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their religion and that they would sin if they did not obtain the blood of one of the unbelievers, the goyim, and use it to make the unleavened bread.

The cruelty and atrocities of the Jews have no equal among other nations and peoples. If we wished to continue presenting examples and evidence of them, the account would be long. It is enough to cite their atrocities at Deir Yassin, Kafr Qasim, Nasr al-Din, Sakrir, Hawassa, Qalunya, Khan Yunis, Gaza, and every Palestinian city and village they entered and where they spread corruption and crime. God is not unaware of what the wrongdoers do.

Furthermore, the statements issued by Jewish leaders that I have cited here, together with the actions Jews carry out every day, confirm the danger of their religious ambitions and the intensity of their fanaticism. For example, they call their state “Israel,” call their parliament the “Knesset,” and care about their religious traditions. They enact laws prohibiting their children from being taught in schools other than Jewish schools, and do not permit the establishment of any secular school. They enacted a law prohibiting Christian schools in Israel from accepting any Jewish student and specified penalties for violations, while we send our children and the apple of our eyes to foreign schools and spend money to educate them in a foreign culture that corrupts their beliefs and morals.

For a long time the Jews have followed a deliberate plan to usurp our lands, destroy our holy places, exterminate our people, and obscure our traces, driven by their religious fanaticism and racial hatred. They use every means to Judaize Palestine generally and Jerusalem in particular.

Jerusalem had been forbidden to the Jews by the text of the Covenant of Umar, which the Commander of the Faithful Umar ibn al-Khattab gave to the people of Aelia, meaning Jerusalem, as it was then called, at the request of Patriarch Sophronius. When Umar, may God be pleased with him, came in the fifteenth year of the Hijra to take possession of Jerusalem from its inhabitants after the Muslim armies had besieged it, the caliph wrote them the famous security document known as the Covenant of Umar. The text of this historical document follows. It is preserved to this day in the Greek Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem:

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

“This is what Abdullah Umar, Commander of the Faithful, granted the people of Aelia as security. He granted them security for themselves, their property, their churches, their crosses, the sick among them and the healthy, and all their religious community. Their churches shall not be occupied or destroyed, nor diminished, nor anything belonging to them or their crosses. Nothing of their property shall be taken, nor shall they be compelled in their religion, and none of them shall be harmed. No Jew shall reside with them in Aelia...”