Just An Opinion [Archives:2000/46/Focus]

Mohammed Khidhr
Yemen Times
The Organization of Islamic Conference OIC on Sunday inaugurated its 9th 3-day summit conference in Doha, Qatar’s capital. The summit is attended by Islamic heads of state and government and their representatives.
The conference is convened amidst extremely tense and explosive atmospheres in occupied Palestine, going on since the provocative step taken by the well-known terrorist Sharon when he purposefully entered Al Aqsa mosque area almost two months ago. That outrageous violation of Islamic holy places in occupied Jerusalem had triggered massive Palestinian protests that developed into daily clashes between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli soldiers who have been using live ammunition, rockets, tank canons shelling and helicopter gunships against these Palestinian stone-throwers.
The Palestinians are facing an increasing war of annihilation at the hands of Israeli occupation forces merely because they are defending the Islamic holy landmarks, especially Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem They are fighting with bare breasts on behalf of the entire Moslem nation, armed only with stones. The Zionist crimes perpetrated against the Palestinian Intifada have exceeded the most brutal crimes in human history, even those committed by the Nazists.
These unprecedented savage crimes committed with using the Zionist war machine against the defenseless Palestinians, and the serious violations and acts of desecrating Islamic sanctities in occupied Palestine, place the Islamic nation leaders versus a historic and great responsibility. The entire Moslem nation attaches hopes that their leaders summit in Doha comes out with resolutions and practical steps rectifying the abnormal situation and putting a deterrent end to the Zionists’ daily massacres against the Palestinian people. Leaders of the Islamic nation are required to translate their summit meeting into Islamic confrontation on the ground with Zionism to stop its crimes against the entire Moslem nation, not only the Palestinian people who are now taking the brunt of them. The Islamic summit is demanded to come out with effective resolutions guarantee offering active political, material and moral support for Al Aqsa intifada, protection of Islamic sanctities and support for the Palestinian people’s legitimate holy war to restore their legitimate rights.
The Islamic summit should be keen to meet the Moslem masses demand, hopes and aspirations. Arab Moslem masses have got disappointed and frustrated with results of the latest Cairo Arab summit that came short of their least aspirations. The Arab summit results have encouraged Israel to further step up its repressive acts and aggression on the Palestinians, using all its military power to abort the intifata, in a flagrant challenge to both Arab and Islamic nations and international law and norms.All Moslems eyes are cast upon you, waiting for how you are going to face this historic challenge. To fail in meeting the nation’s hopes would mean the loss of confidence in her leaderships.
The Doha summit has to fulfill its commitment to rescue Al Quds, restore the spirit of joint Islamic action and activate role of the Organization of Islamic Conference. The summit must send a message affirming strength of the nation and her competence in defending Islamic sanctities, issues and interests, particularly against threats of the Zionist entity.

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