The Voice of Truth from Baghdad

Even if Israel succeeds in normalizing relations with all Arab countries, there will be no just peace in the Middle East without a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi stated this during the Arab Summit in Baghdad—a truth known to anyone who understands the pulse of the Arab peoples, the Arab conscience, and the meaning of justice, homeland, and the right of a human being to exist.

One sentence was enough to serve as a complete statement—a clear reflection of an unwavering stance and a steadfastness in rights that has endured for 77 years, despite being battered by the law of the jungle, the bullying of force, and the arrogance of power.

The President’s words were a moral stance before they were a political one. Because peace, when built on oppression and denial of rights, is not true peace—it is a false truce on shaky ground that erupts at the first feeling of injustice.

Sisi did not speak on behalf of Egypt alone, but in the name of sound human conscience, of Arab sentiment, and of those who still lack a safe roof to shelter them or land to be buried in. He spoke to those intoxicated by power and blinded by selfish interests.

He said it with the voice of Egypt, which still considers the Palestinian cause its foremost wound, and the measure of its honesty—before itself and before history.

Sisi reminded the world of what should be obvious: without Jerusalem, and without a free Palestine, the heart of this turbulent Middle East cannot find peace.

The issue is not who normalized relations, or how many agreements have been signed, or the astronomical numbers of business deals. The issue lies in one eternal question: can there ever be peace built upon war, genocide, forced displacement, and wounds that still bleed?

The voice of truth doesn’t need noise. It only needs to be honest with its conscience, confident in its stance, and aligned with the will of its people—just as President Sisi’s voice was in Baghdad.