JERUSALEM, 18 November 2020, (TON):  A confederation of Muslim nations vowed to declare East Jerusalem as capital of independent Palestinian State. They warned Israel not to arouse the sentiments of of the Muslims around the world and refrain from violating international law, United Nations Resolutions and agreements signed in the past.  Statement issued said, “By the end of the month a strategy involving diplomatic and other action will be evolved”.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday voiced "deep concern" over the Israeli authorities' decision to invite contractor bids to build 1,257 new settlements near East Jerusalem and said it contravened international resolutions. "The ministry affirms the Kingdom's condemnation and rejection of the move, which contravenes international resolutions," it said in a statement.

Israel with an anticipation that Joe Biden has won the US election 2020 and will takes office moved ahead on with a settler housing plan in the area, followed by declaration of Jerusalem as Capital of Israel. Tel Aviv has been given assurances by Democratic that they would materialize reorganization and shifting of Israeli capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The United Arab Emirates has already signed agreements toward normalizing relations with Israel in a strategic realignment that involves commitment for regime change in Iran to balance situation in the Middle Eastern. However, majority of the UAE national condmned the Isreal move and said that they have to really reconsider the normalization efforts in case Tel Aviv moves forward with it plan for new settlements in East Jerusalem.

In a strange revelation, Chairman Tehran Jewish Committee, Homayoun Sameyah Najafabadi  said, Iran is has the largest Jew population in the world after Isreal. He said, before 1979’s Iran’s Islamic Revolution, there were 100,000 to 150,000 Jews living in Iran but now they temporarily shifted to other places and numbered today 12,000 to 15,000 in Iran. There are claims that Israel is not a Jewish state because not everyone in Israel lives according to the teachings of the Torah but Iranian Jews follows Torah and one day Iran will emerge as center of Jewish activities. Jews official in Tehran said that mostly Jews from Iran and Lebanon will be given rigts to settle in East Jerusalem new settlements.