Tearing Israel's Shirt!
History was created only to learn from it and avoid its mistakes. Following the assassination of Caliph Uthman ibn Affan, the Caliphate passed to Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, may God honor his face, who was its rightful heir. However, those with ambitions for power and those who sought to deprive him of his legitimate right raised the blood-stained shirt of Caliph Uthman and paraded it around the gates of mosques in Syria, deceptively demanding his blood. This caused the Muslim community to split into two factions, leading to internal conflict, historically known as the “Great Fitna,” which ended with the assassination of Imam and Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib and the fragmentation of Muslims due to the deception of that raised shirt!
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Since the early 1950s, there has been a blood-stained shirt being raised, exploited as a cause of justice while concealing ulterior motives, as Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him) said when the Khawarij raised the slogan “No judgment but God’s.” The shirt of the present we refer to is the shirt of the Palestinian cause, accompanied by slogans of hostility and confrontation against Israel, Zionism, imperialism, and colonialism, among others. Under these seductive and deceptive banners, those who raised them lost Sinai and Gaza twice—not once—and withdrew from them without fighting. They did not stop there; in 1967, they added the loss of the West Bank, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and parts of Lebanon. They forced the Khartoum Summit in August 1967 to adopt the Three No’s, which included no peace, no reconciliation, and no recognition of Israel. Thus, they translated their disastrous military defeat and their handing over of Arab lands to Israel without a fight into political failure by preventing the recovery of those lands through peace. Those lands were only returned through the courageous leadership of figures such as President Anwar Sadat, the King of Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority leadership. The Golan Heights remains occupied, lost forever due to the previous regime in Damascus donning the shirt of hypocrisy, deception, and obstinacy. It is worth noting that this regime even prevented chirping birds from flying over the Golan so as not to disturb the sleeping soldiers on the border.
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The last station:
1. The raising of the shirt of the Palestinian cause continued, with the perpetrators claiming innocence, as seen with Arafat, who destroyed Jordan and Lebanon under its banners. Under the banner that “the path to Jerusalem passes through Baghdad,” Iran attacked Iraq from 1982 to 1988, exhausting both countries. This conflict notably covered the migration of Russians to Israel. Saddam Hussein then picked up the banner from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, and the coordination between the two was astonishing, leading to the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 under the banner that “the path to Jerusalem passes through the Safa Square in the heart of the capital.”
2. Under the banners of that shirt, southern Lebanon was occupied, and five Arab states were completely destroyed without liberating a single inch or even a finger of Palestine. Now, six Arab Gulf states and Jordan are being destroyed under the same false banners. The greatest victim is the oppressed Palestinian people, who are suffocating under the watch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and its affiliates.
3. The astonishing truth is that Israel is the only regional state that has returned the Arab lands it occupied, including Sinai, which is a biblical land. Israel would not have returned it twice without war or defeat if it were planning for Greater Israel. Meanwhile, the other two regional powers, namely Islamic Turkey and Iran, who raise the shirt of returning Arab lands in Palestine, not only failed to return a single meter of the Arab lands they occupy but also added vast territories, such as Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and Gaza for Iran; and Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Gaza for Turkey. Those who have such friends, agents, and hired hands operating on our Arab lands have no need for enemies.
