PALESTINE

Sat 10 Jun 2023 11:20 am - Jerusalem Time

Chinese Foreign Ministry: President Abbas is the first Arab head of state to host this year

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said, "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is an old and good friend of the Chinese people, and the first Arab head of state hosted by China this year, which says a lot about the high-level friendly relations between China and Palestine."


His remarks came during a press conference held today, Saturday, in response to the official visit that President Mahmoud Abbas will pay to the People's Republic of China, next Tuesday, at the kind invitation of Chinese President Xi Jiping.


"China and Palestine enjoy traditional friendship, and China is one of the first countries to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization and the State of Palestine," Wang said.


He added that over the past years, thanks to the personal guidance of President Xi and President Abbas, China-Palestinian relations have maintained a good momentum of growth with stronger political mutual trust and deeper friendship between the peoples of the two countries, noting that "China is ready to work with Palestine to follow the common understandings between the two heads of state." the two countries, and elevate the traditional friendship between China and Palestine to new levels.


He said, "The Palestinian issue is at the heart of the Middle East issue, and is important for peace and stability in the region, fairness, and justice in the world," adding that "China firmly and permanently supports the just cause of the Palestinian people represented in restoring their legitimate national rights."


And he added, "For ten consecutive years, President Xi has sent congratulatory messages to the special commemorative meeting to celebrate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, and more than once put forward China's proposals for resolving the Palestinian issue, stressing the need to resolutely advance the political settlement, based on the two-state solution, and intensify International efforts for peace.


He added that China, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, will continue to work with the international community to find a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the Palestinian issue at an early date.

OPINIONS

Sat 10 Jun 2023 11:01 am - Jerusalem Time

Ease of pulling the trigger keeps the conflict open

Jerusalem Hadith

Jerusalem Hadith

Opinion Writer

It is indescribable that the Israeli army forces, stationed at the "Rantis" military checkpoint, shot the young man, Mahdi Samir Muhammad Bayadsa, 29, to a martyr's death, on the pretext that he was driving a stolen vehicle and wanted to carry out an operation with it. The Israeli government of extremism, and the pretext is ready, as usual, which is that it threatened the security and lives of the soldiers!! .


The ease of squeezing the trigger means, beyond any doubt, that the life of a Palestinian is not worth a “peel of garlic,” as a Hebrew newspaper said yesterday, in its commentary on the killing of “6 Palestinians from within the Green Line, by the bullets of criminal gangs, to whom the Israeli security forces turn a blind eye because they are only Palestinians, if this blood was Jewish, the matter would be completely different.


The occupation government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, considers the Palestinians a mere superfluous human mass and works to liquidate them in various ways, foremost of which is physical liquidation, whether at death checkpoints spread throughout the West Bank or through settler militias who have unleashed their hand in the Palestinian territories to wage war against their sons. Our defenseless people, or through the continuous settlement and Judaization operations, especially in the city of Jerusalem, in which everything that is Palestinian and everything that is sacred is violated and permitted, without the world that claims humanity and justice moving to deter Israel from its crimes that violate all international norms and laws. This means that the conflict in the region will remain open on all fronts and axes.


Not only that, but the US administration, through its Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, is content with rebuking Netanyahu, who said openly during the day that settlements, Jerusalem and its sanctities do not constitute an obstacle to achieving peace, in order to justify his reckless move to return settlers to the "Homesh" settlement, which has become a thorn in the throat of the Palestinians and a bomb. ticking can explode at any moment.


Israel defies the world, led by the United States of America, and does not value any international law or legitimacy. Rather, it tramples on it with the soles of its soldiers every day when it kills Palestinians, children, adults, and young men. The pretext is always ready, which is the threat to Israeli security. The question here is: What is the threat posed by the two-year-old “martyr Muhammad al-Tamimi” from the peaceful village of the Prophet Saleh, who ascended in his father’s lap without any guilt or crime, so that this tragedy, with all its details, remains in the soul of the bereaved father until God decides something that was in effect.


In the face of all this, what is required on the Palestinian front is to unite the ranks and reach consensus and common denominators to face all this challenge facing the Palestinian people. It is with it as a state above the law and does not respect it, but rather violates it without shame or fear of being held accountable. As for internationally, the public, led by America, should not suffice with "rebuke". This is a broken record that the Palestinian people are tired of, and it is time for this world to say a word of truth, even for once. If enough is enough Shedding the blood of the Palestinians who only want to live in peace and security in an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital, like the rest of the peoples of the earth.

OPINIONS

Sat 10 Jun 2023 10:59 am - Jerusalem Time

America's grip has become weak in the face of the new equations in the region

Marwan Emile Tobasi

Marwan Emile Tobasi

Opinion Writer

Monopolizing hegemony over the region as an area of ​​American influence in the framework of the struggle for global influence with other major powers is what has characterized the foreign policy of the United States over the past decades, despite a number of challenges, as the Russians were able to penetrate this influence in some previous periods of time in a number of countries. Such as Syria, Iraq, South Yemen, Libya, Algeria and Egypt in a specific period.


Russian influence is expanding today, not only in those countries, even after the changes that took place in them with varying causes and results, and in a way that was compatible with the American vision for building the new Middle East, which they talked about a quarter of a century ago.


Now, the Russian role is expanding due to the failure of the objectives of the so-called Arab Spring, specifically in Syria, and the plans for the new Middle East that was being planned under the leadership of the occupying power, in addition to the movement of the changes taking place in the international system, not only in those countries that were considered allies of the former Soviet Union, but also in New Arab countries were counted entirely on the Western camp. There are also countries that have succeeded in getting out of the sphere of American influence, such as Iran after the revolution, which today has become a player not only in the Middle East, but also in the international level of the existing conflict and imposes its conditions in the course of negotiations regarding its nuclear file, as happened during the past two days of reaching an agreement. The framework of an agreement and the release of part of the Iranian money withheld, and what it has acquired from the capabilities of military industrialization and as part of new alliances that impose positions on regional and international balances.


Also, despite its membership in NATO, Turkey is the executive tool for the expansionist foreign policies of the United States, but it has now adopted a somewhat independent policy, and it has succeeded, especially in the past two decades, in limiting the tools of American and Western influence on it after its success in developing its economic and military capabilities and its international relations. Specifically with Russia and its emergence as a major regional player that maintains its interests despite what we agree or disagree with this country, especially regarding its dreams of restoring the glories of its empire.


This is in addition to what we are witnessing today of the clarity of the Saudi vision of its role and its impact on the positions of a number of Gulf countries, and its desire for Arab reunification, which has brought matters closer to the United States in a different way from what relations were previously, and is now reading emerging international equations wisely and dealing with With it on the basis of its supposed weight, which prompts the Americans to realize that Saudi Arabia is well accommodating the next stage in the world, and the American administration has become afraid of a new positioning of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that puts it against the Western camp.


It should also be noted that, in the last decade, the Americans have given greater priority to confronting the Chinese rise, to competing across the Pacific Ocean, and also to confronting Russia, especially in the Eurasian region, to prevent its further expansion and in order to stop the steps of transformation towards the multipolar international system, and for this reason its war was fabricated by proxy. Against Russia in Ukraine, as well as weakening the independent European role so that it remains in the American orbit, which is witnessing great opposition from the peoples of the European continent.


This may have weakened in a limited way the degree of American focus on the Middle East, but it did not affect the essence of the same policy that the United States desires to continue, in which the region and its people have taken to wars and destruction. On the conflict and maintain hotbeds of tension so that it remains able to impose the role of the occupying power with the equations it wants in the region.


However, on the other hand, it seems that the United States has become aware of the reality of the new positions and policies in our region, especially with a deep crisis taking place in Israeli society, the exposure of the apartheid regime in it, and the widespread criticism of that by American public opinion and by progressive and even Jewish circles in America. It has also become aware of the approaches that have come to distinguish Its relations with many Arab countries are no longer what they were in the past when the American administrations dictated what they wanted from them.


In front of that, there are changes in the US policy, linked to the policies, procedures and tools that it uses in taking care of its interests and enforcing the constants of its policies. Here, a group of factors related to intellectual political backgrounds and tendencies intervene, especially with different idealistic and realistic concepts in managing their policies and culture for the American president and his ruling team, American economic conditions, which are in a deep crisis today, globalization, the degree of feeling external risks, and dealing with international competition and major powers, especially China, Russia, and a number of coalition countries. The other "BRICS" and the countries of the Latin continent and their political, military and economic behavior that may affect American interests or crowd them out in their spheres of influence.


However, the United States, in my opinion, has returned to our region from another angle of vision represented yesterday by the joint statement issued by the meeting of the foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries with the American Secretary Blinken, who was forced to make a U-turn on the previous American positions, especially regarding the positions on Syria, Yemen, and the agreement. The Saudi-Iranian also has nothing to do with the borders of the two-state solution that the statement referred to yesterday.


It is clear that Saudi Arabia adheres to the Arab initiative and the two-state solution based on the 1967 borders and not to be dragged into normalization relations with the occupying state without a price and without resolving the Palestinian issue first, as stated by its foreign minister, in addition to its insistence on reducing oil production and not yielding to the American vision regarding that and with regard to Russia's membership in OPEC Moreover, the expansion of relations with China has prompted the Americans to turn around and review their positions.
However, the margin of change in American policy towards the Middle East remains, in my opinion, limited in the way of managing the constants, foremost of which is the protection of the Israeli colonial state on the one hand, and the tactical and flexible dealing with developments on the other hand, in a way that serves its interests in an attempt to thwart the transition to a multipolar international system. In any case, it will not stand by our Palestinian people against the Israeli occupation, but it may deal with realism and pragmatism when people succeed in imposing their will, or when things do not go in their interest. However, it quickly repositions itself to serve the implementation of its policy through the support of what is left of its "allies", or by various means of failure and overthrow to re-adjust the political system in accordance with its interest.
But countries and their peoples, when they make up their minds and insist on achieving their independence, are able to impose their will and follow the paths of their renaissance, whether they like America or hate it.

OPINIONS

Sat 10 Jun 2023 10:58 am - Jerusalem Time

And his Islam to Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem

Hamada Pharaohs

Hamada Pharaohs

Opinion Writer

Surprised, shocked, oppressed by the Islamic silence on what is happening in Jerusalem, the holy Arab Islamic city, just as Mecca and Medina are.


The daily storming of the mosque of Muslims: Al-Aqsa, which is for Muslims, and for Muslims only, its sanctity is desecrated, its sanctity is violated, its high value and noble status are violated, and yet there is no protest, nor a soul from the Arab and Islamic capitals, no action from them or some of them deserves stopping and attention, but with all Insolence is celebrating the anniversary of the establishment of the colony and the occupation of Palestine.


They celebrate in some capitals, and do not remember, do not understand, and forget that the colony was established on the land of Palestine, after the displacement of half of its people, expelling them and denying them the right to return to their country, and insisting on not reclaiming their properties in Lydda, Ramla, Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, Safed, Bisan and Beersheba, and it is still being suppressed. And oppressed the other half who remained a steadfast resident on the land of his homeland.
A bill is being drafted by a Likud Knesset member to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque, the mosque of Muslims, their first qiblah, the path of our master Muhammad and his ascension, and there is no protest to prevent division, the division of Al-Aqsa between Muslims and Jews.


I am surprised, amazed, and shocked by the silence of the Islamic capitals, whether those that have a relationship of normalization with the colony, or those that have nothing to do with it, I am surprised by the Islamic silence, I do not exclude anyone from being blamed and held responsible, and losing a sense of concern, protest, or expression It is about non-acceptance and lack of consent, and that is why the colony persists and does what it wants, whatever it wants, while it does not receive or hear anything that prevents it or what deters it from continuing its criminal, immoral, and inhumane actions in Palestine against its people and its sanctities.


Jerusalem needs the call, to respond to the call, to raise the spirit, to move, to express an opinion, and to practice the practical and tangible protest towards Jerusalem and for Jerusalem, towards Al-Aqsa Mosque, and it has the right to preserve its dignity and sanctity as a mosque for Muslims and Muslims only.


I keep saying, and I will continue to say, that the Jerusalem Endowment Council, which is devoted to serving Al-Aqsa, is required to move towards visiting the capitals, because their valued role in their homeland is not enough, but rather they need supportive levers, which requires the formation of mobilizing groups on their part, to visit the Arab and Islamic capitals in Asia and Africa, And meeting with governments, parties, parliaments, and civil society institutions, and mobilizing Muslim public opinion across borders, in order to show solidarity with Jerusalem and its far reaches, so will they do it?

OPINIONS

Sat 10 Jun 2023 10:57 am - Jerusalem Time

Jerusalem, the Arab digital capital, is suitable for supporting Palestinian content

Abdullah Tawfiq Kanaan

Abdullah Tawfiq Kanaan

Opinion Writer

The Arab and Islamic initiatives related to Jerusalem and Palestine constituted an important approach in supporting steadfastness, struggle, and just peace, in addition to being a material and moral value in preserving the Palestinian identity, including preserving it before public opinion as a global humanitarian issue whose tragic details are known to all, including what is exposed to Today and continuously, he has committed the crime of apartheid, and Zionism aims through its implementation to erase the historical and legitimate Palestinian existence. Hence, the initiative in support of Palestine in its various fields is truly a strategic model that must unite efforts to support it.


The Arab Organization for Communication and Information Technology, during the 26th session of the Council of Arab Ministers for Communications and Information, held on December 23, 2022, took its decision to declare "Jerusalem the Arab Digital Capital for the year 2023", and this initiative enhances efforts to develop this important sector, as we are experiencing today a renaissance Tremendous knowledge characterized by technological diversity and great discoveries and inventions, including the emergence of many social media platforms, which took upon itself to deliver information and news to public opinion at all times and places without obstacles, so we, especially the young generations who mastered the skill of technological knowledge, quickly browse digital newspapers and websites, and we do not I am exaggerating if I say that every page or website has become a source of news, bearing in mind that the paper newspaper has its important documentary and media value due to the professionalism and culture of its management and editorial staff. From here, the choice of Jerusalem constitutes a high symbolic digital capital, which redirects the world to the practiced Israeli crimes that target freedom of communication, communication, and technology in Palestine and Jerusalem. Closing institutions, controlling and monitoring communication networks, deleting Palestinian content that reveals the crimes and violations of the occupation, and the emergence of what can be called Zionist technological colonialism that promotes the false Talmudic narrative and fights everything that is Palestinian and Jerusalemite.


The Royal Jordanian Committee for Jerusalem Affairs, while appreciating every initiative that enhances Palestinian and Jerusalemite steadfastness, preserves its identity, and strengthens efforts to support brothers in Palestine and Jerusalem, stresses that the supposed plan to implement the initiatives and their realization programs constitutes a basis for measuring their success, especially since the Palestinian situation has its own specificity in terms of the war being practiced. A ferocious Israeli government that targets people, land, sanctities, Palestinian institutions and infrastructure, and in a planned manner that enters into the methodology of Judaization, Israelization and Hebraism practiced by Israel under the leadership of the right-wing government and religious parties.


The Royal Commission for Jerusalem Affairs, and based on the Hashemite Custodianship over the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, affirms the stability of the Jordanian position and the diversity of its fields of activity, which will remain a shield that protects Palestine and Jerusalem, whatever the price and the amount of sacrifices, especially at a difficult time when the Israeli media and its affiliated institutions are spending millions to fight Every media platform explains the Palestinian tragedy and transmits the voice of the screams of the innocent Palestinian children to the world, which makes it a sacred duty for every media person, intellectual, and information technology expert to support the brothers in Palestine by all known scientific means.
* Secretary General of the Royal Jordanian Commission for Jerusalem Affairs

OPINIONS

Sat 10 Jun 2023 10:56 am - Jerusalem Time

Renewal of the Palestinian revolutionary theory

Captive: Jamal Al-Hour

Captive: Jamal Al-Hour

Opinion Writer

In our article that we published last Saturday under the title “Revolutionary Doctrine,” we had stressed the inevitable necessity for a true revolutionary awakening that includes a conscious and responsible self-review that would bring about a radical change in the mechanisms and management of revolutionary action, and is capable of dealing and addressing urgent, crucial and emergency issues in a methodical manner that serves The Palestinian cause and its fruitful and positive benefit at the level of liberation and getting rid of colonialism and its heavy burdens and remnants.


Today, through this article, and in order to initiate that desired change, which is a necessity and an urgent duty, we see that it is inevitable for us to carry out a process of rehabilitation and a process of renewal of the revolutionary theory “practiced” on the battlefield and the other paths that resulted from it for more than half a century, but it did not lead or reach Let us refer to the original goal for which it revolted, which is to liberate the country from the yoke of colonialism. Rather, in addition to its inability to achieve this, it was afflicted with pathogenic defects and paralysis that were left behind by various and different reasons, the most severe of which are: division over itself over the “sacred” it has, defining its content and understanding its meanings, in addition to The factor of time that went on and on until despair penetrated into the hearts of its supporters and sons, due to the lack of seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the dark tunnel in whose corridors the Palestinian revolution sank due to the many defects it experienced at all levels, and due to the closure of political horizons, the faltering course of liberation, and the divergence of methods and concepts of resistance in the Palestinian mind the one ; Things that had no foreseeable solutions in front of a solution colonial colonialism that worked and is still working to create a complex and complex political reality and a more complex and intertwined reality at the level of geography, and we see it striving to do so at the level of demography in order to complete and tighten its collar and make it firm and solid facts on the ground that would be very difficult Or with the time of dismantling or overcoming it - according to him - and it becomes impossible for partial and immediate solutions to the issue to find its spaces and opportunities even on paper instead of land and geography, and thus he has struck in the presentation of history every possibility of a case of building a Palestinian state, that is, a Palestinian state ..! And any possibility of a state of coexistence within one state for two peoples, as it is raised in the corridors of politics from time to time by unofficial circles on the main Palestinian and Zionist levels.


In the face of this rapid and simplified diagnosis, and through probing the revolutionary and health situation and diagnosing its diseases and ailments, and in front of our reading and follow-up of the colonial occupation approach and the development of its policies and extremism and the advancement and superiority of its tools, and in front of its octopus settlement expansion and its practice of the policy of soft annexation of land and control over it by the biblical colonizers and in light of its invasion of the Arab and Islamic world by way of Normalization tools And its balloons, which foreshadows an inevitable catastrophe that will exceed the catastrophe of the Nakba in 1948. What the reality foreshadows will be a collective and comprehensive “transfer” and the ethnic and historical cleansing of the land and the indigenous (Palestinian) human being. Confronting it is a Palestinian because the revolutionary split and divided conceptually, values ​​and programmatically cannot confront a "unified" and biblical and colonialist reconciled with itself.
Here it is necessary to wake up and awaken, directly and quickly, from the slumber and blindness of the long-standing and intractable state (flagginess, brokenness, division, and fragmentation), and to stand with courage and heroism on the balcony of frankness and self-honesty, and to recognize the revolutionary failure, to exclude its causes and causes, and to turn a blind eye to the “stick of justice” at the present time to create and mobilize A new and healthy Palestinian revolutionary situation in all its material and moral components, and this can only be achieved through several contents, the most important of which are:


1- Inviting the Palestinians to convene a conference that includes all the Palestinian geography, the areas of the diaspora, and the immigrants from them in the corners of the earth.


2- Carrying out an in-depth and accurate research study of the rationale and methodology of the Palestinian revolution, tracking its path of resistance, standing at all its turns, and examining the reasons for its failure to achieve its goals despite the continuous work and effort.


3- Removing all areas of disagreement and sparing them from the arena of action, even until the time of “liberation” and rallying around the Palestinian “common” between all the formations and frameworks of the Palestinian people. One of the merits of the Palestinian cause over its children is that it possesses the “common” that neither argues nor butts over as a scapegoat, which is the “holy” Represented by the inclusive "homeland" and the requirement to liberate it from occupation as an inevitable duty of patriotism, religion, history, the human right to live and the reasons for existence.


4- It is very important to stay away from the fundamentalist ideological references, whether religious, secular, national or socialist, as they are totalitarian and radical, which rely on “dogmatism” as an arbitrator in seeking and implementing their interests, which makes them an area of ​​contention between partners and holders of different ideologies among the Palestinian people. What is not expected to be, at the very least, before complete and comprehensive liberation.


Hence, it becomes necessary to formulate a comprehensive revolutionary theory whose common axis is “sacred” in the revolutionary understanding, and whose revolutionary and resistance creed is “comprehensive and complete liberation and the removal of the colonialists” similar to the modern global revolutions of Vietnam, Algeria, Libya, etc.., and is driven by the undivided goal that is far from fairness and quarter solutions and their tactics Phaseism, in other words (distancing from the experiment whose failure has been proven and its ruin and destruction in the body of the people, their revolution and their cause).


5- Building an inclusive structure for the Palestinian house away from factional and narrow partisan quotas and dividing the imaginary spoils.. Here we must emphasize the necessity of renewing and rehabilitating the PLO in the event that it is agreed to keep the name among the participants in the Great Palestinian Conference, knowing that it is healthy to look for A new name that serves as a new start that gives confidence to the souls who have despaired of the flabbiness, or even the extinction, of the foundations, components and machines of that “organisation”. Marawi is responsible towards this sacred cause that needs real heroes who accept change and renewal that are in the interest of the cause and move away or completely abolish the taboos and tomatoes (plural of Tamtam) created by the soft, flabby and retreating state of the Palestinian revolution over the decades of painstaking time.


It is necessary to impose new rules and a new and warm structure that gathers around the “common” and excludes everything that calls for division and stunting, and new mechanisms and work tools must be devised capable of facing a complex reality that is getting more difficult every hour and every day, and only with this can all Palestinians be re-enlisted around The original goal and then it is possible to mobilize the Arab world that has abandoned the cause because of its division against itself and because of the stagnation of its revolution and its sheikh, and then the distant world will come with the rule of unity of word, firmness of stance and clarity of vision, which in turn will together give true impressions and impose new realities, and will push the colonizer on the other hand to restore His calculations and the work of political reviews will have positive effects in favor of the Palestinian cause and its revolution..!
* Nafha prison

OPINIONS

Sat 10 Jun 2023 10:54 am - Jerusalem Time

The illusions of religious war that nest in the heads of those who initiated it

Hamdi Farrag

Hamdi Farrag

Opinion Writer

Official Palestinian media and the religious opposition are promoting that the next war with the occupation will be a religious war, which can be translated into an Islamic-Jewish war, and Palestinian analysts and sheikhs are divulging in declaring that it is a war of a billion Muslims against five million Jews, and I personally do not think that any of them uses this understanding to maneuver or for psychological warfare, but rather their belief that this is the essence of the Arab-Israeli conflict; Islam and Muslims against Judaism and Jews. And at this we stop and refute the following points:


First: Islam as a religion, and specifically the Qur’an of God, is not against Judaism. Rather, there are dozens of noble verses that praise it, rely on it, and quote from its Torah, Psalms, stories, and prophets. This is why the names of their prophets spread among us, Moses, Jacob, Aaron, Isaac Yunus, Joseph, and David...etc. But before Islam, such names were not, and none of the companions of the Prophet bore their names: Omar, Ali, Othman, Saad, Khaled, Abbas, Hamza, Sufyan, Jaafar, Talha...etc).


Second: Israel, which was established on our land seventy-five years ago, is not a religious state, and the two major parties that ruled it throughout its life, “Marach and Likud,” are not religious, and about a fifth of its population are Muslims who struggle against its occupation, and some enlist in its army and fight their Palestinian brothers. Of course, this does not preclude the existence of purely religious parties that have their weight and status and try to impose "Sharia" on aspects of life, such as pork, entering the Sabbath, and veiling women, and this is also present with us in varying proportions.


Third: Al-Aqsa Mosque, which today is trying to divide and Judaize it, is an integral part of Jerusalem, which was occupied fifty-six years ago, along with the rest of the cities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. So do we exchange it, with its sacred importance, for the rest of the cities, in the sense that they give it to us purely in exchange for giving up Jenin or Bethlehem? And whoever says that the human right to life, liberty, and decent living is less sacred than Al-Aqsa. And who said that our next state will be a religious state on the model of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Pope in the Vatican.


Fourth: There is no country in the world that implements Islamic law, including Iran, which is called by name, as it, like others, does not cut off the hand of thieves, does not stone adulterers, does not impose prayers, does not charge five, and allies itself with the “infidels” in China and Venezuela, and in the last decade it confronted ISIS and al-Nusra. And even to Shiite factions such as the People's Mujahedin. While a Muslim country like Turkey has been ruled over the last two decades by an Islamic man, who maintains distinguished relations with the "Jewish state", and many Arab countries have established their own reconciliation with this country.


Fifth: This, of course, does not preclude the use of religion by some in wars, such as President Saddam Hussein, who, on the eve of the American invasion, placed the phrase "God is greatest" in the center of the Iraqi flag. And Hitler, in his global war against his brothers in Christianity, did not forget to draw the swastika as an emblem of war.

OPINIONS

Sat 10 Jun 2023 10:53 am - Jerusalem Time

The end of the brutal occupation

Faisal Abu Khadra

Faisal Abu Khadra

Opinion Writer

The persistence of the occupier in legitimizing the settlements, the theft of thousands of dunums of land, killings and orgies in all cities, towns, villages and camps of the West Bank, the demolition of thousands of homes, and the continuous attacks on our sanctities, in return for the astonishing silence of America and Europe, and an Arab League that does not implement any decision issued by it. An authority that cannot stop this increasing orgy, especially the daily executions of our people, in addition to the attacks on prisoners in its prisons and detention centers, makes it impossible to live with this Zionist occupier.

The only solution is to support our national unity and amend our policy with the occupation, America and Europe, and we turn to countries that support us in deed and not in words, so that our policy is far from condemnation and intimidation.

We have to restore work and arrange conditions in the diaspora camps, and this requires financial support from all countries that support our national project and choose the right time and time to recover our national rights.

President Mahmoud Abbas did and is doing the impossible to end this occupation and raised to the world not only an olive branch but an olive tree that is thousands of years old. Despite this, there was no answer. Unfortunately, it proves to everyone that this occupation does not understand the language of force and does not care about international resolutions and does not respect its signatures. Therefore, It is necessary to change our peaceful policy and work to restore the homeland, especially that America and Europe are condemning and doing nothing to stop this farce, after it was confirmed to us that the Western world only cares about a country, and this is what we see in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

For the sake of Ukraine, America went bankrupt and could no longer pay its debts because of an endless war. As for the people of Palestine, no one cares about them, and here the racism of America and Western countries is evident.

It is true that the countries of the ring were defeated by the Zionist gangs and a permanent truce was signed without setting the condition of return, but the Palestinian people did not sign any document of surrender, and gave the PLO the full mandate to make peace with the aggressor, but this cancerous entity, neither it nor its supporters, did what they signed. Therefore, now the Palestinian people are demanding all the land of historical Palestine, not just 22 percent of Palestine.
Also, the return of Syria to the Arab embrace, and the Russian and Chinese position, makes Syria militarily strong and works seriously to restore the Golan to it, because the Syrians under the leadership of Bashar al-Assad are impossible to abandon the Arab Golan, no matter how long it takes.

The persistence of the occupier in attacking the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza, and the continuous attacks on Syria, makes even the normalizers stand as one bloc against the occupier.

If we look today at the political map, we find that the occupier is at its lowest levels, and even the Zionist Biden is dissatisfied with the actions of the Netanyahu government, just as Saudi Arabia sets its conditions to normalize with the occupier, which is the implementation of international resolutions, including withdrawal from the Syrian Golan, so we see the occupier sending his delegates to America to put pressure on Saudi Arabia, for two reasons. The first is to tell its colonial people that it is the only one who can normalize with the rest of the Arab countries, and this has now become a fantasy.

The Saudi-Iranian agreement also paves the way for reconciliation in Yemen, and Yemen returns to the Arab embrace, because Houthi is a Yemeni Arab and not Iranian, meaning that Houthi is an important part of the Yemeni structure, and this reconciliation, if it takes place, God willing, will serve Saudi Arabia and Iran, and this is all strong support for Syria And Palestine, meaning that stopping the fighting in any Arab country is support for Syria and Palestine, and a strong weakness and retreat for Israeli and American policy.

The occupier's home front has also suffered from a major rift since 1948.

As for the military map, it is in a miserable state, because the Zionist people are accustomed to victory in a few days, and this is no longer the case now.

Syria has a military missile force to be reckoned with, add to it the power of Hezbollah, which will fight from Syrian territory, given the Lebanese situation, which is torn sectarianly and financially.

The Palestinian front is not to be underestimated, especially in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and its factions, before engaging in any battle, must reconsider the interest of the people in the Gaza Strip because Hamas or Jihad missiles are currently doing more harm than good. They must change this policy by training all young people in the Strip and in Ring countries, whether in Gaza or outside it, to be on alert.

The occupier is a coward, especially since he cannot bear a battle that lasts for a month or two, and we will see the Zionists fleeing from Palestine, no matter how superior their weapons are to the Arab weapons, and the reason is known, because his land is outside Palestine, so the Zionist cannot give up his original nationality, as for the Palestinian, A known land, which is Palestine.

Therefore, we Palestinians must be one hand, that is, there is no Fatah or Hamas, but only a Palestinian. God is the helper.

* Member of the National Council

PALESTINE

Sat 10 Jun 2023 9:19 am - Jerusalem Time

The occupation continues to detain the bodies of (12) prisoners

The Palestinian Prisoners Club said that, 40 days after the martyrdom of Sheikh Khader Adnan, the occupation continues its crime by detaining his body, along with (11) prisoners from among the martyrs of the captive movement, and dozens of martyrs.

The martyr Sheikh Khader Adnan, who is from the town of Arraba / Jenin, rose after a decision by the Israeli occupation to assassinate him premeditatedly through medical neglect, and left him in his cell for 86 days of a hunger strike that he waged in rejection of his arbitrary arrest.

The occupation forces arrested him on February 5, 2023, and he announced his hunger strike from the moment of his arrest, and he rose on May 2, 2023.

The martyr Adnan was the most prominent person who faced the occupation with his empty stomachs over the years, as he carried out (6) strikes, most of which were in refusal of his administrative detention.

This was his will: "If it is my testimony, do not allow the occupiers to dissect my body, imprison me near my father, and write on my grave here, the poor Abdullah Khader Adnan, your prayers for him, his parents and the Muslims."

The Captive Club called for the need to strive seriously to develop a comprehensive national plan that would lead to the liberation of the bodies of the martyrs, and we affirm our demand for the need to put pressure on the occupation to stop this ongoing crime against our martyrs and their families.

PALESTINE

Sat 10 Jun 2023 8:32 am - Jerusalem Time

The occupation is looking for a settlement plan to strengthen its control over Jerusalem

The Local Planning and Building Committee in the occupation municipality has scheduled a session for next Wednesday to discuss the "Wadi Al-Joz Hi-Tech" plan, or known as the "Silicon Valley" settlement, which aims to strengthen control and annexation of occupied East Jerusalem.


On the seventh of last February, the occupation municipality posted advertisements aimed at evacuating commercial and service establishments and workshops, on the shops and streets in the Wadi al-Jouz industrial zone, as a step and preparation for the implementation of the so-called "Silicon Valley" plan to establish a technology zone or complex in the region.


At the beginning of June 2020, the occupation municipality announced plans to build a technology park inspired by Silicon Valley in the United States called "Silicon Valley" to replace the industrial zone located in the Palestinian neighborhood of Wadi al-Jouz.


The local Planning and Building Committee approved the master plan, paving the way for detailed plans for its implementation under the pretext of “serving the indigenous population” of Jerusalem, in complete disregard for the needs of the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem.

Today, Wadi Al-Jouz is considered an economic and industrial center for the Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, where there are more than two hundred establishments, including car repair shops, mechanics, shops, and other services.


The Civil Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem notes that during the past 56 years of Israeli occupation and annexation, Israel has been implementing systematic and discriminatory planned policies and practices of colonialism and discrimination with the aim of controlling Palestinian lands and transferring the indigenous Palestinian population from their lands, in parallel, Israel’s expansion Israeli Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem and transfer their residents to the Occupied Palestinian Territories.


The coalition confirmed that after the rise of the extreme right, led by Netanyahu, the attack became stronger and stronger, and Israel used local law and urban planning to “Judaize” Jerusalem. , and 22% are designated as green areas and public infrastructure.


Thus in East Jerusalem, home to most Palestinian Jerusalemites, 87% of the land is not available for Palestinian construction, and only 13% of the land is designated for Palestinian use, even though most of these areas are already built-up and overcrowded.


The coalition said: “The Jerusalem municipality designated Wadi al-Joz as a ‘green area’, and these ‘parks’ were developed by the municipality to further its own political agenda, more precisely to ensure a Jewish majority in Jerusalem.

Another thousand square meters divided between "commerce" and "hotels", in complete disregard of the needs of the indigenous population.
On Wednesday, October 28, 2020, the Local Planning and Building Committee approved a plan to "develop" Wadi al-Joz in East Jerusalem, including through the development of the high-tech "Silicon Valley" area. About 40 business owners in the area have already received eviction orders.


The implementation of this project will lead to the confiscation of 2,000 dunams of Palestinian-owned land and the demolition of about 200 car repair facilities, restaurants, and other services.


The Coalition affirmed that the planned settlement activity in Jerusalem is a clear violation of international laws and norms, in particular international humanitarian law, including the forced displacement and transfer of indigenous people and the prohibition of population transfer by the occupying power, in accordance with Article 49 (1) and (6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which It recently states that "the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies."


The Coalition called on the international community, the European Union and the United Nations to assume responsibility and fulfill its obligations towards the protected persons under occupation in Jerusalem, and to stop the illegal Israeli annexation of the eastern part of the city of Jerusalem and the continuous demolition and displacement policies in Wadi al-Jouz and other neighborhoods in Jerusalem are an integral part of the policy of ethnic cleansing. The silent elder.


He stressed that the international community's position should not be limited to timid condemnation statements, but rather take appropriate and effective measures by calling for imposing sanctions on Israel and obligating it to dozens of stalled international resolutions related to the Palestinian cause and occupied Jerusalem in particular.

PALESTINE

Sat 10 Jun 2023 8:02 am - Jerusalem Time

100 dead in the occupied interior after the killing of a young man

The death toll among the Palestinians inside Israel since the beginning of this year has risen to 100, after the announcement of the death of another young man this morning.


According to the Hebrew website Ynet, a 21-year-old man from Bedouin villages was killed by foreign workers after a fight between them in the city of Ofakim, south of occupied Palestine.


According to the site, the Israeli police arrested those involved in the incident.

PALESTINE

Sat 10 Jun 2023 7:53 am - Jerusalem Time

3 young men from Jenin were arrested and the storming of Beita continued

Last night, the Israeli occupation forces arrested 3 young men from Jenin while they were passing through the Hawara checkpoint in Nablus.


According to local sources, the young men are Muhammad Rahal, Muhammad Hantoli and Muhammad Faisal.


She indicated that the occupation forces at the checkpoint stopped the three young men and interrogated them on the ground before arresting them and taking them to an unknown destination.


In the context, the occupation forces renewed their raid into the town of Beita, south of Nablus, amid raids and searches of many homes.


These forces forced the owners of some shops near the main street of the town to open them to confiscate the camera recordings under the pretext of searching for the perpetrators of the recent shootings in the area.

PALESTINE

Fri 09 Jun 2023 10:17 pm - Jerusalem Time

Occupation forces assault a young man and arrest another in Nablus

On Friday evening, the Israeli occupation forces assaulted a young man at the Hawara checkpoint, south of Nablus.


The Red Crescent reported that its crews transferred a 23-year-old man from Yatta, who was beaten by the occupation forces, to Rafidia Hospital.


Meanwhile, similar forces arrested the young man, Baraa Ramadan Kamel Arafa, from Izbat Shufa, southeast of Tulkarm, while he was passing through the Surra checkpoint near Nablus.


ARAB AND WORLD

Fri 09 Jun 2023 9:35 pm - Jerusalem Time

The two parties to the conflict in Sudan agree to a truce for 24 hours

The two parties to the conflict in Sudan agreed on Friday to a new, short truce, according to what was announced by the Saudi-American mediation, while the Secretary-General of the United Nations affirmed his adherence to his envoy to Sudan, despite the government's declaration that he had become persona non grata.


Since the start of the conflict on April 15 between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the two sides concluded cease-fire agreements, which were quickly broken.


Riyadh and Washington announced the agreement of the army and support forces to a “ceasefire agreement in all parts of Sudan for a period of 24 hours, starting from six in the morning on June 10, 2023” (4 am GMT), according to the Saudi Foreign Ministry.


Riyadh and Washington, who are leading a mediation that included talks in the city of Jeddah, reflected their disappointment at the failure of all attempts at calm.


They affirmed that they "share with the Sudanese people the state of frustration over non-compliance with the previous truces," and that the new agreement aims to "reach humanitarian aid, break the state of violence, and contribute to strengthening confidence-building measures between the two parties, which allows for the resumption of the Jeddah talks."


Last week, the two mediators announced the suspension of the talks after the army withdrew from them, but they urged the two sides to a new truce, and confirmed that the representatives of the two parties would remain in Jeddah despite the suspension of direct negotiations.


Friday's statement warned that "if the two sides do not abide by this truce, the two leaders will be forced to postpone the Jeddah talks."


Both sides confirmed their intention to respect the armistice.


The army said it approved it "taking into account the humanitarian aspects that our people suffer from as a result of the ongoing operations," stressing that it reserves "the right to deal with any violations that the rebels may commit" during it.


The support forces also pledged to "fully" abide by the agreement by fire "to serve the purposes of the truce," hoping that the army would fulfill its pledges "and not to impede humanitarian aid efforts to alleviate the suffering of citizens."


The announcement of the truce comes after the visit of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to Riyadh, where his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan, acknowledged that efforts to stop the conflict had not achieved "complete success," stressing its continuation.

The conflict has claimed more than 1,800 lives, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). However, the actual number of victims may be much higher, according to aid agencies and organizations.


According to the International Organization for Migration, the conflict has caused the displacement of about two million people, including more than 476,000 to neighboring countries.


On Friday, the spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations refused to consider the Sudanese envoy to the organization, German Volker Peretz, persona non grata.


Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesman for Antonio Guterres, said the measure announced by Khartoum "contradicts" UN principles and "cannot be applied".


He stressed that "the character of Mr. Peretz has not changed at present, and the position of the Secretary-General remains as he expressed it before the Security Council last week," referring to the "absolute confidence" that Guterres has repeatedly shown regarding his envoy to Sudan.


The Sudanese Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday night that the government had notified the Secretary-General of declaring Peretz "persona non grata."


This came after Al-Burhan asked Guterres in late May to replace Peretz, on the grounds that he was accused of fueling the conflict.


A Sudanese government source told AFP that Peretz "sided with specific political parties," and given Guterres' failure to respond to Al-Burhan's request, "the Sudanese government found no choice but to take this decision."


Ali Faraji, a researcher at the Swedish University of Gothenburg, considered that Al-Burhan follows in the footsteps of Omar Al-Bashir by expelling UN envoy Jan Pronk in 2006.


"Focusing on Peretz is ultimately a distraction from the broader picture," he told AFP, which is what the United Nations can do in the face of "what might be an existential crisis for Sudan?"


And he considered that "trying to preserve Peretz's position will not help much in resolving the larger issues that Sudan is facing now."


In early June, the UN Security Council extended for six months the mission of the United Nations Integrated Transitional Support Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), led by Peretz.


The mission was established in June 2020 to support the democratic transition in Sudan after the overthrow of the Al-Bashir regime. It extended its mandate annually for one year.


On the ground, battles continued on Friday in several areas, especially in Khartoum.


According to AFP witnesses, "the sounds of clashes were heard near the Yarmouk factory" for defense industries, which the Rapid Support Forces announced on Wednesday that they had taken control of it.


The complex, located in the south of the capital, is the most prominent military manufacturing facility in the country. In October 2012, he was subjected to an air strike, which Khartoum accused Israel of being behind.


Clashes have been taking place in the vicinity of the complex since Wednesday, which was accompanied by the outbreak of a fire as a result of the explosion of one of the oil storage tanks in the neighboring Al-Shajara oil and gas facility.


Witnesses confirmed Friday that the smoke cloud resulting from the fire is still visible.


In eastern Khartoum, residents reported air strikes from the army, and the sound of heavy anti-aircraft guns.


In the suburb of Omdurman, north of the capital, residents reported artillery shelling and clashes.


Humanitarian organizations repeatedly warn of the seriousness of the humanitarian situation in Sudan, especially in Khartoum and the Darfur region (west), where the battles are most intense.


The outgoing head of the Red Cross mission, Alfonso Ferdo Perez, warned that the health situation "is liable to collapse at any time," despite the efforts made.


"In Khartoum, we estimate that 20 percent of health facilities are still functioning. They are facing severe shortages of water, electricity, food, and basic medical supplies are running out," he told reporters in Geneva.


He pointed out that the health situation "is also critical in many areas of Darfur," a region that has witnessed a bloody conflict for two decades.


According to medical sources, three quarters of the hospitals in combat zones are out of service. It is feared that the crisis will worsen with the approach of the rainy season, which threatens the spread of malaria again, food insecurity and child malnutrition.


The United Nations estimates that 25 million out of 45 million people in the country need aid.

ARAB AND WORLD

Fri 09 Jun 2023 8:18 pm - Jerusalem Time

Lebanese demonstrators protest against the actions of the Israeli army in southern Lebanon

Lebanese demonstrators suffocated today, Friday, as the Israeli army fired smoke and tear gas canisters to disperse them during protests against Israeli actions at a border point in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese security sources.


Sources in the Internal Security Forces, the Lebanese Army Intelligence, and eyewitnesses told Xinhua that hundreds of Lebanese gathered today along the border line in the Kfar Shuba axis, to protest against Israeli bulldozers carrying out dredging, creating trenches, and installing barbed wire at the Barakat Baathiel point in the outskirts of the town of Kfar Shuba. border in southern Lebanon.


The Lebanese side considers this point within a disputed border area, while Israel considers it within its side of the border line, according to the sources.


And she added that the Israeli army fired dozens of smoke, sound and tear gas canisters at the protesters, who tried several times to enter the other side of the border line, which resulted in the injury of about 12 Lebanese people who suffocated before they could be treated.


The sources added that the protesters managed to remove about 20 meters of barbed wire.


Subsequently, members of the United Nations forces operating in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL), in coordination with the Lebanese army, worked to build a human dam along the barbed wire fence, and prevented the Lebanese protesters from storming the border line.


A state of tension prevailed between the Lebanese and Israeli armies in the region, as the Lebanese army deployed dozens of soldiers equipped with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, while the Israeli army pushed an armored force that included tanks and armored personnel carriers, which took up combat positions in the hills overlooking the border line.


The Mufti of Hasbaya, Marjeyoun, Sheikh Hassan Dallah, delivered a speech on behalf of the protesters, in which he called on UNIFIL to work to prevent Israeli attacks and stop the dredging that changes the features of the region.


Dallah said in his speech, "This land is Lebanese, and its owners have owned title deeds for a long time. What is happening by the Israeli army is an unjustified occupation, and we will not allow it, regardless of the sacrifices."


The protesters held Friday prayers along the border fence in this axis.


Commenting on what is happening in Kfar Shuba, UNIFIL Spokesperson Andrea Tenenti stated, "UNIFIL peacekeepers are on the ground, and have been on the ground since the beginning to ensure the continuation of the cessation of hostilities, to establish calm and to help ease tensions."


He urged "the parties to use UNIFIL's coordination mechanisms effectively to prevent misunderstandings and violations, and to contribute to maintaining stability in the region."


The border line separating Lebanon and Israel, which is about 120 kilometers long, witnesses from time to time cases of alert and tension exchanges, which UNIFIL is working to curb.

PALESTINE

Fri 09 Jun 2023 6:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

Netanyahu postpones a meeting on a settlement plan to divide the West Bank

The American Axios website reported, on Friday, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to postpone the meeting scheduled for next week regarding the very sensitive settlement plan in the E1 area in the occupied West Bank, and that this came as a result of pressure from the administration of US President Joe Biden, two Israeli officials told the site.


According to the site, the E1 area located between Jerusalem and the Ma'ale Adumim settlement is the most diplomatically sensitive and internationally volatile area in the West Bank. Building an Israeli settlement there would prevent Palestinian geographic contiguity between the northern and southern parts of the West Bank, which would make it very difficult to establish a Palestinian state in the future.


For more than 20 years, several Democratic and Republican US administrations have pressured Israel not to build a settlement in the area.


It is noteworthy that the official spokesperson for the US State Department, Vedant Patel, said Wednesday, in response to a question from the correspondent of "Al Quds" dot com, regarding this issue, that the US government strongly opposes these measures.


The decision comes as Netanyahu appears to be trying to calm tensions with the Biden administration, hoping that this will lead to an invitation to meet with Biden at the White House. This will be his first invitation to the White House since taking office more than five months ago.


It is noteworthy that President Biden said last March that Netanyahu would not receive an invitation "in the near term" to visit the White House.


According to Axios: “US officials have previously said that they want to know where the negotiations will go regarding Netanyahu’s controversial judicial reform plan before deciding whether to invite Netanyahu to meet with Biden.”


Israeli and American officials say that in the past two weeks, the Biden administration and several European countries have expressed concern to Netanyahu and his aides about the intention to hold a meeting on the E1 plan and demanded its cancellation, according to the website.


Israeli officials told Axios that Israel informed the United States on Thursday of the decision to postpone the meeting.

PALESTINE

Fri 09 Jun 2023 6:30 pm - Jerusalem Time

Arresting a girl for allegedly trying to stab a settler, south of Nablus

On Friday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a girl for allegedly trying to stab a settler, after a fight between them, near Suleiman Al-Farsi roundabout, south of Nablus.


According to a press source from the scene, the girl was not shot, and what happened was that she was electrocuted in her hand with a stun gun used by a member of the occupation soldiers.


The Red Crescent reported that the occupation forces prevented its crews from transporting the girl, and she was transported by an Israeli military ambulance.

PALESTINE

Fri 09 Jun 2023 6:18 pm - Jerusalem Time

The killing does not stop.. A girl joins the victims of crimes, and the number reaches 99

The crimes among the Palestinians of the occupied territories have hardly stopped since the beginning of the year, especially since yesterday evening, Thursday, in which 7 people were killed.


According to the Hebrew website Ynet, a 19-year-old girl was killed, on Friday evening, by shooting at a vehicle she was driving near the entrance to the town of Yarka in the Upper Galilee.


According to the site, the number of victims of crimes among the Palestinians of the interior rose to 99, including 14 since the beginning of this month, including 8 since yesterday evening, Thursday, after 5 were killed in Yafa Nazareth, a sixth in Kafr Qassem, and another in Jaljulia.

PALESTINE

Fri 09 Jun 2023 5:01 pm - Jerusalem Time

Hamas: The occupation maneuvers confirm its feeling of helplessness in the face of the resistance

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said, "The military maneuvers carried out by the Israeli occupation, which announced today the end of one of the largest of them, confirm its feeling of increasing helplessness in confronting the resistance force in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and all the resistance forces in the region."


Qassem added, in a statement today, Friday, "The maneuvers in which the United States of America is participating under the name of 'Arc of Threats' will not solve the occupation's problem with the increasing presence of resistance forces around the Zionist entity."


He stressed that the Palestinian people in all arenas and fronts, with all the vital forces in the nation, will continue to accumulate strength and strengthen the Jerusalem axis to continue its legitimate fight against the occupation until it wrests its freedom and independence.


PALESTINE

Fri 09 Jun 2023 4:27 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation decides to demolish the house of the prisoner Muhammad Zalbani

Today, Friday, the Israeli occupation authorities decided to demolish the house of the family of the detainee, Muhammad Zalbani, from occupied Jerusalem.


The prisoner, Zalbani, is accused by the occupation of carrying out the stabbing attack that took place at the Shuafat camp checkpoint last February. During the operation, one of the occupation soldiers was shot dead by his colleague.

PALESTINE

Fri 09 Jun 2023 4:10 pm - Jerusalem Time

The sick prisoner, Asif Al-Rifai, is facing serious health conditions

Today, Friday, the Prisoners' Club said, "The cancer-sick prisoner, Asif Al-Rifai (20 years) from Ramallah, is still being held in the clinic in Ramleh Prison, where he faces serious health conditions. Return him to Ramla prison."


The club added, in a statement, "Despite his desperate need to be with his family to take care of him, the occupation insists on arresting him and putting him on trial."


It is noteworthy that the prisoner, Asif, was arrested since September last year, and he is still detained, and the occupation denied him treatment before his arrest, by depriving him of obtaining a permit for treatment in Jerusalem.


It is noteworthy that the prisoner, Asif, is one of 24 prisoners who suffer from cancer and tumors of various degrees.

PALESTINE

Fri 09 Jun 2023 3:51 pm - Jerusalem Time

Demonstrations and a general strike to protest the crime of Jaffa Nazareth

Hundreds of residents of Jaffa al-Nazareth demonstrated in the occupied interior, in a mass demonstration against violence, crime, and police inaction, in the wake of the crime that the country witnessed yesterday, which resulted in the killing of 5 young men.


On Thursday, the town of Yafa al-Nazareth witnessed one of the bloodiest criminal shootings in the history of the cities of the occupied interior, in which five young men were killed, one of them a 15-year-old minor, as a result of settling scores between two criminal organizations active in the Arab community.


The participants closed the main street in Yafa al-Nazareth, while the town is witnessing a general strike for three days, mourning the lives of the victims of the mass murder committed yesterday. Rami Marjieh, Louay Abu Rajab, Naim Marjieh, Ibrahim Shehadeh, and Muhammad Kinana.


The participants raised the Palestinian flag and slogans denouncing the negligence of the successive Israeli police and governments in combating organized crime, including: "Arab blood is not cheap," "enough bloodshed," and "we hold the government and all its arms responsible."


PALESTINE

Fri 09 Jun 2023 2:43 pm - Jerusalem Time

Injuries in separate clashes in the West Bank

A number of citizens were injured by live bullets, rubber-coated bullets, and suffocation, during clashes that erupted with the occupation forces in the West Bank governorates, today, Friday.


Local sources said that a number of citizens suffocated from tear gas today, Friday, during clashes with the occupation in the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, and Beita, in the south.


In Nablus, a number of citizens suffocated due to toxic tear gas during the Israeli occupation forces' suppression of the weekly anti-settlement march in Beit Dajan, east of Nablus.


The occupation forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas at the participants in the march, as a result of which 15 civilians suffocated, according to Ahmed Jibril, director of ambulance and emergency services at the Red Crescent in Nablus.


In Qalqilya, three civilians were wounded by rubber-coated metal bullets, and dozens suffocated, during the clashes that erupted with the Israeli occupation forces in Kafr Qaddum.


Local sources said that the occupation army fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas at the participants in the weekly march, which led to clashes, during which three civilians were shot and dozens suffocated. They were treated in the field.


In Nablus, two citizens were wounded by rubber-coated metal bullets, one in the foot and the other in the lower back, and dozens suffocated, during clashes with the Israeli occupation in the town of Beit Ummar.

PALESTINE

Fri 09 Jun 2023 2:18 pm - Jerusalem Time

A Palestinian couple counts down the days before they are evicted from their home in Jerusalem

A Palestinian married couple, Noura and Mustafa Sub-Laban, are preparing for the days awaiting the implementation of an Israeli court's decision to vacate their home in East Jerusalem in favor of settlers in a case dating back to 1978.

The house is located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of occupied Jerusalem. Sunday begins the deadline after which the Israeli police will be able to enter the house and expel them from it, after decades of legal procedures.


"These days, I'm like a prisoner on death row. When they take you out of your house, it's a death sentence," Noura Sub Laban told AFP.


"I don't sleep like other people, my life is difficult and I live on tranquilizers," she added.


The family has been involved in a legal dispute with the Israeli authorities and settlers for 45 years.


According to the family and the Israeli anti-settlement association "Ir Amim", the settlers are represented in the case by an organization called "Ateret Leoshana" in the person of Eli Atal.


Atal declined AFP's request to comment on the matter.


The settlers say that Jews resided in the property before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, and Jordan later took over the administration of East Jerusalem.


They base their claims on the property on an Israeli law dating back to the seventies of the last century that allows Jews to recover property that belonged to Jews before the establishment of the state.


According to this law, those who are not related to the original owners of the property can claim it back.


As for the Sub Laban family, they say that Jordan spent the 1950s with being "protected tenants."


Israel has occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since 1967. The Hebrew state later annexed East Jerusalem in a move not recognized by the international community.


The family showed AFP Jordanian lease contracts dating back to 1953, as well as Israeli court rulings recognizing them as "protected tenants."


The current Israeli courts based their decision on the need for the couple to vacate the house, on the fact that the family does not live in the building permanently.


Noura comments on this by saying that there was a period when she was not actually at home because of her hospitalization.


Her son, Raafat Sub Laban, 34, an employee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ramallah, says, "Legally and according to the Israeli system, we no longer have any other choice."


According to Ir Amim, eviction decisions in favor of settlers threaten about 150 Palestinian families in the Old City and nearby Palestinian neighborhoods, due to "discriminatory laws and the state's complicity with settlement organizations."


Settler associations, according to the association, either resort to the Absentee Property Law or to brokers and legal and illegal methods to achieve their goals. They have repeatedly declared that they want to "make Jerusalem a Jewish city with an Arab minority."


According to the association, the evacuation decisions are part of "a strategy to strengthen Israeli hegemony over the Old City basin, which represents the most religiously and politically sensitive part of Jerusalem, and is a core issue in the conflict" between the two sides.


220,000 settlers currently live in East Jerusalem, along with 370,000 Palestinians, according to the association.


In the Aqabat al-Rasas neighborhood where the family's home is located, there are Jewish religious schools that opened during the past years, and Jewish neighbors use the same stairs that the Sub Laban family accesses to their home.


"We live without freedom or security," Noura says.


Inside the apartment, the family took down the pictures that were hanging on the walls, as its members are aware that they will not have time to take their belongings after the Israeli police arrive to implement the eviction decision.


"When the decision is implemented, my parents will move to the house where my sister and I live," says Raafat, 34, in another neighborhood in East Jerusalem.


"This is the only option," he adds.


After the evacuation, the family will leave behind a sole trace in the house, which today appears almost empty, which is the grandchildren's scribbles on the walls and the slogans they made such as "Free Palestine", "We will return" and "This is our home".


Noura, 60, says, "I have lived in this house since childhood. I grew up in it and became an orphan. The father and mother are here," adding, "The house is not just walls. The house is a memory, my past and my whole life," but they (the settlers) don't care about that.

PALESTINE

Fri 09 Jun 2023 12:01 pm - Jerusalem Time

China announces a visit to the Palestinian President next week

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will pay a state visit to China next week, Beijing said Friday after announcing its willingness to facilitate peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.


"At the invitation of President Xi Jinping, President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas will pay a state visit from June 13 to June 16," said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying.


In April, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang informed his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts of his country's willingness to assist in peace talks.


The separate phone calls between Chen and the Israeli and Palestinian ministers come at a time when Beijing is seeking to position itself as a mediator in the Middle East.


Chen, in a phone call with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, encouraged taking "steps to resume peace talks." "China is willing to facilitate this," he said, according to Xinhua news agency.


Chen told Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki that Beijing supports the resumption of talks as soon as possible, according to the agency.
In the two calls, Chen stressed China's pursuit of peace talks on the basis of implementing the "two-state solution."


"President Abbas is an old friend of the Chinese people," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin at a regular press conference later Friday.


He added that Abbas is "the first Arab head of state to be received by China this year, which embodies the high level of traditionally good Sino-Palestinian relations."


He continued, "The Palestinian issue is the core of the Middle East issue and affects peace and stability in the Middle East and international justice and justice."


China has been making diplomatic efforts for some time, and mediated a rapprochement in March between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

ARAB AND WORLD

Fri 09 Jun 2023 11:06 am - Jerusalem Time

The French President visits the victims of the knife attack in Annecy

French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Friday the victims of a knife attack in the French Alps, the presidency announced.
The presidency said that "following yesterday's attack (Thursday), the President of the Republic and his wife will visit the victims, their families and everyone who helped and supported them in Annecy."


Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin had traveled to Annecy on Thursday as the country was in shock after a knife attack in broad daylight in a crowded city park on the edge of the lake.


The outcome of the attack was four wounded infants, including a Briton and a Dutchman. They ranged in age from 22 to 36 months and were transported to Geneva and Grenoble after on-site first aid.


On Thursday afternoon, the public prosecutor said, they were in an "extremely fragile" state of health and "continue to be in an absolute state of emergency".
An adult was taken to hospital after being wounded by the attacker and then shot by police while they were arresting the attacker and another adult was slightly injured.


The prosecution explained that the motives of the attacker, who spent the night in police custody and could remain so for up to 48 hours, are still vague at this stage, "without a clear terrorist motive."


The man, born in 1991, was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. He has been in Annecy, without a fixed address, since the fall of 2022.

OPINIONS

Fri 09 Jun 2023 10:22 am - Jerusalem Time

An open occupation policy against administrative prisoners

Jerusalem Hadith

Jerusalem Hadith

Opinion Writer

The Occupation Prisons Authority believes that its threats to administrative prisoners in order to prevent them from going on hunger strike in protest of their administrative detention, and its violation of international laws and norms against the prisoner movement in general and administrative prisoners in particular, may discourage them from their struggle steps in order to achieve their just demands.


These threats cannot discourage the administrative prisoners from their legitimate decision to declare a comprehensive hunger strike, which they set to begin on the eighteenth of this month, after they have exhausted all struggle steps in order to abolish the outdated administrative detention that even the state put in place during its colonization of Palestine to facilitate The establishment of the occupying state canceled it, because it contradicts international laws and norms and violates human rights to freedom of expression and opinion, and other things.


Before announcing their struggle steps by announcing the date of the comprehensive hunger strike, they took several struggle steps, including refraining from attending the courts. Many of them also carried out and are still doing individual hunger strikes, which led to the death of the prisoner Khader Adnan a few weeks ago, but the occupation prison administrations rejected all their demands. Rather, the Minister of the so-called Israeli National Security instructed the occupation prisons authority to increase the restrictions on prisoners, including administrative prisoners, which prompted them to escalate their protest steps and their decision to use their last weapon, which is a comprehensive hunger strike, despite the risks to their health and lives.


In addition to threatening a number of administrative prisoners, the prison administrations tried to present temptations to a number of others, represented in not imposing penalties on them and not renewing their administrative detention, as is the case now, where the administrative detention of administrative prisoners is renewed several times, and many of them are for years that often reach up to Five or six years, and after their release, the occupation authorities arrest them again.
The prison authorities, with their attempts at this threat and temptation, believe that through this they can succeed in this policy and strike at the unity of the administrative prisoners, and thus thwart the comprehensive hunger strike.
However, it is unlikely that this policy, which relies on divide and rule, will succeed with the administrative prisoners who believe in the rights of their people and their rights as prisoners and fight for their freedom, especially since the occupation authorities do not present any indictments against them and that their arrest comes under allegations of secret files against them, in an attempt to sow dust in the dirt. El-Ayoun and in order to continue their arbitrary detention.
The methods of prison administrations have become exposed, and they cannot succeed in separating the unity of the captive movement in general, and the fate of these methods and policies is a complete failure.
Hence, it is the national and moral duty of all Palestinians to take the broadest steps of solidarity with administrative prisoners and prisoners in general, and to support them and their families to prevent prison administrations from single-handedly excluding them and taking more arbitrary measures against them.

OPINIONS

Fri 09 Jun 2023 10:20 am - Jerusalem Time

Theoretical additions to Dr. George Habash

Dr.. Ahmed Qatamesh

Dr.. Ahmed Qatamesh

Opinion Writer

Marxist stations in the thought and practice of al-Hakim

“Whoever wants to understand us must realize that we think.” Al-Hakim inscribed this saying early on, in line with Lenin’s saying, “a concrete analysis of concrete reality” and that “theory is a guide to action, not a rigid doctrine.”

The wise man raised complex intellectual and political questions inspired by complex and complex circumstances. He searched for answers as a free mental process, dialogue with his companions and the active powers, and a self-monologue (it is preferable to be alone and think while walking, even in a closed room), and as a dialogue with reality, its data and its variables, as he is always thinking. After thinking deeply "in which the subjective and the objective fuse" from sensory knowledge to logical knowledge "and" creativity, he extracts (this is a term he uses a lot) conclusions and analyzes... He dialogues and listens deeply to others, and most of the time he speaks after others. His weapon is, first, the mind, But the “vanguard party is guided by the theory of the vanguard” by Lenin, and we have to understand “what is essential in Marxism and what was said in a specific time and place, in addition to understanding the variables.” The theoretical dialectics are imposed by the dialectics of reality. sacred and infinite, and everything is in motion... “We have to be dialectic” by Castro, where the wise man studied the Cuban experience and met with the Cuban president several times... The mind of the wise man is linked to practice and its lessons despite his various studies and his abundant culture in various fields... and because he was not He likes ready-made sentences and situations inspired by others.

For despite his transition to Marxist-Leninist left-wing intellectual positions, and his constant call for alliance with the anti-imperialist socialist camp... he was at odds on several pivotal issues with the Soviet Union:

1- The position on Israel, as the Soviet Union was the second country to recognize Israel after announcing it in 1948, contrary to the Soviet position two years ago, which considered it impossible to divide Palestine due to the economic-geographic overlap between the two Palestinian Arab communities, which constitute two-thirds of the population, and the Jew, who became one-third of the population. ... while Habash talked about the "colonial and racist" foreign body that "created the Palestinian dilemma" and "the source of wars in the region" with which "history will not coexist" as "the apartheid regime in South Africa"... calling for a "democratic state" In Palestine "and the forms of struggle that intersected...

2- The position on the Arab nation and Arab unity. These terms constitute a pillar and great goals in his intellectual-political project... Later on, he will talk about the exhaustion of the Qatari project of its progressive energy, and that there is no way out of "fragmentation and backwardness" except through the establishment of the nation-state... And there are three Dimensions:

A - Gradualism as long as immediate unity is not available, Gulf, Levantine, Maghreb... towards a federal or unitary approach, economic towards a "common market" and political towards a central authority.

B- Democracy, as it is a necessary condition and a historical necessity, and without it no unitary formulas will continue, with what democracy means in terms of citizenship, pluralism, the rule of law and the separation of powers... and also social democracy.

C - The class content, as the traditional social forces and the Qatari bourgeoisie are incapable of establishing a state of unity, not to mention that their narrow local interests and external connections contradict them, and therefore the popular classes of workers, peasants, intellectuals and the petty bourgeoisie are capable of achieving it as a long struggle process.

3- Non-capitalist development: The Soviet Union devised this theory as a justification for its relations with many countries in the Third World, including a number of Arab countries, which pursue policies that do not revolve in the imperialist orbit, such as India, Egypt, and Iraq.... During Gorbachev's era, he called the regimes In the third world to reconcile with capitalism (the imperialist center).

As for Habash, he said that the Third World has no choice but to develop in the socialist direction, as required by revolutionary class leadership in the Cuban and Vietnamese way, and therefore the struggle is open with imperialism and the local social forces associated with it (imperialist pillars), or the countries of the Third World will follow the capitalist road, and thus they will rotate In the imperialist orbit, with what this means of plundering its wealth and seizing the path of its development.

Accordingly, Habash devised the law of "alliance and conflict" with the "national bourgeois" regimes, and said that the law of development of the productive forces would lead these countries towards dependent capitalism, and not non-capitalist development, in light of the transformations that the economic-social forces will witness in a comprador and bureaucratic direction. The transformations in Egypt became a credibility for his vision and culminated in Camp David 1978.

Marxism, basically, is the theory of class struggle in the capitalist countries, without forgetting Lenin's addition of the national struggle against colonialism, so the slogan of the Communist Manifesto "Workers of the world unite" was transformed by Lenin into "Workers of the workers and their oppressed peoples unite". Marxist theorists also had additions and innovations, that is, how did the class struggle come about? And how attended the national struggle in their countries? How did they understand the privacy of their situation? Here the wise added.

Persistent on the innovative and diligent approach, Habash took the initiative in late 1969 to establish the Arab Socialist Labor Party as a Marxist-Leninist party that spread in most Arab countries... in line with Lenin's thesis by establishing the Social Democratic Labor Party in Russia (not the Russian one), which led the October Revolution later. And intersect with the theories of the Arab Marxist thinker Elias Morcos, a friend of his, in his book "The Arab Proletarian Party".

In the late seventies, he sought to establish an Arab progressive front, something that found its echo in an explicit program clause in the resolutions of the Fourth Popular Front Conference in 1981, without severing his links with the popular national conferences that included all colors of the political, intellectual and civil spectrum.

As for Palestine, he led the Popular Front as a leftist Marxist-Leninist guerrilla faction that rejects Resolution 242 and contributes with other fighting factions to the contemporary revolutionary feat. The Palestinian movement to Oslo... with the resulting blockade and financial sanctions... and even established civilized values ​​in managing internal contradictions, forbidding the use of arms, distinguishing among all contradictions (the main, the primary, the secondary, the casual, and the temporary...) in a vital approach to understanding the tangible and its dialectic... It was no coincidence that he avoided any bloody internal conflicts.

To defend the liberation march, to perpetuate the national identity, and to unify the will of the people, the two extremes are combined:

A - Defending M. T . F.

B - Endeavor to protect it from slipping and confront domination and individual decision and write off the charter. He called for rebuilding it as a comprehensive reference that includes all components on democratic foundations... In his talk about the forces of political Islam, he distinguished between a "progressive Islam" that clashes with imperialism and Israel, and a "reactionary Islam", considering faith a matter of personal conscience, even if it is secular and seeks a state whose reference is the laws that make it. Legislative authorities and what is current in the religious legacy, not the rigid text, whether religious or non-religious... Life is changing and everything is changing.

From the logic of things is to view al-Hakim as a shining symbol of the Arab and Palestinian liberation movement, a symbol soaring in the sky of revolutionary dreams. And related to tomorrow. Even when he founded the "Arab Tomorrow Center" and I was one of the participants in its board of directors, his main motive was to answer the question: Why did we fail and what should be done? With the in-depth studies it requires... In this context, the book (Israel from the Inside) was published, and his family published the book (Revolutionaries Never Die), which resembles brief memoirs in which he answers limited journalistic questions, where his class, nationalism, nationalism, and features of his political project are evident. – The intellectual who distances himself from elitism, indolence, mercurialism, acrobatic evasions, “Oh, we are alone” and adherence to the official system and the American project.

Al-Hakim's march has become a page in contemporary Arab history, and a factor in the making of history.... With his steadfastness in his goals and his sense of political responsibility mixed with the morality of virtue, he established an exemplary force that incites and guides those who defend their national identity within the framework of their national identity, and those who belong to their leftist intellectual identity based on its historical cultural identity.

PALESTINE

Fri 09 Jun 2023 10:19 am - Jerusalem Time

Gaza: An old man died of his wounds in the recent aggression

The elderly Ismail Salman Ayad, a resident of Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City, died of wounds he sustained during the latest Israeli aggression on the Strip.


According to the family of the martyr, he was injured in one of the raids carried out by the occupation aircraft in the vicinity of his house in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.

OPINIONS

Fri 09 Jun 2023 10:18 am - Jerusalem Time

Colonial crimes continue

Hamada Pharaohs

Hamada Pharaohs

Opinion Writer

Imagine if a Hebrew, Israeli, Jewish child, who was only two years old, was shot by a Palestinian Arab, whether Muslim, Christian or Druze, as the Israeli soldier did by shooting live bullets in the head of the two-year-old Muhammad Haitham al-Tamimi from the village of Nabi Saleh.


Yes, he was shot in the head while he was inside his father's car, who was also wounded by a bullet that put him in the hospital.
Two years old, the child, Muhammad al-Tamimi, was targeted by a sniper with a rifle with a scope, according to reports, and therefore one of the possibilities applies to him:


First, it aims to kill the child and his father, so that his family and the people of his village may feel fear and rush to leave. By doing so, he has achieved a strategic goal for the colony by “expelling” the Palestinians and their departure on the pretext of preserving their lives, and not on their land, country, and homeland.


Secondly, because he is a racist hater who looks at the Palestinians with hatred, hostility, racism, and in a fascist way, because the child and his family do not deserve life. A target for education and training, by shooting and injuring him, as he is devoid of any rights. It is not excluded that the killer sniper will receive the reward for his criminal act against the Arab without bringing him to any accountability, as happened with the killer of journalist Sherine Abu Aqleh, who remained unidentified.


Third, he is insane, insane, devoid of reason and balance, and acts without the slightest responsibility as long as the victim is a Palestinian Arab, and not an Israeli Jew.


The killing of a Palestinian has become normal at the hands of the colony’s soldiers, tools and rules. The instructions from their official military security leaders say that if you feel danger, just a feeling is for you to act and kill without any introduction, and without any prior warning, and this explains the continuation of the daily killings of Palestinians by the army. colony and occupation settlers.


The Palestinian people pay a heavy price for their steadfastness on their land, where there are many means and circumstances of liquidation, and the result is one: killing and death, at the hands of the Israelis. Really for how long??.


They show solidarity and support for the people of Ukraine, and they show a lack of interest towards the people of Palestine. Isn't that a form of complicity with the Israeli criminal??.