The fundamental problem in dealing with the Palestinian issue does not lie in the absence of tools, or the weakness of means. Instead, it lies in the cognitive framework that shaped the political minds of the sons and daughters of the Islamic Ummah during the last century.

In recent days, the Egyptian arena has witnessed a series of moves and statements at the political, security, and economic levels, marked by the repetition of the same patterns: reassurance directed outwardly, artificially manufactured calm at home, and policies that further deepen the country’s dependence on international powers, particularly the United States and the European Union.

These days, we stand in remembrance of one of the days of the victory of Allah (swt), the day on which an idol of the age fell, and on which a tyrant who inflicted the worst torment on Muslims and declared a relentless war on Islam, its people and its Shariah rulings fell after he thought that his masters and supporters would protect him from the decision of Allah (swt).

The secret Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, reached during World War I between Britain and France, formed the basis for the nationalistic borders that later gave rise to most Arab states under the French and British mandates. This agreement is the crux of the matter in the fragmentation and separation of Muslim lands from one another, and even the dismemberment of single countries into several weak states.