by JNS and ILH Staff
"Promise of the Hereafter" conference states that a Jewish "brain drain" must be prevented as part of the effort to set the stage to realize "Hamas' strategic vision." Conference resolution further states that "we must differentiate between Jews who should and should not be killed."
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| Members of the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas military wing, parade in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2021 | File photo: AFP/Said Khatib |
A recent conference of Gaza Strip-based officials examined the realities of governing Palestine" after its "liberation" from Israel, the Middle East Media Research Institute reported.
The conference, titled "Promise of the Hereafter – Post-Liberation Palestine," was held on Sept. 30, 2021 in Gaza and was funded by Hamas and sponsored by Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar.
According to the report, it was organized by the Promise of the Hereafter Institute, established in 2014. Dr. Issam Adwan, chairman of the conference's preparatory committee and former head of Hamas's department of refugee affairs, said that the conference's recommendations would be presented to the Hamas leadership.
In a statement to the conference delivered by Hamas political bureau member Kamal Abu Aoun, Sinwar stated that "we are sponsoring this conference because it is in line with our assessment that victory is nigh" and that "the full liberation of Palestine from the sea to the river" is "the heart of Hamas's strategic vision."
According to MEMRI, the conference's concluding statement said that the "liberation of Palestine is the collective duty of the entire [Islamic] nation, first and foremost of the Palestinian people. It is [therefore] crucial to formulate a plan for utilizing the nation's resources and dividing the labor among its different components, each according to its abilities. That is the responsibility of the Council for the Liberation of Palestine.
"The Council for the Liberation of Palestine will be headed by a general secretariat, led by a steering council, which, upon the liberation of Palestine, will become an executive council headed by an interim presidential council until the holding of presidential and parliamentary elections and the formation of a new government," the statement read.
Immediately after the "liberation" the liberation forces "will issue a Palestinian independence document setting out the Palestinian principles, highlighting the Palestinian national identity and its Arab, Islamic, regional and international depth. The formulation of this document will be overseen by a team of experts in the spheres of politics, law and media, for this will be a historic document on the legal and humanitarian levels.
"Following the liberation, the Palestinian judicial system will be directly regulated by an interim basic law that will allow implementing the laws from before the establishment of the independent state, each in its area of application, as long as they do not contradict the content of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence or the laws that will be legislated and ratified by the judiciary authorities in Palestine during the interim period or after it, until the unification of the judiciary authorities in Palestine – because the disappearance of states [i.e. Israel] does not mean the disappearance of legal effects, for the law is not abolished but rather amended by another law."
The so-called liberation forces, the statement continued, "Will declare a series of interim laws, to be formulated in advance, including a land and real estate law granting [these forces] control over all state lands and assets, as well as laws [regulating the activity of] the civil service, the interim government, the Palestinian army, the judiciary and security [apparatuses], the return [of the refugees], the [state] comptroller and the municipal authorities.
"A [document] will be prepared declaring the application of Palestinian sovereignty over the 1948 territories, setting out a position on various agreements and contracts."
Once all of this is accomplished Hamas will declare at the UN "that the state of Palestine has succeeded the occupation state and will enjoy the rights of the occupation state, based on the articles of the 1978 Vienna Convention on Succession of States," Article 2b of which states that "'succession of states' means the replacement of one state by another in the responsibility for the international relations of territory."
As for the Oslo Accords, the conference ruled that "the fate of the national agreements signed by the occupation or the Palestinian Authority will be at the discretion of the Palestinian state, given that the circumstances that prevailed during the occupation of Palestine are not similar to the circumstances that will prevail later."
The new Palestinian state "is likely to inherit from the defunct state of 'Israel' the agreements delineating the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as the economic zone delimitation agreements with Greece in the eastern Mediterranean, the passage and shipping rights in the Gulf of Aqaba, etc. Wise diplomacy will surely find a way to ensure that no side's interests in the international agreements will suffer, neither the [interests of] the succeeding state (Palestine) or of the other states."
The conference further declared that "In dealing with the Jewish settlers on Palestinian land, there must be a distinction in attitude towards [the following]: a fighter, who must be killed; a [Jew] who is fleeing and can be left alone or be prosecuted for his crimes in the judicial arena; and a peaceful individual who gives himself up and can be [either] integrated or given time to leave. This is an issue that requires deep deliberation and a display of the humanism that has always characterized Islam.
"Educated Jews and experts in the areas of medicine, engineering, technology and civilian and military industry should be retained [in Palestine] for some time and should not be allowed to leave and take with them the knowledge and experience that they acquired while living in our land and enjoying its bounty, while we paid the price for all this in humiliation, poverty, sickness, deprivation, killing and arrests."
Once Israel "collapses," the interim government's security forces "must put their hands on the data regarding the agents of the occupation in Palestine, in the region and [throughout] the world, and [discover] the names of the recruiters, Jewish and non-Jewish, in the country and abroad. This is invaluable information that must not be lost, [for] using this information we can purge Palestine and the Arab and Islamic homeland of the hypocrite scum that spread corruption in the land. This important information will enable us to pursue the fleeing criminals who massacred our people."
In sum, the conference declared, "The time has come to act."
In his statement to the conference, Sinwar said that "the battle for the liberation and the return to Palestine has become closer now than ever before." Sinwar emphasized the importance of preparing for what was to come, citing as an example the "Sword of Jerusalem" battle – i.e. the May 2021 Hamas-Israel conflict, called "Operation Guardian of the Walls" by Israel.
This conflict, he said, "Did not suddenly break out … rather, the resistance had prepared for it with years of planning, training and military and intelligence development."
Liberation, he continued, "is the heart of Hamas's strategic vision, that speaks of the full liberation of Palestine from the sea to the river, the Palestinian refugees' return to their homeland, and the establishment of a Palestinian state with full sovereignty over its lands, with Jerusalem as its capital … We are sponsoring this conference because it is in line with our assessment that victory is nigh."
Hamas political bureau member Mahmoud al-Zahhar referred to the battle of the End of Days, saying in an interview with the Gaza Filastin daily that the Palestinian people and the entire Islamic nation stood at the beginning of a final battle, in which Lebanon, Syria and Jordan must participate. He added that "their participation will finish off the occupation entity in a single day." The battle of the End of Days will, he said, be a bigger and more intense version of the May 2021 "Sword of Jerusalem" battle.
Conference chairman Kanaan Obeid said, "Israel's disappearance will be a historic event; We have a registry of Israeli apartments, institutions and resources."
According to Obeid, "The aim of establishing 'The Promise of the Hereafter' institute in 2014 was to act to implement in every way the vision of the phase that will follow liberation – with regard to the economy, politics, security and society."
Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 "was an experience of liberation, and we learned a lesson from it – particularly when the resources of the [abandoned Israeli] settlements [in Gaza] were lost," he said. "We said [to ourselves] that there is no escape from establishing an institution that will be in charge of preparations and of drawing up the plans for the post-liberation stage.
"We have a registry of the numbers of Israeli apartments and institutions, educational institutions and schools, gas stations, power stations and sewage systems, and we have no choice but to get ready to manage them … We believe that the liberation [will come] within a few years, [and] that the disappearance of Israel will be an unprecedented historic event on the regional and global levels, that will have global ramifications."
He also called on Palestinians to "get rid of the [Israeli] shekel, because it will have zero value – just as the occupation will have zero value."
Palestinian Islamic Jihad official Khader Habib said at the conference: "The resistance is engaged in an existential conflict with the Israeli occupation, and it will emerge victorious, as promised by Allah. ... The only conflict which the Quran discusses in detail is the conflict between us and the Zionist enterprise, which is the pinnacle of evil on the global level."
Calling on the Palestinians to be prepared for the ramifications of the divine victory, he noted that the end of the Zionist entity is mentioned in the Quran, and is certain and credible.
Featured on JNS.org, this s article was first published by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
JNS and ILH Staff
Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/10/06/the-time-has-come-to-act-hamas-sponsored-conference-examines-post-liberation-israel/
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