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Arab League foreign ministers to form ‘joint committee’ to aid the Palestinian jihad against Israel
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Reprinted from Jihad Watch
For those who say that the Palestinian-Israeli issue is separate from Islam, the history of efforts to obliterate Israel from the day of its founding speaks for itself. The pogroms against Jews and opposition to Jewish immigration prior to Israel’s founding also reveal the assumption that the land belonged to Islam and Muslims only.
On a side agenda of a meeting of the foreign ministers of Arab countries in Doha is the Palestinian-Israeli issue. “Separately, the foreign ministers also decided to form a joint committee to confront Israeli measures against Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, with Jordan at the helm.”
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation unequivocally stood up for its Palestinian Muslim “brothers” as Hamas rained rockets on Israel, prompting the Israeli defensive Operation Guardian of the Walls.
“Arab states call for UNSC intervention over Ethiopian dam dispute,” Al Jazeera, June 15, 2021:
The foreign ministers of Arab countries have backed calls for the United Nations Security Council to intervene in a long-running regional dispute over a giant dam built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile, one of the Nile River’s main tributaries.
The decision announced by Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit came after a meeting on Tuesday in Qatar called by downstream Nile countries Egypt and Sudan.
Ethiopia is pinning its hopes of economic development and power generation on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. But Egypt, which relies on the Nile for as much as 90 percent of its freshwater, sees the project as a potentially existential threat, while Sudan is concerned about the operation of its own Nile dams and water stations.
In a news conference after the meeting of 17 Arab foreign ministers, Aboul Gheit described the water security of Egypt and Sudan as an integral part of Arab national security.
“There is a united Arab position,” Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told the same media briefing in Doha, saying the officials had agreed on “steps to be taken gradually” to support Egypt and Sudan in the dispute…”
Support for Palestine
Separately, the foreign ministers also decided to form a joint committee to confront Israeli measures against Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, with Jordan at the helm.
“The most important issue [discussed], particularly, is the Palestinian issue and the attacks by the Israeli occupiers on Jerusalem, as well as the war on Gaza,” Sheikh Mohammed said, referring to Israel’s 11-day military assault on the besieged Gaza Strip last month.
Egypt and Qatar have played a significant role in mediating a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the group that governs the enclave.
Sheikh Mohammed expressed particular concern regarding Tuesday’s so-called “March of the Flags”, which marks the anniversary of Israel’s 1967 occupation of Jerusalem’s eastern part.
The controversial march, which saw far-right nationalists pass through the Damascus Gate of East Jerusalem’s Old City, chanting slogans such as “Death to Arabs”, took place as tensions remain high over Israel’s planned forced displacement of Palestinian families from the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
For his part, Aboul Gheit reiterated the Arab League’s support for any Egyptian, Arab or international effort to rebuild the ravaged Gaza Strip.
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