According to Sheikh Kamal al-Khatib, Deputy Head of the Islamic Movement in Israel:

“The city of Al-Quds is the capital city of the Islamic Caliphate, which is run properly,” al-Khatib wrote. “With the help of Allah, this will soon become reality.”

A Jewish state is an affront to Islamic supremacists who seek a global Islamic caliphate. Although the PA, Fatah and Hamas Charters all contain the goal of obliterating Israel, that is still not good enough for Sheikh Kamal al-Khatib, Deputy Head of the illegal Islamic Movement in Israel because he thinks the Palestinian Authority is too “willing to negotiate regarding Israel.”

Such negotiations are really no more than a sham and a show, but al-Khatib is impatient; so here we see a kind of in-house power struggle, a fighting over means, not ends. According to al-Khatib, the Palestinian Authority is “competing with us in their love for Jerusalem,” yet aside from this “competition,” Islamic supremacists view the Jewish state as a stumbling block that is standing in their way, and they want it obliterated. East Jerusalem in their view is the rightful capital of “Palestine.” They share their desire for a global caliphate with the Muslim Brotherhood, al Qaeda and the Islamic State. They differ in means, not ends.

The Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb, hailed by many Sunni Muslims as the highest authority in Sunni Islam, made some eye-opening statements with reference to Trump’s Jerusalem declaration. El-Tayyeb referred to Jerusalem as “100 percent Arab” under Israeli occupation. He said that decisions such as Trump’s will nurture terrorism, thereby justifying it. He also affirmed that because of this decision, the East and the West “will drown in seas of blood.”

Also, a Palestinian Authority spokesman, Nabil Abu Ruadina, has stated on behalf of PA leader Abbas that the latter “reiterated our firm position that there is no Palestinian state without East Jerusalem as its capital in accordance with the decisions of the international community and the Arab peace initiative.”

“’Jerusalem will be the capital of the Islamic Caliphate’”, by Dalit Halevi, Arutz Sheva, February 5, 2018: