Once again, the heads of Muslim countries would have no interest in this matter were it not for Islamic theological imperatives that lead to calls for the destruction of Israel. For Ismail Haniyeh, this is all about Islam, the one aspect of the conflict that Western analysts refuse to examine.
“Hamas urges Islamic, Arab worlds to reject Trump plan,” Anadolu Agency, January 30, 2020:
Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh has sent letters to all presidents, kings, and princes of the Islamic and Arab worlds urging them to reject the U.S.’ so-called “Deal of the Century.”
Haniyeh called on the leaders of the Arab and Islamic world in his letters to “urgently act to reject what the U.S. President announced in the terms and plans of the project of the so-called deal of the century,” according to a press statement issued by Hamas.
Haniyeh stressed the need to stand against all attempts to “harmonize with the approach of the American administration in dealing with the Palestinian issue and to take a firm stand against the blatant bias practiced by the American administration from the Zionist settler and occupation schemes against the land, the people and the sanctities.”
The top Hamas figure said he had contacted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “in order to unify the Palestinian ranks in the face of this aggressive deal,” adding that “we discussed with him agreement on joint action to address this disastrous announcement.”
“All options have become legitimate in front of our Palestinian people and their living forces in the face of the decisions of this aggressive and unfair deal which targets the Palestinian presence, land, people, history and identity,” Haniyeh added….