for the usurped rights and lands of the Palestinian people, but for ending the illegal existence of the Zionist entity.       
      This year’s Qods Day Rallies are being held at a crucial juncture. Hamas, which holds sway in Gaza, finds itself in an awkward position, after failing to heed the advice of Islamic Iran concerning the events in Syria and the region.
      Reactionary Arab regimes, headed by Saudi Arabia, have openly ganged up with Israel against Islam and Muslims, and are calling Hamas "terrorist”, a factor which has again made the oppressed Palestinians realize that it is only Islamic Iran which is the true friends of the Islamic cause for liberation of Bayt al-Moqaddas.
      In Syria, following the setbacks suffered by the Takfiri terrorists, the US, led by the quixotic Donald Trump, is trying to destabilize the region by dropping whatever pretensions that Washington had to the supposed 2-state solution.
      To pour salt on Muslim wounds, Zionist premier, Benjamin Netanyahu, held a provocative cabinet meeting inside the tunnels that the Israelis have dug up underneath the al-Aqsa Mosque to loosen its foundations for collapse of the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
       The days that went by saw Iran’s legendry anti-terrorist organization, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) – at the name of which terrorists of every hue and colour shudder – fired a volley of missiles at Deir az-Zour in Syria, by blasting the headquarters of the perpetrators of recent terrorist attacks in Tehran on the parliament and the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini.
       Iran’s decisive response, on the threshold of the World Qods Day is indeed a sign of encouragement to Muslims all over the world that terrorism will receive fatal blows. This action by Iran is also a warning to the illegal Zionist, its partners in crimes against Muslims (the Arab reactionary regimes) and their common godfather the US, Palestine and Bayt al-Moqaddas will definitely be liberated one day.
       That day is not far. The Ummah is in quest of a united Islamic stand, and as Islamic Iran has shown the way over the past 38 years, only Islamic solidarity, and not sectarianism or narrow Arab nationalism will liberate Palestine.
      As the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has made it clear, Palestine means the entire land between the borders of Egypt and Lebanon, and from the Mediterranean Sea coast to the banks of the River Jordan.
      He has suggested a referendum with participation of all Palestinians – whether Muslims, Christian, and the original Jewish inhabitants of the land – but not the Zionists who do not belong to this land.
      If the UN, the US, and the Arab reactionary regimes continue to procrastinate then it means armed struggle and materialization of the prophecies in the Islamic texts regarding the end of Zionism in a way that no single Zionist will be safe from Divine Wrath.      
      Seyyed Hassan Nasrollah, Secretary General of Lebanon’s legendry anti-terrorist movement, Hezbollah has rightly remarked: "The priority must be emphasis on confrontation with the Zionist enemy and if it was this way from the beginning, we would not have come to this pathetic point today. If the Arabs had spent on Palestine, one-fifth of the budget they spend for war on Iran and Shiaphobia, Bayt al-Moqaddas would already have been liberated.
      Better late than never, Iran has shown the way and is determined to rally Muslims worldwide for this noble cause, which cannot be obstructed, no matter how many hundreds of billions of weapons reactionary Arab regimes can buy to save the Zionist entity from the impending destruction.