On Friday, the Palestinian Authority welcomed statements by former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo in which he considered that Israel was imposing an “apartheid” regime in the occupied West Bank. These comments sparked widespread criticism in the Hebrew state.

In an interview with the American Associated Press published on Wednesday, Pardo said, “There is an apartheid regime here,” while talking about the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 war.

He added, "When two peoples on one land are dealt with according to two different legal systems, this is an apartheid system," indicating that Palestinians arrested by the army or Israeli security services are referred to military courts, while Israelis are residents of settlements that the United Nations considers to be in violation of the law. International, they are referred before civil courts.

The statements of Pardo, head of the Foreign Intelligence Service between 2011 and 2016, are the most clear criticism from a former senior Israeli official of his government’s practices in the West Bank, after their intensity escalated under the current coalition of Benjamin Netanyahu, which is considered the most right-wing in the history of the Hebrew state.

The political advisor in the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Al-Deek, welcomed Pardo’s statements, noting that similar positions were being issued by “an increasing number of Israeli officials.”

He added to Agence France-Presse, "We hope that this reflects the beginning of an awakening in Israeli society to support the rights of the Palestinian people and put pressure on the Israeli government to end its occupation of Palestinian lands."

In April 2021, Human Rights Watch, based in New York, joined a number of Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations in its decision to use “apartheid” to describe the policies practiced by Tel Aviv towards Palestinians and Arab citizens of Israel.

In 2022, Amnesty International accused Israel of committing "apartheid" against the Palestinians and treating them as an "inferior ethnic group."

Israel, through its Foreign Minister at the time, Yair Lapid, rejected the report, considering that it cited “lies spread by terrorist organizations.”

Pardo has emerged on the Israeli political scene in recent months through his positions opposing the draft judicial amendments pushed by Netanyahu.

The project sparked unprecedented protests at home and criticism abroad.

Pardo's statements are in addition to similar comments made recently by Israeli officials and diplomats, in which they warned that the Hebrew state might become an apartheid state if it continued its practices in the occupied West Bank.

But what Pardo said was the clearest in criticizing the Israeli measures and labeling them “apartheid,” and it entailed sharp reactions at the political level, as well as the security and military structure.

The Likud Party, led by Netanyahu, considered Pardo's statements "flawed and wrong."

The right-wing party said in a statement, “Israeli hospitals treat Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians, in the same way. Arabs and Jews study and work together in Israel.”

For their part, officials in the army, police, and security services who participated in the Israel Defense and Security Forum considered that Pardo’s statements constitute a “distortion of reality.”

They added in a joint statement that the former official “defamed the State of Israel and its security forces” through positions based exclusively on “personal political opinions.”

Outside of East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed, about 490,000 Israelis reside in settlements in the occupied West Bank, which are inhabited by 2.9 million Palestinians.

The current government coalition, led by Netanyahu, includes figures and political parties from the right and the extreme right that support the annexation of the entire West Bank and the continuation of the settlement policy in its lands.

Many human rights organizations criticize the restrictions imposed by the Israeli authorities on freedom of movement in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the discrimination they confirm that Arabs are subjected to in Israel.

About two weeks ago, Netanyahu supported the far-right Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir after demanding greater rights for Jews compared to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The minister told Israeli Channel 12, "My right, as well as the right of my wife and children, to move on the roads (in the West Bank) is more important than the freedom of movement of Arabs."

Apartheid (the separate development of the races in Afrikaans) is a system that was enshrined by whites in South African laws between 1948 and 1991. The white minority dominated political life until the first multi-racial elections in 1994 were won by Nelson Mandela, who led the struggle against this regime.

South African citizens were classified from birth into four categories: whites, blacks, mulattoes, and Indians, with whites occupying the highest status and enjoying special privileges, while blacks languished at the bottom of the social ladder.

The largest portion (87%) of South Africa's land was allocated to whites, while blacks resided in neighborhoods designated for them and in ethnic reserves.

On Friday evening, the Israeli army announced that a military point belonging to its forces was exposed to a shooting attack near Tulkarm in the northern West Bank.

According to an Israeli military spokesman, the shooting caused minor damage to the point, indicating that his forces were conducting combing operations in the area.

On Friday evening, the Israeli occupation forces suppressed a march denouncing settlement activity in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, these forces attacked the participants in the march, with the participation of Arab and foreign activists, who denounced the settlement and targeting of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

Today, Friday, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi discussed the Palestinian issue with US Assistant Secretary of State for Middle Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf.

The Jordanian Foreign Minister also discussed with Lev ways to strengthen strategic partnership relations between the two countries.

The two parties stressed their keenness to enhance cooperation in various fields.

They also discussed the Syrian crisis and the refugee issue, and stressed continued cooperation in efforts to resolve regional crises.

The US, Saudi Arabia, India and other nations are discussing a possible infrastructure deal that could reconfigure trade between the Gulf and South Asia, linking Middle Eastern countries by railways and connecting to India by port, according to US officials aware of the conversations.

The talks, which have also included the United Arab Emirates and Europe, may or may not yield a concrete result in time for an announcement on the sidelines of this week's Group of 20 (G20) leaders meeting, the people said.

The conversations have been underway for months but are fluid, one of the people said.

US President Joe Biden is on his way to the G20 conference in New Delhi, India, where he is set to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and may also have talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

The plans for a sweeping, multi-national ports and rail deal would come at a critical time. To counter China's Belt and Road global infrastructure push, Biden is pitching Washington as an alternative partner for and investor in developing countries at the G20, especially in the Indo-Pacific region.

It also comes as the Biden administration seeks a broader diplomatic deal in the Middle East that would have Saudi Arabia recognize Israel, which could also lead to Israel being a part of the rail project. The negotiations over a multi-country infrastructure deal were first reported by Axios.

In July, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that a planned railway connecting Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel to Eilat in the south could eventually allow Israel to connect by train to Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula. "We are working on that too,” Netanyahu said.

Israeli sources suggested, on Friday evening, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not receive any invitation to visit the White House this month, as was previously expected.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, Netanyahu has not yet received any invitation, and it appears that he will meet Biden in New York and not the White House in Washington, on the sidelines of their participation in the United Nations General Assembly meeting.

It indicated that Biden will be in New York during the United Nations General Assembly, and therefore it is unlikely that he will meet with Netanyahu at the White House.

Netanyahu will deliver his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on the twenty-second of this month, and will return to Tel Aviv the next day. This means that the meeting with Biden at the White House will be postponed to a later time.

On Friday, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo stripped Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the French capital's highest honors due to statements he made about the Holocaust, Hidalgo's office said.

The office explained to Agence France-Presse that Abbas is no longer eligible to carry the Grand Vermeille Medal after he "justified the extermination of European Jews" in World War II.

Hidalgo sent a letter to Abbas on Thursday, saying, "The statements you made contradict our universal values and the historical truth of the Holocaust."

She continued, "Therefore, you can no longer keep this honor," referring to the medal.

Abbas received this honor during his visit to Paris in 2015.

The text of the message was published on the X platform by Jonathan Arvi, head of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions.

Commenting on the decision to strip the medal, Arvi wrote, “This important decision honors Paris and its continued commitment against anti-Semitism.”

On August 24, Abbas told the Fatah Revolutionary Council during a meeting in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, “They say that (Adolf) Hitler killed the Jews because they were Jews, and that Europe hated the Jews because they were Jews.”

He added, "This is not true," considering that the Europeans "fought (the Jews) because of their social role, and because of usury and money, and not because of their religion."

Hidalgo added in her letter, “You (...) justified the extermination of European Jews during World War II with a clear desire to deny the Holocaust,” adding, “I strongly condemn your statements, as there is no justification for distortion and denial.”

An EU spokesman said: “The letter...contains blatantly false and misleading statements about Jews and anti-Semitism.”

The French Consulate in Jerusalem considered these statements “totally unacceptable.”

This is not the first time Abbas has made controversial statements about the Holocaust.

During a visit to Germany in August 2022, Abbas compared the Holocaust to Israel's killing of Palestinians, accusing the Hebrew state of committing "50 massacres and 50 holocausts" against Palestinians since 1947.

(WAFA) – Israeli occupation naval forces chased Palestinian fishing boats this morning off the coast of Khan Yunis and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, intensifying the daily hardships faced by Palestinian fishermen in the Israeli-besieged enclave.

WAFA correspondent said Israeli naval vessels chased after the fishing boats, firing shots in their direction and releasing sewage water hoses towards them, forcing the fishermen to return to the shore. No reported injuries were reported among the fishermen.

The harassment and intimidation of Palestinian fishermen have been ongoing for years, with Israeli naval patrols often restricting their access to fishing zones, arbitrarily limiting the fishing season. These actions directly impact the economic livelihoods of Gaza's fishing communities, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the region.

The United Nations and various international organizations have repeatedly called for an end to the Israeli naval blockade and the expansion of fishing zones for Gaza's fishermen to ensure their basic rights and economic stability. Despite these calls, the situation for fishermen in Gaza continues to deteriorate, and they face daily challenges in their pursuit of a sustainable livelihood.

Today, Friday, dozens of citizens participated in two vigils in support of prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons, in the towns of Burqin and Ya`bad, west of Jenin.

National and popular activities had organized the two vigils in support of the prisoners, especially those on hunger strike, and with the prisoner Fatima Amarneh, who is subjected to difficult detention conditions.

Representatives of the national and Islamic forces, and supporters of the captive movement, stressed during the protest in Burqin the necessity of concerted efforts to ensure an end to the suffering of the prisoner, engineer Sultan Khalouf, and all administrative detainees and the captive movement.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned what was reported by Israeli media regarding a settlement plan aimed at increasing the number of settlers in the occupied West Bank, to reach one million settlers, in light of an Israeli agreement between several Israeli ministries, especially transportation, and the so-called “heads of settlement councils.”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement today, Friday, that the plan is being implemented through a wide network of settlement roads that devour more of the lands of Palestinian citizens, in conjunction with the legalization of dozens of random settlement outposts, and in light of inflammatory incentives and propaganda, to encourage more Israelis to become residents Inside the settlements in the West Bank.

She added that a number of extremist Israeli occupation government ministers brag about their adoption and public support for settlement, and their allocation of hundreds of millions of shekels to finance, strengthen and expand it, at the expense of the land of the State of Palestine. They also brag about their agreement to undermine any opportunity to embody the Palestinian state on the ground, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

The Ministry warned of the danger of the result of the escalation in settlements in all its forms, considering it an Israeli race against time, to complete the episodes of gradual, declared and undeclared annexation of the West Bank, and impose Israeli law on it.

It stressed that the intensification of settlement in light of international and American calls to stop it, and in light of international demands to stop Israel’s unilateral measures, reveals the lack of seriousness of these positions, in terms of their remaining within the framework of media consumption, and their lack of connection to any practical actions and measures that pressure the occupation authorities to force them to stop settlement.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained that these positions are a reflection of double standards that violate international law and thwart its binding applications on the situation in occupied Palestine. This enables the occupation authorities to coexist with this low ceiling of international reactions, encourages them to implement more expansionist colonial plans, and pushes them to deepen episodes of apartheid as a direct result of this protracted occupation, giving it sufficient time to settle more settlers in the land of the State of Palestine, including East Jerusalem.

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

In Qalqilya, three citizens were injured by metal bullets, as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ suppression of the weekly Kafr Qaddum march, east of Qalqilya.

Local sources reported that the occupation army fired rubber-coated metal bullets and toxic tear gas towards the participants in the weekly march, which was launched to denounce settlement and the occupation’s continuing attacks on our people, which led to the outbreak of confrontations during which three citizens were injured by metal bullets and dozens suffered from suffocation. They were treated. On the field.

Thousands of worshipers performed Friday prayers in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, amid strict military measures imposed by the Israeli occupation forces on the gates and entrances of the Old City in occupied Jerusalem.

The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem estimated that about 40,000 worshipers performed Friday prayers in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, amid the deployment of occupation forces in the streets of the city and the vicinity of the mosque, where they were stationed at its gates, stopped the worshipers and checked their personal cards.

On Friday, the Israeli occupation authorities decided to reopen the Kerem Shalom crossing, the only commercial crossing in the Gaza Strip, to export traffic.

According to the Presidential Committee for Coordination of Goods, they were informed of the decision by the Israeli authorities, indicating that the implementation of the decision will begin next Sunday.

This comes at a time when the “Rebel Youth” announced the cancellation of the “Malika” event, as it was said, “due to what the resistance believes.”

The past few days witnessed hundreds of people participating in youth activities on the eastern border of Gaza City, including throwing stones, Molotov cocktails, explosives, and more.

This comes at a time when, after midnight on Wednesday-Thursday, the Qatari Ambassador, Mohammed Al-Emadi, arrived in the Gaza Strip through the Beit Hanoun “Erez” checkpoint.

Al-Emadi held meetings with Israeli officials before entering the Gaza Strip, as informed sources reported to Al-Quds.com at the time.

Al-Emadi is scheduled to meet with the leadership of the Hamas movement during his visit, which will last for several days in the Gaza Strip.

Despite what is rumored and written that there is a deal to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, and that this deal does not exclude the Palestinian side, which presented its demands to Saudi Arabia and the American administration, the occupying state is continuing with its policy of resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in its favor through what it is doing in the West Bank... This includes practices, violations and crimes in East Jerusalem, most notably cold-blooded murders, the continuation of settlement and ethnic cleansing operations in several areas of the West Bank, attacks by herds of settlers, and work to increase their number to reach one million settlers under the current government, which is one of the most extreme, racist and hostile occupation governments to everything that is Palestinian and Arab.

Yesterday, it was approved to transform three settlement outposts into settlements in the Hebron and Jericho regions, in addition to Israeli decisions to expand roads in the West Bank for the benefit of settlers at the expense of Palestinian land, and to besiege citizens and work to demonize them within the framework of the policy aimed at displacing them either voluntarily through attacks on them and confiscation  of their lands, destroying their crops and cutting down their trees, especially olive trees, to make them unable to bear life and emigrate of their own free will, or by carrying out the largest ethnic cleansing while waiting for the appropriate time and then the opportunity arises to empty the West Bank of its people and plant it with more settlements and settlers.

In addition to this matter, there are other things that the occupying state and the herds of settlers are doing to resolve the conflict in its favor, and that any agreements that may be concluded with the Saudi side through America and the provision of so-called concessions to the Palestinian side, as if the occupying state is the one that owns the country and is the one that is giving up, the occupying state will not abide by it. Thus, as is achieved by disavowing all agreements signed with the Palestinian side, even though these agreements detract from the inalienable national rights of the Palestinian people to return, self-determination, and establishing an independent state with Holy Jerusalem as its capital. It is enough that these agreements recognized the occupying state on 78% of the Palestinian land, compared to 22%, which is the territories occupied in 1967. Despite this, the occupying state has violated and continues to violate this through settlement expansion and creeping annexation, especially in the Jordan Valley and other surrounding areas in Jerusalem and within the Holy City.

The Palestinian side must not continue to bet on the possibility that the occupying state will provide anything to the Palestinians. On the contrary, it will continue its procedures and policies based on ending and resolving the conflict in its favor by intensifying settlement and increasing the number of settlers, in addition to other violations and crimes, using force. Thinking that it can force our people to give up their inalienable national rights.

The time has come to unite ranks and restore national unity because it is the only way to force the occupation to recognize the rights of our people in full and without compromise. As for the situation remaining as it is, the only beneficiary is the occupation at the expense of the cause of our people.
The occupation does not trustful, and the one whose mind is tested by the tempter is ruined, as our popular proverb says, and as the noble Prophetic hadith says (A believer is not stung from the same hole twice).

Whether we agree or disagree with Mr. Abraham Burg, the former Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, we must admit that in recent years the man has begun to take positions that distinguish him from many of the leaders of the Israeli occupation state, who classify themselves as liberals or leftists in the Zionist camp. Recently, specifically on the third of this month, Burg wrote an article in the newspaper "Haaretz" in which he broke the silence. There is Jewish Nazism ruling in Israel, referring to the current Israeli government led by leaders who believe in the doctrine of the Jewish race and Jewish superiority, just like German Nazism.

According to Abraham Burg, Netanyahu leads a coalition of parties based on the same premise as the German Nazi Party, which glorified German nationalism as a supreme value that transcends all values and promoted the doctrine of the Aryan race and its superiority over other races, just as the leaders of the religious Zionist parties and a number of Likud leaders do with whom they share the leadership of the state.

In his article, Burg brought to mind those warnings issued by Yeshayahu Levovich in the 1980s, in which he warned of the presence of elites in Israel who adopted Nazi ideas based on the belief in Jewish racial superiority. He pointed out that the Israelis did not pay attention to those warnings at the time and treated them as coming from a person. He became delirious. The elites, which Levovich spoke about, were at that time a satanic plant in random planting beds, but they grew and developed over the years until they became a forest covering the coast, the mountains, and the valley in the occupying state and in the West Bank settlements with their settlement outposts and pastoral farms, in which an orgy of thugs, “hilltop youth,” and “Paying the price” and a wide audience that gathers around religious Zionism, directed and led by Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, and their crazy obsession with the myths of the past is fueled by rabbis who use religious schools in the West Bank settlements as rehabilitation centers for practicing various forms of violence and terrorism against Palestinian citizens in their towns and villages throughout the Palestinian countryside.

To learn more about the author of those early warnings, Levovich, this man was born in Riga, a part of the Russian Empire (currently Latvia), to a religious Zionist family. He studied chemistry and philosophy at the University of Berlin in Germany and continued his studies in Basel in Switzerland. He immigrated to Palestine in 1934 and remotely testified the crimes of German Nazism and its brutal practices, the most horrific of which was the “Holocaust,” which the Jews themselves were subjected to at the hands of the Nazi monster, was a harsh critic of Israeli society.

Abraham Burg was not the only one who admired Yeshayahu Levovich. Rather, some of them, in light of his warnings, called him the Prophet Yeshayahu (Levovich), as did the well-known Israeli journalist Ben Caspit in an article he published in the Israeli “Maariv” on April 6, 2016. Just as an analogy, there are many prophets in the heritage of classical Judaism. Samuel was also a hard-hearted prophet, perhaps the greatest of the prophets of “Israel.” He was the one who anointed Saul king over Israel without prior knowledge. Isaiah was also a prophet, but he put a distance between him and Samuel when he rebuked his people, saying: “When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you, and when you multiply.” "I do not hear you praying. Your hands are full of blood."

These days, there are many hands stained with blood, and many are thirsty for blood in Israel. Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are examples of imaginary, false, and condescending nationalism, in the jungle of a racist movement that claims racial superiority, and around them are leaders of grass-level stature, men and women. The first is not satisfied with giving priority to the freedom of movement in the streets of the West Bank for the settlers over the right to freedom of movement and life for the Palestinians, but he goes further in his Nazism and arms the settlers and calls on them to pull the trigger against rioters and stone-throwers. The second is not satisfied with calling for the separation of Arab women from Jews during... Giving birth in hospitals, but he also goes further than that by calling for the town of Hawara to be wiped out of existence, or in the best case, putting the Palestinians before three options: either to live as Gentiles deprived of their rights in his state extending from the river to the sea, or to immigrate abroad with all the facilities, or the occupation army will be settling accounts with them forcefully. His wife, Fruitl Smotrich, was more clear than him in endorsing the Nazi image when she said in an interview with Rafi Reshef on Israeli Channel 10 that she was not prepared to be born by an Arab midwife. She believes that the moment of birth is a pure, Jewish moment, to the point that there is no justification for it being desecrated by Arab hands.  .

But is this new in the thought and practice of the Zionist movement, and was Levovich’s prophecy an orphan prophecy? The answer to that is a clear no. Israel Shahak had previously warned in his book, which was published in its first edition in Arabic in 1994 and was titled (The Jewish Religion and Its Position toward Non-Jews), of the satanic character of the Zionist movement. In this interesting book, Shahak presents examples of similarity in thought and belief between a number of leaders of the Zionist movement in the 1930s and the leaders of Hitler's Nazism. They shared commonalities: the glorification of nationalism as a supreme value devoid of its human dimensions that transcends all values, and the glorification of ethnic affiliation and superiority. We are reminded here of one of the prominent leaders of the Zionist movement and the Jewish Agency and his positions on the rise of Nazism to power in Germany. The most shocking example in this area was when prominent leaders in the Zionist movement celebrated the victory of Nazism over liberalism, as they put it, as was the case of Dr. Joachim Prince, the Jewish rabbi, who rose through the ranks of the World Jewish Congress to become vice president. He was close to Golda Meir and became one of the leaders. Prominent members of the international Zionist movement. Dr. Joachim Prince fell in love with the Nazi-style hysteria of racial superiority and wrote a book in German entitled (We the Jews - Wir Juden) in which he flattered to the point of obsession the Nazi ideology, saying: What the German Revolution means for the German nation (Adolf Hitler’s revolution) will become clear in the end to those who made it and painted its image. Liberalism has lost its favor. Liberalism is the formula for political life that helped the integration of the Jews. This liberalism is now being defeated. Liberalism according to Joachim Prince, and this is the tip of the iceberg. That book by Joachim Prince is suitable these days as a material for education and training in religious Zionist schools, and it is also suitable for it to be a material for education and training in defending the nation-state law and in promoting what they call the coup against democracy and the judicial system in Israel.

Consciousness engineering (also called cultural shaping or cultural hegemony) is a concept used to describe the process of colonial systems and colonial powers influencing the culture of colonized peoples for the purpose of changing, shaping and enslaving their mentalities, beliefs and values. Consciousness engineering is one of the methods used to mentally and culturally control colonized peoples.

Consciousness engineering includes several practices and tools used for this goal, including:

1. Control of education: The school curriculum is manipulated to spread specific concepts and opinions and to emphasize the cultural and intellectual superiority of the colonial culture.

2. Media and means of communication: The media and means of communication are used to spread and strengthen colonial culture.
3. Legislation and policies: Laws and policies are enacted to control and regulate the lives of colonized peoples, and to undermine and restrict their cultural identity.

4. Literature and Art: Literature and art are used to reinforce the image of colonial culture as superior and more advanced than local cultures, and local cultures are ignored or neglected.

5. History and collective memory: The narrative of history is changed and historical facts are distorted in order to justify and reinforce colonialism, and forgetfulness is promoted and the collective memory of the colonized peoples is neglected.

It is important to understand that the architecture of consciousness is not just manifestations that influence the cultural level, but is also an influence on the individual identity and social affiliation of individuals. This effect results in colonized peoples becoming increasingly assimilated into the colonial culture, reinforcing cultural control and threatening cultural diversity and cultural heritage.

Over time, colonized peoples resisted the engineering of consciousness. Consciousness is an important philosophical and scientific concept relating to the human ability to think, perceive, and self-direct. Consciousness can be described as the state in which an individual is aware of himself and the world around him. This includes understanding personal thoughts, feelings and experiences, as well as the ability to process and benefit from them.

There are many different aspects of consciousness that can be explored and discussed. For example, we can talk about self-awareness, which is the ability to reflect on ourselves and understand our interactions and influences on others. Self-awareness can be key to personal growth and professional development. In addition, we can also explore ideas of social and cultural awareness, and how external factors influence our awareness and perceptions of the world. This includes understanding our interactions with the society, culture and values around us.

It is important to understand that consciousness is not just a static state, but can evolve and grow over time. We can use awareness as a tool to improve our lives and achieve our personal and professional goals. Occupation can affect the individual and collective consciousness of occupied individuals and communities in multiple ways. Fundamental freedoms may be narrowed and freedom of expression, assembly and movement restricted, affecting the formation and development of individual consciousness and free thinking.

In addition, the occupation may seek to distort the image of the occupiers or occupied communities and promote negative ideas and beliefs about them. This type of influence can lead to a deterioration in awareness, self-confidence and cultural identity.

However, many examples of the strength and resilience of awareness in the face of occupation appear. Affected individuals and communities can develop strategies to resist and overcome the negative impacts associated with the occupation.

In general, restoring and strengthening cultural awareness and identity can contribute to the restoration of dignity and self-sovereignty. Achieving mental and cultural liberation may be an important goal for individuals and communities affected by occupation.

Examples of how awareness is affected by the occupation:

1. Restriction on freedom of expression: The occupation sometimes restricts freedom of expression by suppressing public opinion and silencing voices critical of the occupation policies. Peaceful activists may be arrested and websites or social media that express opposition opinion may be blocked.

2. Falsifying history and identity: The occupation sometimes uses changes in school curricula and media misinformation to falsify the history and cultural identity of occupied societies, thereby aiming to distort the image of the occupiers and attempt to remove the cultural affiliation and connection between individuals, their history, and their identity.

3. Residence and settlement expansion: The occupation practices building settlements and confiscating lands in the occupied areas. This leads to the dispersal of local communities and changes the demographic and geographic appearance of the region. This can affect the collective awareness of local communities, their heritage, and their ties to the land.

4. Violence and repression: The occupation follows repressive policies against the occupied population, including arbitrary arrests, forced interrogations, torture, and other forms of physical and psychological violence. This aims to weaken the will, break the spirit, and tame the occupied societies.

5. Isolation and siege: The occupation places the occupied areas under a permanent siege, affecting access to basic services such as water, electricity, and health care. This can lead to a deterioration in the economic, social and health condition of the occupied communities, affecting their awareness and vision of the future.
All the while, Israel practiced consciousness engineering on the Palestinian people. The tools of consciousness engineering were used to shape and influence Palestinian consciousness and distort their image before the world. This includes the Israeli media controlling the debate and influencing the media narrative regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and by allocating millions of dollars to raise awareness, such as the five-year plan for the city of Jerusalem.

The engineering of consciousness can be confronted in several ways, including:
- Educate: Increase your awareness and knowledge of different issues and contradictory narratives related to controversial conflicts and events, and use multiple, reliable sources to obtain accurate and balanced information.

-Communicate with others: Participate and interact with people who have different opinions and backgrounds, engage in open dialogue, listen to their points of view, and explain your point of view in a diplomatic and respectful way.

-Political participation: Participate in political and community work by participating in social movements and political activities that defend justice and equality. Influence local and international political decisions by voting and participating in discussions.

- Using alternative media: such as independent newspapers, blogs, and social networking sites to convey different points of view and highlight obscure issues.
- Organization and alliance: Join groups and organizations working to spread awareness and combat awareness engineering, and work with others to organize awareness events and campaigns and change ideas and practices.
Resisting the engineering of consciousness requires patience and endurance because immediate change will not occur, but your commitment and action will have an impact gradually.

From time to time, there is talk of a comprehensive war in the Middle East, as was reported in recent days by Palestinian and Israeli leaders. What is meant by a comprehensive war? Are the conditions really ripe for such a war, or is it just propaganda to achieve internal goals on both sides? Before digressing, we recall that all Palestinian leaders and all factions used to say that Israel’s continuation of its aggressive policy would lead to the explosion of the region and the outbreak of a comprehensive war. They said this when annexing Jerusalem, when storming Al-Aqsa Mosque, and after every crime committed by the occupation gangs against citizens, whether in Jerusalem, Jenin, or Nablus, and with Every settlement project, after every assassination of a Palestinian leader, etc., yet the enemy continues in its crimes, and the explosion and war did not occur. On the contrary, the region becomes increasingly subservient to Israel, and this is what we saw in the recent waves of normalization.

Years ago, the term “Arab-Israeli conflict” was ignored, as it became realistic and limited to the Palestinian front. In reality, the existence of the “axis of resistance” and the remnants of talk about the Arab-Israeli conflict or talk about Arab popular solidarity with Palestine do not change the reality. Even at this level, conflict and war It is not comprehensive and within the framework of a national strategy for the official political system with its two sides, the Gaza Authority and the Palestinian Authority, as the two parties committed themselves to agreements with Israel that limit the state of conflict, such as the Oslo Accords in the West Bank and the truce agreements with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which made the state of conflict and war at the official Palestinian level closer. For the equation (no war, no peace), but it is an open and continuous war for the Israelis who do not abide by any agreements or interpret them in accordance with their security doctrine and their concept of security. It is also an open conflict for the Palestinian people everywhere they are, especially in the West Bank.

The equation or situation (no war, no peace) does not last long and allows all parties to maximize their power and strengthen the internal front, waiting for the decisive moment to break this equation either by signing a peace agreement or by war, and since in the case of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict there are no indications of the possibility of a political settlement that ends the conflict, Despite some naive exaggeration that Saudi normalization will coincide with a political settlement and an end to the state of conflict, in this case the possibility of war is more likely, but the question is when will the war be? What is the form of war and its parties? Where do we place the talk of the Hamas leader Al-Arouri and the talk of the Prime Minister of the Zionist entity about a comprehensive war in this context?

On Friday, August 25, 2023, Deputy Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Saleh Al-Arouri, spoke about the resistance’s readiness for all-out war. “The resistance is ready for all-out war, and Israel will suffer an unprecedented defeat,” he added, adding, “We are preparing for all-out war.”

These statements coincided with Israeli threats to assassinate the Vice-President of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, accusing him of leading operations in the West Bank. Al-Arouri’s response was, “Anyone who thinks about assassinations knows that this may lead to a regional war,” suggesting that the occupation government is about to take a group. Steps that will lead to a comprehensive war in the region.” In an interview with Al-Mayadeen TV, he said, alluding to the state of coordination that exists among members of the resistance axis: “We are preparing for a comprehensive war, and we are discussing this in closed rooms with all parties and components that are related to this war.”

On the Israeli side, quoting the Hebrew Channel 13 on August 30, Netanyahu called for a meeting (the Cabinet) to discuss scenarios of the outbreak of a comprehensive war, and that “the Israeli Mini-Ministerial Council for Security and Political Affairs (the Cabinet) in its meeting at the beginning of September will discuss the Israeli military plans to deal with... A possible comprehensive battle on multiple fronts.” “The Israeli army is seeking to develop a plan for a possible scenario, including estimates of potential threats if a military confrontation with Hezbollah erupts and develops to include the Gaza Strip and the border areas with Syria, and Israeli preparations for such a scenario,” the channel reported. According to “informed” security sources, the Israeli army leadership will present to the cabinet, in a meeting scheduled in the coming weeks, the possible “reference scenario” for an emergency security event in the form of a comprehensive war on all fronts.

Despite all the indicators of tension and the heating up of discourse and fronts, talk about “total war” is nothing more than mere propaganda to deliver threatening messages to the outside and appear strong, and messages to the inside to reassure the home front, because the Israeli all-out war is not subject to a decision by Netanyahu and his government, especially in light of the internal division in the country. Israel, but it will also be an American decision, and we do not believe that Washington is ready for a comprehensive war, and even Israel is better for this entity to continue its aggressive approach or partial wars, whether against the Palestinians in the West Bank and the completion of settlement projects or in Gaza and to continue its siege and neutralization with financial and economic temptations, or on the front lines. Others, such as southern Lebanon and Syria, are achieving achievements in these wars, with the exception of the rising national resistance in the West Bank.

As for the other front, which is supposed to be the “resistance axis” and not just the Hamas movement, we believe that the situation of this axis is similar to the situation of the encirclement states and the Arab “front of steadfastness, confrontation, and challenge” in the sixties and seventies. How will there be a comprehensive war to respond to the assassination of Al-Arouri, in which Iran will participate, which did not respond to the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, its most senior military leader, and did not respond after bombing vital centers inside Iran, and did not respond to the killing of dozens of Iranian soldiers by Israeli bombing of Syria? How will Iran participate in a comprehensive war when it is a partner of Washington in conspiring against Iraq and the Arab countries during the chaos of the Arab Spring? How does Iran participate in the war in defense of the Palestinians, when it is engaged in difficult negotiations with Washington and the West to lift sanctions in the context of the so-called nuclear file?

What war is waged by Hezbollah, which is engaged in a cold war with the majority of the Lebanese people and is busy defending its ally, Syria? The party and the Lebanese experienced war and its devastating results in 2006, when Hassan Nasrallah said that if he had known that the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers would have led to a round of violence that lasted 34 days, we certainly wouldn't have done it.

Is Syria ready for a comprehensive war, since it is exposed to wars from several parties, in addition to the almost daily Israeli bombing and its war against Turkey, the American army present on its territory, the Syrian Democratic Army (SDF), and dozens of religious terrorist groups, in addition to the deteriorating economic conditions?

As for the Hamas movement, it does not represent all of the Palestinian people, and Al-Arouri has no right to talk about readiness for a comprehensive war on behalf of the people. The resistance factions have previously agreed that the decision to go to war must be by national consensus, and the Hamas movement, which signed a truce with the occupation to maintain its authority. In Gaza, I do not think that it is serious in its talk about preparing for a comprehensive war, especially since the people of Gaza have experienced wars and their disastrous results and know very well the resistance’s victories in these wars.

So the discourse of total war, which means that there are preparations on both sides to fight it and win, is nothing but a propaganda discourse that each party seeks to employ for internal political purposes. Netanyahu wants to put an end to opposition demonstrations by insinuating an existential danger threatening the state. He also seeks to blackmail Washington and the West with more arms and money deals. He also wants to cover up his government’s crimes against the Palestinians and the rising criticism and opposition against Israel’s racist policy in the West, and to mislead local and international public opinion before launching an all-out war. On the Palestinians in the West Bank, and as for Al-Arouri, he seeks to establish his presence within the Hamas movement as a rising and promising leader in light of the decline in the status of the traditional leaders, most of whom have settled in Turkey and Qatar, and as a Palestinian as a national and regional leader who can challenge Israel. He also wants to cover up what happened in the Gaza Strip because of the authority of Hamas also gives credibility to what Hamas is doing in the West Bank and makes it appear as if it is part of a comprehensive confrontation with the occupation and not against the Authority and the PLO.

This does not mean that a war is not possible in the near term, but it will be a comprehensive war against the Palestinians, especially in the West Bank, and if there is any military reaction from the “axis of resistance,” and this is what we do not expect, Israel may expand its aggression unilaterally with a quick and lightning war on several fronts, as happened in The June 1967 war. Is the (Axis of Resistance) prepared for this war? We hope so! Even if you don't think so.

If the Hamas movement believes that a comprehensive war is imminent, then it is supposed to strengthen the internal front with national unity and coordination at the highest levels to develop a comprehensive strategy for confrontation, instead of betting on the “resistance axis”, as this axis, in light of the circumstances referred to above, will be nothing more than supportive, and the Palestinians are the ones who They will be at the forefront.

Finally, why does the Hamas movement talk about a comprehensive war in the event of the assassination of Hamas leaders and does not undertake it today in response to Zionist terrorist practices in the West Bank, in response to the Judaization of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and in response to the siege of the Gaza Strip? Are leaders more important than the nation?
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With the Democratic National Committee meeting next month, it will be the thirtieth anniversary of my membership in this body. As an Arab American and a long-serving member of the Democratic National Committee, I have a story to tell. Because I've been there so long, some people take my presence for granted. Because I have been a vocal critic of the party's spending priorities and lack of budget transparency, others wonder why I stay. After walking the hard path and facing repeated challenges, I have learned to never take anything for granted and the importance of staying the course.

In the early 1980s, when Arab Americans began to organize, some saw our political participation as a threat and tried to hinder our participation. Some candidates shied away from our contributions, refused to endorse us, or removed members of our community from their staff. It was a painful period of exclusion. When Jesse Jackson ran for president in 1984 and welcomed Arab Americans to his campaign, the Arab community responded enthusiastically. Building on this experience, we registered and mobilized Arab-American voters, supported Arab-American candidates, and established “Democratic” and “Republican” clubs for Arab-Americans in twenty American cities. After failing to secure a meeting with the leadership of the Democratic Party, we finally obtained a meeting with mid-level employees. His simple and direct message was: “The reason we do not publicly recognize your clubs or meet with you is that doing so might alienate other groups that are more important to us.” In 1988, we joined the Jackson bandwagon again, and elected more than 80 Arab-American delegates to the National Convention. As Jackson's representative, I took the conference stage to deliver the first-ever debate on Palestinian rights. Jackson was able to appoint eight at-large members to the Democratic National Committee, and I was one of them. Before the matter became public, one of the party leaders asked me to reject this appointment, warning that I would be in the crosshairs of the “Republicans” from day one.

If the Democrats lose the 1988 elections, I and my community may bear the consequences. It was a painful decision, but when I agreed to step down, the next party leader, Ron Brown, promised to compensate me and the Arab community.

After assuming the position of president, he invited me to be the first to meet him, and broadcast a message that the party’s door was open to Arab Americans. A few months later, he attended a meeting of the Arab American Institute, despite threats from some donors to withhold their contributions. Towards the end of his term, when a position became available at the Democratic National Committee, he appointed me to fill it. So far, I have been a member of this committee for 30 years.

For 16 of those years, I served on the Executive Committee, and for 11 years as Chairman of the Resolutions Committee. She also served on the party's Unity and Reform Committee and, for many years, as one of the chairs of the Ethnic Council, which represents 19 European and Mediterranean ethnic groups. Over the years, I learned that the Democratic Party, like its Republican counterpart, needed reform.

It lacks accountability and transparency, and fails to involve members of the Democratic National Committee in the “democratic” decision-making process. I have discovered that the problem with politics in our democracy is that it is not about politics. It's about money. There are hundreds of millions of dollars collected in each election from different party entities, and then transferred to consultants who raise more money and prepare expensive advertisements on television and on social media. Candidates may win or lose, but advisors never lose, because they never take responsibility for their work. When I raised this issue in the Unity and Reform Committee and called for accountability and transparency, I was dismissed from the Executive Committee. This was not my only defeat.

My efforts to get the party to oppose the Iraq War, honor our bylaws calling on Democratic National Committee members to review and evaluate the effectiveness of expenditures, and ban “dark money” tainting Democratic primaries have been in vain. In the face of these defeats, some asked why I remained a member of the party's national committee.

I remember how I was able to move forward after excluding my community for so many years, and it is what Jesse Jackson told me decades ago when faced with a similar challenge: “Don’t quit, because that is what your opponents want.” What they fear most is that you will stay and continue the struggle.” And so I will.

The occupation authorities issued an administrative detention order for a period of four months against detainee Fatima Abu Shalal (41 years old) from Al-Ain camp in Nablus.

The Prisoner's Club stated that the occupation forces arrested Abu Shalal on August 29, in front of the Huwwara military checkpoint, and she was transferred to administrative detention. She was also transferred to (Damoun) prison, where the majority of female prisoners are held.

The club added that the occupation forces arrested her only son, Ahmed Ayman Abu Shalal (24 years old), several days ago in front of the Zaatara checkpoint, and he was transferred to Hawara detention center.

The number of female prisoners in the occupation prisons is (35), including four female prisoners who are administratively detained, and they are: (Samah Awad, Raghad Al-Fanni, and Hanan Al-Barghouthi, in addition to Fatima Abu Shalal).

On Friday, the Hebrew newspaper, Israel Hayom, revealed training for veterans and reservists living in West Bank settlements, to confront any Palestinians who infiltrate them.

The training is mainly concentrated in an abandoned site in the Kiryat Arba settlement in Hebron.

These exercises are led by former Israeli army officers.

A number of civilians suffocated, last night, during clashes that erupted with the Israeli occupation forces after they stormed the village of Bir al-Basha, south of Jenin.

Local sources reported that the occupation soldiers fired tear gas canisters at the citizens and their homes in the village of Bir al-Basha, as a result of which a number of citizens suffocated.

The sources added that clashes broke out between the youths and the occupation forces in the vicinity of the "Salem" camp and the "Dotan" and "Al-Jalameh" checkpoints, without any injuries being reported.

The occupation forces also stormed the village of Tura, and set up mobile military checkpoints on the road linking the towns of Ya`bad and Arraba, and at the intersection of the villages of Muthalath al-Shuhada and Taanak. They also stormed the villages of Faqu`ah, Jalboun and Beit Qad, east of the governorate, and intensified their military presence in the vicinity of the town of Ya`bad and villages west of Jenin.

At dawn on Friday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested the editor, Mahmoud Seris "Zagloul", a resident of Nur Shams camp in Tulkarm, on the Ramallah road.

According to local sources, those forces stopped a vehicle carrying a group of young men, and detained them for hours before arresting the editor, Serees.

Last night, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the Bab al-Rahma chapel in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The occupation forces deliberately tampered with the contents of the chapel, vandalizing many of them, and confiscating others.

From time to time, the occupation forces and their intelligence deliberately storm the Bab Al-Rahma chapel.

Gulf Cooperation Council ministers on Thursday affirmed their position for the establishment of an independent  Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, amid increasing illegal occupation by Israeli settlers of Palestinian territories.

In a statement issued at the close of its 57th session in the Saudi capital, the GCC Ministerial Council condemned Israel's continued construction of settlement units in the occupied Palestinian territories, “in clear violation of international legitimacy resolutions, including UN Security Council Resolution No. 2334.”

The Ministerial Council welcomed the Australian government's announcement of its intention to use the term "occupied Palestinian territories" and called on the international community to follow suit by pressuring Israeli authorities to reverse their settlement decisions and “to resolve the conflict, in a way that fulfills all the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.”

The Council also denounced the “repeated incursions by Israeli officials and settlers into the courtyards of the blessed Al Aqsa Mosque.”

Such incursions were not only “a violation of the sanctity of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and a provocation of the feelings of Muslims” but also a “serious violation of international law and the historical and legal status quo in Al Quds and its sanctities,” said the statement.

The Council commended Saudi Arabia’s decision to appoint a non-resident ambassador to the State of Palestine and Consul General in Al Quds, as a continuation of the stance of GCC states in protecting Islamic sanctities and supporting the Palestinian cause.

It likewise welcomed the final statement of the Egyptian-Jordanian-Palestinian tripartite summit, which was held in the city of El Alamein in the Egypt on August 14, 2023, and its discussion of the Palestinian cause in light of the current developments in the occupied territories.

It called on the GCC member countries and international community to continue supporting the activities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) until its mission until all Palestinian refugees return to their homes.

Israeli legal experts have warned that all Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers in the occupied West Bank will be at risk of arrest in European countries and elsewhere on war crimes charges following the government’s “judicial reform” plan to weaken the judiciary and the Supreme Court in particular, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Thursday.

The newspaper quoted an internal email at a major law firm in Tel Aviv: “To whom it may concern, following the harm done to the Supreme Court, there is a great possibility today that someone performing military service in the [occupied] territories, who is photographed with their face exposed, will be at risk of arrest in Europe and elsewhere for war crimes.”

If that happens, said the email, it will be very difficult to provide assistance. “As long as all the steps that harm the Supreme Court and the court system are not cancelled, this danger will be present, tangible, and real. Everyone is advised not to submit to the call to serve in the reserve.”

The email was written by lawyer Ronnie Berkman, who has prosecuted many international cases and is an expert on matters of international law regarding the trial of members of the armed forces of a particular country on charges of war crimes. Berkman opposes the Israeli government’s plan to weaken the judiciary. By preventing the Supreme Court from being able to have judicial oversight of the government’s decisions, as well statements and actions by ministers, there is a very serious danger to all regular Israeli army soldiers and in the country and the reserve.

Israeli military pilots in the reserve explained their refusal to turn up for reserve duty in recent months by saying that it is out of fear of investigations, lawsuits and judicial procedures in the International Criminal Court in The Hague or in other courts in other countries.

The newspaper noted that legal experts have confirmed that prosecutions would not only be against Israeli pilots, but against all Israeli soldiers, and that the danger is much higher for officers and soldiers who do not work in secret. Such personnel are exposed to cameras that are not controlled by military censors.

These concerns have led to secret deliberations in Israel, with the participation of the Military Advocate General, the General Staff, senior officials in the Ministry of Justice, and the Office of the Attorney General, Ghali Bhairav Mayara, in her capacity as being responsible for the Military Advocate. The military authorities described these risks as the “fourth hour” or “fourth dimension” that should be scrutinized in light of the political crisis in Israel and its internal and external consequences.

The former director of the international department in the Israeli Public Prosecution, Gal Lavartov, gave a statement to the Supreme Court recently, in which he said that, “In all the cases that we dealt with in which the central prosecution allowed the closure of the cases or stopping legal procedures relied on the independence of the Israeli court system, which can take criminal measures itself against citizens, no matter how high-ranking they are, including army commanders or officers, if they break the law.”

The Ynet website reported that, following the claim by the former Mossad chief, Tamir Pardo, that Israel is practicing apartheid in the West Bank, Israeli officials and experts in international law have expressed concern about racist statements made by former security officials and ministers like Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir. They warn that Israel is nearing the stage of facing criminal proceedings in international courts.

“As long as Israeli ministers speak publicly in a manner that can be construed as support for an established policy that includes inhumane acts of an oppressive and racist regime,” explained former defence attorney at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Nick Kaufman, “the road to the prosecution of Israeli leaders is clear.”

Anadolu Agency reports, Malaysian Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, on Thursday called on the international community to avoid confusion and discrimination in dealing with the conflict and human suffering in Palestine .

Addressing the East Asia Summit in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, Anwar said any form of racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia cannot be accepted and should be condemned as strongly as possible.

The Malaysian Prime Minister is in Indonesia to attend the annual summit of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN).

On Palestine, Anwar, and ASEAN leaders expressed concern over the developments in the Middle East and reiterated the need for a comprehensive, just and sustainable solution to the crisis in order to achieve peace and stability in the region.

We fully support the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people for an independent Palestinian State with the realization of two states, Palestine and Israel, living side by side in peace and security based on the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Later, he met with UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, to discuss the issues of Palestine and Myanmar.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday condemned the opening of Papua New Guinea's embassy in Jerusalem as an “aggression” and a “violation” of international law.  

In a statement, the ministry termed the embassy opening as "an aggression against the Palestinian people and their rights." It warned that the move would cause "great harm to the chances of achieving peace on the basis of a two-state solution."

On Tuesday, Papua New Guinea inaugurated its embassy to Israel in West Jerusalem, becoming the fifth country to maintain a diplomatic mission in the city.

In 2018, the US moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in a move that was followed by Honduras, Guatemala and Kosovo.

The Palestinian ministry said it will use all political, diplomatic and legal means to “pursue these countries over their unjustified aggression against the Palestinian people and their rights."

Jerusalem remains at the heart of the decades-long Middle East conflict, with Palestinians insisting that East Jerusalem – illegally occupied by Israel since 1967 – should serve as the capital of a Palestinian state.

On Thursday, US President Joe Biden begins an Asian tour that will lead him to India to participate in the G20 summit, which appears relatively weak in the absence of Chinese President Xi Jinping in particular, after which he will head to Vietnam.

The visit of the 80-year-old American president comes at a defining moment in the game of alliances against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, and at a time when China is rising in influence and increasingly challenging the American superpower.

Biden is scheduled to leave the White House at around 20:45 pm GMT, to head to the American base in Ramstein in Germany, before moving to New Delhi on Friday.

And the US presidency refused to disclose how to amend its program, in the event that it was confirmed that it had Covid-19, after the first lady contracted the disease on Monday with mild symptoms.

In the context, the White House reported that Biden underwent several tests this week, all of which were negative.

The US president will take center stage at the G-20 summit in New Delhi on Saturday and Sunday, in the absence of the two leaders, China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin.

Biden intends to use the summit, chaired by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to prove that the bloc remains the main forum for global economic cooperation, despite its divisions.

This is a way to send a message to Beijing and to emerging rival alliances, including the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) alliance.

Joe Biden announced last week that he was "disappointed" that President Xi would miss the summit, where he will be represented by Prime Minister Li Qiang.

For his part, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday that Biden will discuss "a series of joint efforts to address global problems," including climate change and "mitigating the economic and social consequences of the Russian war in Ukraine" affecting the poorest countries.

"He is committed to working with partners in emerging markets to achieve great things together. And that is what the world will see in New Delhi this weekend," Sullivan added.

It will also call for strengthening the financing capabilities of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Biden's program, upon his arrival in New Delhi on Friday, includes a bilateral meeting with the Indian Prime Minister, whom the US President received with great hospitality in June at the White House.

The United States is working to strengthen its relations with India to stand up to China at a time when New Delhi seeks to establish a leading international role.

This comes despite their differences over Russia, as India did not abide by the sanctions imposed on Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine, and their differences over respect for human rights.

"If the United States begins to advance the cause of rights and democracy, it will jeopardize a very important relationship that the United States cannot afford to lose," said Michael Kugelman, a South Asia expert at the Wilson Center in Washington.

On the other hand, Joe Biden will go to Vietnam on Sunday to meet the leader of the Communist Party that holds power in the country, Nguyen Phu Trong, in addition to other leaders, with the aim of confronting China's influence in the region as well.

Relations between the United States and Vietnam have strengthened in recent years, including in the military and economic spheres, as the two countries have largely reconciled despite the scars of war.

The US President's visit comes as part of a comprehensive diplomatic offensive targeting Asian countries, whether or not they are traditional allies of the United States.

Joe Biden had recently received the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of South Korea at an unprecedented summit.

The official spokesman for the Palestinian Presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said that what was published by President Mahmoud Abbas on a television program on the Jewish issue was a quotation from the writings of Jewish and American historians and writers and others, and is not considered a denial in any way of the Nazi Holocaust.

Abu Rudeineh emphasized that President Mahmoud Abbas' position on this issue is clear and documented, which is the complete condemnation of the Nazi Holocaust and the rejection of anti-Semitism.

He said, "We express our strong disapproval and condemnation of this frenzied campaign merely for quoting academic and historical writings."

Today, Thursday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two young men from Tulkarm camp, while they were passing through a military checkpoint east of Tulkarm.

The Prisoner's Club in Tulkarm stated that the occupation forces arrested the two young men, Iyas Odeh and Hadi Abu Diab, while they were passing through the Enab military checkpoint.