The Islamic summit starts deliberations by total condemnation of Israeli crimes

Under the slogan " al-Aqsa uprising" the Islamic summit started its works on Sunday in Qatar in the presence of delegations representing 56 countries. The summit was inaugurated by the Iranian President Muhammad Khatami, in his capacity as the chairman of the previous 8th Islamic summit which was held in Tehran.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad delivered a comprehensive speech which attracted the attention of the participants in the conference and political and media circles because it dealt with issued debated on the Arab arena.

President al-Assad called for halting all relations with Israel in order to deter its continued aggressions against the Palestinian people and the Muslim holy shrines in Jerusalem. President al-Assad considered al-Aqsa mosque as the essence of confrontations currently taking place and called on the Muslim states to support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and to bolster inter- Muslim relations so as to maintain a genuine Islamic solidarity and strengthen Muslims position and words and ensure victory for Islam, the religion of tolerance, amity and justice.

The Syrian President noted the double- standard policy prevailing the international community, noting that influential international circles do their best when the matter relates to capturing one Israeli soldier and have no weight for hundreds of martyrs and thousands of Arab wounded who are attacked by the israeli bullets and shells.

President al-Assad said that the prevailing world order is not an international system. It is rather the system of one influential state or several states. Those influential are destroying Iraq in the name of UN resolutions and they do destroy UN resolutions for the sake of Israel and for covering its aggressive and expansionist schemes. And for its part, Israel calls for halting violence and convert the roles to have the victim as the criminal and the killer is the innocent.

President al-Assad also called on the conference to be up to the level of challenges and to take decisions that back the Palestinian struggle. He stressed that all these israeli practices will not undermine the will of the Arabs from demanding a just and comprehensive peace provides for restoring back all occupied lands and rights and result in Israel's complete withdrawal from the Golan until June 4, 1967 border lines and from the Palestinian territories and to ensure the rights of the palestinian people to establishing their own independent state with Jerusalem as a capital, the return back of the Palestinian refugees to their lands and Israel's withdrawal from parts of the occupied Lebanese territories left under the israeli occupation.

However, leader of the Muslim states and heads of delegations participating called in their speeches to work relentless for halting the Israeli aggression, guaranteeing the rights of the Palestinian people, ending the occupation of the Arab lands and boycotting Israel.

The Iranian President Muhammad Khatami has called for finding a mechanism to back the Intifada of al-Aqsa uprising and to tighten the siege imposed on Israel. He stressed that peace is not attainable without restoring back all rights. He expressed confidence that the brave Palestinian resistance will force the Israelis to review their calculations.

For his part, the Saudi crown prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz called on the ME peace process cosponsor to shoulder their responsibilities and he also called on Europe for a more effective role to this end. He said " that Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories are to be defended by Muslims, Islamic solidarity should be revitalized and to severe all relations with any foreign country transfers its embassy to occupied Jerusalem.

On behalf of the non aligned states, the president of South Africa called for effective steps to ensure the rights of the Palestinians, stressing that the current conditions constitute a threat to peace. He condemned israel's use of force to oppress the palestinian people.

The chairman of the current 9th session of the OIC Sheikh Hamad Bin Khaleifa al-Than ( ruler of Qatar) announced that israel can not stay outside the frame of the international legitimacy and that there is no solution for the conflict only through the withdrawal of its forces from all occupied Arab lands.