Islamic ‘jihad’ for Jerusalem

Press, 22 September 1980, Page 6

Islamic ‘jihad’ for Jerusalem

NZPA-Reuter Fes, Morocco Islamic Foreign Ministers have ordered the preparation of a plan to put military, political, and economic pressure on Israel and force the Jewish State to drop its claim that, the whole of Jerusalem is its eternal capital. The 43-nation Islamic Foreign Ministers conference issued a resolution ordering its El Quds (Jerusalem) committee to draw up such a global plan to advance a jihad — a Muslim holy war or struggle — against Israel.

“Islamic countries announce their full adhesion to jihad with its wide human implications, knowing that it means a struggle against the Zionist enemy in all the military, economic, cultural, and' information fields," the

closing resolution declared. The El Quds committee is to prepare its plan in time for an Islamic summit meeting in Riyadh next month. The conference adopted a committee recommendation to cut ties, with -countries which transfer their! embassies in Israel to Jerusalem following the Israeli Parliament’s declaration of Arab East Jerusalem as part of Israel’s'indivisible capital. The conference also reaffirmed military and political support for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, and called for the defeat of the Camp. David agreements. Israel’s State television has reported that Israel and Egypt will resume their stalled negotiations on Palestinian self-rule in Washington on September 29.