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and Jewish news reports and what has been said by their political and military figures, to use as evidence that their movement is founded on religious fanaticism, that their ambitions in Palestine and the neighboring Arab countries have no limit, and that they regard rebuilding their religious Temple on the ruins of the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque as an objective. In this context, we will suffice with presenting the following facts, directing the eyes and insight of the Arabs and Muslims toward them.

Zionism is a Jewish idea with both a religious and political objective. It is derived from the word “Zion,” one of the mountains on which the city of Jerusalem stands. The objective of Zionism is to realize the Jewish religious ambition to seize Palestine, establish the Jewish state there, rebuild their religious temple, called Solomon’s Temple, on the ruins of the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque, and practice religious worship there.

The 1926 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, volumes 27 and 28, pages 986–987, under “Zionism,” states:

“Jews look forward to redeeming Israel, gathering the people in Palestine, restoring the Jewish state, rebuilding the Temple, and re-establishing David’s throne in Jerusalem with a prince from David’s lineage.”

The Jewish Encyclopedia, printed in English, under “Zionism,” states:

“Jews believe that they will unite their cause, advance toward Jerusalem, overcome the power of the enemies, restore worship to the Temple, meaning the site of al-Aqsa Mosque, and establish their kingdom there.”

The Jewish leader Kluzner, president of the Society for the Defense of the Western Wall, meaning the Buraq Wall, the Western Wall of al-Aqsa Mosque, declared in the Jewish newspaper Palestine Weekly in August 1929:

“The al-Aqsa Mosque standing upon the Holy of Holies in the Temple belongs to the Jews.”

The book Jewish Ambitions, printed in 1948, page 9, states:

“The chief rabbi of the Jews in Palestine declared that the capital of the Jewish state would not be Tel Aviv but Jerusalem, because Solomon’s Temple is there and because Zionism is a religious and political movement together, and that Jewish youths would gladly give their lives to recover their holy place, the Temple, the site of al-Aqsa Mosque.”