Islamic states mark al-Quds day
Regional-Palestine, Politics, 5/18/1999

The Islamic states are marking this Tuesday Al-Quds (Jerusalem) day, proclaimed by the 9th emergency session of Al-Quds committee held in Fes in April 1984.

The commemoration coincides this year with the commitment made by the newly-elected Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, that his country will not make any concession on the city.

Israel occupied in 1967 the eastern part of Al-Quds and considers it as its unified capital.

The commemoration of Al-Quds day is an opportunity for Muslims to renew their attachment to the third Islamic holy shrine and their refusal of the Zionist policy which seeks to obliterate the Arab and Islamic identity of the city.

The Muslims' unanimity over the issue provides evidence that the city will remain the core of any settlement in the Middle East, despite Israel's arbitrary practices in the city.

The same unanimity is evidenced in a message addressed by King Hassan II, in his capacity as chairman of Al-Quds committee, to the 7th international conference on the future of the city held in Casablanca last February.

The sovereign had stressed the need to protect the identity of Al-Quds and considered that Israel's Judaization operations and construction of new settlements is a war waged by Israeli radicals against the inhabitants of the holy city and its civilization.

The king had also called the international community to express its disapproval of the Israeli policy that violates international law.

For the sovereign, the city will not know peace and co-existence, unless the rights of the Palestinian people to liberate its territories and to establish an independent state with Al-Quds as its capital are guaranteed.

The same stance was expressed by Palestinian President Yasser Arafat at the end of the transition period on May 4, the date on which the Palestinian state was to be proclaimed.

While Palestinians delayed the proclamation of statehood, they made it clear that they are not planning to renounce the project of proclaiming an independent state with Al-Quds as their capital.

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