Muslim leaders condemned Israel's settlement activity at the Arab League summit in Libya on Saturday 27 March 2010. In an unusual show of unity one leader after another attacked Israel's building activity in Jerusalem.
Recep Tayip Erdogan said, "Jerusalem is the apple of the eye of each and every Muslim ... and we cannot at all accept any Israeli violation in Jerusalem or in Muslim sites". Jordan's King Abdullah warned that Israel was "playing with fire". Gaddafi, Libyan leader and summit host, said that Arabs were "waiting for actions, not words and speeches". Amr Moussa, the head of the Arab League, said, "We have to study the possibility that the peace process will be a complete failure". Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, described current relations with Israel as a "state of no-war, no-peace", and said his country was ready if "war is imposed" by Israel
It is lamentable that Muslims have heard such words many times before from these very same leaders and their predecessors. While their words may condemn Israel, in deeds these very same leaders ally with the illegitimate, rogue state supporting it and strengthening it economically, politically and militarily.
Israel and Turkey share intelligence and have strong trade ties, following a longstanding military cooperation agreement from the early 1990s. The two countries regularly conduct joint military exercises known as the Anatolian Eagle drill, which was first initiated in 2001.
King Hussein, the late father of king Abdullah, signed a treaty with Yitzhak Rabin to normalise relations between Jordan and Israel in 1994, sometimes referred to as the Wadi Araba Treaty. Articles of the treaty detailed security cooperation, diplomatic relations, and economic ties.
Egypt was the first Arab state to recognise Israel. The Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1979 ended the state of war that existed since the creation of Israel in 1948. Thirty years on since the signing of the treaty Egypt and Israel have joint committees for military, economic, and agricultural cooperation. The mutual trade between the two countries in 2008 amounted to $271 million and Egypt supplies gas to Israel in an agreement worth $2.5 billion.
Benyamin Neuberger on Israel's Relations with the Third World (1948–2008) lucidly explains how open multilateral frameworks between Israel and Arab/Muslim countries contradict bilateral and secret arrangements that Israel actually has with individual nations. In the chapter titled Israel's ties with the Third World: bilateral and multilateral, open and secret, the author writes:
Israel's travails in a number of third-world multilateral frameworks are rooted in the preponderance of Arab member states (the Arab League accounts for about a fifth of all third-world countries), and their political, military, and economic sway (Egypt, Algeria, the Sudan, Libya, and Morocco are economic and political "powers" in Africa). On many occasions, however, countries that talked, acted, and voted against Israel in the Third World's international organizations were simultaneously on good terms with Israel from a bilateral standpoint. Likewise, the actions of third-world countries in universal organizations, such as the UN, UNESCO, and the International Labor Organization, have been known to contradict the understandings that are reached with Israel on a bilateral basis.
Muslims countries did not at first officially accept the state of Israel. Then they started to establish recognition treaties with Israel but rejected the land taken by Israel in 1967. Now the leaders in the Muslim world talk about not accepting Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish State while implicitly condoning the land taken forcibly in 1967. How long before they officially recognise the 1967 borders and how long before Jerusalem is sold out? Lies and compromise have preceded capitulation and outright betrayal.
The Muslims today witness the atrocities flagrantly committed by Israel and can see the duplicity and treachery of the Muslim rulers. Placating the Ummah with words of condemnation against Israel will no longer be enough yet hope lies not with these deceitful rulers but with a sincere Muslim leader – Khalifah - who will implement the Shariah and work to liberate occupied Muslim lands.
Muslim narrated on the authority of Abu Hurairah, that Muhammad (saw) said:
"Behold, the Imam (Caliph) is but a shield from behind whom the people fight and by whom they defend themselves".
"Truly Allah has given you victory in many battlefields, and on the day of Hunayn when you rejoiced at your great number but it availed you naught and the Earth, vast as it is, was constrained for you, then you turned back in flight. Then Allah (swt) did send down His Sakinah (calmness, tranquillity) on the Messenger (saw) and the believers, and sent down forces (angels) which you saw not, and punished the disbelievers. Such is the recompense of disbelievers. Then after that, Allah will accept the repentance of whom He will. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving. Most Merciful." [TMQ: Surah At-Tauba, 9:25-27].