Giving Time to Israel is a Mistake -
Excerpts from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Speech
Published in Sahifeh Nur, volume 9, pp. 280-282.
Date: 7 Aug 1979 [26 Mordad 1358]
Location: Qom
Topic: The necessity to establish the Oppressed Party, warning to corrupt and conspiratorial parties and groups
Occasion: Qods Day [Jerusalem Day]
Participants: the Muslim nation of Iran
The dream of establishing "Oppressed Party"
I would like to thank those nations and governments who agreed with us on this Islamic call and responded to Islam's call, and appeal to God to grant you all with health and salvation.
Qods Day is an Islamic day and it was an Islamic public mobilisation. I hope that this would be a prelude for establishing an "Oppressed Party" for the entire world. I hope that a party would be created in the whole world entitled "Oppressed Party" in which all of the world's oppressed could participate, in order to remove the obstacles that the oppressed are struggling with and to revolt against the Western and Eastern arrogant powers and looters, to no longer allow the arrogant powers to coerce the world's oppressed, and to materialise Islam's promise that the oppressed shall rule over the oppressors and the oppressed shall inherit the earth. So far the oppressed have been disunited and nothing happens through disunity. Now that an example of Muslims' unity in Islamic countries has materialized [Islamic Revolution], this example will have to be applied in a wider context, to encompass all humanity, through establishing an "Oppressed Party" which is the same as "Party of God" [Hezbollah] and is in line with the exalted God's will, for the oppressed will have to inherit the earth. We would like to invite all of the oppressed of the world to participate in the "Oppressed Party" and to resolve their problems through determined collective action and will. The "Oppressed Party" can resolve any issues that may challenge any nation anywhere.
Giving Time to Israel is a Mistake
With regret, I must say that Islamic governments and nations, particularly Arab governments and nations, made a mistake, so did we make a mistake in Iran. The mistake that all Muslims, particularly Arab nations and governments made was that they gave time to Israel and the governments' personal interests stopped them from suffocating Israel's voice from the very beginning and prevent it from gaining power. Regrettably, they did not listen to our advice during twenty or so years shouting and inviting them to unite against Israel, due to their personal interests. They allowed the situation to reach this point where it [Israel] has now begun encroaching and it is causing mayhem in southern Lebanon and is seeking to push Palestine back. We have repeatedly said that Israel - this source of corruption - will not be satisfied with the Qods, the Beyt al-Moqadas. If given the opportunity it endangers all Islamic countries. Past mistakes must be rectified through Muslims' unity and establishment of the "Oppressed Party" against the great powers led by the criminal America and its very corrupt stooge Israel. This was a mistake by Islamic governments and the Arabs in particular and they must rectify this mistake and repent before the Almighty God.