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Iran’s Khamenei: Fighting for “liberation of Palestine” is “Islamic duty”

May 25, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

Once again Iran’s Supreme Leader frames the conflict between the Islamic Republic of Iran and other Muslim countries and Israel in terms of Islam. Yet Islamic tenets are the first element of the conflict that U.S. counterterror “experts” discount. Get the truth in The Palestinian Delusion.

“Iran’s Khamenei Says Liberating Palestine Is ‘Islamic Duty,’” Agence France-Presse, May 22, 2020:

TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said it was an “Islamic duty” to fight for the “liberation of Palestine” in a landmark speech Friday amid rising tensions with archenemy Israel.

Khamenei lashed out at Western nations and their Arab “puppets” for supporting the Jewish state, in his first-ever address marking Quds (Jerusalem) Day….

“The aim of this struggle is the liberation of the entire Palestinian land” and “the return of all Palestinians to their country,” Khamenei said in the speech broadcast live on state television.

“The policy of normalizing the presence of the Zionist regime in the region is one of the major policies of the United States of America,” he said.

“Some Arab governments in the region, which play the role of U.S. puppets, have provided the necessary preconditions for this, such as economic ties and the like; these efforts are completely fruitless and sterile.

“Everyone must fill the hand of the Palestinian fighter and strengthen his back. We will proudly do our best in this way.

“One day we realized that the only problem of the Palestinian fighter … was the lack of weapons.

“We planned” to resolve this issue, and “the result is that the balance of power in Palestine has changed: Today Gaza can stand up to the Zionist enemy’s military aggression and win.”…

Khamenei was speaking at the event for the first time in more than 30 years as supreme leader, although he has repeatedly referred to the Palestinian cause as “the main problem of the Muslim world.”…

In the tweet on Khamenei’s account, the Iranian leader was quoted as saying that “eliminating the Zionist regime doesn’t mean eliminating Jews.”…

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  1. PRCS says

    May 25, 2020 at 11:24 am

    So, he’ll be heading right on over to ‘Palestine’, AK-74 and RPG at the ready, eh?

  2. mortimer says

    May 25, 2020 at 11:43 am

    However, on planet ‘Reality’, most Muslims place the Palestinian issue about 3,014 on their list of duties.

    It bears repeating that the Koran assigns the Land of Israel to the Banu Isra’il.

    -Koran 5:21, 17:104

    – “The Quran explicitly refers to the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel before the Last Judgment” – Sheikh Abdul Palazzi PhD (Italy)

    -“Sheikh Palazzi believes that Israel exists by divine right and that the Koran clearly states (Sura 5:21) that God granted the Land of Israel to the Children of Israel and ordered them to settle there. In addition, it is predicted that before the end of days, God will bring the Children of Israel to retake possession of the Land, gathering them from the different countries and nations (Sura 17:104). Oddly enough, Palazzi’s reading of the Koran is backed up by, of all sources, Al Qaida.”

    The Iranian mullahs should read the following essay by Sheikh Pallazi:

    http://www.templemount.org/quranland.html

    • Wellington says

      May 25, 2020 at 1:12 pm

      Question, mortimer: Isn’t the case in Islamic theology that the Jews have a right to Israel IF they acknowledge Islam as the true faith? Those Jews who don’t at the end of the world will have to hide behind the Garkhand tree or rocks or whatever because the tree will speak (guess the rocks and whatevers will too) saying a Jew is hiding here, O Muslim, come and kill him and so on. Israel is thus legitimate in Islamic eyes only if it is an Islamic state and not persisting in the “great error” which is the present Israel still clinging to the “false faith” which is Judaism.

      I would appreciate clarification here because this is my understanding of the matter. Thanks.

      • gravenimage says

        May 25, 2020 at 7:37 pm

        Exactly, Wellington. This only applied to the Jews when they were–supposedly–actually all Muslim.

        • Wellington says

          May 26, 2020 at 8:51 pm

          Thanks for confirming this, gravenimage.

  3. Charlie says

    May 25, 2020 at 12:24 pm

    I remember in the 40’s these towel heads didn’t want this area. It was offered to them. Oh, that’s rihht, they would have to develop the area:-) That would have required work.

    • gravenimage says

      May 25, 2020 at 7:41 pm

      Muslims mostly ignored the Levant during the centuries of the Ottoman Empire, when it was depopulated and largely neglected.

      Just look what the Jews were able to do once they were no longer oppressed by Muslims.

    • David says

      May 26, 2020 at 10:20 am

      The main plan of islam is A: to steal from other people. B: force them to pay Jizya or Zakat C: get total obedience. It is better than working.
      Riddle: Why do so many muslims become taxi drivers or kebab shop owners? So they can get their hands on young white girls. The taxis deliver the girls to the shops where they are gang raped. The police and social services have turned a blind eye to this for decades in the UK.

  4. Jyoti Prakash Mitra says

    May 25, 2020 at 12:41 pm

    Ayatollah Khamenei want no treaty must materialize with Israel as Iran want to take firm steps related to the Islamic Revolution. All chaos!

  5. CogitoErgoSum says

    May 25, 2020 at 1:06 pm

    “Eliminating the Zionist regime doesn’t mean eliminating Jews.…” No, turning the Jews into submissive Dhimmis would be sufficient for the hateful old man’s purposes.

    • gravenimage says

      May 25, 2020 at 7:42 pm

      Spot on, CogitoErgoSum.

      • David says

        May 26, 2020 at 10:23 am

        I detect a touch of taqiyya! Of course he wants to eliminate all Jews. he must follow the Koran, surely?

        • gravenimage says

          May 26, 2020 at 10:21 pm

          CogitoErgoSum is no Muslim, David.

          And while Islam does indeed call for the eventual slaughter of all Jews, it is fine with using them in the interim. Just look at the persecution of Jews in Iran today.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    May 25, 2020 at 5:59 pm

    Ayatollah Khamenei might have point in saying that fighting Israel is “an Islamic duty” since the Qur’an has so much terrible vicious spite and hate in it for the Jewish people and therefore all Muslims clerics of Iran are against the Jewish State of Israel.

    The folly in all this is that the Qur’an has been proven ,time and time again to be a religious hoax and anti-Jewish writing in it have no value or worth .

    Being against Israel may be an “Islamic duty” but not ,at all, a truly a “God loving duty”
    As fighting Israel is striving against and going against the”special treasure” of God.

    As it is written in the Bible “For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself , Israel for His special treasure.” Psalm 134:4. [N.K.J.V.]

  7. Clive Delmonte says

    May 25, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    Barmy as ever. And does Ayatollah Khamenei have another CD do you think ?

  8. gravenimage says

    May 25, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    Iran’s Khamenei: Fighting for “liberation of Palestine” is “Islamic duty”
    ………………

    Hasn’t this thug vowed to wipe Israel off the map long since? He might want to get on that himself…

  9. James Lincoln says

    May 25, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    And to think that Iran was a pretty nice place prior to the 1979 revolution…

    • David says

      May 26, 2020 at 10:26 am

      The people were and most still are decent people. It is now an islamic hell hole.

      • gravenimage says

        May 26, 2020 at 10:22 pm

        Almost all Iranians are Muslim. The idea that they have all just stayed silent over the past forty years while all supposedly hating Islam is not borne out, I’m afraid.

  10. OLD GUY says

    May 26, 2020 at 8:12 pm

    Did you notice how all dictators consider them selves to be SUPREME LEADERS, and they are going to liberate people. Bullshit, he will not liberate anyone, just he just wants more power and will rule with an iron hand.

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