Friday, 29th March, 2019, coincides with the commemoration of the Palestinian Land day which is annually observed with our brothers the Palestinian together with world peoples and liberals, including our entire Muslim and Arab people.
This day has been dedicated by the United Nations as a symbolic historical event that encapsulates the meaning and value of the Palestinian peoples’ upholding of their identity and legitimate national rights, including their right to national independence and establishment of their independent national State.
Undoubtedly, the event coincides, this year with the US Administration’s decision of utmost gravity, involving the illegitimate declaration on the imperative of recognizing Israeli’s sovereignty over the Syrian Arab Golan Heights, occupied since June, 1967. This is a biased position which is not based on any international legal reference, lacking of legitimacy, and contradictory to the logic of history and geography; but also disregards all conventions, treaties and relevant UN resolutions. This illegitimate stance may be added to the previous decision of the US Administration on transferring the American embassy to Al Quds in an attempt to impose a fait accompli and recognition of Al Quds as the Capital of the State of Israel.
The PUIC, which has already expressed its strong rejection of the American step in the direction of an acceptable and illegitimate recognition of a new status of the city of Al Quds as the capital of the State of Israel, rejects once again any impinging on the rights of the Syrian Arab people to the Golan Heights which are protected by international law, particularly UN Security Council Resolution No. 242, adopted after the June war of 1967.
Indeed, the Palestinian Land Day is an occasion to remind all, and to remind ourselves in the Islamic and Arab World, that it is incumbent on us to merge and unify our efforts, thoughts and initiatives in order to confront all that which may transgress on the Islamic and Arab rights in the noble lands and sanctities. We should not deceive ourselves that peace is possible in the Middle East as long as there was no equitable, fair and objective will to nurture the causes of peace and ensure its necessities, as well as respecting the UN legitimacy and the International Law.
Dr. Habib Al Malki
PUIC President,
Rabat, 22 Rajab, 1440, Corresponding to 29 March, 2019