PALESTINE

Tue 06 Jun 2023 8:31 am - Jerusalem Time

Settlers are planning a march towards the Avitar outpost next Saturday

The leaders of the Nahala settlement movement plan to reach the Avitar outpost on Mount Sabih, near Nablus, next Saturday, with the participation of thousands of settlers to hold Saturday masses on the lands of the vacated outpost, within an agreement aimed at legitimizing it later.


According to the Hebrew website Ynet, if the settlement movement's request is approved to allow the settlers to spend the Sabbath in the military-closed outpost, it will be the first time that the settlers stay there for a full day since the outpost was evacuated about two years ago.


The leaders of the settlement movement are in contact with the Israeli army command to allow them to do so.


The site indicated that there are fears that this will lead to the outbreak of confrontations with the Palestinians who live in neighboring areas, and it may push settlers to enter the outpost so that some of them will remain there, forcing the Israeli army to preoccupy themselves with evacuating them later.


Knesset members from the Jewish Power Party, led by the extremist Itamar Ben Gvir, demanded that the settlers be allowed access to the outpost, after they were allowed during the Passover holiday to access it for a limited time amid tight security measures at the time.

PALESTINE

Tue 06 Jun 2023 8:23 am - Jerusalem Time

Formation of a committee to combat crime in the occupied territories


It was decided to form a steering committee for internal Palestinians, especially to deal with the scourge of crime and violence, headed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and its task is to coordinate between all relevant government departments.


The decision was taken during the meeting that brought together last night Netanyahu, with Arab Knesset members from the Front and the Arab Alliance for Change, which was boycotted by the United List, according to the Arabic-speaking Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation.


During the meeting, Netanyahu stressed the need to combat the crime that terrorizes the Arab population.


The Arab Front for Change said, in a statement after the meeting, that the exam will be based on application and results, not words.


She added: We are waiting for the establishment of this committee and working within it, just as we are waiting for Netanyahu to respond to the rest of our demands, stressing that she will not hesitate, not even an inch, in searching for any way to stop the bleeding of Arab society.

PALESTINE

Tue 06 Jun 2023 8:09 am - Jerusalem Time

The occupation forces raided the house of the editor, Karim Younes, and confiscated a vehicle

On Tuesday morning, a force of the Israeli occupation police and Shin Bet officers stormed the home of the editor, Karim Younes, in Ara, in the occupied interior.


According to local sources, these forces interrogated the family of the editor Younes, and searched her house before confiscating a vehicle belonging to the family.


The occupation authorities had decided to take punitive measures against the liberated from the interior and occupied Jerusalem under the pretext of receiving money from the Palestinian Authority.

PALESTINE

Tue 06 Jun 2023 8:08 am - Jerusalem Time

A massive campaign of arrests in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem

The Israeli occupation forces launched, at dawn and Tuesday morning, a massive campaign of arrests in separate areas of the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.


Those forces stormed several towns, camps, villages, and separate cities in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, during which they raided and searched many homes, tampered with their contents, and subjected their residents to field investigations.


In the northern West Bank, these forces arrested Muhammad al-Risha, the wounded Suleiman Qatanani, and students at An-Najah University, Qassem Kadah, Ibrahim Dweikat, Ahmed Khaled, all from Nablus.


While Khaled Imad Bani Odeh was arrested from Tammun, south of Tubas, in the northern West Bank.


In nearby Tulkarm, Iyad Abu Salah and Omar Abu Salah were arrested.


In Qabatiya, south of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, Omar Assaf and Asaad Abu Al-Rub were arrested.


To the south of the West Bank, Jawad Taqatqa, Adel Issa Taqatqa and his brother Ali were arrested from the town of Beit Fajjar in Bethlehem.


In occupied Jerusalem, Ali Aisha, Zain Muhanna, Yazan Salimi were arrested.

PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 10:39 pm - Jerusalem Time

What are the leaders of Al-Quds Brigades doing in Cairo?!

Ziyad al-Nakhala, Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad, received leaders from the al-Quds Brigades, the movement's military wing, in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.


Sources told Al-Quds.com that leaders of the Al-Quds Brigades, who succeeded the leaders who were assassinated by the Israeli occupation forces, arrived in Cairo and met with al-Nakhala and the leadership of the Islamic Jihad's political bureau.


According to the sources, al-Nakhala praised the valor of the leadership of his military wing and their leadership of the last battle after the assassination of the previous leaders, and the ability of the new leadership to continue the battle with the same momentum and lead it wisely and competently until the last moment when missiles were fired at Tel Aviv and others.


According to the sources, al-Nakhala is one of the personalities who are proud of opening direct relations and holding sessions with the leaders of his military wing as well as the leadership of his movement, listening to them and their demands, especially the military leaders, to urge them to work further and develop military capabilities.


Leaders of the Al-Quds Brigades who were assassinated in the recent military escalation were on the list of a delegation from the Islamic Jihad Movement that was going to Cairo on the morning of their assassination on the ninth of last May.


Al-Nakhala arrived, a few days ago, at the head of a leading delegation from his movement from the Gaza Strip and abroad, to meet with Egyptian officials, and today he met with the Egyptian Minister of Intelligence, Abbas Kamel, and they discussed many issues. He also met yesterday with the head of the political bureau of the "Hamas" movement, Ismail Haniyeh, and held a meeting An expander between driving the two movements.



PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 10:20 pm - Jerusalem Time

3 people were killed in a car accident near Tel Aviv

On Monday evening, 3 people believed to be Israelis were killed in a traffic accident that occurred near Kiryat Gat, near the southern regions of Tel Aviv.


According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the incident took place on the Shar 6 highway near Kiryat Gat, and 3 people were killed, while two others were injured of varying degrees.




PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 10:15 pm - Jerusalem Time

A third dead in one day inside the occupied

A 50-year-old Palestinian was killed on Monday evening, as a result of being shot by unknown assailants in the Khawaldeh area, near Shfar Amr, in the occupied interior.


According to the Hebrew website Ynet, another Palestinian was slightly injured in the new criminal incident, and was transferred to Rambam Hospital in Haifa for treatment.


The Israeli police opened an investigation into the circumstances of the third incident of its kind within one day.

ARAB AND WORLD

Mon 05 Jun 2023 9:53 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Israeli army participates in an international exercise in Morocco

A team of Israeli occupation soldiers is taking part in an international exercise called the African Lion, in Morocco.


A statement by the occupation army in Arabic said that the team, which includes 12 soldiers and commanders of the Golani Brigade, has been participating since yesterday, Sunday, in the maneuver led by the ground forces of several countries.


And that this is the first time that the Israeli army participates in the international African Lion exercise.


He said that during the next two weeks, the fighters will focus on training in various combat challenges that combine infantry combat in an urban environment with underground combat that they specialize in, and they will conclude the training with a joint exercise for all armies.


He added: The exercise aims to strengthen the relationship between countries and mutual learning between foreign armies.

PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 9:46 pm - Jerusalem Time

Hamas: The murder of the Tamimi child confirms the Nazi occupation

Hazem Qassem, Hamas spokesman, said on Monday evening that the occupation's killing of the child, Muhammad al-Tamimi, from the village of Nabi Saleh in Ramallah, is a heinous crime that confirms the Nazi occupation army and its terrorist behavior.

Qassem added in a press statement to him: "The occupation has always escaped accountability for its crimes because of the American support for it, the weakness of the positions of international institutions and the silence of the international community, all of which encourage the occupation to repeat its crimes and escalate its aggression."

He continued, "These crimes will not break the resolve and ferocity of our people, and we will continue our legitimate fight to punish the occupation for its crimes and expel it from our land."

PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 9:32 pm - Jerusalem Time

Updated | Two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a run-over operation south of Nablus

On Monday evening, two Israeli soldiers were injured when a Palestinian vehicle collided with them near the Hawara checkpoint, south of Nablus.


According to the Hebrew Channel 12, one of the soldiers was wounded in his lower extremities, and his condition was described as moderate, and the other was in the pelvic area, and his injuries were described as minor. They were transferred to a hospital for treatment.


An Israeli military spokesman said he was investigating the motives of the event.


The Israeli occupation forces closed Za'tara and Hawara checkpoints in the area after the event.


Later, settler websites stated that the driver of the vehicle had been arrested.



PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 9:01 pm - Jerusalem Time

Winsland calls for accountability for the killers of the Tamimi child

Tor Winsland, the UN coordinator for the peace process in the Middle East, called, Monday evening, for those responsible for the death of the two-year-old Mohammed Al-Tamimi, a resident of Nabi Saleh, Ramallah district, to be held accountable.


"I condemn and deeply sadden the death of a two-year-old Palestinian child, who was seriously wounded by Israeli security forces' bullets in Nabi Saleh two days ago," Wensland said in a tweet on Twitter. "The Israeli military said it was responding to gunfire from the area by Palestinian gunmen.. .".


"Civilians, especially children, continue to bear the brunt of this conflict," Wensland added. "My sincere condolences to his family. I note that the Israeli authorities have opened an investigation into the incident and I call for those responsible to be held accountable."

PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 7:29 pm - Jerusalem Time

The arrival of the body of the child martyr Muhammad Al-Tamimi to Ramallah

The body of the child martyr Muhammad Haitham Al-Tamimi (two and a half years old) arrived this evening, Monday, at the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.


The Tamimi child was killed in the Israeli Tel Hashomer Hospital, where he was receiving treatment for a bullet wound fired by the Israeli occupation soldiers while he was with his father in the yard of the family house in the village of Nabi Saleh. His father was also shot in the shoulder.


Large crowds from Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate received the body of the child martyr Tamimi, led by the Governor of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, Laila Ghannam, who stressed that the occupation must be held accountable for its crimes against children, and asked: "What if this child was Israeli? The world would have risen and not sit still." But Palestinian children are constantly being killed without the world doing anything."

ARAB AND WORLD

Mon 05 Jun 2023 6:49 pm - Jerusalem Time

The IAEA regrets Iran's "slowness" in re-installing surveillance cameras

The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, considered on Monday that cooperation with Iran is very "slow", calling on Tehran to speed up the pace of reinstalling cameras at nuclear sites.


Upon his return from a visit to the Islamic Republic in March, Grossi welcomed Tehran's pledge to re-install the monitoring devices that were dismantled in June 2022 in the context of deteriorating relations with Western powers.


Three months later, Grossi considered, at the opening of a meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency at the headquarters of the UN body in the Austrian capital, Vienna, that "progress is much less than expected."
And he stressed in a press conference he held later that "this matter is moving very slowly."


"In fact, we have installed cameras and surveillance systems in several locations, but much more than that should be done," especially since Iran continues its nuclear escalation despite its denial of seeking to acquire an atomic bomb, he added, "We must move faster."


Grossi stressed that what has been achieved is only "a small part of what we were looking forward to."
"Even if all the cameras are reinstalled, Iran will have to provide all kinds of information to fill in the gaps and 'assemble' all the pieces of the puzzle to complete the picture," he said.


When asked about criticism leveled by Israel, Iran's archenemy, after the agency's decision to put aside some disputes, even temporarily, according to two reports submitted to member states, Grossi said, "We never lower our standards...we have been rigorous, technically impartial and fair, But firm."


Regarding the undisclosed Marivan site, located near the Abadh region in southern Iran, Grossi said he had received "reasonable explanations from Iran" that attributed the presence of nuclear material to "mining activities carried out during the Soviet era."


Given the inability to "prove or deny" this information, it is now considered that this file, which has been pending for years, "has been settled at this stage."


But the agency adheres to its previous assessment, which it considers that "explosive tests were conducted in the past."


This file is one of the contentious issues that hindered the Vienna negotiations last year aimed at reviving the historic agreement concluded in 2015 between Tehran and the major powers (Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States), officially known as the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action".


This agreement limits Iran's nuclear activities in return for the lifting of international sanctions.
These negotiations have been suspended since the summer of 2022, and there are no positive indications of their resumption, although Tehran confirms support for this resumption.

PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 4:57 pm - Jerusalem Time

Blinken: Normalization with Israel is not an alternative to the two-state solution

US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, said, Monday, that while the Biden administration is working to root and deepen Israel's normalization with Arab countries, this should not be at the expense of Israel reaching a solution with the Palestinians.

"A more integrated, prosperous, and stable region serves the long-term interests of Israel, our other regional partners, and the United States," Blinken said in a speech to the American Israel Public Relations Committee-AIPAC, the powerful Israeli lobby organization, which marked the 56th anniversary of Israel's occupation of all of the Palestinian territories. "But integration and normalization efforts are not a substitute for progress between Israelis and Palestinians, and they should not come at their expense. Israel's deepening relations with its partners can and should enhance the well-being of the Palestinian people and prospects for a two-state solution."

Blinken added, "This is what our diplomacy was all about at the regional meetings in Aqaba and Sharm el-Sheikh, with the help and support of Israel's old partners, Jordan and Egypt. This work requires that both sides stick to the commitments they made, including in these recent meetings," considering that these The talks represent critical steps to stop the violence, hopefully rebuild the strained relations, and begin the real diplomatic work necessary to resolve this conflict.

“As the president said on his trip to Israel and the West Bank last summer, a two-state solution — based on the 1967 lines, with agreed-upon trade-offs — remains the best way to achieve our goal of Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace, with each able to individual to enjoy measures of security, freedom, justice, opportunity and dignity on an equal footing.”

Blinken stressed, "We know today that the prospects for a two-state solution may seem distant. But we are committed to working with the parties to preserve the horizon of hope in the short term. This means stopping escalation, refraining from unilateral measures that increase tensions, strengthening security cooperation to confront violence, and improving security cooperation." daily life of the Palestinian people.

"Israel was founded, and our bilateral partnership is built on democratic values, which include equal access for all people to their rights. The two-state solution is vital to preserving Israel's identity as a Jewish and democratic state," Blinken said, noting that "last month, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel." Today we celebrate 75 years of the US-Israel partnership, and today, that partnership touches every aspect of our lives, from security to business, and from energy to public health.Our relationships have served not only each other but the world - making deserts thrive, developing energy technologies "Cleanliness for tomorrow, producing vaccines, shaping the future of space exploration, and so much more. The depth and breadth of the partnership between our governments is only matched by the strength of the bonds our people share." like he said.

PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 4:38 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Palestinian Authority deepens cooperation with Egypt amid hopes of disengagement from Israel

The Palestinian Authority is looking forward to deepening cooperation with Egypt in various fields, especially economic, educational and health, within the framework of a plan for gradual disengagement from Israel.


A Palestinian government delegation headed by Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh visited Egypt last Monday. The delegation included the ministers of foreign affairs, interior, national economy, health, transportation, public works, housing, higher education, endowments, health and the energy authority.


During his three-day visit, Shtayyeh held political consultations with Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly, as well as individual meetings between ministers of common jurisdiction to discuss strengthening bilateral relations.


Shtayyeh said at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting in the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank today (Monday) that the visit to Egypt resulted in important political consultations regarding the Palestinian-Egyptian relations.


In parallel, Shtayyeh explained that the joint experience between Egypt and the Palestinians will be presented to establish a unified window for investment services, referring to an understanding between the two ministries of economy in the fields of specifications, metrology and gold stamping.


The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture also signed a cooperation protocol with its Egyptian counterpart to enhance trade exchange of Palestinian agricultural products to the Egyptian market, import fertilizers and veterinary vaccines, cooperate in the field of agricultural research, and increase the number of scholarships, including scholarships for veterinary medicine, according to Shtayyeh.


In the educational field, he said that the Egyptian government agreed to consider increasing the discount in university fees for Palestinian high school graduates in Palestine and expanding the student segment to include Palestinian refugees who hold documents from countries of asylum, and that the discount rate include private and technological universities and higher institutes.


Shtayyeh indicated that it was agreed to train a number of information technology managers from government department employees on data governance requirements to start digitizing the government, train a number of planning and performance and quality measurement managers in the Palestinian government sector, and train 20 Palestinian doctors annually in Egyptian hospitals.


Concerning the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, Shtayyeh pointed to the formation of a joint technical committee to study the delivery of electric current from Egypt to the Strip, and another to develop proposals to benefit from the reconstruction programs funded by Egypt in Gaza and to review the outputs and inputs of the Rafah crossing, commercial and human.


For his part, Zafer Melhem, head of the Energy and Natural Resources Authority in the Palestinian Authority, considered that providing energy from Egypt to the Strip, which is inhabited by more than two million people and has been subject to an Israeli blockade for 16 years, will contribute to reducing dependence on Israeli energy.


Melhem told Xinhua that the most important thing that was agreed upon regarding energy is the formation of a Palestinian-Egyptian team to study the requirements for reconnecting the electrical connection between Egypt and the Gaza Strip through Sheikh Zuweid or Al-Arish to the city of Rafah.


Melhem added, "There is an aspiration in the first phase to supply 100 megawatts to the Palestinian side from Egypt, provided that this is expanded in the future to reach 150 megawatts for the benefit of the sector, and this would gradually dispense with Israeli electricity."


This is the second visit by Shtayyeh to Egypt since the formation of his government by presidential decree in April 2019, as the first was in October of the same year, during which he met his counterpart, Madbouly, and described it as successful.


Since assuming her duties, the Palestinian government, headed by Shtayyeh, has been working on a plan for gradual economic disengagement from Israel, which includes several areas, most notably agriculture, health and energy.
The Palestinian government previously signed 9 agreements and memorandums of understanding with Jordan in December 2021 with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the two sides.


In this regard, Palestinian Minister of Economy Khaled al-Osaily told Xinhua that the government delegation's visit to Egypt comes within the plans to expand economic trade relations with neighboring countries such as Egypt and Jordan, as well as Turkey, and the government's plan to gradually disengage from Israel.


Osaily added that there is a deficit in the trade balance between Palestine and Israel, and there may be a balance in this balance if we invest in the economic relationship with other countries whose products may be in competition with the Israeli product.


He pointed out that Palestine exports to Israel between 800 million and 1 billion dollars annually, while it imports up to 4 billion dollars, which could drop to less than that.


He stressed the importance of bringing Egyptian investments to Palestine through holding a series of meetings with the Egyptian private sector, noting that the head of the Federation of Egyptian Industries and a delegation of Egyptian businessmen will visit the Palestinian territories next September.


He added that the prospects for investment in Palestine achieve important numbers through the data of the Capital Market Authority, and these numbers were presented during meetings with investors from Egypt, and there are positive signs of opening investment horizons in Palestine to him.


Osaily considered that what has been agreed upon will have a positive impact in working to support the Palestinian efforts to gradually disengage from the Israeli economy, even if the numbers were modest at the beginning, but they will gradually rise.

PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 4:32 pm - Jerusalem Time

Al-Nakhala meets the head of Egyptian intelligence and they discuss several issues

The delegation of the Islamic Jihad movement, headed by the Secretary-General of the movement, Ziyad al-Nakhala, met on Monday with Abbas Kamel, head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service.


According to a statement by Islamic Jihad, the meeting took place in the presence of a number of members of the movement's political bureau, and a number of senior officials in the Palestinian file in the Egyptian General Intelligence Service.


The movement said that the meeting was positive and fruitful, and reflected Egypt's keenness on the safety and unity of the Palestinian position and alleviating the suffering of our people, especially the people of the Gaza Strip, due to the unjust blockade that has been going on for several years.


The Jihad delegation affirmed that Egypt has a great role and is concerned with this role, and is keen to strengthen relations with it.


The meeting reviewed all issues of common interest, including the political and field conditions, especially the recent escalation in Gaza, the assassination of resistance leaders, and what is happening in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 4:19 pm - Jerusalem Time

The administrative prisoners decide to go on an open-ended hunger strike


Today, Monday, the administrative prisoners in the occupation prisons announced their intention to start an open-ended hunger strike on Sunday, the eighteenth of June, under the title "Freedom Revolution - The Administrative Intifada."


This came in a statement by the Administrative Prisoners Committee, which announced this step, days after a previous statement announcing upcoming steps.


The statement said: Administrative prisoners will embark on an integrated national project to combat administrative detention, in which all administrative prisoners from all spectrums of the captive movement participate and interact under the umbrella of the Palestinian flag. Administrative prisoners in their project "Freedom Revolution - Administrative Uprising".

Among the prisoners, their main demand is to end administrative detention and oblige the occupying "state" to respect international humanitarian law.


The Administrative Prisoners Committee called on the Palestinian Authority, "presidency and government," to adopt their demands, activate all tools of diplomatic pressure, make our cause a national priority, and provide an official and popular incubator to support us.


The factions, the resistance, institutions, civil society organizations and all our people demanded effective support for their cause and strike, uprising in all arenas and squares, igniting all points of contact with the occupation, forming a lever and a safety net for us in their battle, their victory and not leaving them to be singled out by the occupation.


It also called on the Palestinian communities abroad to move and engage in a solidarity movement to support their cause through sit-ins in front of enemy embassies, and to address all European institutions and parliaments so that the occupation responds to our demands.

PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 3:13 pm - Jerusalem Time

The prisoners insist on continuing their escalatory steps

The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported today, Monday, that the committee emanating from the Higher Emergency Committee and related to administrative prisoners stressed the continuation of the struggle steps, after the failure of the dialogue with the occupation prison administration, which ended a short while ago.


In a statement, the commission stated that the meeting in which the committee, which represents the factions, participated, presented all its demands to the intelligence and prison administration, represented in: stopping administrative detentions and their absurd renewal, the release of the sick prisoner Walid Daqqa, an end to the punishments against the prisoners of the Islamic Jihad movement, and an end to Isolate the female prisoners in Ramla, and stop all forms of escalation and violations.


The commission clarified that the response of the intelligence and prison administration was negative, as the policy of threats and intimidation was used before the committee and its demands were rejected, which turned the meeting into a state of tension and boiling.


The Commission held the occupation prisons administration and its intelligence fully responsible for what will happen to the conditions inside prisons and detention centers, expressing its concern about the existence of retaliatory intentions that will be exercised against the prisoners during the coming period.

PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 1:56 pm - Jerusalem Time

A child died of an injury north of Ramallah

The child Muhammad Haitham Al-Tamimi (3 years old) died today, Monday, of his critical injury, in the town of Nabi Saleh, north of Ramallah.


The child martyr Tamimi was receiving treatment at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in occupied Jerusalem, after he and his father were shot by the Israeli occupation two days ago in the town.


While the Civil Affairs indicated that arrangements are being made to transfer his body to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, in preparation for his funeral.



PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 12:54 pm - Jerusalem Time

Shtayyeh: The visit to Cairo led to important results

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said today, Monday, "The recent visit of the Palestinian delegation to Cairo led to important results, including that it was in political consultations between Palestine and Egypt.


Shtayyeh added, at the beginning of the weekly government session, "Among these results is the provision of expertise to establish a unified window for investment services, and an understanding between the ministries of economy in the two countries in the field of specifications, metrology and gold stamping."


And he continued: "Signing the agricultural cooperation protocol between the two countries, which enhances the trade exchange of Palestinian agricultural products to the Egyptian market, importing fertilizers and veterinary vaccines, exchanging experiences in the fields of agriculture, cooperation in the field of agricultural research, and increasing the number of scholarships, including grants for veterinary medicine."


He added, "Agreement to consider increasing the deduction in university fees for Palestinian high school graduates in Palestine, and expanding the student segment to include Palestinian refugees who hold documents in countries of asylum, as well as agreeing that the discount rate should include private universities, the University of Technology and higher institutes."


And he continued: "Beginning to prepare technical and security measures to activate the Palestinian mobile service in Egypt, as well as training a number of information technology managers from government department employees on data governance requirements to start digitizing the government."


He added, "Training a number of managers of planning, performance and quality measurement in the Palestinian government sector, training imams and female preachers courses with the Egyptian Ministry of Endowments, and providing 150 scholarships from Al-Azhar Al-Sharif for various specializations such as medicine, engineering, religious sciences, and others, including a master's degree and a doctorate."


He referred to the approval of training 20 Palestinian doctors annually in Egyptian hospitals, and the formation of a technical committee to study the delivery of electric current from Egypt to the Gaza Strip.


Forming a technical committee to develop proposals to benefit from the reconstruction programs funded by the Arab Republic of Egypt in the Gaza Strip, and to review the commercial and human outputs and inputs of the Rafah crossing.


He referred to arranging the visit of a delegation of Egyptian businessmen to Palestine next September, and the visit of a delegation of Egyptian university presidents to Palestine.


In another context, Shtayyeh said: "Today we are passing the 56th anniversary of the setback of June 1967, during which Israel occupied the West Bank, including Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, violating international laws that demanded its immediate withdrawal to the borders of June 4th, and Israel still practices organized state terrorism and continues Committing its crimes against our people and working with its practices to undermine the opportunity to establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.


Shtayyeh stressed that all those crimes that the occupation forces committed and are still committing against our people will not deter us from continuing the struggle until we achieve our national rights with freedom, the embodiment of the state and the right of return.


On another issue, he said: “In the name of the Council of Ministers, I wish our children in all schools of the homeland and diaspora, who number about 88,000 male and female students, and who will go to the seats of the general secondary exam “Tawjihi” the day after tomorrow, Wednesday, with success in the exam, and I extend my greetings from all corners of the Ministry of Education. And appreciation for their tireless effort to create conditions conducive to the success of the exam.


The Cabinet welcomed the report prepared by 21 heads of European missions to Palestine, which emphasized the seriousness of the Israeli legal schemes aimed at changing the historical status quo in Jerusalem, terrorizing settlers, and the various occupation measures such as settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, house demolitions, and attacks on holy places. and the restrictions on education and schools, and many other violations of Palestinian human rights in the city of Jerusalem, we call on the governments of the European Union countries to take this report seriously, and to assume their responsibilities in curbing these measures and holding the occupying state accountable for them under international law.


It also welcomed the positions of the countries that participated in the UNRWA donors' conference, which emphasized the agency's important role in providing services to millions of Palestinian refugees. It also welcomed the financial pledges announced at the conference, and the Cabinet affirmed that stabilizing the UNRWA budget requires securing adequate and sustainable funding from donor countries. And calls on the United Nations and its Secretary-General to increase its financial contributions from its regular budget to support the budget of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.


Today, the Council of Ministers will discuss: security and financial reports, cybersecurity, the electric vehicle charging system, school health care for Jerusalem schools, infrastructure projects, and the Renewable Energy Investments Recycling Fund.


PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 12:52 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israel hands body of slain attacker to Egypt

On Monday, the Israeli authorities returned the body of the Egyptian policeman, Mohamed Salah, who carried out a shooting attack on the border last Saturday, killing 3 Israeli soldiers.


According to the Hebrew Channel 12, this came within the framework of full cooperation between Egypt and Israel.


An Egyptian investigation team had arrived at the border to participate in the investigations into the attack.

PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 12:14 pm - Jerusalem Time

Masalmeh and Al-Fasfous prisoners, continue their hunger strike

Prisoners Ahmed Masalmeh and Kayed Al-Fasfous continue their open hunger strike for the fourth consecutive day.


The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs indicated that they began their strike last Thursday.

PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 12:00 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation seizes a bulldozer and arrests its driver, east of Nablus

Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces seized a bulldozer and arrested its driver in Beit Furik, east of Nablus.


According to local sources, these forces stormed Khirbet Tana, east of Beit Furik, and seized a bulldozer that was operating in the area and arrested its driver.

ARAB AND WORLD

Mon 05 Jun 2023 11:11 am - Jerusalem Time

Israeli Knesset Speaker to travel to Morocco on Wednesday

The Israeli Knesset Speaker, Amir Ohana, will travel to Morocco on Wednesday, at the invitation of the country's Parliament Speaker, Rashid Talbi Alami.


According to the Hebrew newspaper Maariv, this will be the first visit of its kind by the Speaker of the Knesset to the parliament of an Islamic country.


Ohana will sign an official memorandum of understanding with his scientific counterpart to strengthen relations between the two sides.

PALESTINE

Mon 05 Jun 2023 10:26 am - Jerusalem Time

Hamas and Jihad delegates meet in Cairo

Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of Hamas, and a delegation of the movement's leadership, who is in Cairo, received Ziyad al-Nakhala, Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, and a number of the Jihad movement's leaders from inside and outside the country.

The two sides discussed various national issues in light of the Israeli attacks on the Palestinian people in Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the occupied West Bank, and the violations that prisoners are subjected to. They also discussed ways to strengthen and consolidate the strategic relationship between the two movements and develop it to serve the resistance and the various issues of our people. As stated in a statement by Hamas.

The conferees stressed that the Palestinian people will continue to choose the resistance, which represents the only option for our people in the face of occupation and aggression.

The two parties discussed the rapid political developments the region is going through and how to employ them to serve our people and our cause. They also stressed the importance of Egypt's role in supporting our people and their just cause. according to the text of the statement.

The head of the movement's political bureau and a number of Hamasen's leaders had visited al-Nakhala at his residence on Saturday evening to offer condolences to the Jihad Movement for the martyrdom of a number of leaders of the al-Quds Brigades during the recent aggression on the Gaza Strip.

OPINIONS

Mon 05 Jun 2023 10:07 am - Jerusalem Time

Making "illusion" in the Palestinian case

Iyad Barghouti

Iyad Barghouti

Opinion Writer

Our understanding of illusion - at least in this article - differs from the understanding that many Palestinian and Arab writers and politicians dealt with, in the sense of the situation in which impossible goals are adopted, difficult or impossible to achieve within the available data. This applies, for example, to issues such as Arab unity, the liberation of Palestine, or even the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, and sometimes reaches "national unity" and other matters related to the Palestinian cause and Arab issues. This also applies to some of the reactions to my book “Liberation of the East”, which spoke of it being nothing more than a dream or an illusion, although it talks about the need to create a new awareness of the East, which embodies it as a geostrategic entity that allows the convergence of its peoples.


The illusion that we mean here is that you "adopt" a slogan that you not only realize its unrealism and the impossibility of achieving, but that you have abandoned it in the first place, and do not seek to achieve it in any way, and at one moment you consider that it has been achieved, and you ask others to consider it as such, and deal with it. On this basis, it does so for other goals that are not related to the slogan itself, the most important of which is influencing public opinion in different directions.


The illusion here is not related to the difficulty or ease of the goal, nor to the possibility of achieving it or not. Rather, it is the state in which it is abandoned and the attempts to achieve it without acknowledging it, and it is usually done by circumventing and changing it in one way or another, and working to convince people to achieve it.


It is a hypothetical state experienced by the individual, or any legal entity, in which he considers that his goal has been achieved, so the matter mixes between reality and imagination, and between illusion and ambition, or that work is being done to achieve it without it being true. The illusion, in this case, is the transition from the state of working to achieve the goal, to considering it accomplished, even though this did not actually happen.


It is at the level of discourse, that you understand the matter as you want, and not as it is the reality of the situation, so the goal is dealt with as an achievement, and not as an aspiration, demand, and a project that is being worked on to achieve it. From here, any "dream", no matter how great the "imagination", is considered an illusion, if the serious work continues to achieve it. Thus, the "dream" of the fighters differs from the "delusion" of the defeated.


This kind of delusion is artificial among some elites, and perceived by other elites, but in many cases it spreads among broad segments of the people and among the simple masses. The delusional are those "ordinary" people who have been "conceived" by the issue of achieving the goal, or that it is in the process of being achieved, but those who realize this are usually outside the scope of the illusion, but are "busy" with it.


Based on the method of dealing with the goal, whether it was adopted in order to achieve it or in order to preoccupy itself with it and invest in it, it is possible to shed light on the development of the Palestinian illusion, which ranged from the state of “hobby” to the level of professionalism, as its level increases whenever the issue suffers from a closed horizon.


There is no doubt that Palestinian goals are "rare", and in fact I only remember one goal, which is the issue of the unity of Palestinian representation. They remain goals that absolutely no "illusion" was allowed to infiltrate, meaning that no "deception" was made to understand them. That is why the PLO has fought tirelessly all along, in all directions, to consolidate its representation of the Palestinians. In this case, the goal was not just a slogan, but rather a battle without all the sacrifices.


On the other hand, this goal was associated with another “slogan”, which was not characterized by the same rigor that accompanied the unity of representation, which is the “subject of the independent Palestinian decision”, which remained vague between being the reality of his life, or a goal and ambition that he works to achieve, or a “slogan” used when needed. In this case, the slogan's practice was selective from one situation to another, as the slogan's reality was mixed with a lot of "fraud" in dealing with it, and it was used to move from one political alliance to another, and in dealing with Arab contradictions that never stopped.


The Palestinian "illusion", which was characterized in its first phase by the vagueness of the position on the goal, moved to a "higher" stage after the establishment of the Palestinian Authority following the Oslo Accords, and it is the "symbolic" stage that has been confirmed by the Palestinian political behavior since then. This was embodied in the keenness to show the ceremonies that accompany sovereignty and the state, despite the absence of sovereignty and the state.


These things were mastered by President Abu Ammar to a great extent. Red carpets when receiving important guests, and when visiting any city inside or outside the country. And the orchestra accompanied him wherever he went, and the official procession that was a must on the go. Giving the titles of president, minister, and all designations found in countries to senior officials of the Palestinian Authority. That or most of it continued after the era of President Arafat.


Of course, symbolism need not be an illusion. If it is treated as a means to achieve sovereignty in reality and in people's conscience, then there is no illusion. But if it is understood and dealt with on the basis that sovereignty has been achieved, and this symbolism is nothing but evidence of its embodiment, then this is the delusion itself. The picture is exactly like someone who buys furniture before building the house, so this can be understood as an insistence on going to build the house, or that as long as the furniture is there, the house must have been found, and the matter is dealt with on this basis, and here is the illusion.


In the first and second phases of the Palestinian "illusion", the two phases in which the goal was dealt with vaguely, the difference between the goal and its necessity faded away, and the matter became ambiguous between the goal being worked on and being considered accomplished. Among those who understand that the presence of the red carpet means the actual existence of a president, or the necessity of working to find him, and that the presence of a president means the actual existence of a state, or the necessity of struggling to achieve it, the overlap in the two matters was so great that it was difficult to acknowledge the existence or non-existence of an illusion.


However, the matter becomes more clear when talking about a third stage of "illusion", which lies in the Palestinian dealing with the relationship between the means and the goal, so they exchange roles, and the matter moves to considering the means as the constant, and the goal as the variable.


In this context, the means are not replaced if the goal is difficult to achieve, but rather the goal is changed to suit the continuation of the means. And so that we do not enter into a series of changing goals in order to preserve the means, preserving it becomes the greatest goal, as there is no compromise in that at all, and where we record our permanent success as long as we can maintain our means, that is, as long as we succeed in preserving ourselves... We are the means and we the goal.


But this is not the height of delusion in the Palestinian political situation. There is a stage that can be considered more "advanced", in which the declaration of the goal is confused with its achievement, as the importance of announcing the goal is raised to the level of the goal itself.


The Palestinians considered the "declaration" of independence, or the declaration of the Declaration of Independence, independence, and they celebrated and celebrate the declaration just as other peoples celebrate their independence. Many consider the "declaration" of the establishment of the State of Palestine to be the same level as its establishment. They act on this basis... ministries, parliament, agencies, elections and laws...


Once again, what is important here is the context in which matters are understood and dealt with. If this reaches the people (the people), as an incentive to mobilize and insist on moving towards achieving goals, then this is natural, necessary and appreciated. And if it arrives that the task has been accomplished and they only have to “enjoy” the achievements and the goals that have been achieved, then this is an integrated illusion, which will result in a lot of damage.


Delusion is linked to lack of awareness of it, so if we treat it as a mental illness that disappears once awareness of it, then many Palestinian political and cultural elites are not delusional - given their awareness of the situation, but rather produce, market and use the illusion as well. The "injured" is basically the largest percentage of the people and some elites, including those "opposition", who are demanding things that they are supposed to realize that those who are asking them are not related to what they are asking, or are not in a position to deal with those demands.


Palestinian elites have moved beyond the state of illusion to the state of "investing" in it. In the sense that it gave illusion a functional role, benefiting from it in self-preservation and "gains". In this way, all the "mechanisms" by which the status quo continues will be preserved, and this, as we said, requires going beyond the real goals, while maintaining the illusion mechanisms. That which requires "movement", or something like movement, to provide its owner with the ability to justify his existence, nothing more.


This is taking place in the stance towards division, negotiations, some forms of resistance, and the relationship with the United Nations and its organizations, and appears in some political behavior of some political parties, "loyal" or "opposition", as well as in the behavior of some trade unions and civil society institutions.


This illusion, which is made by "experts" in Plato's "parable" theory - and let me be excused for not being familiar with it - so they depict reality as a fantasy and bring in a fantasy according to measure, to present it as an achievement, and it is what is sponsored by a "new" formula of education, media and an army of intellectuals, so it works on Blurring the scene and shuffling the papers, creating "creative" intellectual chaos in the people's mind, imagining retreat as progress and defeats as victories.


It is the illusion that occurs in the absence of a strategy that defines the supreme goals of the Palestinian people, and allows those who benefit from the situation to present their "achievements" to the people, by choosing the goals that they set according to their interests, and market them as the people's goals.


Healing the people from the illusion in which they live, as well as depriving their "investors" of their weapons, requires the courage to make revelations that redraw the real goals, rearrange "things" and create the appropriate mechanisms to achieve them.

OPINIONS

Mon 05 Jun 2023 10:07 am - Jerusalem Time

Broad solidarity with the prisoners Palestinians

Jerusalem Hadith

Jerusalem Hadith

Opinion Writer

The decision to form a special committee for administrative detainees to arrange and prepare to confront this outdated detention, which is derived from the laws of the defunct British Mandate, is a step in the right direction to force the occupying state to stop this administrative detention, according to which detainees are imprisoned without any charges being brought against them under the pretext of confidential information. I obtained it by stating that the detainee is an activist or leading activities against the occupying state, and that his presence outside the prison poses a threat to the occupying state.


The formation of this committee to confront the crime of administrative detention, so that it ends with an open hunger strike, is the last weapon available to the captive movement, including administrative prisoners, to put the world before its responsibilities, especially the Palestinian side represented by the leadership and all factions of national and Islamic action, as well as legal and media institutions, human rights and the defense of human rights. captive movement.


Reaching the hunger strike stage in the face of Israeli intransigence requires support from outside the prisons, and this matter must be shared by everyone in order to prevent the occupation from being isolated by the prisoners on hunger strike, as happened with the captive martyr Khader Adnan, who performed his hunger strike and the occupation state’s obstinacy in meeting his demands for his release It led to his martyrdom, with the need to point out that the external support for him was not at the required level, and this matter must be taken into account in the prisoners’ strike to protest their administrative detention so that there will be the broadest operations of solidarity with them and at all official and popular levels and all institutions, because without that, the occupation He will persevere in attempts to harm the prisoners during their strike and not provide them with the necessary remedies if this strike continues without the occupying power backing down and meeting the demands of the administrative prisoners, or what is known as administrative detainees.


And declaring that this confrontation comes in fulfillment of the blood of the martyr Khader Adnan, as well as to confront the continuous increase in the number of administrative detainees, is also a correct step and an attempt to fill the shortcomings in the operations of solidarity with the martyr Khader Adnan, which were limited to intermittent activities and with a modest contribution that is not worthy of this prisoner leader who was arrested Several times, each time he went on hunger strike until his demands for his release were fulfilled.


The Administrative Detention Law has been abolished from the laws of the world as a whole, with the exception of the occupying state, whose goal is to imprison our people in the framework of the occupying state’s attempts to undermine their resolve, steadfastness, and rejection of the occupation, just like all their people. The end is only correct, and that the occupation will end no matter how much it tries to prolong its occupation through its crimes and violations against our people, their land and their sanctities.


It is true that there is a clear failure of the captive movement in general regarding broad solidarity with them, but the prisoners are an advanced vanguard that has offered and continues to offer its freedom in order for our people to obtain all their inalienable national rights of return, self-determination, and the establishment of their independent state with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.


Let efforts unite for the largest campaign of solidarity with the administrative and sick prisoners, led by the prisoner commander Walid Daqqa, because solidarity is an individual duty on every Palestinian, Arab and Muslim.

OPINIONS

Mon 05 Jun 2023 10:06 am - Jerusalem Time

EU report on Jerusalem

Emad Afif Al-Khatib

Emad Afif Al-Khatib

Opinion Writer

The European Union Representation to the Palestinian Authority issued its report on the situation in the city of Jerusalem in 2022. The report, which was supported by 21 member states, indicates an acceleration in the targeting of Jerusalem and Jerusalemites by the official Israeli establishment. Its utmost importance stems from the fact that it literally sums up the consistency of the plans and actions of the Israeli government with the plans and activities of settlement associations, which are hastening to erase the history, narrative, and authentic identity of the city of Jerusalem, and cancel any hopes for a future political solution.


The report confirms that the Israeli plans aim to strip the city of Jerusalem and the Jerusalemites from their geographical and national depth through checkpoints and military measures, and by strengthening the cover of settlements and their infrastructure around Jerusalem, and by punitive measures targeting Jerusalemites in all aspects of their lives, including targeting educational, cultural and health institutions.


In this regard, the report refers to the adoption by the Israeli security establishment of a strict annual inspection regime for Jerusalemite schools and obliging schools to adopt modified Palestinian or Israeli curriculum books, and to the threat of revoking licenses and closing down schools that "do not cooperate" with the Israeli establishment.


With regard to the socio-economic situation, the report refers to the miserable situation in which the Jerusalemite neighborhoods live as a result of the Jerusalem Municipality's lack of interest in them, despite the fact that it collects taxes from them, and that the development budgets in these neighborhoods are less than 15% of the municipality's total budget, although Jerusalemites constitute about 40% of the total "residents" of the city. In this context, the report states that only 45% of Jerusalemites are connected to the water and sewage networks, which increases and exacerbates the social and economic vulnerability of Jerusalemites and raises poverty rates among them to more than 60%.


With regard to Jerusalemite institutions that supervise cultural and educational services, they are still targeted by the Israeli establishment, and this is evident from the continued closure of the "Orient House" institution, the Directorate of Education and many institutions concerned with human rights and culture. The report also refers to the demolitions of homes, the withdrawal of identities, and the lengthy, complex, and costly building permit procedures for Jerusalemites, in exchange for supporting construction in Israeli settlements, promoting housing in Jerusalem, and highlighting the Jewish religious character, at a time when Jerusalemite neighborhoods are fragmented and any geographical contiguity between them and the rest of the West Bank is prevented. .


The report singled out an important aspect for describing the acceleration of the Israeli establishment's actions to change the status quo in and around Al-Aqsa Mosque, and showed that while settlers are allowed to enter it freely and ignore their prohibited appearances, Jerusalemites are prevented from praying in it under the pretext of achieving security for the settlers. And that the restrictions that are imposed on the holy ones, whether on their holidays, or even during the Jewish holidays, are to restrict them and create a fait accompli in Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings. The report lists the procedures for targeting Christian Jerusalemites and the Israeli institution's intentions to impose the Arnona tax on churches in its endeavor to seize ecclesiastical property, as is happening in the Hebron Gate area, in addition to restricting the movement of Jerusalemites during Christian holidays.


The report describes many illegal measures taken by the Israeli institution against the Palestinian Jerusalemite presence, considering that the main goal is to cancel the heritage, national and even religious identity of the holy people (Muslims and Christians) and that these measures are constantly escalating and accelerating. The report concludes with important recommendations for the European Commission to preserve what remains of the possibility of a "two-state solution!"


In conclusion, I would like to record my appreciation for the representative of the European Union in Jerusalem, who will soon finish his work. He was a diplomat with humanitarian and professional principles, and there is no doubt that Jerusalem will miss him.

OPINIONS

Mon 05 Jun 2023 10:03 am - Jerusalem Time

Steps towards a democratic path

Hamada Pharaohs

Hamada Pharaohs

Opinion Writer

On the way to strengthening the status of the Jordanian political parties, their democratic presence, their distinction, and their cohesion, through the manifestations of alternation of power, getting rid of exclusivity and unilateralism, and establishing the values of teamwork and team spirit, depending on the results of the internal ballot boxes, away from authoritarianism and individualism, each of the following registered: 1- The Jordanian Communist Party, 2- The Jordanian Arab Socialist Baath Party, a useful and enhanced tradition of the role and status of leftist and nationalist parties, as praiseworthy models, and references to them, with national, national, and international pride.


Munir Hamarneh and Faraj Al-Tamizi insisted on vacating their positions as Secretary-General of the Jordanian Communist Party for each of them, although both of them have the ability to continue working and benefit from their expertise and experiences.


As previously, Tayseer Al-Homsi recorded, and his comrade Akram Al-Homsi followed his path and choice after him, with their two initiatives appreciated by the party’s comrades and bases, to end their organizational role in the position of secretary of the supreme leadership of the Jordanian Arab Socialist Baath Party for both of them, and they recorded successively a remarkable phenomenon that will remain remembered by the successive generations of the party in the future. , to be a model for those who come after them, in establishing traditions for each party leader to have two electoral rounds from the bases and subsequent party conferences.


Unfortunately, with all bitterness, when we observe and scrutinize the experiences and experiences of the heads of capitalist imperialist colonial states, their partisan traditions, presidentialism and other manifestations of power, we find that one of the reasons for their superiority is democratic standards, the rotation of power, and reliance on the results of the ballot boxes.


On the other hand, coupled with regret and bitterness, we find that one of the reasons for the defeat of communism, socialism, and the Soviet Union is the absence of their democratic traditions, whether at the level of their internal party organizational structures, in continuing the domination of the individual leader and his dominance for long periods, as well as at the level of their peoples who lacked democracy, the rotation of power, and the lack of Resorting to the results of the ballot boxes, in the presidential and parliamentary elections, and others.


The same situation has been experienced by the Arab countries and the countries of the Third World, which are governed formally and superficially by political parties.
There is no doubt that the two Jordanian parties: the Communist and the Baath, have benefited from the negative experiences and results of their sister or friendly parties outside Jordan, and there is also no doubt that they have the desire for the success of what they seek: a national, democratic Jordan, and partisan parliamentary governments, in line with the choice of the head of state with his modern directives. Democracy, which will not see success, unless two factors consistent with this official approach are achieved:


The first is Jordanian parties with a national reference, leadership, and action program, despite their leftist, nationalist, or Islamic tendencies.


The second is a popular choice that goes with the state's orientation towards the partisan option through parliamentary elections and their secretions to partisan governments.


What has been done and made by the Communist and Baath parties has repercussions and merits that will impose itself on the rest of the Jordanian parties, and this is what is desired and required.

OPINIONS

Mon 05 Jun 2023 10:00 am - Jerusalem Time

Indications of summoning the founder of the Zionist movement, Theodore Herzl, in the twentieth edition of the Herzliya Conference

Ahmed Issa

Ahmed Issa

Opinion Writer

Last Tuesday, corresponding to May 23, 2023, the Herzliya Conference in its twentieth edition, organized annually by the Herzliya Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) of the private Reichsmann University in Herzliya, ended.


Despite the multiplicity of institutes specialized in national security issues in Israel, the Herzliya Institute is considered the most influential on the decision-maker in Israel, as its recommendations are usually adopted by the government and the security establishment, as one of its most important recommendations was after the 2006 war on Lebanon and the issuance of a report The Winograd Commission in 2007, which was tasked with investigating the results of the war, added the pillar of national defense to the three pillars of the Israeli national security system (deterrence, early warning, and rapid settlement) that had been set by the first prime minister of Israel, Ben-Gurion, in the early fifties of the last century. This pillar, and since 2008, the army has begun to employ the American Iron Dome system and develop other Israeli defense systems against missiles and drones.


While the Institute has not yet issued a final report on the recommendations of the conference, this article will attempt to focus light on the implications of calling Theodore Herzl in the 2023 edition of the conference, that is, nearly 130 years after Herzl, the first founder of the Zionist movement, published his book The State of the Jews (The State of the Jews) 1896), which included his vision for the establishment of the State of Israel, and became a plan of action agreed upon by the first founders of the state despite their different visions of the nature and identity of the desired state.


I argue in this article that this summons clearly shows that the Institute's management and staff who are considered experts in everything related to Israeli national security, as well as the Institute's partners in sponsoring this version of the conference, no longer see Israel after seven and a half decades. Not only did the announcement of its establishment deviate greatly from Herzl's vision, but rather, based on their experience in the field of national security, they reached the conclusion that Israel's political leadership, especially its current government headed by Netanyahu, is working in the opposite direction to the direction that achieves the required strategic strength for Israel in the face of the central strategic threats it poses. faced.


It seems here that the insistence of the country's political leadership to move in the opposite direction to achieve Israel's strategic strength has increased the level of anxiety among the Institute's management staff about the future of Israel. Especially since this concern was reproduced in the subtitle of the conference (The Mutual Links between Israeli National Security and National Immunity.


With regard to the threats facing Israel for the year 2023, retired Major General Amos Gilad, who now heads the Herzliya Institute, mentioned in a joint lecture he gave with two other staff members of the Institute at the beginning of this year under the title (Israel in 2023 - a strategic vision), where he considered this The dialogue as one of the reference documents of the conference, that it stands at the top of the list of central strategic threats facing Israel for the current year, both Iran and the conflict with the Palestinians.


The first threat stems from the fact that Iran does not hide that one of its strategic goals is the destruction of the State of Israel, and Gilad added that whoever tries to deny this goal among the Israelis is blind, especially since Iran is preparing and preparing to achieve this goal, whether in the nuclear, missile, drone or technological field. Or with its alliances in the region, which requires Israel to prepare seriously to confront this threat.


The paradox here, as Amos Gilad mentioned, is that Israel is moving in the opposite direction, as instead of being prepared, it is implementing what would weaken the ability to confront this threat, and to clarify, Gilad adds that there is a need to differentiate between military power and strategic power, as while Israel possesses military power, only It has recently begun to lose the strategic power that enables it to employ its military power, and what is meant by strategic power, as Gilad explains, is joint cooperation at the strategic level with the United States of America and Western European countries. Judiciary.


As for the second threat that comes from the Palestinians, Amos Gilad divided it into two overlapping levels. The first is a strategic central threat, represented in the clear shift towards producing a one-state reality. The pace of which has begun to accelerate is the adoption of the right-wing movement that now rules Israel for a declared and clear strategy that seeks to eliminate the obstacles that prevent Annexation of the West Bank, where these obstacles are represented by the Civil Administration and the Border Guard, who are considered an integral part of the army building in the West Bank. The plan to separate them from the army and place them under the responsibility of the extreme right-wing religious current involves a threat to Israel's identity as a Jewish and democratic state.


The second level of this threat is evident in the situation in the West Bank. On the one hand, according to Gilad, it serves Hamas's strategy aimed at weakening the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and prompting its collapse. On the other hand, it serves Iran's strategy, especially if Al-Aqsa Mosque becomes the center of the conflict.


In terms of national immunity, which is considered one of the most important components of the state's national security, Dr. Lior Ackerman, who is in charge of the field of national immunity at the Institute, stated that the national immunity of the people in Israel is eroding due to the absence of vision from successive governments in Israel not long ago, as Israel has become It works as a piecework and cannot claim to work according to a strategic plan in any of the fields, which threatens to further erode the national immunity of society, especially in light of the current government's efforts to implement its vision, which is opposed by the majority of the people in Israel.


In the same context, the speeches of the Chief of Staff of the Army (Herzi Halevi) and the speech of the Director of the Jewish Museum of the Herzliya Institute, Ms. (Erna Nabzlin), endorsed the appreciation of the institute presented by Amos Gilad and his team, as the first focused on the military strength of the Israeli army, and its military readiness to confront threats, but it He began his speech with the need for Israel to return to see the founder of Zionism, Theodore Herzl, and it was remarkable in this regard that, upon assuming his position as Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army No. (23) at the beginning of this year, he distributed Herzl's book (The Jewish State) to the senior officers of the General Staff to inspire and direct them to perform their tasks.


As for Nabzlin, her speech was under a significant title (Israel and the Jews of the world, does solidarity still exist), where she mentioned that Israel is in crisis and in order to get out of its crisis, it needs leadership with a vision, which she called the second edition of Herzl's vision.


According to the aforementioned, this article says that the final conclusion of the Herzliya Conference in its twentieth edition says that Israel is a very strong country militarily, but it is losing its strategic strength, in addition to that it has moved far from the vision of the founder of the Zionist movement, Herzl, and most importantly, that it operates without a vision and without a strategic plan at the time In which you face central strategic threats, whether those represented in the purposes of Iran or those that come from the conflict with the Palestinians.