New Delhi:- Nov. 18, 2016
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind and many other
religious and social organizations led by Maulana Usman Mansurpori, JUH
President today here at Jantar Matar New Delhi, denounced Israel as a terrorist
state and expressed their condemnation over current visit of Israeli President
to India. On this occasion representatives of different social and religious
organization addressed the gathering including Maulana Usman Mansoorpuri, Mohamad
Saleem Engineer, Secretary General Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Mr. Naved Hamid, President
All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, Shabnam Hashmi, ANHAD, Dr. Zafrul Islam
Khan, Maulana Jalal Haider Naqwi, Joint Secretary Majlise Ulama-e- Hind, Mufti
Affan Mansurpori, Maulana Niaz Ahmad Farooqui , Maulana Hakimuddin Qami ,Qari
shaukat Ali etc.
On this occasion a memorandum containing
several demands were submitted to the Honorable President of India which has
been endorsed by dozen of organizations which
included Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, Jammat-e Islami Hind, All India Muslim
Majlis-e-Mushawarat, ANHAD, AIUDF, Jamia Collective, All Inida Tanzeem-e-Insaf,
Delhi, Mewat Vikas Sabha, Mewat Karwan, Shoulder to Shoulder, Palestine
Solidarity Organisation, UK
Memorandum
To,
The
President of India
Rashtrapati
Bhawan
New Delhi
Respected Sir,
We
denounce the unwelcome visit of the Head of the terrorist state, Israel,
to India.
People
of India have always supported the just cause of the Palestinian
people. We have always demonstrated our solidarity with the Palestinian victims
of the Israeli terrorism and occupation. We totally reject the diversion of our
established policies and principles in the interest of world peace and human
rights.
India’s diplomatic
relations with Israel began in 1992 in the wake of a “peace process”
which has abjectly failed the Palestinian people but
earned Israel the benefit of international recognition and broad
complicity with its crimes against humanity. Over the last 25 years, ties
between India and Israel have been growing on all fronts –
trade, economy, technology, military, as well as academia and culture while the
people of Palestine today are deprived of peace and justice than ever
before.
There is nothing to
celebrate in India’s relationship with Israel. Neither the
Palestinian people nor Indian citizens who cherish human rights support close
relations with Israel’s undemocratic and exclusionary regime of
apartheid. S
We denounce the visit
which aims to strengthen Indo-Israeli ties at all levels. Relations with Israel
provide financial support and legitimise the policies of a state that continues
to violate international law and human rights with impunity, a state which has
set up an apartheid regime against the Palestinian Arabs, transformed the
majority of the Palestinian people into refugees by expelling them from their
homes and destroying their villages, and brutalises the daily lives of the
people in the West Bank and Gaza, where it has been in military occupation
since 1967.
We stand in firm
support of the decree of UNESCO giving
primary rights to the Muslims over Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque
complex and its Western Wall. Al-Aqsa mosque is the first Qibla (direction
for prayer) for Muslims and therefore a highly sacred site. Thus, it is not
related only to Palestine; rather it is a property of the entire Muslims community
around the world. Over the years the UNO has passed hundreds of resolutions in
favour of the oppressed Palestinians. It is highly condemnable
that Israel is continuously violating the resolutions of the UNO and
the world community and continues killing Palestinian children, men and women
in different ways. It seems that Israel has no regard for the
international law and human rights.
1. To intervene for establishment of an
independent and sovereign Palestinian state so that the way for rehabilitation
and return of the Palestinian refugees may be opened.
Also, Israel should be compelled to vacate the occupied Arab
territories and stop its expansionist policy.
2. The blockade of Gaza should
be immediately lifted. If Israel does not care for the resolutions of
the UNO and continues forcing millions of people living under siege, it should
be declared a terrorist state and subjected to economic sanctions.
3. Now when the trusteeship of Muslims
over the Al-Aqsa mosque has been decreed, Israel should immediately
vacate the Bait al-Muqdis and hand over the control of Al-Quds to the
Palestinians.
4. We consider the policy of the present
Central government of India towards Palestine as a
deviation from the old and established policy of the
country. India has always favoured the freedom struggle of the
Palestinians and supported the establishment of an independent and sovereign
Palestinian state. We express our disappoint over the intentional absence of
India from the voting conducted by UNESCO on the Al-Aqsa mosque issue and the
Prime Minister’s comparing the surgical strike with the illegal Israeli strikes.
We demand the Indian government to revisit its relationship with the tyrant and
expansionist Israel following into the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal
Nehru and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and not to violate the traditional friendship
of India with the weaker and oppressed people around the world.
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