Press Release
Normalization Declarations: An Explicit Announcement of Integration with the Enemy and Separation from the Ummah
The past few days have witnessed a series of statements issued by the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Badr Abdel-Aaty, during his participation in international conferences, most notably his emphasis on "the importance of Israel living in peace and integrating into the region," and "full readiness for normalization with Israel" alongside Saudi Arabia and other countries, and his statement that "the only solution for the future is the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state living in peace with Israel"... These statements clearly reflect the approach taken by the existing regimes in Muslim countries; an approach of full normalization with the usurping entity, and even seeking to secure it and integrate it into the region, in a way that serves the Western colonial project.
When the Foreign Minister of a Muslim country says that "it is important for Israel to live in peace and integrate into the region," he is not talking about the need to stop a passing aggression, but about recognizing the existence of this entity and considering it a natural part of the region. Integration into the region can only be achieved through political and legal recognition of its existence, and dealing with it as a normal state with the right to exist, and not as a foreign body implanted in the flank of the Ummah, and this position is fundamentally inconsistent with the clear Sharia ruling on this issue; Palestine is an Islamic land conquered by Muslims, and it is an endowment for the Islamic Ummah, and it is not permissible to give up it or a single inch of it, and the Jewish entity is a usurping entity established on it by the disbelieving colonialist West after destroying the Caliphate.
The call for full normalization is a practical translation of subservience, but rather an explicit betrayal of the Ummah, because normalization with a usurping enemy is an empowerment of it and a تثبيت of its existence, and a weakening of the position of the Islamic Ummah, which refuses to recognize it. Satisfaction with the usurping entity and trying to please it with peace and normalization will not change its reality, and will not force people to accept it and normalize with it.
These statements reveal the deep gap between the ruling regimes and the Ummah. The Ummah still considers Palestine its central issue and refuses to recognize the Jewish entity or normalize with it, and it expresses this on every occasion. As for the regimes, they have engaged in projects of normalization and political and security support for the entity, and even participated in its siege of Gaza, and prevented any effective move to support its people.
The statements of the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Badr Abdel-Aaty, whether about "integration" or "full normalization" or "the demilitarized state," are not personal positions, but rather an explicit expression of the policy of the Arab regimes linked to the West, which are working to liquidate the Palestinian cause, and it is also an expression of the separation of these regimes from the Ummah's creed and feelings. The usurping entity is a malicious body implanted in the body of the Ummah, and it is not permissible to coexist with it or integrate it, but rather it must be uprooted from its roots.
O Soldiers of Kinana: These humiliating statements made by officials, which acknowledge the legitimacy of the usurping entity and consider its existence and security to be a natural matter, are not issued by the Ummah nor do they express it, but rather are issued by regimes linked to the colonizer, marketing its projects and working to protect it. The Ummah, of which you are a part, and which you have sworn to protect its land and dignity, categorically rejects this entity, and sees it as an usurping enemy that is neither cohabited with nor covenanted with, but rather fought and uprooted from its roots... The Sharia duty upon you today is to move in support of your religion, your Ummah, and your holy places, and to remove from yourselves obedience to the treacherous, negligent rulers, and redirect your weapons towards the real enemy of the Ummah, so that you may write epics of victory as your ancestors wrote them.
﴿And what is [the matter] with you that you do not fight in the cause of Allah and [for] the oppressed among men, women, and children who say, "Our Lord, bring us out of this city of oppressive people"﴾
The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Egypt