PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:12 pm - Jerusalem Time

The extremist Ben Gvir sets up an office for himself in the Old City

Translation by "Jerusalem" dot com - The far-right Knesset member, Itamar Ben Gvir, set up an office this evening, Wednesday, in what is known as "Army" Square, about 100 meters from the Damascus Gate area in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

According to the correspondent of the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz, Ben Gvir put a small table in the place, and said that he would put up a tent and stay in the place until he was allowed to raise the Israeli flag and reach the Damascus Gate, even if he had to sleep in the place, and that this would continue until the end of the "Passover" evening. Tomorrow is Thursday.

Ben Gvir said earlier that he will arrive at Damascus Gate, if not today, then tomorrow or at any time, and that he will not surrender to prevent him from doing so.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, had ordered Ben Gvir to be prevented from reaching the Damascus Gate, in order to prevent the situation from exploding.

SPORT

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Hilal Al-Quds Club participates in the ceremony honoring the winners of the Al-Quds competition for memorizing the Holy Quran


Jerusalem - Hilal Al-Quds Club Media Center/ Hilal Al-Quds Club, accompanied by the Jordanian Islamic Endowments Department, participated in a ceremony honoring the winning students in the Jerusalem competition for memorizing the Holy Quran, in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.


The participation of Hilal Al-Quds Club in this honor comes as a matter of social responsibility entrusted to the club, as the club is a strategic partner in the success of this competition.


The competition was attended by the Director General of the Awqaf, Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib, and Dr. Najeh Bakirat, the Director General of the Awqaf Department, in the presence of a number of professors and scholars. Approximately 289 students participated in the competition.


The President of Hilal Al-Quds Club, Mr. Diaa Al-Shweiki, thanked all the teachers working on this competition, for their efforts to educate students and parents who are keen to follow their children in memorizing the Qur’an.


He added, the nation needs this distinguished constellation of memorizers of the Book of God to illuminate the path, stressing that the Quranic centers will remain lofty and eager to create an environment on a systematic basis and plans based on principles and values, despite all the challenges.


He continued, "We will carry hope for a better tomorrow despite all the challenges, and we will fight and struggle despite all the odds."


Al-Shwaiki thanked the businessman, Mr. Ashraf Abu Issa, member of the Board of Trustees of Hilal Al-Quds Club, for his effective contribution to the success of this competition.


In conclusion, Mr. Diaa indicated that Hilal Al-Quds Club was and will remain the true face of all segments of society, that the club is keen to keep such activities and events on the top of the priorities of the management of Hilal Al-Quds Club.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Updated || An injury in Qabatiya.. The occupation arrests 5 citizens in the West Bank

Governorates - "Al Quds" dot com - The Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn and Sunday morning, at least 5 citizens from separate areas in the West Bank.


According to local sources, the occupation forces stormed the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, amid confrontations and armed clashes with those forces.


It was reported that a young man was injured in the back during the confrontations in that area, and he was taken to treatment.


The occupation forces arrested Alaa Faleh Qassem and Jihad Faris Zakarneh, from Qabatiya, after they stormed the home of Maher Zakarneh and tampered with its contents, who was arrested in the same operation.


In Bethlehem, the occupation forces arrested Noman Muhammad Noman (36 years old) from the town of Handaza, and Ali Abu Srour from Aida camp, after storming their homes, searching them and tampering with their contents.


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PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Prisoners Awwad and Abu Atwan have been on hunger strike for 26 days, rejecting their administrative detention.

رام الله- “القدس” دوت كوم- يواصل الأسيران محمد عواد (25 عامًا) من بيت لحم والغضنفر أبو عطوان (28 عامًا) من دورا بالخليل، إضرابهما عن الطعام منذ (26) يومًا في سجون الاحتلال، وذلك رفضًا لاعتقالهما الإداريّ، وفق ما ذكر نادي الأسير.


وأوضح أن الأسير عواد هو نجل الشهيد عواد عواد، وقد شرع في إضرابه في تاريخ الـخامس من أيار الجاري، بعد أن رفضت المحكمة العسكرية للاحتلال الاستئناف المُقدم ضد قرار تثبيت أمر اعتقاله الإداريّ، وحينها تم نقله إلى زنازين سجن “النقب الصحراوي”، ويوم الخميس الماضي جرى نقله إلى سجن آخر لم يعرف حتى الآن.


وبّين نادي الأسير أن إدارة سجون الاحتلال حاولت الالتفاف على إضراب الأسير عواد، وإشاعة معلومات تفيد بأنه غير مضرب، كما وتعمدت إدخال الطعام إلى الزنزانة حيث يقبع للضغط عليه.


وأشار إلى أن الأسير عواد معتقل منذ 25 تشرين الأول 2020، وقد أصدرت سلطات الاحتلال بحقّه أمريّ اعتقال إداريّ، وهو حاليًا في الأمر الثاني ومدته (6) شهور، علمًا أنه أسير سابق تعرّض للاعتقال عدة مرات.


كما يواصل الأسير أبو عطوان إضرابه عن الطعام لليوم الـ(26) على التوالي رفضًا لاعتقاله الإداريّ، حيث يقبع في زنازين سجن “أوهليكدار”، وفق نادي الأسير. لافتًا إلى أن أبو عطوان معتقل منذ تشرين الأول 2020، وقد أصدر الاحتلال بحقّه أمريّ اعتقال إداريّ مدة كل واحد (6) شهور، وهو أسير سابق تعرّض للاعتقال عدة مرات وذلك من 2013، علمًا أنه خاض سابقًا إضرابًا عن الطعام عام 2019 رفضًا لاعتقاله الإداريّ.


ويأتي إضرابهما في ظل التصعيد الخطير الذي تنتهجه سلطات الاحتلال مؤخرًا مع تصاعد المواجهة، لاسيما فيما يتعلق بسياسة الاعتقال الإداريّ، وتحويل العشرات من المعتقلين خلال شهر أيار الجاري إلى الاعتقال الإداريّ، واستهداف أسرى سابقين وشخصيات فاعلة على المستوى الاجتماعي، والسياسي والمعرفي، في محاولة لتقويض أي مواجهة راهنّة.


وأشار إلى أنّه ومنذ مطلع العام الجاري، نفّذ مجموعة من الأسرى إضرابات فردية لمواجهة سياسة الاعتقال الإداريّ، انتهت جُلّها بتحديد سقف الاعتقال الإداريّ لهم.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

With the onset of the new year, the prisoners are watching joyful events, despite the dark conditions

Bethlehem - Najib Farraj - The death of the prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid on the twentieth of the last month of the year 2022 was a great shock to the masses of the Palestinian people, who suffered from willful medical neglect after suffering from cancer for at least two years, and he is the one who spent twenty years completely and completely Inside the prison during his last arrest, and before that he was arrested at intervals for another ten years, and instead of releasing him to receive treatment abroad, the occupation forces tightened their grip on the prisoner who is called “the masked lion.” After his martyrdom, the occupation authorities refused to release his body and kept him detained . This increased the pain of all citizens, and before that, the two wounded prisoners, Daoud Al-Zubaidi, from Jenin, were martyred after he was injured in a clash with the occupation forces last August. He sustained burns after carrying out a shooting attack in the Jordan Valley last September, and their bodies are still being held, bringing the number of martyred prisoners whose bodies are being held to 11.


Escalation of repressive practices

In this regard, the prisoner Muhannad Al-Azza, who has been detained in the occupation prisons for 12 years, said in a telephone conversation with Al-Quds.com, "The year 2022, as all previous years, was a heavy year for the prisoners and the Palestinian people in general, due to the intensification of the military grip and the escalation of repressive practices." The right of the prisoners, including the continuation of the war of wholesale arrests every night against Palestinian citizens, the continuation of storming the prisoners’ rooms, harassing them, putting their leaders and cadres in solitary confinement, restricting visits to their families on security grounds and issuing collective punishments against them, as well as the policy of mass execution of dozens of martyrs despite the possibility arrest them.”


He added, "Most importantly of all, is the threat of a policy of execution against prisoners accused of carrying out military operations, which led to the killing of Israelis, with the formation of a government that is the most fascist in Israel, as the extremist Ben Gvir, who became Minister of National Security in the new government, demands, as he seeks to issue a law With this trend in the Israeli Knesset, in which the parties that make up the government constitute the majority, and therefore we are facing a big talk to thwart the attack on the prisoners, and that the attempt to approve the death penalty will not be the only way to attack the prisoners and fight them in a much larger way, and therefore the captive movement and the masses of our people in general are facing a great challenge In the new year to thwart this fascist attack.


auspicious events

Al-Azza went on, who has only one year left of his sentence, and yet there are important joyful events that we await precisely at the beginning of this year, the most important of which is the release of the prisoner Karim Younes from the village of Ara within the 48 areas, which is scheduled for the sixth of January next after spending 40 years. inside the captivity, and after that the prisoner Maher Younis will be released from the same village after he finishes his 40-year sentence as well.”


The date of the release of the sheikh of the prisoners

In the month of February, the prisoner Fouad Al-Shobaki, who is called the Sheikh of the prisoners, and the eldest of them, will have a date with freedom after an arrest that lasted 17 years. That you will be victorious sooner or later, and from the middle of the night and its dark darkness the dawn will break out, and sure hopes will emerge from its midst that we will cross the dark tunnel with the departure of the occupation, and the achievement of our legitimate goals of return, the state and self-determination.


Ambitions are great

He said: "Our ambition will not be at these limits, and we have great hope that other great wishes will be fulfilled in the new year, foremost of which is the completion of an honorable exchange deal, and this is the dream that does not leave the hearts and minds of the prisoners and their families over the past years, even if this deal is implemented." It will be a great achievement in this direction to break the chains and defeat the jailer and his goals that seek to kill the dream and break the will, and this will not happen over the past decades and will never happen.”

ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli raids on Syrian targets in Aleppo and Damascus

Damascus - "Al-Quds" dot com - Today, Wednesday, the Syrian Air Defenses responded to an Israeli missile attack on Syrian targets, and managed to shoot down a number of missiles, according to the Syrian News Agency (SANA).


This evening, Israeli planes launched air strikes on Syrian targets in the cities of Aleppo and Damascus, while the Syrian air defenses intercepted some missiles.


According to Syrian press sources, the bombing targeted the vicinity of Damascus International Airport, the runway of Aleppo International Airport, and targets inside and outside it, believed to be weapons depots.


Other sources said that the bombing targeted targets, including weapons depots of Iranian forces.


The official SANA news agency quoted a military source as saying that at around 8:00 p.m. today, the Israeli enemy targeted Aleppo International Airport with a missile strike, which caused material damage to the airport.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Fattouh calls on the Arab and Islamic parliamentary unions to hold emergency sessions for the "Al-Aqsa"

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The President of the Palestinian National Council, Rawhi Fattouh, called on the heads of the Arab Parliamentary Union, the Union of Islamic Parliaments, and the Arab Parliament, to hold emergency meetings to discuss the escalation of the occupation attack led by the government of settlers and extremists, advocates of religious war and the owners of the Judaization project of the first two qiblahs. And the journey of the Holy Prophet and his ascension to heaven.


Fattouh said in his messages, “We call on you, out of responsibility before God, before our peoples, and towards the rights of future generations, to take the necessary measures regarding what is happening in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the occupied city of Jerusalem, in terms of dangerous Israeli aggression aimed at passing the temporal and spatial division of it, and imposing a new reality that confiscates the pure right.” for Muslims in the Holy Sanctuary.


He explained that the occupation forces and settlers, today, in continuation of their aggression, stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and implemented part of what was planned by the so-called extremist "Temple" group, by raising the Israeli flag and chanting the racist religious anthem in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa, and the accompanying storming and assault on Worshipers and defenders of the sanctity of the place and its Islamic religious symbolism, the desecration of its sanctity, and the breaking of some parts of the pulpit of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi. The occupation and its extremist religious groups to Judaize the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem, which are being implemented gradually and deliberately, will only be stopped by the unity of the Arab-Islamic position towards Jerusalem and its blessed mosque, by advancing the implementation of political, diplomatic, economic and financial decisions regarding Jerusalem and the Islamic and Christian sanctities, which guarantee the stopping of these plans Judaization, and preserving the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is a pure right for Muslims alone.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Settlers attack citizens near the village of Zubaidat, north of Jericho

اريحا- “القدس” دوت كوم- هاجم مستوطنون، اليوم الاثنين، مواطنين في قرية الزبيدات شمال مدينة أريحا.

وقالت مصادر محلية، إن مستوطنين هاجموا الطبيب سليمان سلمان، ومؤمن حسين زبيدات، وفتاة مقدسية كانت مارة بالمكان قرب مدخل القرية، بالضرب.

وأضافت المصادر، ان المستوطنين كانوا بحماية من شرطة الاحتلال الإسرائيلي التي أوقفت عددا من مركبات المواطنين المارة، ودققت هوياتهم.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Galon calls on Gantz to control and calm his forces in the West Bank

Translation by "Jerusalem" dot com - Meretz party leader Zahava Galon called on Saturday, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, to control his forces operating against the Palestinians .


Galleons in the Petah Tikva cultural group said that Gantz must work to control and calm the soldiers in order to avoid the cost of blood.


Turning to the actions of extremist Knesset member Itamar Ben Gvir, she said: "His whole goal is to ignite a religious conflict in Jerusalem, especially in the Palestinian neighborhoods, until he reaches the Temple Mount, and he is ready to pay the price for the blood of Jews and Arabs in order to be able to take pictures of his election campaign."

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

An angry protest organized by the Union of Workers and Employees of "Jerusalem Electricity" in refusal of the assault on their colleagues

Jerusalem - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Union of Workers and Employees of the Jerusalem Electricity Company, in all its branches, organized protest and angry vigils to reject the cowardly attacks that affected field employees in Shuafat camp while they were carrying out their official work to repair electrical faults in the camp.

The conferees affirmed, during their interventions in the vigil, in which representatives of the public administration and members of the company’s workers union participated, their categorical rejection of these attacks that negatively affect the electrical services provided to the subscribers, stressing that this attack does not represent the camp or its people, and it is strange and reprehensible from Before all Palestinians.

It is assumed that the company's board of directors will hold an emergency meeting to discuss ways to stop these cowardly attacks against the employees of the Jerusalem company, and ways to secure the necessary protection for them from these attacks that aim to strike the unified Palestinian national fabric.







ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Lebanese judiciary is suing seven people in the case of the killing of the Irish soldier

Beirut - (AFP) - The Lebanese judiciary on Thursday charged seven people, including one detainee who was handed over by Hezbollah to the army, in the case of shooting a patrol of the Irish battalion operating in the United Nations Interim Force in South Lebanon (UNIFIL), which resulted in the death of one. Its members, according to a judicial source told AFP.


An Irish soldier was killed and three of his colleagues were wounded on December 14th, during an incident involving shots fired at their armored car while it was passing in the Al-Aqabiya area (south). Less than two weeks later, Hezbollah, the powerful political and military force, handed over the army the main shooter.


The judicial source said, "The government's commissioner to the military court, Judge Fadi Akiki, charged the detainee, Muhammad Ayyad, with the crime of killing the Irish soldier and attempting to kill his three comrades by shooting them with a military machine gun."


He also claimed, according to the same source, against "four known and hidden persons, and two other unidentified persons, for the crimes of shooting at threats with an unlicensed weapon, destroying the military vehicle and intimidating its members."


Akiki referred the file with the arrested person to the first military investigation judge, Fadi Sawan, to conduct investigations and issue the necessary judicial notes.


A security source told AFP on December 25 that the handover of the main shooter came "in the context of Hezbollah's cooperation with the army intelligence investigation."


After the killing of the Irish soldier, Hezbollah rushed to console UNIFIL. He called, through an official, not to involve him in the "unintended" incident.


UNIFIL did not specify the details of the incident, which occurred outside the scope of its operations, while the Irish Army reported that two armored cars containing eight personnel were subjected to "light weapons fire" while they were on their way to Beirut.


The UNIFIL command called on the Lebanese authorities to expedite the completion of investigations and to hold those responsible for the recent incident to account.
From time to time, skirmishes take place between UNIFIL patrols and Hezbollah supporters in the UNIFIL area of operations near the border in the south of the country. But it rarely escalates and the Lebanese authorities quickly contain it.


The UNIFIL force has been present in Lebanon since 1978, and it includes about ten thousand soldiers and is deployed in southern Lebanon to separate Israel and Lebanon after several conflicts.

SPORT

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

The inauguration of the preliminary study of the wooden sign, a study by "Shereen Abu Aqleh"


Jerusalem - Media of the Scouts Association: The Palestinian Scouts Association inaugurated the preliminary study for the wooden badge, "The Study of the Martyr Shereen Abu Aqelah", on Wednesday 7/20/2022, in the village of Aboud, west of Ramallah, which will last for days in a row, in the presence of 26 participants from the commissions : Ramallah and Al-Bireh, Bethlehem, and Jericho.


The opening ceremony took place in the presence of the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Scout Association - the leader of the study, Counselor Moataz Sayej, the head of the Scout and Girl Guides Authority, Commander Mahfouz Qahoush, the head of the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate Commission, Commander Naim Khourieh, and members of the Commission, Commander William Bahbah, and Leader Hanan Abu Qubeita.


The Secretary-General of the Palestinian Scout Association conveyed the greetings of the President of the Palestinian Scout Association, Lieutenant General Jibril Rajoub, who commends the establishment of such studies, which aim to develop the knowledge and skills of the learner to help lead the scout unit, and to prepare new leaders within the groups, who are able to spread the message of the scout movement.


He added that the study bore the name of the martyr Shereen Abu Aqleh, and it is a message of sacrifice and belonging, in her testimony was to convey the truth and convey the suffering of the Palestinian people, and we as scouts carry the slogan of the World Scout Organization for a better world, and this is what drives us to be responsible and carry a national belief and belonging to our scout movement And for Palestine.


The training staff consisted of the study leader, Moataz Sayej, and the leaders Tawfiq Salem, Muhammad Hosheh, Khalil Sayej, Mahfouz Qahoush,

OPINIONS

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian Reconciliation... After Welcoming

Written by: Dr. Hassan Abu Talib
For the seventh time in 15 years, the “Hamas” and “Fatah” movements in Algeria agreed to start a comprehensive reconciliation, in an effort to overcome the great division that began in 2007 after the victory of the “Hamas” movement in the legislative elections that took place in 2006, which turned it into a The status of a Palestinian faction resisting the occupation to a ruling party as a de facto in the Gaza Strip, but without the legitimacy of representing the Palestinians before the world, which remained confined to the National Authority, and its president, Mahmoud Abbas.
It is known that this formula of division, with its political and geographical dimensions, restricted the movement and symbolism of the authority, and “Fatah” in particular, which represents its backbone on the one hand, and the “Hamas” movement and the factions that converged with it on the other, most notably the “Islamic Jihad” movement, and the division also gave Israel freedom of movement. Huge effort to escape from all the commitments contained in the Oslo Accords, including freezing the negotiating process and thwarting all efforts that have been made, unleashing settlements in the Palestinian territories and changing their geographical and demographic features, and questioning the authority’s eligibility as a partner in the negotiation process.
Unexpected Arab and international developments, as well as uncalculated ones, came to add more restrictions to the endeavors and efforts to rehabilitate the Palestinian cause in the international and regional arenas. The situation in the occupied West Bank has also evolved in the past two years towards armed resistance to the occupation, led by groups of Palestinian youth independent of the major factions, to represent a security and political problem for the national authority, and a burden and a blatant challenge to the occupation.
Getting out of the circle of division and agreeing to end it, after years of getting used to it, is a praiseworthy goal in itself, but intentions, however good, are not sufficient to reach the hoped-for national unity, and here the will to act and show flexibility on all sides to achieve unity and solidarity and restore respect for the Palestinian cause They are two prerequisites for success and turning understandings into a living reality.
This principled context makes Algeria's efforts to achieve comprehensive Palestinian reconciliation commendable, especially in light of the larger goal of holding an Arab summit early next month. Greater Arabia economically and politically, and reviving the latent capabilities of the Arab system to face the crises and challenges surrounding it from every side.
According to the Algiers Declaration, which was accepted by the Palestinian factions, it is confirmed that the terms of reconciliation themselves are nothing new from those contained in the documents that were signed by the same factions or the vast majority of them, in Cairo, in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019, and stipulated the need for national unity and support for efforts to resist the Israeli occupation with all its forms, activating the role of the Palestine Liberation Organization, forming a national unity government, holding legislative and presidential elections, ending the division between the West Bank, where the political and administrative structure of the National Authority is, and the Gaza Strip, which is under the control of “Hamas”, and extending the application of Palestinian laws to the Strip as an embodiment of the geographical unity of the occupied territories. , Supporting the legitimacy of the authority in confronting the occupation, and formulating a strategic position that adheres to the right of the Palestinians to an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital, and takes into account the requirements of negotiation with a fierce enemy and the fluctuations of the powers sponsoring this negotiation, led by the United States.
According to the Palestinian experience in dealing with these previous reconciliations, the main sources of disagreement seem to depend mainly on the divergence of the intellectual and ideological vision of Fatah and Hamas, along with the factions of political Islam and the military resistance movement, towards the principle of negotiations and peaceful resistance, and the weapons of the Palestinian factions that are not subject to the laws of the National Authority. , and the principles that will govern the process of legally extending the influence of the National Authority to the Gaza Strip, how to hold legislative and presidential elections, and how a national unity government will be formed, whatever its description, especially the stage before the elections, and also after them if they are actually held.
And in the context of the positions that governed the last reconciliation process that took place in Cairo in 2021 and included a clear agreement to hold legislative and presidential elections, in which all factions would participate without restrictions in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and occupied East Jerusalem, which were elections that President Mahmoud Abbas postponed on the pretext that the occupation refused to hold the elections. In Jerusalem, and therefore the elections are completely canceled, despite the preparations that have already taken place, which proves that there are structural reasons related to the extent and size of the popularity of the “Fatah” movement compared to other factions, whether in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, in addition to the ambiguity of President Mahmoud Abbas’s decision regarding candidacy. In the presidential elections, it is the one that halted the elections and led to Palestinian indolence regarding the rest of the reconciliation clauses, and a return to square one.
Also, according to the Algiers Declaration, which is the basis for the recent reconciliation, it is clear that many practical steps need to conduct dialogues and put points on the letters before proceeding with them in practice. Elections will be held, and will the factions have to re-examine this issue again, or will they reaffirm the rules that were agreed upon in Cairo in 2020 regarding the elections and the formation of the government before and after them, and what the Arab Follow-up Committee can offer to reach detailed, applicable agreements.
The statements of some representatives of the Palestinian factions indicate that the practical aspects are not subject to agreement yet. Azzam Al-Ahmad, representative of “Fatah” and the National Authority, stressed in statements to the Algerian newspaper “Akhbar Al-Youm” that it was agreed to resolve all the issues that were the subject of disagreement between the Palestinian parties, but he went on to say that “the discussion of forming the government was postponed after settling the issue of organizing general elections.” And the unity of the factions under the banner of the Palestine Liberation Organization, with defining the tasks of the general secretaries to work on reconciliation and resolving differences.” A revealing statement that simply means that there are many basic issues that have not yet been agreed upon. In turn, Anwar Raja, a member of the political bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, stressed in the same Algerian newspaper, “the importance of activating the Palestine Liberation Organization with its institutions and a political program at the current stage,” which are issues that witness sharp differences between the Palestinian parties due to the different visions regarding how to deal with international developments. , especially after the war in Ukraine, and he went on to say: “As for the issue of the life affairs of the Palestinians, whether in the West Bank or Gaza, it will be discussed later.”
Postponing discussion of these issues, which constitute the essence of comprehensive reconciliation, means that the space for divergence is still greater than the space for convergence, which places a double burden on Algeria and the Arab Follow-up Committee, leading to binding understandings for all.

In agreement with the "Middle East"

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Brazilian film won the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno Film Festival

Geneva - (AFP) - "Regra 34" ("Rule 34"), directed by Brazilian director Julia Murat, won the Golden Leopard Award for Best Film on Saturday at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.


The film, which had its world premiere in Locarno, tells the story of a law student named Simone who is concerned about violence against women in her country. In parallel with her discussion of this topic at the university, she is active in her private life as a "Cam Girl" via the Internet, as she participates in conversations during which she displays her charms and portrays herself in sexual positions in exchange for a fee.


The director admitted that she was surprised to be awarded the award, explaining that the film "deals with a very difficult topic." "So I never expected the film to have more than one supporting jury member," she said.


The film's title refers to the so-called 34th rule of the Internet that everything on the Internet has a porn equivalent, and the work proposes how to maintain a balance between desire, freedom and protection, both for individuals and for society, especially in Brazil.


"+Regra 34+ (...) is a bold and political film that is supposed to leave a mark," said the artistic director of the Locarno Festival, Giona Nazzaro.


He believed that this award is "important for a cinematic industry such as the Brazilian one, which constituted important milestones in the history of world cinema," noting that this cinema "is at the forefront of defending the idea of a more inclusive and freer world."


Some criticized the film for its excessive violence.


This film is the third feature film by Julia Morat, 42, who is the younger sister of the famous Brazilian director and activist, Lucia Murat.


The Locarno Film Festival jury also awarded three prizes to the film "Tengo Suenios Electricus" ("I Have Electric Dreams") by Costa Rican director Valentina Morel.


The film won Best Director, Best Actress (Daniela Marin Navarro) and Best Actor (Reynaldo Amiens Gutierrez).

ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Pyongyang strongly criticizes Guterres' call for its denuclearization

Seoul (AFP) - North Korea Sunday criticized UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres , describing his call for its denuclearization as "dangerous".


During his two-day visit to Seoul, Guterres on Friday expressed his "clear commitment" to North Korea's denuclearization, saying that this is "a primary goal for peace, security and stability in the entire region."


North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Sun Jeong Sunday accused Guterres of showing "sympathy" for hostile US policies.


"I can only express my deep regret over the remarks of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, which seriously lack impartiality and fairness," he was quoted by the North's official KCNA news agency as saying.


He stressed that "complete, verifiable and irreversible" denuclearization is an "assault on the sovereignty" of North Korea.


Washington and Seoul have repeatedly warned in recent months that North Korea is preparing for another nuclear test, which will be the seventh in its history.


"We advise Secretary-General Guterres to be careful when he makes such dangerous statements," the North Korean official said, considering his remarks as "adding fuel to the fire."


Kim Jong Un's regime conducted a record number of weapons tests this year, including an intercontinental ballistic missile, for the first time since 2017.


In July, Kim confirmed that his country was "ready to mobilize" its nuclear deterrence force in the event of a military conflict with the United States or South Korea.

OPINIONS

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Balfour Declaration, Palestine and Israel

Written by: Ibrahim Ibrash
The Balfour Declaration, the promise made by Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary on November 2, 1917, to the Jewish millionaire Rothschild, to grant the Jews a state in Palestine, was the second stage for the establishment of the Zionist project after the first Zionist conference in Basel, Switzerland, on the twenty-ninth of August 1897, which The goal of the Zionist movement was to establish a national home for the Jews in Palestine.

The text of the promise was: "His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may detract from the civil and religious rights enjoyed by the non-Jewish communities residing in Palestine, nor the rights or political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

We will not go into here the circumstances of the issuance of this promise, its legitimacy, its parties, and the fact that it was issued in the midst of World War I, when Britain needed financial support for the Jews and their scientific expertise in the war efforts, in addition to getting rid of the Jews in Europe who were unacceptable, etc., and I will focus in my article on dismantling the promise from Where the borders of the state granted by the promise to the Jews, and in this context we make the following observations:

The first: The promise did not say that Palestine is the national home of the Jews, but rather the text was clear when it said that a national home would be established for the Jews (in Palestine). The Balfour Declaration, where the General Assembly of the United Nations decided in November 1947 to divide Palestine into two states, with Israel based on an area of 55%, and the rest on which an Arab state for the indigenous population would be established.

Second: Although the promise denies the existence of the original Palestinian people, as it talked about the mere existence of minorities that have civil and religious rights, Britain’s approval of the partition decision and the United Nations’ recognition of partition means that in Palestine there is a people other than the Jews who have political rights and not just civil and religious rights. Thus, the text of the Balfour Declaration obligating Israel to protect civil and religious rights pertains to the Palestinians inside the State of Israel, which was approved by the partition decision, while the rights of the Palestinian people in the rest of the Palestinian territories are subject to the resolutions of international legitimacy that clearly speak of the right of the Palestinian people to determine their political destiny and their right to an independent state.

Third: Had it not been for the Balfour Declaration that Britain imposed on the League of Nations and made it part of the British mandate deed over Palestine, and if the Western, especially British and American support for the Zionist project had not continued, then this racist Zionist entity would not have been and would not have continued to this day and to be With this apparent force on him.

Fourth: Despite the occupation of all of Palestine by the Zionists, those whom Arthur Balfour considered a minority - the indigenous Palestinians - represent today more than half of the population of Palestine residing on the land of Palestine, according to the Israeli statistics themselves, in addition to a similar number of them abroad bearing the name of Palestine, and the world recognizes that they are Palestinians are waiting for their return to their land.

Fifth: The land of Palestine, which is supposed to be a state exclusive to the Jews, as the Zionists interpreted the Balfour Declaration, to be shared with them by the Palestinian state, as the United Nations General Assembly voted on 11/29/2012 in favor of granting Palestine - the West Bank and Gaza - the status of a non-member observer state (the resolution was supported by 138 countries 9 countries opposed it, and 41 countries abstained from voting) and that Jerusalem be the capital of the Palestinian state.

In conclusion, the existence of the State of Israel is illegitimate even on one inch of the Arab land of Palestine, just as the Balfour Declaration failed to achieve the goals of the Zionist movement, which was seeking through the promise to erase the Palestinian people and resolve the conflict in Palestine in its favour. The Palestinians today are the descendants of those whom the Balfour Declaration considered They are mere minorities with civil rights who struggle to determine their political destiny and establish their independent Palestinian state.

OPINIONS

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Targeting culture is an assault on society

Written by: Nihad Abu Ghosh

It is always useful to recall the importance of the Palestinian national culture in the battle of the Palestinian people to obtain their national rights. It suffices to recall the comment of Golda Meir, the Israeli Prime Minister in the sixties, on the assassination of the martyr Ghassan Kanafani when she said, "Today we got rid of an armed intellectual brigade." In addition to Ghassan, a group of the best Palestinian creators, intellectuals, and media figures appeared on the lists of Israeli assassinations, whose main weapon was the pen, the feather, and the word to defend their people and their national cause, among them the martyrs Majid Abu Sharar, Kamal Nasser, Naji Al-Ali, Hanna Moqbel, Hani Jawhariyyah, Hanna Mikhail, Ezzeddine Al-Qalq and Naim Khader, Abd al-Wahhab al-Kayyali, Mahmoud al-Hamshari, Wael Zuaiter, Ali Fouda, and many others, as well as those of Palestine’s creators, writers, and intellectuals who were subjected to arrest, including poets Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim, and Tawfiq Ziyad, and those who were subjected to deportation, such as our Jerusalem writer Mahmoud Shuqair, Akram Haniyeh, Khalil al-Sawahiri, and others.

Targeting culture and intellectuals is not an Israeli specialty, but rather a global phenomenon that was paid for by the great international creators who faced tyranny, such as the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmat and the Chilean Pablo Neruda.

Now, in the circumstances of the intractable internal crisis that we live in, and with the decline in the status of the Palestinian cause regionally and internationally, and the intensification of the Israeli attack on our land, our sanctities, and all our national rights. An attack is launched from among our ranks on the climate of public freedoms, including freedom of expression and cultural and artistic creativity that we extracted from the tusks of the occupier, and which grew, developed and took root in the context of confronting the occupation, rebuilding the Palestinian national character, and formulating its national consciousness. In the past few weeks, culture and freedom of creativity, which is a condition for its prosperity, have been subjected to a series of attacks and threats that led to the suspension of some performances and events, and intimidation of all workers and those interested in the fields of culture and arts, which heralds a serious setback for Palestinian society in general, and an alarming decline in public freedoms and the conditions for creativity. Especially cultural and artistic.

The last thing that happened in this context was the decision of a solid institution such as the Abdul Mohsen Qattan Foundation to cancel one of its activities and close its doors temporarily after receiving a threat from an “unknown person”. The statement warned of "the dire effects that these threats and actions could have on cultural life" in Palestine and on society in general. Also, the organizers of a music festival in Bethlehem were forced to cancel it due to such threats, and before that, the attack on the "Cultural Warehouse" event. A year and a half ago, angry young men attacked an artistic event in the shrine of the Prophet Musa under the pretext of violating the sanctity of a mosque. None of these young men, who had the support of even some leadership circles in power, were held accountable, while the artist Sama Abdel Hadi was arrested and questioned despite obtaining official permissions. for the event!

There are a number of issues that raise concern in all of these incidents, the most prominent of which is that those who threaten and attack are individuals and groups who have decided to take the law into their own hands on behalf of the authority, its tools, and its justice and security institutions, and on behalf of society with its various forces, bodies and formations, which opens the way for advocates of chaos and chaos to implement their own law According to their awareness, mood, and interests, which could expand tomorrow to include interference in people's behavior in public facilities, universities, streets, and workplaces.

In this downward regression, culture appears to represent the "minor rib" or the "inclined wall" on which the supporters of chaos prevail, and justify their actions by claims of defending the culture of society and virtue, although there are serious doubts about the extent of their eligibility to present a conception of culture and virtue. Especially after it became clear that their attack on the Ishtar theater was due to a misunderstanding as a result of incitement from some party, so they imagined that the colors that the playwrights carried in their activities symbolized the gay flag! Noting that their zeal and zeal is focused on issues associated with sex, nudity or light clothing, and does not rise up against the daily violations and systematic humiliation of tens of thousands of Palestinians, men and women, that affect their dignity and humanity, at checkpoints, crossings and workplaces in Israeli settlements and projects, in addition to daily raids and desecration. The holiest of sanctities and the assault on the stationed and stationed.

Strange is the silence and disregard of the authority, or even its failure to carry out its duties in protecting culture, the arts and its institutions, and protecting individuals regardless of their orientations. And the chaos that reached its climax in the city of Hebron, and in the incident of the sinful assault on Dr. Nasir al-Din al-Shaer. With these stances, the authority contributes to detracting from its prestige and weakening its legitimacy, as if it were shooting at its feet and at the project of building a state of law and sovereign institutions.

The danger of attacking culture and its institutions threatens the entire Palestinian society with its institutions, public freedoms, values, and traditions of struggle and pluralistic democracy. This does not definitively mean that we are all required to accept or support any cultural project or artistic show as it is without criticism or scrutiny. The competence of the one charged with enforcing the law, and before him the official institutions, is not to impose the law by hand, clubs, and chains, and the aggressor today may be the victim tomorrow.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Qatar condemns the settlers' violation of Al-Aqsa Mosque

Doha-"Jerusalem" dot com- The State of Qatar condemned the Israeli settlers' permissiveness of the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, their storming of the Al-Qibli prayer hall and the assault on worshipers and women in the mosque.


In a statement today, Thursday, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned of the systematic Israeli attempts to change the religious and historical status of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and held the Israeli occupation authorities alone responsible for the cycle of violence that will result from the repeated storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque and disregard for the feelings of millions of Muslims around the world. And it called on the international community to take urgent action to stop it. Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people.

ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

A new dispute between Britain and China

BEIJING - (AFP) - China said Wednesday that it had lodged an official complaint with Britain over an altercation between its diplomats and a Hong Kong protester at its consulate in Manchester, northern England.


British police said that a group of men left the consulate during a demonstration at the end of last week, dragged a demonstrator into the consulate and assaulted him.


The incident sparked widespread condemnation in Britain and caused a diplomatic dispute, prompting the British Foreign Office to summon a senior diplomatic official.


Beijing said Wednesday that its diplomats were not to blame for the altercation.


"Due to malicious harassment by outlaws and illegal entry into the Chinese Consulate General in Manchester, this has injured Chinese personnel and threatened the security of Chinese buildings," Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters at a routine press conference.


He added that China had "expressed its displeasure" to the British authorities and urged London to do more to protect its diplomats on British soil.


Beijing had earlier announced that the protesters had "illegally entered" the consulate, which was not mentioned in the text of an official foreign ministry report Wednesday.


Police in Manchester said they were conducting an investigation into the incident, which the prime minister's office deemed "extremely troubling" and drew condemnation from British lawmakers.


The man in question, in his 30s, sustained injuries and spent the night in hospital, according to police.


The newly appointed chair of the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Alicia Cairns, accused Chinese Consul General Zheng Xuan, a senior Chinese diplomat in Britain, of being on the scene and "tearing up posters" during a "peaceful protest".


China has not responded to these accusations.


The demonstration was held in front of the Chinese Consulate in Manchester on Sunday, the opening day of the Communist Party Congress in Beijing, which is expected to coincide with a third term for President Xi Jinping.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation releases a guard in Al-Aqsa

Jerusalem – “Al-Quds” dot com – Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces released a guard working in the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, after detaining him for about an hour.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested the guard, Abdul Karim Qaoud, after beating him near Bab al-Silsilah, one of the doors leading to the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

OPINIONS

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

How did it happen in Israel?

Written by: Nabil Amr


Indeed, Israel is a place of oddities and wonders, and the strangest thing about it is its political system, which allows the owner of the highest number of seats in parliament to go to the opposition defeated, and bring the owner of the lowest number victorious and the prime minister, and this is what happened in the previous elections.
In Israel, too, the recent elections produced an equation that rarely happens elsewhere, which is that those who toppled the prime minister in a previous round brought him back on the necks in a subsequent round, and what is meant here is those who formed the government of “change” Lapid-Gantz, and those who were described as the helmsman Mansour Abbas.


how did that happen?
The government of change outperformed Netanyahu's coalition in the previous elections by one vote, and in the middle of its term, those who fled fled from it, and those who remained remained, and a tie became the master of the situation, which dictated going to a fifth election.


Netanyahu, who is without the prime minister, no longer sees life as a taste. He wasted not one minute or one vote but mobilized him in the battle of return, and he did not leave small or big things without employing them in his fateful battle to regain the throne.


With well-known ability, he succeeded in gathering the ranks of his deep “right” camp, and with the same ability he worked within the opponents’ camp, taking advantage of the fragility of his alliance relations and the intensity of the internal rivalry between its parties. Meretz after wasting more than one hundred and thirty thousand votes, and the Arab League list wasted more than one hundred and twenty thousand votes, and the voter turnout in the Arab sector did not rise as much as it did in the Jewish sector, and all of this gave Netanyahu victory on a plate of gold. . It was not an ordinary victory in which he aspired to a majority of one vote, but rather a blatant victory that provided him with the formation of a government with a comfortable majority made up of the solid right-wing muscle. It also provided him with dispelling the forces of opponents and complicating the possibility of the emergence of an effective alliance against him.


What happened would not have happened had Netanyahu's opponents not done what they did over a year of their rule. They showed weak leadership and an inability to escape Netanyahu's legacy, so they relied on what showed them as if they were his shadow and not a substitute for him. They were consistent with his propositions to solve the Palestinian issue by adopting the economic solution formula instead of the political one, and increased it in killing and oppression, until the year of their rule recorded the highest level of blood that bled from the bodies of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. It was offered by Netanyahu, “You are just a security agent for us,” which goes far beyond the limits of coordination specified in the agreements, of which nothing else remains.


The chicken that laid golden eggs in Netanyahu's coop was the manner in which the Arab community dealt with the elections, despite the fact that simple, accurate and proven calculations indicated the possibility that he would be the guaranteed decisive force against Netanyahu and his dangerous right.


The Arabs made a mistake twice, the first when they did not mobilize their voting potential in close to the percentage with which the Jews mobilized... It is true that it rose by several points from what the polls indicated, but the unprecedented density of the Jewish vote neutralized this increase; It seemed ineffective. As for the other mistake, it was when the Arab political forces waged their electoral battle by exerting the greatest effort in their internal competition. As the level of rhetoric fell, and the apparent goal became to prove the superiority of each formation over its competitor, and such a matter is only valid in reality at the level of bragging.


Finally... the season of the fifth elections closed on an increasing decrease in Arab representation in the Knesset and an increasing fragmentation of the anti-Netanyahu coalition, and a higher and deeper position was granted to the forces that want to eradicate the Arab situation in Israel from its roots.


And with the same power of influence in the general governmental trend against the Palestinians, their authority, their entity, and their rights in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem.


What happened in Israel, according to the scale of comparison between the bad and the worse, is that the bad failed and the worst won, and what is really unfortunate is that the Arabs inside the country have a great contribution to that.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation tightens its procedures at the checkpoints of occupied Jerusalem

Jerusalem - "Al Quds" dot com - On Tuesday morning, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their measures against Jerusalemites at some checkpoints.


According to Jerusalemite sources, the occupation forces prevented school students from passing through the Shuafat camp checkpoint, northeast of occupied Jerusalem .


Those forces tightened the inspections at the checkpoint itself, which caused a suffocating crisis in the place.


Similar measures were taken at Anata checkpoint and Hizma checkpoint.


OPINIONS

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Excerpts from the speeches of al-Hakim d. George Habash in late 1978, shortly after the signing of the Camp David Accords

Written by: Dr. Ahmed Qatamesh

In his speech at Al-Mustansiriya University - Baghdad, he said: (The real danger of the Camp David Accords is that for the first time in the history of the Arab struggle against the Zionist invasion, an Arab party comes and officially and legally declares its readiness to recognize the Zionist presence on the land of Palestine and on Arab land). In speeches and interviews 1977-1979, pg. 149, he said: The danger of the Camp David Accords does not stop at this point, as it bears for the first time the beginning of a declared, reactionary, Zionist-imperialist Arab alliance.
(Defining a clear political line that sees the organic interdependence between Zionist "Israel", imperialism and Arab reaction, and drawing up plans and programs on this basis is the first item in the confrontation process) p. 136.
(The second line is to prepare the Palestinian and Arab masses, mobilize them organizationally, arm them, and train them in various means of fighting and confrontation in a long-term popular war that will last for decades to achieve victory) ... p. 139, and the third, fourth, fifth, and ninth line...etc.
(And a clear position on the autonomy emanating from Camp David, a decisive and declared position that calls on all the masses to boycott the elections of the Autonomy Council... and to generate the ground for a mass struggle with the aim of overthrowing it...) p. 178.
(The central link in the confrontation has become the Lebanese masses...) p. 182 on the occasion of the eleventh launch.
(...As we enter the new year, we feel and deeply realize that the focus of our attention must be directed towards the masses of our Palestinian people and towards our Arab masses, so that we put in their hands our vision of the current political conditions that our Palestinian revolution and our Arab region are going through, and let us also define the urgent tasks before us that we can through Its achievement is to continue our victorious march towards achieving our goals...)
(Despite the enormity of the hostile attack we are facing, we do not have the slightest doubt about the inevitability of the victory of our just cause, and our appeal to the inevitability of victory is not an emotional or idealistic one. We believe in the inevitability of victory based on reading the history of the struggles and heroics of the masses of our Palestinian people that did not stop despite the blood, tears, sacrifices and pain.. Relying on the enormous energies and potentials latent in the masses of our Palestinian people and the masses of our Arab nation...relying on a scientific reading of the movement of history and its upward trend...on the victories achieved by the world revolution in its march towards destroying the imperialists and reactionaries and creating a new world in which justice, freedom, democracy, socialism and peace prevail )
"Coincidentally," Lula, the representative of the left, won the Brazilian presidential elections, as Brazil represents a third of the population of the Latin continent and more than half of its geography. It is also "coincidental" that the Communist Party of China, which has more than 96 million members, ended its 20th congress and its leadership of a country of more than 1.5 billion people. With close to 20% of humanity, and an annual national production of about $16 trillion at local prices, $22 trillion at global prices, and a balance exceeding $3.5 trillion, President Xi emphasized building a modern socialist China with Chinese characteristics, an advanced army with international standards, and a rejection of hegemony.
(We are witnessing today the beginning of an imperialist-Zionist-Arab reactionary alliance that aims to completely liquidate our cause, end our revolution, and crush everything that is patriotic, progressive, and revolutionary in our homeland... Our revolution has faced from the moment of its inception a successive and continuous series of conspiracies and confrontations aimed at destroying, annihilating, and destroying it, but Despite all of this, this revolution was able to stand firm, continue, and remain a thorn in the side of imperialism and an obstacle as a tool in the way of its plans in the region. On the visit of a delegation to Syria in 1978:
(... The position we have taken is based on a deep understanding of the political developments in the Lebanese arena, where there is a contradiction between the Syrian and isolationist projects... Armed battles have been taking place for months between the Syrians and the fascists... Syria's view of the conflict with "Israel" It is a struggle for existence.... And Syria is aware that achieving any interim goal requires the same force that is needed to achieve the strategic goal... Syria believes that settlement and its projects will not lead to anything, hence Syria's position as a state differs from that of the party.... They emphasized The importance of the bilateral relationship.... There are many basic points that need the continuation of the dialogue, and we do not stand on complete common ground on the basic urgent issue, and the most important point in the joint meeting was confronting the isolationist scheme and its destructive effects, but rather the future of national action in the region). pp. 202 and 206.
In response to the question of national unity:
(The PLO is required to harden its political stances, in particular the complete and definitive exit from the path of settlement and put forward a political and radical line against imperialism and against the Arab reactionary forces...) p. 207.
(The issue is big, and it is not important that we get emotionally excited about the issue of Palestinian national unity. Rather, our viewpoints are supposed to unite on the problems facing Palestinian national unity and the way to address these problems.... Here I say that on a political level, it is important that we agree on three basic points, which are.. the point The first is the freedom of political positions as long as these positions are within the national framework and within the national pole and are not inconsistent with the PLO Charter.
The second point is that we agree on a minimum program around which all factions would agree.
As for the third point, each organization should have complete freedom and fight with complete freedom to present its own point of view among the masses on issues that are not agreed upon....
On the organizational level, the problem is not in the number of organizations, but rather in the nature of the relationship that governs these organizations. For example, the Vietnamese Liberation Front included a large number of political organizations....
There must be frontal frameworks that include all national forces without exception...and determine the manner and basis on which the framework of the front that includes all organizations will depend...and this leads us to the issue of how to form committees. T. F..) pp. 208 and 209.
And answering a question: What is the impact of the Iranian revolution on the issue of Palestine?
(What we care about is the content of this movement, and this is clear. It is hostile to imperialism, reaction, Zionism and Israel... It removed a reactionary regime allied with Sadat and Zionism and brought an alternative regime in favor of the Palestinian revolution that would join us in our battle against imperialism and Zionism... It offers the peoples of the region a model in Determination, will, and determination... It is an anti-imperialist, reactionary, and Zionist movement, and with these implications it is a progressive movement.As for the ideological aspect, we are striving in the Palestinian arena, the Arab region, and the Middle East for close cooperation between progressive currents that are anti-imperialist and Zionist, regardless of any existing ideological differences. Among them... The most dangerous thing that can happen is that ideological conflicts prevail over what is common... Our common battle is against imperialism, reaction and Zionism... In the fifties, imperialism played on the chord of conflicts, and therefore we are supposed to seek to thwart imperialist attempts on this level).

ECONOMY

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Maayah: The tour guide represents the interface of Palestine to the world

Bethlehem - "Jerusalem" dot com - Georges Zina - Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Rula Maayah, stressed the importance of the Palestinian tourist guide, as it is the interface of Palestine for tourist groups.


And she stressed the need to overcome all the obstacles and obstacles that the Corona pandemic caused to this profession, as the Palestinian tourism sector is the first to be affected by the pandemic and will be the last to recover from it.


Minister Maayah's speech came during her meeting with the head of the Arab Tourism Guides Syndicate, Youssef Aida, and a number of members of the administrative body, where the meeting took place at the ministry's headquarters in Bethlehem.
Maayah confirmed that the government and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities are doing a great job to confront all obstacles and obstacles, by preparing plans and programs on several levels, and these plans and programs include those related to the promotion of Palestinian tourism, strengthening confidence and re-linking with international tourism agencies, and some that depend on rehabilitation and development The tourism sector, in addition to restoring confidence in the Palestinian tourism industry at the local and international levels, developing new health protocols, maintaining employees working in this sector and improving their skills to be ready for the new situation and able to carry out their tasks under the existing situation.
In turn, Eidah talked about the importance of the relationship of partnership and cooperation between the union and the ministry, and the need to overcome obstacles and obstacles on the ground, indicating that in cooperation with everyone, we will overcome all obstacles.


SPORT

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

The basketball fighter continues his training camp in Qatar

Doha- Bassam Abu Arrah/ Our national basketball team continues its closed training camp in the Qatari capital, Doha, in preparation for participating in the preliminary qualifiers for the 2025 Asian Cup in Group E, which includes, in addition to Palestine, the host Qatar, the Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman.

The coaching staff of the national team, consisting of the Greek Yanis and the assistants Salim Al-Hosari and Issa Kamel, makes great efforts through daily exercises within two morning and evening meals at the QBA and Al-Gharafa Hall in order to equip the players with strong equipment to compete to win matches and earn points, where the Greek coach works On the technical plans of the team, while Al-Hosari and Kamel help him with physical fitness training, collective technical matters, and applications on the ground.

The team's therapist, Dr. Mahmoud Abdel Qader, also makes huge efforts for the players before, during and after training in order to reach them to the highest levels of physical level without injuries.

As for the two administrators, Nimr Ayoub and Alaa Taqatqa, their mission began before arriving in Doha, and the big task is still in them in order to manage the affairs of the delegation and the team so that it is ready for the official meetings that the fedayeen will undergo on the twentieth of this month.

OPINIONS

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

An unprecedented struggle!

Written by: Rashid Hassan


Our great Palestinian people are going through an unprecedented state of struggle, in its long, long history, with the recognition of those concerned with the Palestinian issue, observers, and even the Zionist enemy’s troopers, who were terrified, and the occupied Lod airport began to witness an unprecedented reverse emigration.. despite the modest numbers so far.. !!

There is no doubt that our people are haunted by struggle and struggle, and the love of resistance, since God created this land and what is on it..

Did this great people not, throughout its glorious history, which extended from the Canaanites and the Jebusites, who intended the city of Jerusalem, to stand up to more than 27 people who invaded Palestine, so their lot was death, destruction and dispersion, at the hands of the mighty people, as described by the Lord of Glory: “There is a mighty people in it.” God Almighty has spoken the truth.. Facts and events have proven that this brave people deserves this description and the great epithet from the Lord of Glory, as evidenced by His Majesty entrusting him with the task of defending this holy land, protecting it from greedy people. He himself conquered it..and he triumphed with pride and presumptuousness, despite his small number and modest capabilities, over the largest nations on earth at the time..and he defeated the Crusaders, the Hyksos, the Romans, the Greeks, the Persians, and the Romans, and they became, as his great poet depicted them, “passing by in fleeting words”..!!

Promises start..

Today, our Palestinian people are going through an unprecedented state of struggle, whose title is: the involvement of young men and boys, with enthusiasm, in the furnace of the battle for liberation.. racing to embrace martyrdom.. and confront the herds of colonial settlers.. with stones, knives, daggers, and Molotov cocktails. And light weapons are “mostly pistols.” They are not afraid.

Look at what happened a few days ago.. A Palestinian boy, “Muhammad Rajab Qutaish, 16 years old,” from the residents of Anata, the village adjacent to the Shuafat refugee camp, wanted to avenge the martyred lion, the hero of Shuafat and all of Palestine, “Uday al-Tamimi.” Kalith pounces on one of them with Naglaa's stab wounds, before the enemy soldiers attack him..and he is taken to the hospital with serious injuries..

The young boy “Muhammad Rajab 16” determined to avenge the martyr Al-Tamimi and all the martyrs of Palestine, so he fearlessly attacked a herd of settlers in Sheikh Jarrah, spreading panic and terror among them, before he could stab one of them!!

This heroic cub painted a bright picture of the state of struggle created by the Lions of Jenin, Nablus, Shuafat, etc., and its title is: Confronting the enemy everywhere, in the streets, at checkpoints, besieging the colonies... pounces on the colonizers' rabble... and creating a state of insecurity in all of Palestine It pushes deviants of horizons to emigrate, and to return to where their ancestors came, in order to preserve their lives and the lives of their children, and they have become at the mouth of the Palestinian death.

The lone wolves are the foundations of this distinguished state of struggle, after they reached a firm conviction that it is necessary to get out of the state of humiliation and humiliation.. and this will not be done except by detonating the armed resistance and striking the enemy at strategic points.. So the operations of Hadera and “Dizenkov” Street in Tel Aviv were and Beersheba..etc.

This state of struggle will not be broken with God’s help, nor will it bow before storms.. and it will continue at an accelerated pace.. and here it is pervading all of Palestine from the sea to the river and from Rafah to Naqoura, and here are the Lions of Hebron and Tulkarem brandishing their weapons.. and organizing military parades similar to the Lions of Nablus and Jenin ..

Our people have broken chains, broken fear.

And here he is living the days of splendor, pride, glory and pride.. waiting for the beautiful dawn.. the next dawn of liberation inevitably.. neither the prison nor the jailer will remain.

Glory and eternity to the martyrs.

And death to the Zionists.

About the "Jordanian Constitution"

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:10 pm - Jerusalem Time

Translator: "The Lions' Den" is the endless headache of "Israel" and the "Palestinian Authority".

Translation by "Al-Quds" dot com - The Hebrew newspapers, published on Wednesday, focused on the recent operations of the " Lions' Den " groups in Nablus, which began inflicting deaths and injuries on the ranks of the Israeli forces.


The Hebrew newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, said that the Israeli army has no choice but to attack the "Lions' Den" groups by itself, and not to rely on the Palestinian Authority , which failed to tame these groups after the army responded to its request to do so.


In an analytical report by its reporter and military analyst, Yossi Yehoshua, the newspaper indicates that these groups, active in Nablus during the past few months, are responsible for the recent series of attacks, noting that the number of their members may range between 30 to 50, and they are not linked to any organization, whether Hamas. Or jihad or others.


According to the newspaper, these groups do not have an organizational body, a hierarchical chain of command, or a clear organizational behavior that could result in a high intelligence expectation, and they pose a challenge to the authority's rule, but the Israeli army considers them "terrorists", and they must be attacked with the best units and using the capabilities of the Shin Bet, And not waiting for the movements of the PA security services, because the Israelis are the ones paying the price for the attacks of these groups.


She referred to yesterday's operation that led to the death of a soldier near Nablus in an operation that was claimed by the same groups, pointing to the new failure of the soldiers not to respond to the perpetrator of the operation, which necessitated the opening of an investigation in this regard, as happened in the Shuafat operation.


In the opinion of the newspaper, it is necessary to find the necessary deterrence to work against these groups, in light of the emerging complications.


For its part, the Hebrew newspaper "Haaretz" said, in its issue issued on Wednesday, that the "Lions' Den" groups, whose name was announced publicly a month after the assassination of Ibrahim Nabulsi, have become one of the main problems for the security services in Israel, as well as for the Palestinian Authority.


The Israeli security establishment believes that the members of these groups are activists who were former members of various organizations, and a series of events prompted them to call themselves the "Lions' Den". They are concentrated in the Old City and Balata camp, and their stated goal is to confront the Israeli army and settlers.


According to the Hebrew newspaper, the members of the group are "secular youth between the ages of 18 and 24, and they do not visit mosques or are influenced by religious figures... They are members of well-known families, some of them (i.e. their family members) are active in the security services of the authority, and armed groups were formed in Jenin Which was engaged in clashes with the Israeli army in every incursion as an inspiration to them. According to her claim.


A Fatah activist from the old city of Nablus, who personally knows many of the activists in the Lions' Den, said that this organization is far from being a hierarchical organization that receives instructions from higher authorities. My hierarchy reached the late President Yasser Arafat and other officials such as Marwan Barghouti, so the matter is completely different now.. This is a local organization of young people, and the vast majority of them do not belong to anyone, and some of them belong to organizations such as "Fatah", "Hamas" and "the Popular". As quoted by "Haaretz".


The Hebrew newspaper says that Israel asked the Palestinian Authority to act against the "Lions' Den", but the problem for the Authority is that unlike Jenin, in which the militants receive support from the Islamic Jihad, in Nablus that group is the "Fatah Flesh" that decided to rebel against the Authority. Therefore, the latter faces difficulties in dealing with it without prejudice to its legitimacy in the West Bank.


The newspaper claims that "Hamas" is trying to exploit these groups by financing them through "Musab Shtayyeh" (the pursuer detained by the Authority), especially since the movement found difficulties in establishing its infrastructure due to Israeli intelligence operations, noting that the Authority arrested Shtayyeh because of his attempts to link those groups with "Hamas".


An Israeli security source told Haaretz, "The Palestinians also realized that Nablus is an important test for them," noting that the authority preferred to talk with the activists of those groups, because it considered that failure against them would lead to the creation of other additional groups in all West Bank cities, which even Now do not participate in events.


According to the Hebrew newspaper, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with the heads of his security services and informed them that he was not ready to accept the continuation of the activity of any armed groups not under the authority, and asked them to work on collecting weapons and arresting the "instigators." According to the newspaper claim.


The Israeli security establishment believes that after Prime Minister Yair Lapid's speech at the United Nations, a major change occurred in the positions of President Abbas, who sees Lapid's statements about the two-state solution as an opportunity for change within the Palestinian Authority, and that he is ready to work to maintain dialogue with Israel.


According to sources in the Israeli security, the rescue of the Israeli family that entered Nablus last week was an example of this, and the Palestinian security personnel rushed to reach the family to protect them and return them to Israel openly, which was done in the past as secretly as possible. As the paper says.


According to the newspaper, the Palestinian Authority has been making efforts recently to integrate some members of the "Lions' Den" into the security services, so that they turn themselves in and lay down their weapons in exchange for a limited period of imprisonment or house arrest, and they will then be integrated into the security services if they show commitment and agree to do so.


The newspaper pointed out that in the past few weeks, Israel has also taken important steps to strengthen the Palestinian Authority, including refraining from entering Nablus except in cases where there is accurate information about the militants' intention to carry out attacks.

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:10 pm - Jerusalem Time

Climber Rekabi returns to Iran after appearing in a competition without a headscarf

Tehran (AFP) - Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi returned to Iran on Wednesday, according to official media, after participating without a veil in an Asian competition held in South Korea, where dozens of her citizens gathered to welcome her.


In the final competitions on Sunday, Rikabi was satisfied with putting a bandage on the head, in a move that was interpreted as support for the protests that have been taking place in Iran for a month in the wake of the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested by the morality police on the grounds of not adhering to the strict rules of dress in the Islamic Republic.


Rikabi's move constituted a violation of the dress code that Iranian women must abide by when participating in foreign competitions, including the full head covering.


My passengers, 33, arrived at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran at dawn on Wednesday, according to footage published by Iranian state television.


A videotape published by the reformist "Sharq" newspaper via the Telegram application showed dozens of people gathered outside the access building, cheering and applauding.


They were surrounded by a minibus and a car, in which Rikabi and others from the climbing team are believed to have been aboard.


Earlier, Rakabi appeared inside the airport building, wearing a black jacket and a hat on her head.


After being received by members of her family, she spoke to the official media, while she lowered a medical mask and put it on her face.


"Because of the atmosphere in the finals of the competition and the unexpected invitation for me to start my participation, I got confused with my technical equipment (...) and this made me unaware of the issue of the headscarf that I should have put on," said Rikabi.


"I have returned to Iran safely, in excellent health, and according to the predetermined schedule. I apologize to the people of Iran for the tensions I have created," she added, stressing that she "does not intend to leave the national team."


These statements were similar to what was published on Tuesday on the Rekabi Instagram page, where she apologized in a written text for the "concern" she had caused, and confirmed that her appearance was "unintentional".


On Tuesday, human rights organizations outside Iran expressed concern about Rekabi, following reports that she had lost contact with her after appearing in the competition on Sunday.


However, the Iranian embassy in Seoul denied "all fake news and misinformation related" to Rakabi, adding that she and her team left South Korea on Tuesday.


And a broadcast broadcast published by the International Federation of Climbing Sports showed that Rakabi appeared in the first competition with her head covered with a handkerchief pulled back, but in the next competition to climb a high wall with a rope, she was satisfied with wrapping her head with a band that showed all her hair tied back.


This came as Iran witnessed, since September 16, protests against the background of the death of Amini (22 years old), during which many participating women removed their veils in the streets and educational institutions.


During the recent demonstrations, many male and female athletes expressed their support for the women's demands, and some of them were subjected to measures from the authorities, such as temporary arrest.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:10 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Civil Defense told Al-Quds: 30 accidents are the result of what we have dealt with in the West Bank since the beginning of the depression

Ramallah - exclusive to "Al Quds" dot com - The Palestinian Civil Defense confirmed that the outcome of what its crews dealt with since the beginning of the depression yesterday evening, Sunday, until Monday evening, amounted to 30 accidents in several governorates of the West Bank.


The Director General of Public Relations and Media in the Civil Defense, Nael Al-Azza, told Al-Quds.com: “Civil defense teams dealt with 30 accidents from Sunday evening until Monday evening, within 30 hours, in several governorates in the West Bank, that is, an average of one accident every hour".


According to al-Azza, these incidents included 5 cases of water draining from inside homes and shops in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Jericho, towing a vehicle in Jenin, and opening a street in Ramallah due to a partial collapse.


Al-Azza called on citizens to adhere to the instructions issued by the competent authorities, to limit the impact of depression, and to quickly call the emergency number 102 in the event of any accident, giving full details of the accident.


Al-Azza stressed the need for the safe use of heating devices by keeping them away from flammable materials, and to ventilate the house before going to sleep, as well as for drivers to drive their vehicles with caution, leaving a sufficient safety distance between vehicles, and avoiding passing water bodies.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 10:10 pm - Jerusalem Time

Haniyeh meets more Moroccan personalities

الرباط- “القدس” دوت كوم- التقى إسماعيل هنية رئيس المكتب السياسي لحركة حماس، اليوم الخميس، مع عدد من الشخصيات المغربية، ضمن زيارته التي ستستمر عدة أيام للرباط.

وبحسب بيان لمكتب هنية، فإن من بين الشخصيات التي التقاها هنية والوفد المرافق له، الحبيب المالكي رئيس مجلس النواب المغربي، والذي أكد على العلاقة التاريخية بين الشعبين، ودعم المغرب ملكًا وحكومةً وبرلمانًا وشعبًا للشعب الفلسطيني.

وأكد رئيس البرلمان المغربي أن القدس عاصمة الشعب الفلسطيني، مشيرًا إلى دور البرلمان في دعم الحق الفلسطيني ومتابعة كل التطورات المتعلقة بالقضية الفلسطينية.

من جانبه، استعرض رئيس حماس التطورات السياسية والميدانية الأخيرة ومجمل القضية الفلسطينية التي تمر بمرحلة غاية في الحساسية والأهمية، وأشار رئيس الحركة إلى نتائج وتداعيات معركة سيف القدس وانعكاساتها في المجالات المتعددة.

وجرى خلال اللقاء بحث أفق التعاون مع مجلس النواب المغربي في إسناد حقوق ونضال الشعب الفلسطيني، وسبل دعم أهل مدينة القدس المحتلة.

كما التقى هنية، مع حكيم بنشماس رئيس مجلس المستشارين في المغرب، والذي أكد وقوف بلاده إلى جانب الشعب الفلسطيني وصموده ومقاومته.

وأكد بنشماس أن المغرب مستعد لتقديم كل الدعم للشعب الفلسطيني.

من جهته قال هنية، إن الشعب الفلسطيني أثبت توحده حول القدس والمقاومة، فيما الأمة عبرت عن تضامنها وإسنادها لشعبنا، وكذلك كل أحرار العالم الذين تظاهروا دعمًا للقدس وغزة والضفة وحقوقنا الوطنية. كما جاء في بيان مكتبه.

وبدأ هنية زيارته عصر الأربعاء إلى المغرب برفقة وفد قيادي من حماس، في إطار الحركة السياسية والدبلوماسية النشطة التي يقوم بها في أعقاب معركة سيف القدس، حيث قام بلقاء أمير دولة قطر الشيخ تميم بن حمد آل ثاني، ثم التقى وزير المخابرات المصري في القاهرة، ويُعتبر المغرب محطته الثالثة، وسوف يزور عقبه موريتانيا مطلع الأسبوع المقبل. كما جاء في بيان مكتبه.

والتقى هنية أمس سعد الدين العثماني رئيس الوزراء المغربي رئيس حزب العدالة والتنمية وعدد من قادة الحزب، حيث بحث الجانبان العديد من القضايا المتعلقة بالعلاقات الثنائية ونتائج معركة سيف القدس وسبل دعم القضية والشعب الفلسطيني.