The global controversy and internal strife in Israel over judicial reforms has translated into a golden opportunity for Israel’s longtime jihadist enemies. And all this is happening in the context of an America that has been drastically weakened under Joe Biden after being a strong ally under Donald Trump. Jihadists have become increasingly brazen. Last Friday, the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran delivered an unprecedented virtual speech to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in support of its al-Quds parade, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad has openly thanked Iran for supporting the Palestinian “resistance” and “struggle.”
Al Quds Day is typically held on the last Friday of Ramadan, and the event has spread worldwide, although of course it remains most popular in Islamic countries. In Iran, tens of thousands marched in Tehran, chanting “Death to Israel.” Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi declared that the rallies show the “liberation of Al-Quds is very close, closer than expected.” Iran’s foreign ministry also tweeted:
The International Quds Day is the day of the global demand for the rights of the Palestinian people. The waning existence of Israel is no longer able to deceive the world. No conspiracy will save the Zionist regime. Quds belongs to Palestinians.#QudsDay#AlQudsDay2023 pic.twitter.com/0XZvrqjrew
— Foreign Ministry, Islamic Republic of Iran 🇮🇷 (@IRIMFA_EN) April 14, 2023
Millions are said to have turned out to international Al Quds Day rallies, a day on which speaker after speaker denounces Israel and promotes the Palestinian jihad. In Canada, a Toronto Al-Quds Day rally was entitled “Stop Anti-Palestinian Racism in Canada, Free Palestine!,” thus turning the Palestinian “resistance” into a Canadian “racism” issue. This was a canny move in a country that has installed an “Islamophobia czar.”
Yet the most notable Al-Quds Day events were Raisi’s address to the Palestinians in Gaza, in which Raisi “urged Palestinians to press on with their struggle against Israel,” and the brazenness of Palestinian Islamic Jihad thanking Iran for supporting “Palestine.”
Anyone without ostrich syndrome fully understands what the “struggle” and “resistance” against Israel has always been about: the obliteration of the Jewish State from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
“Islamic Jihad Movement thanks Iran for supporting Palestine,” Mehr News Agency, April 15, 2023:
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement issued a statement thanking Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi’s stance during World Quds Day, in support of the rights of the Palestinians and their resistance to liberating their land.
It noted that the Iranian president’s remarks at the World Quds Day ceremony are an honest statement on Iran’s stance on the Palestinian issue.
President Raeisi’s stance at the World Quds Day ceremony reflects Iran’s constant position which is based on the principles of the Islamic Revolution and its founder Imam Khomeini (RA) and led by Ayatollah Khamenei.
Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine also thanked Iran for its political, financial, media, and military support for Palestine, Quds, and the Resistance groups that are standing against the Zionist enemy to defend Palestine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
In a video message on International Quds Day that was held on Friday evening at the gathering of leaders and commanders of Palestinian groups and the people of Gaza on the occasion of the International Quds Day, Ebrahim Raeisi stated that the Palestinian nation has been a hero of resistance in the face of oppression and has shown an exemplary stand, and added, “The steadfast standing of the Palestinian people for the cause of the freedom of Palestine and Al-Quds for many years is worthy of appreciation from humanity and a great reward from the Lord of the Universe.”….