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A conference was held on May 22-23 in Istanbul and titled, “World Popular Conference for the Support of Palestine.” The conference was sponsored by a group of Turkish organizations including FIDDER and IHH, as well as the IUMS and the GAAC, and coordinated by FIDDER President Tahsin Misirli and IHH Middle East representative Ahmet Emin Dag.289 _{The conference brought together Youssef Qaradawi and important}

Creating a “Third Jihadist Front”

Muslim Brotherhood leaders and regional Islamists met in Istanbul to discuss opening another jihadist front in the Gaza Strip, after Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Daud Abdullah, Assistant Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain, an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK, September 26, 2004. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Kuwait Islamist MP Jamaan Al Harbash, left, looks at a poster portrait of MP Dr. Waleed Tabtabai, who is absent from the National Assembly session in Kuwait because he was aboard one of the Gaza flotilla ships, June 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)

leaders of the Union of Good, AKP, the Global Muslim Brotherhood, the Turkish/MB network, and the Western flotilla movement. Conference participants included:290

Youssef Qaradawi »

Mohammed Akram Adlouni (Lebanon), AQIII »

Abd al-Rahman Siwaral-Dhahab (Sudan), Deputy Head of Union of Good, former »

Sudan President

Osama Hamdan (Lebanon), Hamas »

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (Lebanon), Hizbullah »

Raed Salah (Israel), Islamic Movement »

Issam El-Bashir (Kuwait), Global Muslim Brotherhood »

Awad Al-Qarni (Saudi Arabia), Muslim Brotherhood

» 291

Harith Al-Dari (Iraq), Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood »

Anwar Ibrahim (Malaysia), Global Muslim Brotherhood »

Fehmi Huveyd, likely Fahmi Huwaydi, International Union of Muslim Scholars »

(IUMS)

Hafidzi Mohd Noor (Malaysia), aboard flotilla »

Jamal Badawi (USA), leader in the US Muslim Brotherhood »

Abdullah Bin Bayh (Saudi Arabia), European Council for Fatwa and Research »

(ECFR)

Ahmed Al-Rawi (UK), former FIOE President, Union of Good »

Rashid Ghannouchi (UK), Global Muslim Brotherhood »

Ahmed Jaballah (France), French Muslim Brotherhood and FIOE official »

Şükri Ramiş (Bosnia), Bosnian Muslim Brotherhood and FIOE »

Mohammed Al Hawari (Germany), ECFR »

Basir Nafi (UK), Palestinian Islamic Jihad »

Western Participants:

Mads Gilbert (Norway), anti-Israeli activist »

Tom Nelson (United States), Free Gaza Movement, on board flotilla »

Mattias Gardell (Sweden), European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG), »

on board the MV Marmara

Necmi Sadıkoglu, UNIW Secretary-General »

Mubarak Mutawa. UNIW »

Gazi Misirli, MÜSİAD »

Erol Yarar, first President of MÜSİAD »

Zeyid Aslan, AKP Deputy, President of the Palestinian Friendship Committee »

Cemal Yilmaz Demir, AKP Deputy »

Various sources reported on speeches made at the conference, giving a taste of what occurred. A Palestinian/Islamic portal reported the following comments:292

Essam Al-Bashir (opening speech):

– We don’t want just speeches and words because they will be forgotten.... We have to translate them into strategic planning and projects to change the realities in Gaza and Palestine in general.

Raed Salah:

– This is the real face of the Zionist.

– If there is justice in the political world, the Zionist is equal to the Nazis. – In fact they are much worse. They have committed hundreds of holocausts. – But the Palestinian people will not give up and they will continue to resist

this terrible holocaust. Youssef Qaradawi:

– Our help is not a contribution – it is an obligation, a responsibility (we must not shirk).

– We have to support the resistance through financial means.

– We (the Muslim government) must sever our relationship with Israel. – If Israel stays, it will spell the end of the whole world.

Mubarak Al-Mutawa:

– Stressed that the Islamic societies, as well as civil and popular organizations, will not give up and will provide all possible support to the Palestinian people.

Necmi Sadıkoglu:

– We must create an international superpower to defend Palestinian rights by legal and peaceful means; if the Muslim world had an international force, the situation would have been resolved in a just Palestinian cause.

Gazi Misirli:

Said that MÜSİAD’s participation in the Palestine Conference is important, because the popular NGOs are those who revive in the souls of the Turks the Palestinian problem, which is widely absent in Turkey; this is a forceful message to both inside and out (of Turkey), saying that Turkey is now able to step in and deal with the problems, especially the Palestinian.

Mohammed Akram Adlouni:

– Mr. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in Davos acted as the Sultan Abdul Hamid. Turkey is still the caliphate as the center of our lives in our heart. I wish all Arab countries would follow Turkey’s example by taking this stance. Israel is trying to Judaize Jerusalem.

Turkish media reported that a message from Hamas Prime Minister Haniyeh was read to the conference, calling on the participants to “never give up resistance” and expressing his hope that this kind of conference would someday be held at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.293

A conference declaration was also issued with the following points of interest:294

One: the Palestinian people have fair, non-negotiable rights as the rest of the human people on earth just as their right of return, establishing their independent country, their free use of their resources, as well as to feel free and secured. The international community and activists of humanity and justice around the world should help them to achieve all this as it is guaranteed by the international law.

Two: the current occupation regime in Palestine represents a colonial example which no longer exists in today’s world. The Zionists established a racist country on Palestine, using killing, displacing people...etc. and without any legal law to protect them. The occupation keeps violating the laws and the rights of the Palestinian people in addition to the ethnic cleansing, occupying the land, mass transfer and many other violations for the international law.

Seven: the Palestinian people have the right to resist the occupation and to defend his land by all means and this right is confirmed by the United Nations charter. And for this the Palestinian people should receive support from the international community and freedom supporters in this world.