{"id":400722,"date":"2020-09-13T18:28:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T15:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=400722"},"modified":"2020-09-13T18:28:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T15:28:20","slug":"muslim-scholars-union-forbids-normalization-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/muslim-scholars-union-forbids-normalization-with-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim scholars union forbids normalization with Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara<strong>(SONNA)<\/strong>-The International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) on Sunday forbade any normalization of relations with the Israeli occupation authorities.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, IUMS Secretary-General Ali al-Qaradaghi said normalization emboldens Israel to continue its decades-long occupation of the Palestinian lands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormalization with the occupiers of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem is forbidden and is considered a treason,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa Mosque is located, during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the entire city in 1980 in a move never recognized by the international community.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Bahrain and Israel announced a US-brokered agreement to normalize their relations, in a move that came one month after a similar deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain became the fourth Arab country to have diplomatic relations with Israel, after Egypt in 1979, Jordan 1994 and the UAE in August 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The normalization deals have drawn widespread condemnations from the Palestinians, who say that such agreements do not serve the Palestinian cause and ignore the rights of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinian Authority said any deal with Israel should be based on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative on the principle of &#8220;land for peace&#8221; and not &#8220;peace for peace&#8221; as Israel claims.<\/p>\n<p>@<strong>AA<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara(SONNA)-The International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) on Sunday forbade any normalization of relations with the Israeli occupation authorities. In a statement, IUMS Secretary-General Ali al-Qaradaghi said normalization emboldens Israel to continue its decades-long occupation of the Palestinian lands. \u201cNormalization with the occupiers of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem is forbidden and is considered a treason,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400724,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400722\/revisions\/400724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}