Inside a health center where he works as a volunteer, medical student Muhammad Hassan Shashu browses through books in the German language and video clips on the Internet to verify how to pronounce words, hoping that he will reach a level that enables him to travel to Germany to complete his studies and work.

With the outbreak of the conflict, which is approaching the start of its twelfth year, Germany in particular has become the dream of hundreds of students of medical specialties to enter the labor market in it, which explains the increase in the number of educational centers that teach its language in Syria from one center before the outbreak of the conflict in 2011 to more than eighty centers today.

"The German language is very difficult, especially since it is not taught in Syria by native speakers," Shashu, 23, a sixth-year student at the Faculty of Medicine in Damascus, told AFP.

And he adds, while sitting near Bahra, in the middle of the health center located in a traditional Arab house, that learning this language "is worth the effort and fatigue that will vanish with the first step I take in Germany."

During the years of conflict, Syrians found themselves facing closed doors in terms of obtaining travel visas to most countries of the world, especially European ones, with the start of the influx of refugees fleeing battles and bombings.

However, doctors constituted an exception when they were able to obtain travel visas, especially to Germany, according to certain conditions that could be achieved, most notably mastering a relatively high level of the German language. Those wishing to obtain a visa to Germany should go to its diplomatic missions in Lebanon, Jordan or Erbil due to the absence of German representation in Syria.

Shashu and his college classmate, Jaafar Mustafa, take advantage of their free time to review their lessons in German.

They try to speak it all the time in order to practice pronunciation, and to memorize vocabulary quickly.

"All of my friends I know have either traveled, are preparing to travel, or are studying the decision to travel," Mustafa told AFP, in light of the difficult economic and social conditions in the country, which has been exhausted by years of war and exhausted its capabilities.

The young man continues, "Why Germany? Because it is the easiest and safest destination," considering that "its degree is strong and there are a large number of Syrians in it, so I will not feel alienated."

At the Arab Center Institute, one of the oldest institutes for teaching foreign languages in Damascus, more than a thousand students are registered in 2022 to learn the German language, about seventy percent of them from medical specialties, according to what the director of the institute, Abdullah Saleh, explains to AFP.

He explains that before the outbreak of the conflict, students were focused on learning French and English, but this has changed successively since 2013.

He explains, "The Goethe Institute in Damascus was the only one specialized in teaching the German language and fully met the need. Today, there are more than eighty centers and institutes, and students need early registration to reserve their seats."

Inside one of the halls of the institute, teacher Omar Fattouh, a graduate student in German literature from the University of Damascus, is following a new lesson with his students, and is training a number of them on specialized medical words.

Fattouh, who spends his day moving from one institute to another, and meets about 100 students daily, notes that the learners are distributed "between those seeking family reunification and students, most of whom are in medical specializations."

About 924,000 Syrians currently live in Germany, compared to 118,000 at the end of 2014, according to the Office of Immigration and Refugees, which has registered more than 700,000 asylum requests from Syrians in Germany since 2015.

In 2020, Germany granted facilities for the arrival of "qualified" foreign workers to its lands in response to the shortage of skilled labor.

According to the annual report issued in 2022 by the Expert Council of German Institutions for Integration and Migration, there is "a special need for skilled workers in the health and social care sector."

At the end of 2021, about 5,404 Syrian doctors practiced in Germany, and they constituted the largest group of foreign doctors practicing in the country, according to the Federal Medical Association, outperforming Romania, then Greece and Austria.

In Syria, the authorities have never previously announced statistics on the number of students who emigrate annually, but officials and trade unionists talk in press interviews about a drop in the number of doctors, whether fresh graduates or practitioners with high-paying job opportunities abroad.

Assistant Minister of Higher Education Fadia Deeb said in an interview with a local radio in May 2022 that the emigration of doctors is "a fait accompli and real, as a result of the economic conditions the country is going through."

And she talked about "specialties that have become missing and rare, such as oncology, physical therapy, radiology and anesthesia."

Regarding the bleeding that occurred, the feelings of the former dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Damascus University, Dr. Nabugh Al-Awa (69 years old), are mixed between concern about the future of medicine in Syria and his sadness at the departure of the new generation of doctors and nurses.

"It saddens me that we lose our students and our children, as they are supposed to receive the banner that we carried," said the professor at the college for three decades.

He adds, "I see my students start learning German from their early school years, and this is the first warning I receive from them, and the first sign that they are on their way to travel."

ذكرت قناة 12 العبرية، الليلة الماضية، أن رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي بنيامين نتنياهو، أصدر تعليمات لوزرائه بعدم السفر إلى الولايات المتحدة، طالما أنه لم يزورها حتى الآن.

وبحسب القناة، فإن نتنياهو كان يتوقع أن يتلقى في الوقت القريب دعوة رسمية لزيارة البيت الأبيض إلا أنها لم تصل بعد، ولذلك من غير المتوقع أن يكون هناك لقاء قريب بينه وبين جو بايدن.

وكان رؤساء وزراء آخرين تلقوا دعوات زيارة رسمية للبيت الأبيض بعد شهر واحد فقط من توليهم مناصبهم، ومن بينهم نتنياهو في ولايات سابقة.

ووفقًا للقناة، فإن نتنياهو فقط سمح للوزير رون ديرمر الذي يعمل بمثابة رسول بالنيابة عنه في العديد من الملفات.

وبحسب القناة العبرية، فإنه في الأسابيع الأخيرة كان هناك محادثات من أجل ترتيب زيارة نتنياهو، لدولة الإمارات، وكان هناك تاريخ محدد، إلا أنها تأجلت مرة أخرى بطلب إماراتي إلى ما بعد شهر رمضان بسبب توقيت الزيارة.

وسيتوجه نتنياهو اليوم إلى برلين بعد زياراته الأخيرة لباريس وروما، والأسبوع المقبل إلى لندن.

وسيحاول المحتجون على سياسة حكومته بشأن الإصلاحات القضائية تعطيل سفره.

The Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, called on Washington , Wednesday, to stop "hostile" overflights near the Russian border, after Russian pursuit planes intercepted American drones in the Black Sea.

"We proceed from the principle that the United States will refrain from making subsequent speculations through the media and will stop overflights near the Russian borders," Antonov said in a statement via Telegram.

On Tuesday, a Russian fighter dropped fuel on an American drone that was flying over the Black Sea and shocked it, which led to its crash, according to what the US military said, describing what happened as "reckless."

The European Command in the US Army said that two Sukhoi fighters (Su-27) intercepted the march "M-Q-9 Reaper" over international waters, and one of them hit its propeller.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that it had sent fighter jets after spotting an American drone over the Black Sea, but denied that it had caused its crash.

It explained that it had spotted the march "over the waters of the Black Sea in the Crimea region" and heading "towards the borders of the Russian state."

Astronomers finally discovered an asteroid the size of an Olympic swimming pool that might collide with Earth in the year 2046 on Valentine's Day, but the very low chances of a collision diminished even more on Tuesday.

The orb, dubbed 2023 DW, was spotted with a diameter of 50 meters for the first time on February 26 by a small observatory in Chile.

And soon the US space agencies (NASA) and the European (ESA) classified it at the top of the list of potentially dangerous objects, as its theoretical path passes near Earth at a distance close enough to pose a danger.

In the event that this happens, the calculations predict the date of the possible collision on February 14, 2046, Valentine's Day. This news topped the headlines of some newspapers, which advised the lovers to cancel their plans on this date.

At the end of February, the probability of the asteroid colliding with Earth was one in 847... But Sunday, the probability increased to one in 432, according to the list of risks drawn up by the European Space Agency. NASA estimates also point in the same direction.

However, the head of the European Space Agency's Planetary Defense Office, Richard Moesel, told AFP that the probability dropped overnight to one from 1,584 on Tuesday.

He added that the probability will decrease "with each monitoring process until it reaches zero within a few days at the latest."

His counterpart at NASA, Lindley Johnson, echoed this, saying, "At this point, nobody should worry."

According to him, it is common for collision expectations to increase for a short period in the days following the discovery of a new asteroid, before declining afterwards.

The Earth is initially located in a "zone of uncertainty" about the asteroid's path, which justifies the temporary increase in risk, before new observations are recorded that lead to the exclusion of the Earth's presence on this prospective path.

But what if the "DW 2023" asteroid collided with us, after all? Experts point out that the extent of the damage will depend on the composition of this orb.

If it was a pile of debris, the scenario might resemble the "Tunguska event" in Siberia in 1908, a large explosion attributed to the fall of an asteroid, said David Farnocchia, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The celestial body, similar to DW 2023, exploded in the atmosphere over a sparsely populated region, flattening trees over an area of nearly 2,000 square kilometres.

The asteroid may also be a "solid piece of iron", such as the one that created the massive Barringer crater in the US state of Arizona 50,000 years ago, according to Richard Moisel.

In both cases, due to its size, the asteroid "2023 DW" will only cause "local damage", without a significant impact on the rest of the planet, the expert asserts.

The object, which orbits the sun, passed near Earth on February 18, a week before it was observed. And then it was at a distance of nearly nine million kilometers.

If it collides with our planet in 2046, its speed will be 15 kilometers per second, or 54,000 kilometers per hour, according to estimates.

There would be about a 70% chance that it would land in the Pacific Ocean, but the potential collision area would also include the United States, Australia or Southeast Asia.

However, experts point out that the world is no longer helpless in the face of such a threat. Last year, NASA's Dart spacecraft was deliberately smashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, about 11 million kilometers from Earth, allowing its trajectory to be diverted.

And David Farnokia reassures, saying, "The Dart mission gives us a guarantee that such a mission will succeed" in confronting the asteroid "2023 DW."

Moisel concludes that there is "plenty of time," 23 years to be exact, to prepare for this.

The World Bank's Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa, Farid Belhaj, expressed (Tuesday) the bank's readiness to finance important projects in Lebanon at a value of $500 million this year, and that there is a possibility for more amounts in the coming years in several sectors.

This came in a statement made by Belhadj after his meeting with a delegation from the bank with the head of the Lebanese caretaker government, Najib Mikati.

He indicated that he met during his visit to Lebanon with Mikati and the ministers of finance, economy, energy, environment, agriculture and industry.

He said that the World Bank's Board of Directors will conduct, in the coming months, two projects for Lebanon, namely the social coverage project and the agricultural sector support project.

He pointed out that the social coverage project is an important project with an amount of about 300 million dollars to support groups that have touched the level of poverty in an unprecedented way, and the project will also develop an information base that enables avoiding corruption and change in the financing destination.

He said that the second project with the Lebanese government is dedicated to supporting the agricultural sector, especially in the field of communication between the public and private sectors, and its value is about $200 million.

He pointed to other projects centered on renewable energy, noting that the World Bank is ready to enter into projects at the level of 100 and 150 million dollars allocated to this sector.

On the World Bank's financing of the gas and electricity delivery file to Lebanon from Egypt and Jordan via Syria, Belhaj said that the World Bank has been a partner with successive Lebanese governments since 2002, pointing to important reforms that the Lebanese state must take.

He indicated that he had informed the Prime Minister and the Minister of Energy of the conditions that the government must follow, namely conducting a financial audit of the government's "Electricity of Lebanon" and establishing the "regulatory authority for the electricity sector" according to what was approved by the government, in addition to correcting cost-recovery prices in electricity production.

He added, "These reforms can open the door for the World Bank or other partners to support the electricity sector in Lebanon."

He stressed that "the World Bank is dealing positively with the Lebanese government, and we are available for every technical or financing support, but there must be a level of understanding and credibility to move forward with these projects."

Since 2019, Lebanon has been suffering an economic collapse, which the World Bank ranked among the worst in the world in 150 years, as it is witnessing political, economic, living and health crises that were embodied in the scarcity of foreign currency and the collapse of the Lebanese pound and its loss of 98.5 of its value, in addition to the rise in the poverty rate in the country to 82. % and increased unemployment and inflation and a shortage of fuel, medicine and infant formula.

The official in charge of the settlement file in the northern West Bank, Ghassan Douglas, said on Wednesday morning that the size of the material losses caused by the settlers , following their attack on the town of Hawara , south of Nablus , is estimated at about 4 million shekels.

In an interview with the official "Voice of Palestine" radio, Douglas said that tomorrow the stage of counting the damages and material losses left by those attacks will end.

He indicated that the report will be handed over to the Council of Ministers to compensate all affected citizens.

Algeria will host the Arab Sports Games next July, according to what was announced by the Federation of Arab National Olympic Committees after its thirty-eighth executive office meeting in Jeddah, headed by Saudi Sports Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal.

After hosting the Mediterranean Games in Oran last summer, and the African Cup of Nations for local football (Al-Shan), which concluded last month, Algeria is preparing to host the Arab Games for the second time in its history, 19 years after it hosted the tenth session in 2004.

Algerian Khair El-Din Barbari, a member of the Executive Office of the Federation of Arab Olympic Committees, said that Algeria won the bid after its request was accepted by all members of the Executive Office of the Federation.

"The request submitted by Algeria to host the tournament was studied, as everyone agreed unanimously, and this is good news and embodies a great upward dynamic for Algeria in hosting international sporting events," Berbari added in televised statements.

Barbari confirmed that a delegation from the Union of Arab Olympic Committees will visit Algeria to study all technical and organizational matters with the higher authorities in Algeria, which attaches great importance to hosting this event.

Qatar hosted the last edition of the Arab tournament in late 2011, before the Arab Sports Association, which was launched from the city of Alexandria in Egypt in 1953, was absent due to the political differences and security events that followed the Arab Spring revolutions.

Lebanon apologized for hosting the thirteenth edition in 2015 at its request for security reasons, before it was transferred to the Kingdom of Morocco, which in turn apologized.

The 2019 edition was also scheduled to be held in Iraq, but it was postponed several times before the Federation of Arab Olympic Committees decided to hold it in Algeria next summer.

Egypt excels in the number of hosts for the Arab Sports Association three times, the last of which was in 2007, and the Egyptian athletes dominated the medal standings in most of the tournaments.

At least seven people died and eight others fell ill after eating sea turtle meat on Tanzania 's Indian Ocean island of Mafia on Saturday night, an official said late Monday.

In this context, Juma Khatibu, head of the village of Buene on Mafia Island, the third largest island in Tanzania's oceanic lands, said that the victims had bought sea turtle meat, suspected of being poisonous, from fishermen on Saturday evening, and ate it at night.

He added that the eight patients were transferred to the hospital, while their condition was described as stable.

Notably, the Tanzanian government has banned the consumption of turtle meat for protection reasons, but some unscrupulous poachers sell it illegally. Some turtles are poisonous.

Last October, at least 3 people died and 74 others became ill after eating turtle meat suspected of being poisonous in the Lindi region in the south of the country.

The European Commission on Tuesday adopted reforms aimed at enhancing energy security and reducing the dependence of consumer bills on volatile fossil fuel prices

The reforms come in light of the huge rise in energy prices in 2022, during the European Union's attempt to move away from Russian fossil fuels in the context of the conflict in Ukraine.

"We propose expanding the role of long-term instruments, introducing market-strengthening measures for PPAs, and strengthening the resilience of the electricity system through storage and demand-response measures," European Energy Commissioner Cadre Simson said Tuesday at a press conference.

Consumer protection will be improved, through the right to multiple contracts, the right to share renewable energy with neighboring countries and improved information on offers.

Meanwhile, vulnerable consumers will be protected from power outages, EU member states will commit to creating suppliers of last resort, and access to regulated retail prices will be guaranteed during the crisis.

EU industry must also become more competitive, as companies will be given better access to more stable and longer-term contracts and markets.

In addition, the reforms will accelerate the deployment of renewable energy sources. “We will require Member States to use two-way contracts for teams when awarding subsidies for new investments aimed at promoting low-carbon renewable energy generation,” said the Commissioner.

The proposed reforms will now be discussed by the European Parliament and the European Council before they are adopted.

The head of the " Silicon Valley Bridge Bank ", which was newly established by the US banking authorities and transferred to him all the deposits of the collapsed "Silicon Valley Bank", on Tuesday, urged all customers to return with their withdrawn money at a time when large banks are witnessing an influx of deposits.

Silicon Valley Bank, the main lender to startups in the United States since the 1980s, collapsed after a sudden rush to withdraw deposits, prompting regulators to seize it on Friday.

"The number one thing you can do to support the future of this institution is to help us rebuild our deposit base," Tim Myopoulos, CEO of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, said in a statement. Deposits that were withdrawn during the past days.

"We are doing everything we can to rebuild, earn your trust again, and continue to support the innovation economy," he added.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation confirmed that it will cover all depositors in the "Silicon Valley Bank", even over the limit of $ 250,000 in the protected deposit.

Myopoulos noted that Bridge Bank offers "new loans and fully respects existing credit facilities."

The bankruptcy of “Silicon Valley Bank” on Friday, the largest collapse of an American bank since 2008, was preceded by the liquidation of “Silvergate” Bank on Wednesday, the bank preferred by the cryptocurrency community.

On Sunday, the US authorities forced Signature Bank, which ranks 21st in size, to close.

Large banks such as JPMorgan and Bank of America are witnessing an influx of deposits, according to two sources close to the banking world.

One of them added that while large institutions do not seek out potential clients fleeing closed banks, they do accept deposits, which are now large sums.

Clients of small and medium-sized banks may also have transferred all or part of their money "to major players who think the government will in no way accept to let them down," said Alexander Yocum, a banking analyst at research firm CFRA.

Yokom added that the size of the transfers would likely only be known when the banks publish their quarterly results from April, or if they publish interim reports before then.

Standard & Poor's, a credit ratings agency, said in a note that it "saw no evidence that uncontrollable deposit outflows that occurred in a small number of banks spread widely" to other banks.

In a joint statement Sunday, the US Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the US Treasury said that depositors in the “Silicon Valley Bank” will be able to access “all their funds” starting from Monday.

The Federal Reserve also announced that it will provide additional funding to banks to help them meet the needs of depositors.

Standard & Poor's added that it believed the Fed's actions "provided banks with additional sources of liquidity if needed, and may have also reduced the likelihood that highly sensitive confidence issues would reach more banks."

The death toll from the sinking of an "unregistered" boat off the coast of northwestern Madagascar on Saturday night has risen to 34, an official said Tuesday.

"In all, 11 bodies were recovered on Tuesday during the (search) operation, bringing the number of passengers on board to 58 people, from Among them are 24 survivors and 34 dead."

The authorities are still investigating the cause of the accident.

The boat, which was heading to the French island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, sank on Saturday evening in the sea off Ankazomborona in northwest Madagascar. On Monday, the Ministry of Transportation and Meteorology said 47 passengers were on the boat.

Randrianarivoni stated that the Maritime and River Ports Agency had decided to put forward measures to avoid such incidents, including strengthening the monitoring of standards required for the manufacture and maintenance of marine vessels, as well as the professionalization of marine mechanics.

A pair of white cranes has been spotted in a national nature reserve in north China's Hebei Province, according to the local resource protection bureau on Tuesday.

Two white cranes, a species under first-class national protection in China, were seen flying over Hengshui Lake National Nature Reserve. One of them landed on the surface of the water, while the other flew away without stopping, according to Huo Heng Mao, a photographer who took pictures of the two rare birds in the reserve.

As migratory birds attracted by the good ecological environment and abundant food, white cranes stop at the reserve on their way to the north, said Zhang Yuguang of the reserve's resource protection office.

Zhang added that there are only about 5,000 white cranes left in China.

Since the start of the spring migration season, other endangered bird species including Bayer Bouchard, eastern white stork, squawking pelican and white spoonbill have also been spotted in the reserve.

Hengshui Lake, located in Hengshui City, is the only national reserve in the northern plains of China that maintains a complete wetland ecosystem consisting of swamps, waters, mudflats, meadows and forests.

Pakistani police said that two people were killed and eight others were injured when a bomb exploded in Khuzdar district of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Tuesday.

Fahad Khosa, Chief Inspector of Khuzdar Police, told the media that a car carrying a merchant was targeted with a bomb in Khuzdar Market area on Tuesday.

He added that a large police unit arrived at the site, and an investigation was opened to find out the circumstances of the accident.

The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.

"Good" diplomatic steps are being taken towards normalizing Iran's relations with Bahrain , Iran's Foreign Ministry said (Tuesday).

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, made the remarks in an interview with the Iranian Arabic-language news channel ((Al-Alam)), where he expressed optimism that Iran will normalize its relations with Bahrain and other countries in the region.

Kanani stressed that the Iranian government is determined to improve relations with all countries in the region on the basis of common interests.

Speaking at a weekly press conference on Monday, Kanaani said that the recent detente between Iran and Saudi Arabia will have other positive regional effects, such as the rapprochement between Iran and Bahrain.

Today, media reports stated that direct talks are taking place between Iran and Bahrain regarding the restoration of bilateral relations, and the results are expected to be announced in the near future.

On Friday, China, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced that the latter two had reached a deal that includes an agreement to resume diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies and representations within two months.

The Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant , rejected the request of 50 members of the Knesset affiliated with the government coalition, including ministers, to cancel the administrative detention of two settlers who were arrested after the Hawara events.

Gallant confirmed in a letter he sent to them in response to their letter that the level of danger attributed to them was very high and that they planned to commit additional acts of violence. He was also quoted by the Arabic-speaking Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation.

Gallant added: "We must rely on the decisions and considerations of the security services."

He hinted that the activity of the extreme right is a disgrace to the entire settlement. As stated by the broadcaster.

أُطلقت ذخيرة تحتوي على مادة الفوسوفور الأبيض الثلاثاء من مواقع روسية على منطقة غير مأهولة في مدينة تشاسيف يار في شرق أوكرانيا، وفق ما أفاد مراسلو وكالة فرانس برس.

نحو الساعة 16,45 مساءً (14,45 ت غ) أُطلق مقذوفان بفارق خمس دقائق على طريق في الضواحي الجنوبية لتشاسيف يار يربط المدينة بباخموت المجاورة التي تشهد أعنف معارك الغزو الروسي لأوكرانيا وأطولها أمدا.

وتلى صوت إطلاق المقذوفين دوي انفجار ذخائر أطلقت كرات صغيرة وحارقة تحتوي على الفوسفور الأبيض سقطت ببطء على الأرض.

وتسببت الكرات بحرائق في المساحات المزروعة على جانبي الطريق في مساحة تعادل حجم ملعب كرة قدم.

وتعذّر على فرانس برس تأكيد ما إذا كان الموقع المستهدف مركزا للقوات الأوكرانية، لكن شاحنة خضراء تحمل شعار صليب أبيض يرمز للجيش الأوكراني كانت مركونة على مقربة من المنطقة المحترقة.

وأقرب المنازل إلى أطراف المنطقة تبعد 200 متر.

والذخائر التي تحتوي الفوسفور هي أسلحة حارقة يحظّر استعمالها صد مدنيين، إنما يمكن استخدامها ضد أهداف عسكرية بموجب اتفاقية جنيف المبرمة في العام 1980.

تتّهم كييف موسكو بأنها استخدمت هذا النوع من الأسلحة مرارا منذ بدء الحرب، بما في ذلك ضد مدنيين، ما ينفيه الجيش الروسي بشدة.

يواصل الأسرى في سجون الاحتلال الإسرائيلي، لليوم الثلاثين على التوالي، تصعيد خطوات العصيان ضد إدارة السجون، احتجاجًا على تطبيق الإجراءات التنكيلية بحقهم والتي أوصى بها الوزير المتطرف إيتامار بن غفير، وأولها التحكم في كمية المياه، وتقليص ساعات استخدام الحمامات المخصصة للاستحمام، في الأقسام الجديدة في (نفحة، وجلبوع).

وكانت إدارة السّجون أبلغت لجنة الطوارئ العليا للأسرى، أنها ستضاعف وتوسع من دائرة عقوباتها وتهديداتها في حال استمروا بخطواتهم الراهنّة، وعلى ضوء ذلك أعلنت الحركة الأسيرة وعلى قاعدة الوحدة، مضاعفة حالة الاستنفار والتعبئة بين صفوفها، حتّى موعد الإعلان عن الإضراب المفتوح عن الطعام.

يشار إلى أنّ لجنة الطوارئ أعلنت عن سلسلة خطوات نضالية ضد إجراءات (بن غفير)، تبدأ بالعصيان، وتكون ذروتها بإعلان الإضراب عن الطعام في الأول من شهر رمضان المقبل.

ويبلغ عدد الأسرى في سجون الاحتلال، نحو (4780)، من بينهم (160) طفلاً، و(29) أسيرة، و(914) معتقلًا إداريًا.

The family of the prisoner, Khader Adnan , who has been on hunger strike for 38 days, warned of the worsening of his health condition, in light of the continuation of his strike, and the Israeli occupation’s disregard of his demands, stressing that he suffers from general emaciation and is unable to walk. The day before yesterday, Monday, he was brought in a wheelchair to visit the lawyer.

Randa Musa, the wife of the prisoner, Khader Adnan, told Al-Quds.com: “My husband started his strike when he was arrested on the fifth of last month, and he was transferred to a case, and not as usual when he was previously arrested to administrative detention, where an indictment was filed against him. She was tried in the past,” confirming that her husband, Khader Adnan, has begun a strike to demand his freedom, and he insists on striking until his demand is met.

According to his wife, this is his fifth strike, and he has continued his strike since his arrest. He is currently being held in isolation in Ramleh Prison, under difficult detention conditions. He only takes water, refuses food and supplies, refuses to undergo medical examinations, and the occupation bargains with him to drink water. and use of the bathroom.

The wife of the prisoner, Khader Adnan, confirmed that her husband cannot walk because of the strike and the deterioration of his health. Despite this, the occupation forced him to walk during a previous visit to the lawyer, and yesterday, Monday, he was brought in a wheelchair to visit the lawyer.

According to his wife, the prisoner, Khader Adnan, suffers from difficulty speaking and weak vision, and despite all that, he insists on striking until he gets his freedom, and his spirits are high.

The prisoner, Khader Adnan (44 years), from the town of Arraba, south of Jenin, was subjected, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, to systematic abuse, and to great pressure from the jailers and the occupation forces. This is accompanied by a continuous deterioration in his health condition, especially since he suffered from health problems before his arrest.

The prisoner, Khader Adnan, was arrested 12 times, and spent a total of about eight years in the occupation prisons, most of which were under administrative detention. He is married and has 9 children. He holds a bachelor's degree in economic mathematics.

شنت قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي، فجر وصباح الأربعاء، حملة اعتقالات واسعة في صفوف المواطنين بمناطق متفرقة من الضفة الغربية.

وبحسب مؤسسات الأسرى، فإن تلك القوات اعتقلت 22 مواطنًا على الأقل خلال حملة دهم وتفتيش واسعة.

واعتقل من بلدة سعير شرق الخليل، مأمون الفروخ، مجاهد الفروخ، أحمد الفروخ، رشاد جرادات، فيما اعتقل جبر البدوي من مخيم العروب شمال المحافظة، والمحرر سامي عطا الله من حرملة قرب بيت لحم.

وفي نابلس، اعتقل خليل منصور، وصهيب خرينو، وكلاهما من كفر قليل، ومحمد الأشقر، وأيهم أبو حية، وجهاد الأقرع من مخيم عسكر الجديد.

فيما اعتقل من جنين، عاصف الغريب من الزبابدة، ومصعب سوقية، ومحمد أبو سرية، ومحمد أبو عبيد، من المحافظة ذاتها.

وفي رام الله، اعتقل المحرر عبدالله الأردوني، والمحرر مهندي البرغوثي من دير أبو مشعل، وبراء برناط، وقسام ياسين، وجهاد ياسين من بلعين.

بينما اعتقل عبد الرحمن مرعي من قراوة بني حسان قرب سلفيت.

An exhausted wild elephant was rescued Monday after it got stuck in a muddy puddle in Mengman Township in southwest China 's Yunnan Province, according to local border police.

Police at the border police station of Mengman Township in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, received a report Monday morning that a herd of wild Asian elephants were seen playing in a forest, but one of them fell into a muddy puddle.

A short video clip showed another elephant extending its hind leg in an attempt to reach the elephant stuck in the pond, as well as lying on the ground and removing mud from the pond with its hose. However, these efforts were unsuccessful and the trapped elephant was unable to climb the steep and slippery bank.

The police immediately reported the situation to the local government, forestry and grassland bureau as well as the forestry police brigade, and evacuated nearby residents before carrying out rescue efforts.

Equipment such as drones and excavators have been sent to the site.

At noon, the rescuers said, the elephant was still on the bank trying to remove mud from the pond, but to little effect.

Rescuers used an excavator to dig a passage, and the trapped elephant was finally able to get out.

Border police said the trapped adult elephant weighed about 2.5 tons. He returned to the nature reserve safe and sound, and joined the herd.

Wild Asian elephants, a key species in the rainforest, are under first-class national protection in China.

Thanks to strong efforts to protect the environment and wildlife, the number of wild Asian elephants in the country has grown to about 300, most of which are spread in Yunnan.

The rating institutions, "Moody's" and "Standard & Poor's", considered on Tuesday that the turmoil in the US banking sector in the wake of the bankruptcy of the Silicon Valley bank should have a limited impact on European banks that follow a different regulation.

Financial markets were shaken earlier this week after the collapse of the Silicon Valley and Signature banks, which forced the US federal authorities to take measures to prevent the spread of bankruptcy contagion.

Moody's, which lowered its view of the US banking sector from stable to negative, said in a report that the structure of European banks limits their exposure to collapses in the US banking sector, as they deposit a larger share of their reserves with central banks.

The US-based institution added that debt securities constitute a smaller portion of the balance sheets of European banks compared to US financial institutions.

The report pointed to "a fundamental difference between the European and American systems that limit the effects across the two sides of the Atlantic, which is that European banks' holdings of bonds are less and their deposits are more stable and grew at a slower rate."

The institution stated that the Bank of England and the European Central Bank have developed better ways to obtain liquidity in the event of similar unrest.

Standard & Poor's credit ratings agency said the European banks it tracks and interest rates do not have the same economic model or funding sources as US banks, adding that it is unlikely to be exposed to much directly.

EU Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz were among the European figures who reassured the markets of the continent's vulnerability to financial turmoil.

China and Russia are strengthening their presence in African countries through investments in infrastructure, which often impose more debts on the countries of the continent, which pay the price for the abundance of natural resources on their lands, in light of international warnings of the accumulation of debts on the poorest countries in the world.

"One out of every three infrastructure projects in Africa is set up by a Chinese state-owned company, and one in five is funded by a Chinese government bank," says Paul Nantulia of the African Center for Strategic Studies. "China is already involved in a sector that is in huge demand on the African continent," he adds.

This coincides with Western countries cutting funding for infrastructure projects on the continent, creating a gap in a highly strategic sector for the African Union.

"The Chinese saw this loophole and decided to invest in infrastructure," Nantulia told AFP.

Funding for infrastructure projects comes mostly in the form of loans.

During the Conference of the Least Developed Countries that was held in Doha under the auspices of the United Nations this month, the leaders of African countries expressed their dissatisfaction with the way developed countries dealt with their countries, amid UN warnings that the poorest countries are heading towards a debt crisis or even default.

Anna Borshchevskaya, a researcher at The Washington Institute, explains how this "debt trap" is set up, saying, "China provides loans for expensive infrastructure projects, but these projects usually fail. When countries cannot repay the loans, China controls the country's strategic assets." .

China rejects the accusation of practicing "debt trap diplomacy", denouncing what it sees as unfair criticism from its geopolitical opponents in the West who burden poor countries with huge debts.

"Partnerships are forged through friendship and goodwill," Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said earlier this month.

Chinese-led projects in Africa include the Standard Gauge Railway linking the Kenyan city of Mombasa to the Great Rift Valley, which cost five billion dollars and funded 90 percent of its construction by Beijing.

It is the largest infrastructure-related project in Kenya since independence and opened in 2017, knowing that China is the second largest lender to Kenya after the World Bank.

In December 2022, Tanzania signed a $2.2 billion contract with a Chinese company to build the last section of a railway aimed at connecting the main port with neighboring countries.

Developed countries have always sought to secure raw materials from developing ones, which is something that Paul Akiwumi, Director of the Africa and Least Developed Countries Program at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), sees as "somewhat very positive in order to push forward the economy."

Indeed, some Chinese-financed assets are profitable and sustainable, notably the ports built in countries like Namibia and Nigeria. But the benefit was double for the Chinese, who "provide financing, carry out the construction process, and obtain maintenance contracts," which sometimes extend to 99 years, according to Nantulia.

He adds that Chinese-funded projects in the field of infrastructure are "designed to absorb Chinese labor", which means that they do not contribute much to reducing unemployment levels in Africa.

During a visit to Senegal in January, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sought to stress that US economic strategy toward Africa was based on "mutual benefit."

"Countries should be wary of flashy agreements that may be opaque and thus fail to benefit the people they are purportedly designed to help," she said, alluding to China.

"This could leave countries with a legacy of debt, resource diversion and environmental destruction," she added.

Russia, Africa's main arms supplier, is also expanding on the continent through mining projects undertaken by Wagner, the private military group that has become party to conflicts in many countries, including Ukraine.

In January, the United States accused Wagner of "massive human rights violations and plundering of natural resources" in African countries.

The European Union also announced new sanctions against the Russian group for "violating human rights" in the Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and Ukraine.

Wagner carries out mining activities in these countries as a "form of payment" for its services, according to Nantulia.

Nantulia explains, "Wagner operates in authoritarian environments that lack democracy and where corruption is a way of life ... because it realizes that it can do a lot without accountability." "We cannot find Wagner active in democratic environments," he added.

The debts of African countries are not limited to the Chinese and Russians. "About 50 percent of our debt (in Ghana) is owed to Western bond markets and multilateral agencies," says Ghanaian Tetteh Hormico of the African Trade Network.

Experts also point to the environmental ramifications of Chinese and Russian projects in Africa.

According to Borshchevskaya, China and Russia are known to "neglect (environmental rules) more than their Western counterparts."

"China is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change," she told AFP, while her "Belt and Road" initiative still "finances coal-fired power plants abroad... As for Russian mining projects, according to reports, they have caused high levels of toxic metal compounds." Groundwater sources, soil and plants are polluted.”

And the head of the "Center for Peace and Democracy Building in Liberia," Devestus James, stresses that these repercussions are "dangerous" for his country.

"Citizens are victims of their resources... erosion from mines pollutes drinking water... resources are also taken and exported," he told AFP.

Written by: Dr. Crimean Amani

Made in China: A Saudi-Iranian agreement.. A surprise of a heavy caliber in proportion to the weight of the combined forces.. The two countries that have been most incompatible and competitive in the last twenty years in the region of fluctuations and shifting sands of the "Middle East" have agreed to restore relations between them and exchange ambassadors within two months. The most important provisions of the agreement is the reactivation of the security agreement that was signed between Tehran and Riyadh in 2001 during the visit of former Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz to Iran, and it constitutes the essence of cooperation between the two countries in combating terrorism, money laundering, border control and territorial waters, that is, everything It has to do with regional security. This is a strong confirmation that what happened in Beijing is serious and effective from the moment it was signed, and is not limited to formal diplomacy and grandiose rhetoric.

The three countries have a vital interest in this agreement, which was not born of the moment.. but the moment is Chinese par excellence.. two years ago, Saudi Arabia and Iran, within the framework of silent talks in Iraq.. China was able to understand the moment in which Iran and Saudi Arabia could meet on a common interest and strike its final blow For American arrogance and achieving a distinguished diplomatic victory, and proving that it is on the way to get out of the cloak of economic influence to the effectiveness of political influence in a region that the United States believed was a monopoly on it, leaving it and returning to it according to its need. Welcome to China, a regional player, and better luck for America and Israel!

Saudi Arabia, for its part, wants to end the war in Yemen, restore calm on its borders, and restore its prestige and position as a major regional power with influential extensions and relations with all countries. It is likely that the first outcome of the agreement will be to stop the Yemeni war and start preparing for the upcoming settlements there. Also, it is not surprising that boredom and disgust have afflicted the Saudis with the supremacy of the Americans and their continuous internal criticism of the policy of government inside Saudi Arabia whenever there is a disagreement in views on an issue between Washington and Riyadh, so what is the objection to opening up to other powers that are more observant and polite to the specificity of the Saudi situation?

As for Iran, which is tired of being hostile to everyone and has discovered that the zero-friends policy does not work, and that its continuation in fueling tensions in the surrounding countries and playing the role of a revolutionary threat to unrest in the region will only result in internal and external losses, in addition to that its current alliances are not enough with its explicit hostility to regional powers. A window like Saudi Arabia.

The agreement has critical dimensions in terms of ensuring future regional stability, because it is a golden opportunity to establish a new regime that depends on the cooperation of the forces in the region instead of the dangerous competition in which religion mixes with politics and spreads extremism, chaos and threats that affected weak countries in previous years. In addition, it prevents malicious countries such as Israel from feeding and fueling this competition, and proves that any country's attempt to draw new maps in the region is a very failed attempt, and that the policy of regime change does not work, and the most important thing is that it /will postpone/ at least the Israeli dream of normalization with Israel. Saudi Arabia.

الاتفاق السعودي الايراني على إعادة العلاقات بينهما في كافة المجالات الدبلوماسية والاقتصادية والسياسية والامنية سيكون بكل تأكيد له نتائج ايجابية ليس فقط بين الدولتين العربية والاسلامية لحل القضايا العالقة بينهما، بل ايضاً سيكون لهذا الاتفاق انعكاسات ايجابية على القضية الفلسطينية التي ستعود كما كانت قضية الامة العربية والاسلامية الاولى والمركزية.

فعلى صعيد القضية الفلسطينية، فإن هذا الاتفاق سيساهم في تمتين العلاقات بين جميع المكونات السياسية والنضالية الفلسطينية ليس فقط مع الدولتين، بل وايضاً مع المحور الذي تمثله الدولتان أي مع كل من العراق وسوريا ولبنان ودول الخليج العربي قاطبة الى جانب اليمن.

وسيساهم ايضاً في حل الصراع في اليمن، والذي من المتوقع ان يكون من أبرز المواضيع التي سيتم معالجتها بين البلدين والذي سيعود بالنفع على القضية الفلسطينية، حيث ان الصراعات الداخلية في البلدان العربية سيتم حلها، وبالتالي التفرغ للقضية الفلسطينية.

كما ان الاتفاق سيؤدي لاحقاً الى اتفاقات مماثلة بين دول الخليج وايران، والتي حاولت امريكا واسرائيل خلق حالة من العداء بين العديد من هذه الدول وايران تحت ستار ان ايران ستستولي على هذه الدول خاصة البحرين، وهو ما قد يؤدي الى وقف اتفاقات التطبيع بين هذه الدول واستبدالها باتفاقيات مع ايران للدفاع عن أمن الخليج وأمن دوله قاطبة.

والاتفاق الثنائي وجه صفعة قوية ليس فقط لإسرائيل وانما أيضاً لأمريكا والعديد من الدول الاوروبية التي تجاري أمريكا في فرض الحصار على ايران واثارة القلاقل بداخله.

وكذلك فإن الاتفاق سيكون مقدمة لخروج العالم العربي من تحت السيطرة والهيمنة الاميركية، ويدعم التوجه الدولي المناهض لأمريكا من أجل انهاء سيطرتها على العالم من خلال القطب الواحد ونشر الديمقراطية وعلاقات حسن الجوار وإشاعة العدل في العالم بدل قانون المكيالين الذي تتبعه الولايات المتحدة الاميركية على حساب الشعوب واستقرار العالم.

فهذا الاتفاق ضربة قوية لكل قوى الظلم والعدوان وسيكون له انعكاسات على مجمل قضايا المنطقة والعالم وسيوحد الدول العربية والاسلامية في مواجهة تحديات المرحلة، وسيساهم في دعم واضح وجلي للقضية الفلسطينية وإفشال محاولات دولة الاحتلال حسم الصراع لصالحها وتصفية القضية الفلسطينية. كما ان هذا الاتفاق سيفشل الرهان الاسرائيلي بأن السعودية ستنضم لاتفاقات ابراهام التطبيعية.

وفي هذا السياق لا بد من الاشادة بدور الصين التي ساهمت في التوصل لهذا الاتفاق، والتي تدعم القضية الفلسطينية وتؤكد على ضرورة انهاء الاحتلال واقامة الدولة الفلسطينية وعاصمتها القدس الشريف. وبالتالي فإن الاتفاق هو خطوة في الاتجاه الصحيح والضروري كمقدمة لوحدة عربية – اسلامية كما كانت في السابق.

Written by Dean: Ahmed Issa
Easily and effortlessly, the observer of the bitter reality experienced by the Palestinian people, especially in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since Netanyahu formed his current government, which is described as the most right-wing in the history of Israel, concludes that most of the conditions and necessities for the Palestinians to resort to martyrdom operations to defend themselves, their dignity, their properties, and their sanctities, This government is systematically seeking to ripen these conditions
Security experts, especially Israelis, have divided these conditions into two parts, the first is objective, and the second is subjective. The first objective condition is related to the policies and procedures of the occupation, especially the attacks on holy places such as Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Ibrahimi Mosque and other Islamic and Christian places of worship.
The most prominent of these attacks was the massacre carried out by the terrorist criminal (Baruch Goldstein) from the settlement of Kiryat Arba, in the Ibrahimi Mosque at dawn on Friday, corresponding to the 15th of Ramadan in 1994, which resulted in the rising of 29 martyrs from kneeling while performing the dawn prayer, and wounding more than 150 others.
The second attack was on Al-Aqsa Mosque, when the opposition leader at the time, on September 28, 2000, guarded by hundreds of police and border guards, stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, who opened fire on the worshipers who demonstrated in protest against this storming, which resulted in the injury of hundreds and the death of several A large number of martyrs, which was considered the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, which extended until 2005.
The second objective condition revolves around the ease of the occupation army and herds of settlers killing Palestinians, attacking their property and land, accelerating the pace of settlement, and the determination to kill the Palestinians' hope for liberation and the establishment of their independent state, even on part of Palestine.
As for the self-conditions, they relate to the Palestinians, and here they are a result, not a cause, and their motives are more defensive than offensive, and they relate to the personal decision of the person who carried out the martyrdom (martyrdom), and I do not reveal a secret here by saying that they were many in the nineties of the last century, then to the party supporting this person, which is here the Palestinian organizations. By providing what he needs to implement his pure self-decision to take revenge and defend the people, their sanctities, and their property, which means the convergence of the self-decision with the political decision of the supporting organization.
A study issued by Harvard University in 2007 on martyrdom operations shows that the Palestinians have carried out, since 1994, in which the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre was carried out, until 1999, a total of 20 martyrdom operations, for which Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
The study added that the period from 2000, the year in which Sharon attacked Al-Aqsa Mosque, until 2005, witnessed a total of 142 operations, for which Hamas claimed responsibility by 39.9%, the Islamic Jihad movement by 25.7%, and Fatah by 25.7%. 26.4%, the Popular Front with 5.4%, and the Democratic Front with 2.7%. The operations that preceded the year 2000 resulted in the killing of 163 people, and the killing of 624 people in the period after the year 2000.
And if we compare what is happening in the West Bank since the beginning of this year by the current government through the army and settlers, we find that it is much more than what happened in the two previous periods referred to above, as this stage witnessed the Hawara Holocaust and the call for its removal from existence, as well as daily attacks from Settler gangs attacked Palestinian travelers on the roads, in addition to daily assaults on Al-Aqsa Mosque, and carrying out daily massacres against Palestinians in the West Bank, which have so far resulted in the death of 80 martyrs, in addition to the war declared by (Ben Gvir) against prisoners in Israeli prisons. This indicates that the objective conditions have reached an advanced stage of maturity.
And while it can be assumed that the mastermind of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre missed the assessment that the attack on sanctities will be faced with major martyrdom operations, it cannot be assumed that this equation was absent from the strategic assessment parties when Sharon stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and it becomes naive to assume that this equation is absent from Strategic security assessments in Israel now, which makes it legitimate to assert that Israel is pushing the Palestinians to return once again to the method of major martyrdom operations through organized work to mature its objective conditions, especially since the young Palestinian generation has appeared since 2015, or with the outbreak of The Israelis called it a knife and trampling uprising that includes in abundance young men and women who would not have hesitated to replace knives and cars with explosive devices.
The foregoing means that the objective conditions for such a type of operation became mature not long ago, and it also means that nothing remained of the subjective conditions except the political decision of one of the organizations to begin with, which I argue is a matter of time if the process of ripening the objective conditions continues at the same pace.
As for why the current government closes its eyes and insists on continuing its attacks on the Palestinians without exaggerating the consequences of these attacks, even if it pushes them or some of them to carry out major martyrdom operations, it seems that it stems from an illusion that dominated the minds of its members that only with these attacks can victory be made against the Palestinians and achieve a decisive victory over them.
On the other hand, it explains the need of this government for this type of operation at the present moment due to its mistaken assessment that this type of operation may change the headlines of the newspapers and push the entire people to unite behind the government in its fight against (terrorism), in addition to the current government's miscalculation that this type One of the operations will re-label the Palestinians as “terrorists” at the level of world public opinion, especially since this label has begun to erode and world public opinion no longer listens to it much.
And about whether Israel will achieve its goals from that, the answer is certainly a big no, for several reasons, the most important of which is with regard to the internal situation, that the division in Israeli society is not fleeting and is no longer resolvable, especially after the leaders of this government called a high percentage of this. Society, including a high percentage of its senior officers and generals, described disobedient, rebels and terrorists. One of them even told them to "go to hell", which will not end the division and unite society behind the government in the fight against "terrorism", and perhaps hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protesting against the government and its measures will leave Last Saturday, corresponding to March 11, 2023, after the Tel Aviv operation, which Netanyahu described as complex, is the best proof of that.
With regard to international public opinion, failure will fall on the government's intentions, because the world is changing and the huge Israeli media machine is no longer able to market its narrative that it is fighting "terrorism". It is easy for it to erase this label, and the clearest indicator of that is evident in the monthly strategic assessment issued by the Israel Institute for National Security Studies in October 2015, showing that the number of times Israel was associated with the concept of apartheid in reports written in English during the period from 1967- 2000 has reached 54 times, and reached 1774 times in the period from 2001-2015. It is noteworthy here that this association has jumped fantastically in recent times, as Israel was branded with apartheid on the cluster network during the last two weeks of last February, more than ten million times. And about 12 million times during the month of January, according to the American (Semrush) application.

Written by: Dr. Hany Akkad
The occupying state was building its policy of involvement in the Arab Gulf region on the basis of perpetuating tensions between the Arab Gulf states and Iran. Indeed, most of the agreements it signed in recent years, the essence of which was the "Abraham Accord", was out of the motives of demonizing Iran and portraying it as the common enemy of the countries of the region that wants to fragment these countries and dominate On the Arab waterways and spreads terrorism and instability everywhere as the big country that has the largest armed force in the region, Israel was as a spoiler country in the Middle East exploiting the state of war between Saudi Arabia and the Emirates on one side and Yemen on the other side to reinforce this perception until it resorted to many contracts Among the agreements to sell weapons and missiles to some Gulf countries, Israeli weapons, especially technology weapons, became the popular commodity in many Gulf countries, in addition to espionage technology and information gathering, for which special agreements were allocated for the exchange of information between Israel and the UAE, which were signed within the “Abraham Accord,” which allows Israel to know Every small and large in the region and draw a map of their interests on this basis.

Until recently, Netanyahu's statements were almost certain that Saudi Arabia had come close to signing an agreement with the occupying power, and every statement that was issued by Netanyahu about the approaching normalization with Saudi Arabia was matched by statements from higher levels in the Kingdom confirming that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would not conclude any normalization agreement with The occupying state before it ends its occupation of the Palestinian land and recognizes the right to self-determination for the Palestinian people and implements the two-state solution on the basis of the Arab peace initiative, the latest of which was the statement of the Saudi Foreign Minister Prince (Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud) in a joint press conference with the Russian Foreign Minister a few days ago on the importance of a just solution He considered the Palestinian cause in order to achieve stability in the Middle East, and considered, "The situation in Palestine is very disturbing, which makes it imperative for everyone to search for ways to restore the course of dialogue on the basis of the Arab Peace Initiative." Last January, in an interview with (Bloomberg TV) on the sidelines of the Davos conference in Switzerland, Prince Faisal bin Farhan said, "The agreement to establish a Palestinian state is Saudi Arabia's precondition for establishing formal diplomatic relations with Israel," and here he closed the door to more statements by Netanyahu, who then considered that Normalization with Saudi Arabia takes time.

The agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran to restore full diplomatic relations and exchange ambassadors and representatives within two months, which came with Chinese mediation and was signed in Beijing, constituted a political blow to the Tel Aviv government, which considers Iran the greatest enemy of Israel and has been trying for years to establish a strategic defense alliance in the Arab Gulf region to confront Iran in the region. And opening horizons for its easy involvement in the region. The Israeli opposition considered this agreement a complete failure for Netanyahu's policy and his government, and it was considered a major security damage that would take years to repair, and at the same time it was considered a political victory for Iran in the region. . The truth is that this agreement constituted a heavy blow to Netanyahu's foreign policy and the so-called "reverse peace" strategy, even though a senior official in the Netanyahu government tried to mitigate the impact of this agreement on the road to normalization, and considered that this agreement would not affect the course of normalization with Saudi Arabia in The future, but I believe that this agreement will limit the besieging of the Palestinians and their integration into the “Abraham Accords” in the event that Saudi Arabia concludes a normalization agreement that Netanyahu was seeking, which means that this strategy received a difficult political blow that will limit Netanyahu’s persistence in bragging about his ability to sign more agreements Ending the conflict with the Arabs and thus more expectations and drawing plans to settle the conflict with the Palestinians in his own way.

The tour of (Lloyd Westin) the US Secretary of Defense to the region was due to the imminent signing of the Saudi-Iranian agreement and his meeting with Netanyahu, who dealt with this matter in detail, in addition to the change in the map of US defenses in the region, which may have come as a result of Washington's knowledge of the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, so Netanyahu knows in advance that he has Some information about this agreement was not surprising, but Israel was unable to intervene to thwart this agreement and did not succeed in persuading Washington to play a greater role for this purpose, and this explains the statements of the White House administration, which considered the agreement as a test point for the next stage to restore security and stability to the region, and considered that "the more it is The better the relationship between Israel and its neighbors, the better for everyone." A political blow of a heavy caliber to Israel, not because of the confinement of the space for normalization and the diminishing opportunity to conclude a normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia in the future before the occupation ends, but rather because this agreement was prepared for Saudi Arabia to join a large and strong strategic alliance that includes Russia, Iran, Turkey, China and North Korea, and this also constitutes a shock to Washington, which failed during The last stage is to convince Saudi Arabia of better relations and to accept increased oil and gas production, which compensates Washington's loss of energy due to the Russian-Ukrainian war, and Saudi Arabia's refusal to provide the necessary financial support to cover some of the US expenditures on this war.

Netanyahu has no choice but to admit the failure of the "reversed peace" strategy and his inability to continue lying to the Israeli public, which has become frustrated with its government and is calling for the fall of the coalition that insists on transforming the state into a religious entity that does not believe in democracy and wants to employ all state institutions for the benefit of the ultra-Orthodox alone to become the rest The components of Israeli society are mere citizens with narrow basic freedoms that lack the ability to grow and prosper. Confronting the occupying power with this agreement may constitute one of the most important challenges to the Netanyahu government, which is reeling due to the internal crisis, and I believe that Netanyahu will not be able to lead directions to besiege this agreement in an effort to stop Iran's integration into the region and prevent drawing a new map for the Arab Gulf region in which Iran is the most important player and alternative vital to the occupation state's involvement in the region.

Written by: Hamada Pharaoh
The internal problems of the colony are exacerbated by the increase in the gap of disagreement and unarmed conflicts between the forces of Israeli society, between the forces of right-wing extremism with religious extremism on one side, and the forces of the center-right with the rest of the components of the political currents on the other.
The solidity and biases of the Palestinian Arab society are increasing with each other in the face of the racist colonial policies, whether in Areas 48 or Areas 67, despite the intra-disputes between the Palestinian parties and forces in the two regions.
The colony's status at the international level is declining, despite what it has achieved during the past few years of normalization breakthroughs with some Arab countries, through the misleading Ibrahimi title.
The differences and priorities advance between Washington on the one hand and the extremist colonial leadership on the other, as Washington finds that its priority is to highlight the Russian invasion of Ukraine politically and in the media, while working to extinguish hot flames anywhere in the world, so as not to overshadow what is happening in Ukraine, and for this reason The United States calls for calm in Palestine, and to freeze the tyrannical provocative measures.
The protest events inside the colony may be the most prominent, as they continue for the tenth week in a row, and the participating segments expand and begin to take a dangerous curve by the reserve officers, which is tantamount to unprecedented disobedience and rebellion in this form, and of this size, as the Palestinian political forces and Knesset members began to participate after hesitation Who poured it on the basis of “watermelon breaks some of it” to raise the slogan of participation and contribution to the protests, while taking care to raise the Palestinian slogans, especially “no democracy under or with the occupation.” A slogan that may be acceptable or attractive to the left and middle Israeli segments, as the majority of The protesters do not give importance to what is happening in Palestine, because the official opposition forces are Knesset representatives: Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz and Lieberman. They originally belong to the right-wing camp, although they are less extreme and more moderate than the parties to the government coalition and the leadership of its four parties: Netanyahu, Aryeh Deri, Moshe Gafni. , with Ben Gvir and Smotrich.
The colony bet on the success of the Washington administration to achieve a breakthrough that Netanyahu sought and eagerly sought, represented by breaking the barrier of estrangement with Saudi Arabia and normalizing relations with Riyadh, but his thoughts and aspirations were frustrated and failed, as the American administration failed to achieve Netanyahu's desire and ambition, but rather the events went contrary to what he wished and aspired.
Lieberman accurately described the situation of the colony, saying: "Israel is collapsing from within, and has become isolated from the outside." He accused Netanyahu and his team and his coalition of having brought the colony to a situation it had never seen before. He concluded by saying: "We are on a very dangerous and slippery slope, and Netanyahu must take responsibility and resign."
The Palestinians and their leadership, whether in 48 or 67, must be national vigilant and set priorities in their calculations, and their priorities must be: unity, alliance, and coalition in the 48 areas through the follow-up committee, and in 67 through the institutions of the Liberation Organization and its tools, the Palestinian Authority.

Written by: Hamada Jabr

Chinese President Xi Jinping opened his unprecedented third presidential term, after the strong and ambitious president succeeded in canceling the constitutional article that limits the Chinese presidency to two terms as a maximum, by announcing his country’s success in mediating the restoration of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran, which were severed seven years ago. Chinese diplomatic efforts preceded Iraqi and Omani attempts to bridge views between Saudi Arabia and Iran during the past two years, but the need for a guarantor of the agreement made Beijing the best address for announcing it, and Beijing hosted the negotiating delegations of the two countries in the period between 6-10 March. The United States of America, which said it was aware of the Chinese efforts, welcomed the agreement, but seemed surprised by the speed of reaching it, and questioned Iran's commitment to it.
China, which does not miss an opportunity to assert its global role, and its eligibility as a pole rival to the United States of America, is trying to maximize its international presence by employing its diplomacy based on the exchange of economic benefits and non-interference in the internal affairs of countries, in contrast to the American diplomacy that is based on hegemony and coercion. China has picked up on the signals emanating from Saudi Arabia that indicate its strained relationship with the Biden administration, through Saudi Arabia’s failure to adopt the US position in the Russian-Ukrainian war, and its response to the Biden administration’s request from it to increase its oil production, whose high prices strained Americans’ pockets ahead of the midterm elections last fall. by reducing production. These signals encouraged China to present itself as a superpower looking to expand its influence on the basis of partnership with the countries of the region. Last December, Saudi Arabia hosted the Chinese president to hold three Arab, Gulf, and Saudi-Chinese summits, opening the door wide for Chinese investments in the region through its "Belt and Road" strategic initiative.
China, whose economy is thirsty for oil after the beginning of recovery from the "Corona" crisis, is also seeking to promote common economic interests with Saudi Arabia, which supplies China with about a fifth of its oil needs. In Al-Maqayel, to achieve its Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia needs the expertise of Chinese companies in several areas, including building infrastructure in projects such as airports, roads and bridges. China is Saudi Arabia's first trading partner for the last 5 years, and trade exchange between the two countries has increased nearly thirty times since 2000. Trade exchange between them has grown from about $3 billion in 2000 to about $90 billion in 2022.
As for Iran, whose economy is burdened and shackled by Western sanctions and has few friends, it signed a strategic agreement with China that extends for a quarter of a century, through which it opened to China influence over it that no one shares with it. Today, Iran seems more in need of its few partners such as China and Russia to enable it to resist Western sanctions that led to a historic decline in the value of its currency, especially with the widespread and ongoing popular protests since the killing of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, by the morality police during her arrest last September. Therefore, Iran has no choice but to show some flexibility to take steps towards freezing the activities of its arms against Saudi interests in the region.
On the other hand, the urgent priority that Saudi Arabia wants to achieve through this agreement with Iran is to get rid of the burden of its war in Yemen, and to provide some of the stability it needs to devote itself to the completion of giant projects in achieving its Vision 2030 and its endeavor to diversify the sectors of its economy. However, it appears that Iran's nuclear project, which Saudi Arabia opposes, is not included in the provisions of this agreement, perhaps relying on Israel to deal with this file. Israel seemed to be the biggest loser from this agreement. From the first moment of its announcement, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said, "The Saudi-Iranian agreement is a complete failure and a danger for the Israeli government's foreign policy... It is a collapse of the regional defensive wall that we started building against Iran." Israel, which aspired to normalize its relations with Saudi Arabia to confront the common "enemy" Iran, may now not find what it can offer Saudi Arabia to normalize its relations with it.
The multiplicity, complexities and differences of viewpoints on issues of common interest between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and the regional rivalry between them, may make the choice of Chinese diplomacy to mediate the resumption of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran as its first diplomatic intervention in the region, a bold choice full of challenges and reasons for failure more than reasons for success. Therefore, Chinese diplomacy will be tested during and after the next two months, as the announced agreement specified the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries within a maximum period of two months. China should not be surprised by the failure of the agreement, as Iran may freeze the activity of its "ideological" arms in the region until better conditions crystallize that make it uninterested in continuing to abide by what was agreed upon or will be agreed upon with Saudi Arabia under Chinese auspices. Likewise, Saudi Arabia may back down from its pragmatic stance towards Iran's nuclear project, especially if Iran does not cooperate with Saudi Arabia's urgent priority to end the war in Yemen, or if the current US administration changes with one that is more cooperative with it and more assertive towards Iran, especially if a Republican president is elected in the US elections. Next year.
In any case, and whatever the fate of the Saudi-Iranian agreement, the Chinese initiative to end the war in Ukraine that it announced last month, despite the likelihood of not dealing with it by the Americans and therefore the Europeans and the Ukrainians, and its initiative to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran, are initiatives that enhance China's international presence, and indicate On China's determination and perhaps ability to create a new international order that challenges American unipolarity.

بقلم : اسماعيل جمعة الريماوي
نتحدث عن الديمقراطية ومفاهيمها وقيمة الفرد وحقوق المواطن وكرامته وهي الديمقراطية بكل ما تعنيه من حرية واستقلال الفرد في بلده ووطنه اما في اسرائيل فالديمقراطية والاحتلال ضدان لا يجتمعان، ومثل هذه الثنائية كمثل الخير والشر والنور والظلمة، حيث لا يمكن لهذين المبدأين المتناقضين أن يجتمعا. الديمقراطية مبدأ يعتمد على حرية الإرادة، في الوقت الذي يمكن اعتبار الاحتلال قيدا على هذه الحرية. إن الديمقراطية لا يمكن أن تأتي عبر إذلال الشعوب وامتهانها أو الاستخفاف بها ومصادرة إرادتها .
في إسرائيل نتحدث عن ديمقراطية ليست مكتملة العناصر لأنها تحرم ملايين الفلسطينيين الخاضعين لسيطرتها من حقوقهم على جانبي الخط الأخضر, ومن هنا ناتي الى حالة الانفعال الشديد المحيط بهذه الإصلاحات القضائية الحاصلة في هذه الايام و بتأثيرها على المواطنين اليهود في البلد الذين يتمتعون فيه بحقوق ديمقراطية كاملة. وحتى لو وقعت هذه الاصلاحات ام لم تقع ، فستبقى إسرائيل ديمقراطية غير مكتملة تُمنَح فيها الحقوق على أساس العِرق والدين. أما إذا أقرت إسرائيل هذا الإصلاح القضائي، فإن هذا لن يؤدي سوى إلى إلغاء تطبيق العملية الديمقراطية على مجموعة مختارة من مواطنيها. ان احتدام الصراع بهذه الحدة بين أقطاب اليمين واليسار والوسط على السلطة، يفترض نظرياً دخول الشعب الفلسطيني الصراع والانحياز للأطراف التي تخدم مصالحه، وفي الحد الأدنى يفترض أن يكون الشعب الفلسطيني ضد القطب الأكثر خطراً وتطرفاً, لكن هذا يصطدم مع حقيقة أن أقطاب اليسار والوسط واليمين وأقصى اليمين يلتقون على استمرار الاحتلال والاستيطان وبناء جدار الفصل العنصري وتهويد مدينة القدس وغيرذلك من اجراءات احتلالية .

وبهذا المعنى فإن الشعب الفلسطيني يواجه طبقة صهيونية كولونيالية موحدة ونظام أبارتهايد موحد, يتصارع داخله علمانيون وأصوليون وقوميون يتعايشون بغطاء ديمقراطي داخلي يحافظ على التوازنات، ويقدم خارجياً بانه نموذج الديمقراطية الإسرائيلية، و حيث تعتبر إسرائيل الدولة الديمقراطية الوحيدة في الشرق الأوسط كما يقولون .

وكما نرى ان الاحتلال والطبقة الأحزاب الملتزمة بثقافة الاحتلال، أعادت صياغة المجتمع الإسرائيلي بروح استعلاء ديني وقومي، وبعدم احترام القانون الدولي وقرارات الشرعية الدولية، وبروح رفض أي نقد لجرائم الحرب والانتهاكات الفادحة، وبمعاقبة كل مدافع عن الحقوق الفلسطينية من منطلق حقوقي وسياسي وإنساني. بفضل ذلك وبسبب الدعم والتواطؤ الأميركي والدولي، أصبحت إسرائيل والشعب الإسرائيلي فوق القانون وخارج نظام المساءلة والنقد والعقاب.

في لحظة احتدام هذا الصراع الداخلي الإسرائيلي، حول الديمقراطية واستقلال القضاء، قد يحدث بعض التراجع، وقد تبرم صفقات، لكن الديمقراطية لن تتحقق مع بقاء الاحتلال ومنظومة قوانين الفصل العنصري، ثمة فرصة أمام الديمقراطيين الإسرائيليين لبدء استقطاب جديد داخل المجتمع الإسرائيلي ضد الاحتلال والنهب والعنصرية واضطهاد شعب آخر، هنا نقطة الالتقاء شديدة الأهمية مع الشعب الفلسطيني وهنا الباب الشرعي للديمقراطية .
وهنا تبقى واحة الديمقراطية في الشرق الاوسط و التي تحكمها وزارة اجرام وسوابق من وزير مدان بالاحتيال الى اخر متهم بالرشوة وخيانة الامانة الى ارهابي ومثير مشاكل والى وزير يدعو الى حرق حوارة ومحوها عن الوجود والى رئيس وزراء يسعى الى تحصين نفسه من دخول السجن عن طريق فرض قانون يحميه مدى الحياة , ومن هنا نرى معنى هذه الديمقراطية الاسرائيلية الزائفة والتي سقطت وبشهادة الاسرائليين انفسهم .

حديث القدس
لا يكاد يمر يوم دون سقوط شهداء او جرحى او معتقلين او عمليات هدم واعتداءات ومصادرة اراض وتخريب والمس بالمسجد الاقصى المبارك وغيرها الكثير الكثير من الجرائم التي ترتكب بحق ابناء شعبنا من قبل قوات الاحتلال وقطعان المستوطنين الذين يعيثون في الارض الفلسطينية فسادا، دون ان يحرك العالم ساكنا باستثناء اصدار بيانات الشجب والاستنكار التي باتت لا تسمن ولا تغني من جوع ما لم يتم تنفيذها على ارض الواقع ضد دولة الاحتلال الغاشم والذي يوغل في الدم الفلسطيني.
ان عمليات القتل والاغتيال التي تقوم بها قوات الاحتلال وقطعان المستوطنين بدم بارد لا يمكنها ان تتم بدون قرار من المستويين العسكري والسياسي في دولة الاحتلال ، التي تتمادى يوما بعد اخر في الجرائم التي ترتكبها بحق شعبنا والتي يندى لها جبين الانسانية ، وتعتبر جرائم حرب يحاكم عليها مرتكبوها، ولكن الولايات المتحدة حليفة دولة الاحتلال ومعها العديد من الدول الاستعمارية تحول دون فرض عقوبات على دولة الاحتلال وتشجعها على ارتكاب هذه الجرائم وتمدها بكل انواع الاسلحة والعتاد لمواصلة اعتداءاتها التي يدفع ثمنها ابناء شعبنا من دمائهم وحريتهم وحقوقهم المنصوص عليها في القوانين والاعراف الدولية.
وبات من المؤكد ان دولة الاحتلال لا تفهم او تستوعب ان شعبنا مهما كانت جرائمها ضده لا تزيده الا اصرارا على التمسك بحقوقه الوطنية الثابتة وغير المنقوصة وفي مقدمتها حق تقرير المصير واقامة الدولة الفلسطينية المستقلة وعاصمتها القدس الشريف شاء من شاء وأبى من أبى.
كما ان دولة الاحتلال المغرورة بقوتها العسكرية ، لم تستوعب بعد انه لكل فعل رد فعل مساو له في المقدار ومعاكس له بالاتجاه ، وان الدم الفلسطيني ليس رخيصا وان عمليات القتل والاغتيال التي تمارسها ستزيد من حدة الصراع ، وحالة العداء ، الامر الذي سيؤدي الى تواصل الرد الفلسطيني الشعبي على هذه الجرائم، والتي باستطاعة الاحتلال تفاديها من خلال اعترافه بحقوق شعبنا الوطنية وانهاء احتلاله بدلا من محاولات تأبيده، لتبقى جذوة الصراع موقدة ، وقد تؤدي في اية لحظة الى الانفجار الشامل الذي سيعم المنطقة والعالم.
فشعبنا لم ولن يستسلم او يرفع الراية البيضاء، وان حكومة الاحتلال الاكثر يمينية وتطرفا وعنصرية لم ولن يكون باستطاعتها حسم الصراع لصالحها ما دام شعبنا متمسك بحقوقه الوطنية ويدافع عنها بدماء ابنائه وما دام صامدا فوق ارضه، رغم كل الجرائم التي ترتكب ضده والتي سيكون مصيرها الفشل المحتوم.
ويبقى السؤال الهام وهو الى متى سيبقى شعبنا يدفع الثمن من دماء ابنائه الذين قدموا وما زالوا يقدمون الغالي والنفيس من اجل الحرية والاستقلال ؟!
ان ذلك برسم كل المسؤولين الفلسطينيين وكذلك كافة الفصائل المنضوية في اطار منظمة التحرير او التي في خارجها.