Imam considered the increasing power of Israel and the subjugation of Muslim nations at the hands of this brutal regime to be the destruction of Islam and the Qur’an. When the third Arab-Israeli War broke out in 1973, Imam delivered a message to the Islamic governments and Muslim nations stressing the need to maintain unity.
He called upon them to gather all their forces in order to fight Israel. In this letter, Imam Khomeini summarized the mechanisms involved in the fight against Israel in several categories, and he announced these to the general Muslim population. These mechanisms included:
1. Comprehensive support for the front line of the battle against Israel.
2. Avoiding self-destructive differences and hypocrisy.
3. Not being afraid of the fictitious power of those that defend Zionism.
4. Unity between Islamic governments and reprimanding, threatening and cutting off relations with any country that normalizes relations with Israel.
5. Sending material and spiritual aid by Muslim nations such as blood, medicine, food, etc. to the battlefields.
As a matter of fact, Imam Khomeini emphasized maintaining unity for the liberation of Palestine as being the most important, main path to achieving victory.
This was because he did not believe that the large colonial powers’ intention for creating Israel was merely to occupy Palestine.
Imam believed that if the way was open to Israel, all Muslim countries would eventually end up suffering the same fate as Palestine. This is why Imam Khomeini likened Israel to a cancerous tumor, and he said that its immediate eradication was obligatory for all Muslims.