On Tuesday, Tunisian President Kais Saied renewed his categorical rejection of normalization with Israel, stressing at the same time the right of the Palestinian people to an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

In a speech he delivered during a meeting during which he handed a number of new ambassadors their official credentials, the Tunisian presidency broadcast excerpts from it in a video clip it published this evening on its official Facebook page, that "the term normalization does not exist for me at all."

The Tunisian president added, "Although the Palestinian state has ambassadors, do not forget the legitimate Palestinian right and that the Palestinian issue is the central issue for the whole nation. To those who talk about normalization, I say that this term does not exist for me at all."

And he added, "The natural thing is for Palestine to return to the Palestinian people, who must regain their rights in all of Palestine, which must be an independent state with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital."

Hundreds of Google employees and supporters of the Palestinian right participated in a demonstration in San Francisco, California, in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in protest against the holding of Google's annual cloud technology conference.

The participants in the demonstration, which was organized today by a broad coalition of several organizations supporting the Palestinian right, carried Palestinian flags and banners calling for ending the company's contract with the Israeli government and occupation army.

A number of demonstrators chained themselves outside the convention in downtown San Francisco, as a gesture of nonviolent civil disobedience.

A statement issued by the organizers of the event said, “Google technology is not used to inspire and innovate, on the contrary, it nurtures the Israeli security services, enabling and promoting apartheid, state violence, occupation and land grabs, through a highly lucrative contract worth $1,000. A billion dollars with the Israeli government and army.

The statement indicated that employees of Google and Amazon have been organizing for nearly two years to terminate the contract for the Nimbus project, which helps the Israeli government monitor Palestinians, expand illegal settlements, and practice violence against Palestinians under siege and occupation.

The statement said: This year marks the 75th anniversary of the expulsion of more than 75% of the Palestinians from their lands in the "Nakba," stressing that workers in the field of technology and activists continue to organize events until Google stops making a profit by enabling the injustice and violence befalling the Palestinian people. .

It is noteworthy that the conference is the largest in the world that organizes artificial intelligence, with the participation of thousands of workers in the field of cloud technology from different countries of the world.

In the same context, more than 45,000 Americans signed an electronic petition launched by about 1,000 employees of Google and Amazon, calling on the management of the two companies to terminate their contract with the Israeli occupation army.

The petition indicated that the signing of the agreement between the two companies and the occupation army took place while the Israeli army continues to demolish homes, clinics and schools and expel Palestinian families from their homes in Jerusalem.

It stated that the management of the two companies signed in May a contract worth $1.22 billion to provide cloud technology to the Israeli government and army.

The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported, on Wednesday, that the Israeli government will approve next Sunday to change the definition of the status of the settlements bordering the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

According to the newspaper, dozens of settlements will be removed from their definition as settlements adjacent to the fence, which receive benefits to encourage settlement there.

According to the newspaper, the Israeli government will define the settlements adjacent to the fence, which are only one kilometer away, as "adjacent to the fence," while any settlement that is 2 kilometers away or more than that will not be defined as such, and it will not get benefits to encourage settlement there.

The leaders of the settlements, including Sderot on the Gaza front, and Kiryat Shmona on the Lebanon front, attacked the Israeli government, accusing it of abandoning them and the security of the settlers there.

The Hebrew newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, revealed, on Wednesday, a plan that was launched by the Israeli General Security Service, the Shin Bet, to try to rehabilitate settlers who participate in terrorist activities against the Palestinians.

According to the newspaper, these settlers are residents of West Bank settlements and participate in the attacks on behalf of the "Hills Youth" organization.

It pointed out that the Shin Bet held meetings with rabbis and influential figures among the settlers in the West Bank to try to reach agreements with them to stop their terrorist attacks and remove them from the path that might lead them to arrest.

The newspaper indicated that, in cooperation between the Shin Bet and rabbis, two settlers were dealt with, by shortening the period of administrative detention and finding a rehabilitative alternative for them.

The newspaper pointed out that there are those who oppose this step and consider it tantamount to cooperation in favor of the Shin Bet apparatus, and that there are those who put pressure on the families of some administratively detained settlers not to accept any offer to release them in exchange for their rehabilitation.

An Israeli security official said that the Shin Bet will continue to use administrative detention against settlers who participate in terrorist activities, as necessary, and will continue to conduct dialogue with any party that wants to take care of these settlers and thus prevent them from acting violently, and other alternatives to detention will be found.

Today, Wednesday, the envoy of the American mediator, Amos Hochstein, will arrive in the region to hold a series of meetings between Israeli and Lebanese officials to try to reduce the level of mutual threats and tension at the border to prevent a further escalation.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the visit will come in light of the rising possibility of a possible escalation between Israel and Hezbollah, and in light of the threats of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his army minister Yoav Gallant, and the reactions of Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah.

Hochstein is scheduled to meet with Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament Nabih Berri, Interim Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Habib, and Chief of Staff of the Lebanese Army Joseph Aoun, and he will meet with Michel Aoun on the issue of land borders.

It is expected that the US envoy will visit the Lebanese southern borders, and inspect the work of the UNIFIL peacekeeping force, which will be extended next Thursday by the United Nations, amid Israeli demands to strengthen its mandate for the entry of these forces into the depth of Lebanese territory and to strengthen its control over Hezbollah's attempts to smuggle weapons and others.

On Wednesday morning, a Palestinian was killed in a new shooting crime that took place in the occupied city of Lod.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, Hikmat Abu Ghanem (40 years old) was shot dead.

He pointed out that the Israeli police opened an investigation into the incident.

The Israeli occupation forces launched, at dawn and Wednesday morning, a campaign of arrests among citizens in separate areas of the West Bank.

According to local sources, these forces arrested the citizen, Yasser Mutawa, and his son, the boy Jihad, from the town of Shuqba, west of Ramallah.

The activist against settlements and one of the leaders of the "Fatah" movement, Murad Ishteiwi, was arrested from the town of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya.

While the two young men, Uday and Qusay Al-Lada, were arrested from Aqabat Jabr camp in Jericho.

While the two young men, Qassem Al-Alami, from Beit Ummar, and Muhammad Al-Wawi, from Halhul, were arrested in the north of Hebron.

The young man, Islam Abu Samaha, was arrested in Tulkarm

Tunisia's Foreign Minister Nabil Ammar said on Tuesday that his country has no plans to establish diplomatic relations with Israel, and that the government is planning to introduce a law to criminalize contact with Israel. 

Ammar expressed the position in coordination with Tunisian President Kais Saied in a meeting in Algiers with his counterpart Ahmed Ataf and President Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

This comes after Libya's foreign minister Naglaa al-Manqoush met with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen in Rome last week.

After popular protests and widespread condemnation, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid al-Dbeibeh announced from the Palestinian embassy that he had dismissed his foreign minister and reaffirmed the country's opposition to normalizing ties with Israel. 

The American Wall Street Journal reported, on Tuesday, that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia presented a proposal to renew its financial support to the Palestinian Authority.

The newspaper quoted officials in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as saying that this step aims to mobilize the support of the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, for expected relations between the Kingdom and Israel.

According to the newspaper, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman put forward the idea of renewing financial support with President Abbas in a meeting they held in Saudi Arabia last April, then bin Salman linked the renewal of support to the authority to working to tighten its grip on the West Bank.

The newspaper quoted official Palestinian and Saudi sources as saying that bin Salman provided guarantees that if Abu Mazen succeeds in controlling security in the West Bank, Saudi Arabia will renew its financial support and will not accept any deal with Israel that undermines efforts to establish a Palestinian state.

The newspaper reported, quoting the same sources, that next week the Palestinian Authority will send a high-ranking delegation to Saudi Arabia to discuss what Riyadh can offer as part of the talks with Israel to boost hopes for the establishment of a Palestinian state.

According to the newspaper, Saudi Arabia has been one of the main financiers of the authority over many years, and has pumped more than $5 billion for purposes related to the Palestinians, including direct financial support for the authority, but in 2016 it cut off its support due to allegations of corruption in the Palestinian Authority.

On Tuesday evening, the occupation forces arrested the young man, Muhammad Nabil Tawfiq Zyoud, from the town of Silat al-Harithiya, at the Dothan checkpoint, southwest of Jenin.

A young man was wounded, on Tuesday evening, before being arrested by the Israeli occupation forces in the security fence area between the Green Line and Tulkarm.

According to local sources, the young man was wounded in the foot and taken for treatment after being arrested by the occupation forces.

The Hebrew Channel 13 reported, on Tuesday evening, about an upcoming meeting of the Israeli political and security mini-council called the Israeli "Cabinit", at the beginning of next month, to discuss its scenario related to a wide round of fighting on several fronts.

According to the Hebrew channel, the security authorities will present scenarios related to the possibility of a confrontation with Hezbollah on the northern border, which may prompt the launch of missiles from the Gaza Strip and Syria, and confrontations will take place inside Palestinian cities in the occupied territories, similar to what happened in the battle of "Saif al-Quds."

Israeli political officials said: "The situation we are in reminds us of the year 2006, at a stage when war could break out."

Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian on Tuesday night as she was passing through the Hawara checkpoint in the West Bank. 

Local sources reported that the IDF stopped a vehicle at the Hawara checkpoint, and arrested 41-year-old Fatima Abu Shallal, a resident of Al-Ain camp, west of Nablus.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant will meet, on Tuesday evening, with US Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Lev, in New York, to discuss several common issues.

Lev had finished meeting in Jordan a few days ago with Palestinian and Jordanian officials against the backdrop of developments in political and security issues.

Senior Adviser to the US President for Middle East Affairs Brett McGurk will participate in the meeting.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, this type of meeting with these personalities is not included in the ban imposed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his ministers from any meeting with American officials until his expected invitation next month to the White House.

Young men in Tuqu' town, east of Bethlehem, managed to thwart an attempt by an Israeli settler to kidnap a Palestinian child.

Activists in the town told Al-Quds.com reporter that one of the settlers got out of his vehicle, which he parked on the side of the road near the Al-Khansa School, located along the street that goes around the town, and walked on his feet while the students left their school seats and returned to their homes, and a number of young men noticed the infiltration of the settler so they gathered around the child and  rescued him from an attempted kidnapping, so the settler fled.

The school complex in the town of Tuqu' remains vulnerable to many practices by settlers, including assaulting students, attempting to detain them, and sometimes attempting to kidnap them.

The Israeli occupation army said that it would demolish the family home of one of the Palestinians accused of participating in a shooting attack that killed settlers in the town of Hawara last February.

The army already demolished the apartment of martyr Abdel Fattah Kharousha a few weeks ago, and have accused his two sons of aiding him in the attack.

They will now turn to the home of his eldest son, Khaled, a Palestinian prisoner. 

The Supreme Court rejected the petition to halt the demolition by the family, but they will have the opportunity to appeal the decision. 

Sabri Saidam, a member of the Central Committee of the "Fatah" movement, stressed, during his meeting with the Chinese Ambassador to Palestine, Zeng Jishin, the importance of China's firm and supportive position on the Palestinian cause locally and internationally.

This came during a meeting between Saidam and Jaishin, at the headquarters of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China, in the city of Ramallah, today, Tuesday, which dealt with the historical relations between the two countries, which were recently translated into the visit of President Mahmoud Abbas to China, which included an emphasis on the important Chinese role.

Saidam praised the progress and development achieved by China in various sectors, thanking China for the assistance it provided to our Palestinian people, and its importance in consolidating relations between our peoples.

In turn, Jishin thanked Saidam and his accompanying delegation for this visit, expressing China's readiness to provide all capabilities in the service of Palestine and its people.

The meeting was attended by the Advisor to the Commissioner-General of the Commission for Arab and People's Relations and China, Ismail Talawi, Assistant Commissioner-General of the Commission for Arab and People's Relations, Mishaal Ali, and Raed Khalifa.

The Prisoner Club said, "Four detainees in the occupation prisons continue their hunger strike to refuse their detention, including three administrative detainees, the oldest of whom are the two detainees, Kayed Al-Fasfous from Dura / Hebron, and Sultan Khalouf from Burqin / Jenin, where they have been on strike for (27) days." Rejecting their administrative detention.

While Abd al-Rahman Baraqah from Aqabat Jabr camp / Jericho, who has been on strike for 20 days, also continues to refuse his administrative detention, and the detainee, Maher al-Akhras, has been on strike for seven days, refusing his detention. On Thursday, the occupation court extended his detention for a period of seven days for investigation.

The Secretary-General of the General Confederation of Palestinian Trade Unions, Shaher Saad, called on the International Labor Organization and the International Confederation of Trade Unions to intervene immediately and urgently to protect Palestinian workers who work in the occupied interior, for the purpose of obtaining a living only.

Saad denounced, in a statement issued today, Tuesday, the brutal attack by the occupation forces on workers who are looking for a hard living, which resulted in the injury of a number of them, one of them seriously, as a result of stun grenades being fired at workers near the northern Qalqilya crossing.

He pointed out that the occupation police withdrew the buses carrying the workers to their places of work, as a form of collective punishment practiced by the occupation against the Palestinians.

This morning, a worker was injured and dozens suffocated as a result of the occupation police attack on workers in the "Eyal" checkpoint, north of Qalqilya.

Hundreds of Palestinian workers closed part of Road 55 this morning, refusing to withdraw the occupation police from buses that take them to their places of work in the 48 lands.

Palestinian Prisoners Club said on Tuesday that Israeli occupation forces have arrested over 200 Palestinians this week, taking the annual total of detainees to over 5,000. 

The NGO supporting Palestinian prisoners said that the crimes go beyond the arrests themselves, extending to attacks against their families, vandalism of their homes, and violations of their rights once in prison.

It also pointed to the  "dangerous" social impact of Israel's mass arrest campaign, especially for families in which more than one member was targeted. ,

The Palestinian Prisoners Club accused Israel of carrying out the arrests in order to undermine the struggle against occupation. 

Today, Tuesday, Israeli bulldozers demolished a house under construction in Ain Ibrahim neighborhood in the city of Umm al-Fahm, in the occupied interior.

According to local sources, these bulldozers, accompanied by Israeli police forces, stormed the Ein Ibrahim neighborhood and began demolishing the house under the pretext of building without a permit.

The departure of the Libyan people in massive demonstrations in protest against the meeting of the Libyan Foreign Minister with the Foreign Minister of the occupation and the fact that the Foreign Minister had to flee to Turkey is clear evidence that the peoples of the Arab and Islamic nation are with the Palestinian cause and against normalization with the occupying state at the expense of the first and main Arab cause, which is the cause of the people Palestinian. Who is an integral part of the Arab and Islamic nation, and that his cause is one of the most important issues for the Arab and Islamic nation represented by the peoples of this nation, no matter how many conspiracies and challenges they face.

The countries that entered the process of normalization, this normalization was against the will of their people, which affirmed, is still, and will remain supportive, supportive, and participating in the Palestinian national struggle to defeat the occupation and restore the Palestinian people to their full and inalienable national rights of return, self-determination, and the establishment of an independent state with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.

The people who do not have any borders with the occupying state, when they stage massive demonstrations in various parts of Libya against the Minister of Foreign Affairs and against normalization, are an authentic people who belong to the Arab nation and believe that Palestine is part of the Arab land and that the occupation will end and that the Arab peoples despite their suffering from the conditions The Palestinian issue is its first issue, and the day must come when all Arab and Islamic peoples will participate in order to defeat the occupation and restore Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied Palestinian land.

Even the countries that signed peace agreements with the occupying state and regained their occupied lands, the peoples of these countries still refuse to establish any relations with the occupying state, and even the unions, forces and parties hold accountable anyone who supports normalization or visits the occupying state.

Here, we must welcome the decision of the Libyan government, which responded to the Libyan people's refusal to meet and normalize, and suspended the foreign minister from work and referred her for investigation, a measure that confirms that the Palestinian issue is still alive in many Arab countries.

For the Libyan government to respond with the people, despite the difficult conditions Libya is suffering due to foreign interference, this means that the Palestinian cause has priority.

  All salutations to the original Libyan people, to the people of the Arab nation, and to the Libyan government for its responsive decision to the demonstrations of its people.

Assassinations are considered an essential axis in the Zionist mentality and are not necessarily linked to the momentary reality of the entity, as some Palestinian politicians are trying to justify and externalize the raging threats today to assassinate the Hamas leader, Saleh Al-Arouri, that they are due to the state of erosion of deterrence in the entity on the one hand, and the rise of armed resistance in the West Bank on the one hand. another side . In view of the rich history of Israeli assassinations, which exceeded 100 since the occupation of 67, against Palestinian leaders, we find that it is an essential part of the bloody revenge mentality.

The assassinations began early, we mention the most prominent of them Ghassan Kanafani in 1972, Al-Najjar and Al-Kamaleen Adwan and Nasser in 1973, Basil Al-Kubaisi, Ali Salameh in Lebanon, Zuhair Mohsen in Paris, Bassem Sultan in Cyprus, Khaled Nazzal in Athens, Khalil Al-Wazir in Tunisia, Fathi Shikaki in Malta, Samir Kuntar in Damascus. During the second intifada, most of the leaders of the first ranks of Hamas were liquidated. Yahya Ayyash, Salah Shehadeh, Ismail Abu Shanab, Al-Rantisi, until it affected Sheikh Al-Qaid Ahmed Yassin who had just left the dawn prayer. In Kuala Lumpur, but in the past few years, the hand of assassination has concentrated in the ranks of the Islamic Jihad.

The resistance, old and new, does not care about hostile threats or assassinations. Rather, it sees that targeting it distinguishes and strengthens it among the Palestinian and Arab masses alike, and earns it respect that reaches the level of spiritual and moral sanctification on the one hand, and the provision of material “financial” benefits. And in kind, public or secret, and the case of the Tunisian aviation engineer Mohamed Zouari, who was assassinated in Sfax, is only a small example of that. But the issue of Qassem Soleimani is another topic, as it was adopted by Ismail Haniyeh, the “martyr of Jerusalem,” and Abbas Zaki Guevara, the Middle East.

As for the counter-threats by all the factions, in response to the assassination of Al-Arouri or any other Palestinian leader, it has not yet risen until a specific Israeli leader is chosen and assassinated, and Israel will not hesitate to assassinate Al-Arouri if it is confirmed that he was involved in the Hebron operation and before it. Hawara operation, it came to Netanyahu to threaten Iran if it is proven that it is behind such operations, financing and arming. But Netanyahu will not dare to assassinate Al-Arouri in Lebanon after Hassan Nasrallah threatened Israel of the consequences of doing so on his land.

Today, the threats to assassinate Al-Arouri coincide with the twenty-second anniversary of the assassination of the Secretary-General of the Popular Front, Abu Ali Mustafa, and perhaps he is the only Palestinian leader whose assassination was responded to by the assassination of an Israeli leader with the rank of minister, less than two months after the bombing of his office in Ramallah, and the only one after whom the military wing of the Front was named, after Izz al-Din al-Qassam, who was martyred before the start of the contemporary Palestinian revolution.

Within the framework of the racist occupation government's policy to perpetuate the apartheid regime that it is working to consolidate in the occupied Palestinian territories, the extremist Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir considered that his and his family's right to movement in the occupied West Bank exceeds the right of Palestinian Arabs to freedom of movement in the region. This came in an interview with Ben Gvir on Wednesday evening, 8/23/2023, to the Israeli news channel, and he added that "the right of settlers to move in the West Bank exceeds the right of Arabs."

It is noteworthy that Ben Gvir resides in the Kiryat Arba settlement in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, and heads the far-right Jewish Power Party. He calls for imposing restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the West Bank to prevent acts of resistance against gangs of Israeli settlers.

According to the latest statistics of the Israeli "Peace Now" movement, about 700,000 settlers live in 146 settlements and 146 random outposts built on the lands of the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem in 1967.

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the number of Palestinians in the West Bank reached about 3.2 million by the end of 2022.

In a related context to Ben Gvir's racist statements, the Israeli Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage, Amichai Eliyahu, called for the annexation of the occupied West Bank as soon as possible, at a time when the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, called for tightening the screws on the Palestinians.

Eliyahu considered that "the Green Line, which defines the lands occupied by Israel in 1967, does not exist and is imaginary."

"Sovereignty should be applied to the areas of Judea and Samaria" (using the Israeli name for the West Bank), claiming, "This is our homeland."

Eliyahu added that this should be implemented "as quickly as possible and as intelligently as possible." The Israeli government did not comment on these statements. The application of Israeli sovereignty means annexation, according to the definitions of the Israeli parties.

The positions of the Israeli parties that make up the government vary on the idea of annexation. While the Likud party - led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - calls for the annexation of large parts of the West Bank, the "Jewish Power" and "Religious Zionism" parties call for the annexation of the entire West Bank.

The statements of Ben Gvir and other Israeli racist extremists reflect the policies of successive Israeli governments for several decades, and express the plans and policies of the occupation in the occupied Palestinian territories, whether those related to expanding settlements, annexing the West Bank and imposing Israeli sovereignty over it, giving the right and freedom of movement to settler gangs, and restricting The movement of the Palestinians, in their land, in violation of international law, resolutions of international legitimacy, and human rights law, and embodies the apartheid regime and the (apartheid) system that it enshrines throughout the occupied Palestinian territories.

There are border checkpoints such as the Al-Karama crossing between Jericho and Jordan, and there are internal barriers and obstacles between Palestinian cities, and there are no less than 26 barriers between the West Bank and the 48 territories, and there are 13 barriers for passage to Jerusalem, and there are barriers between the Gaza Strip and the 1948 lands. Most of these barriers are equipped With surveillance cameras, military towers, iron gates, inspection rooms, parking lots, and special lanes for searching cars and Palestinian citizens.

According to a report by the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued in 2018, the occupation forces set up 140 checkpoints on which soldiers are stationed at all times or from time to time, 165 road gates where soldiers are not stationed (about half of these gates are closed under normal circumstances), and 149 earthen berms. And 251 uninhabited obstacles (roadblocks, trenches, earthen walls, etc.), through which they control the movement of Palestinian citizens between Palestinian cities. According to data published by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, there are 110 fixed military checkpoints currently occupied by the occupation, not including the military gates and crossings, in addition to about 120 flying checkpoints that the occupation erects weekly, all of which are sites of distress for citizens and traps for their arrest.

The West Bank has also been witnessing a state of extreme tension since 2022, as a result of the escalation practiced by the occupation army in Palestinian cities, camps, and towns. Since the beginning of this year, the number of martyrs has risen to more than 200, including 37 children and 11 women, according to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Ben Gvir's statements giving settlers an absolute right to move and move throughout the Palestinian lands, and denying them to the Palestinian citizens, are an expression of his racist vision, and represent an official policy of the racist, far-right occupation government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu. These statements received angry Palestinian and international reactions, as they contradict With international humanitarian law, human rights law, and international legitimacy resolutions.

Despite the importance of these responses, they are not sufficient to stop and deter them, as long as they do not turn into actual policy and practical steps to confront the racist occupation government that it practices against the Palestinians throughout the occupied Palestinian territories.

In light of the continuous partisan political, judicial and legal protests among large segments of Israeli society, against the backdrop of legislative amendments aimed at seizing the judicial authority and reducing the powers of the Supreme Court in favor of the right-wing and religious coalition parties, which have a parliamentary majority and form the government and control over its decisions and directions, the elections of the authorities will be held. Local-Municipalities, by the end of October 2023, next.

The elections and their dues will include the three municipalities of the first occupation zones in 1948:

1- Municipalities of the Hebrew Israeli Jewish community.

2- Municipalities of the Palestinian Arab community.

3- Municipalities of mixed cities.

The municipalities of the Israeli Hebrew community, especially in the main cities: West Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Beersheba, will witness severe grinding between the two sides of the dispute and conflict, within the Israelis, between the parties and supporters of the government coalition: 1- The parties of the extreme political right and the ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious parties, 2 - In the face of the parties of the moderate right and the center and the remnants of the weak left.

In the areas of the Palestinian Arab municipalities: Nazareth, Kafr Qassem, Sakhnin, Umm al-Fahm, Rahat and others with more than fifty Arab villages, in which competition is taking place in two directions:

The first is to reject the candidates of the Zionist parties of all kinds, and work to isolate them and their lack of influence on the structure, culture, and awareness of the Palestinians in the 48 areas, against the background of the national, national, and religious discrimination and oppression they face.

The second is the competition between Arab parties with multiple political tendencies: left, Islamist, nationalist, and local, despite family choices usually dominating local council elections.

As for the mixed cities with an Israeli Hebrew majority and a Palestinian Arab minority, the Palestinian interest is focused on achieving a state of presence in their local councils, and strengthening the Palestinian Arab representation for two reasons: the first is in search of improving the services they need in the Arab neighborhoods, and the second is their patriotic and nationalist motives, confirming that they are the people of the country. The indigenous people, in order to achieve equality for themselves as citizens, must be represented in their municipal councils, even if the majority are Israelis, as Palestinian candidates are looking to achieve alliances with Israeli centrist and moderate tendencies, i.e. the least bad in the face of hostile isolationist racist tendencies.

The municipal elections may not be an accurate reflection of the battle of protests ravaging Israeli society, but they will undoubtedly be a form of their results, in any case.

The Minister of Finance of the State of the Extremist Entity, Smotrich, is proud that he will lead the largest plan to strengthen sovereignty over the city of "Jerusalem" as a whole. One billion and 100 million shekels. An amount of 875 million shekels was allocated for the Israelization of the educational process in Jerusalem. The title of that plan was “Integration of the Arab population into the Israeli society and economy, especially the youth among them, and the residents of Jerusalem in general. Among the objectives of that deceptive and misleading plan was the so-called reducing the economic and social gaps between the Arabs and” Jews in the city.

The Smotrich plan, with the participation of the Al-Kyan Municipality and what is known as the Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Jewish Heritage, has a budget for the next five years (2024-2028) of 3 billion and 200 million shekels... of which 120 million shekels is allocated to enhance the security of settlement outposts and settlers in the eastern part of the city. By establishing new police stations, deploying and strengthening the police in Jerusalem, outposts, and roads leading to settlements, increasing the number of guards and municipality observers, installing new security cameras, allocating special training to the police, and increasing the salaries of security guards by 100%, while 800 million shekels from that budget will be allocated for “families.” 

The entire educational process in Jerusalem, the exclusion of the Palestinian curriculum from the city, the besieging of the schools that teach it on the way of liquidating them and depriving them of budgets, and the refusal to open any school built by the entity’s municipality except according to the Israeli curriculum…

There are three schools that are required to be opened by teaching the Israeli curriculum in Kafr Aqab, the Elia Elementary School from the first to the sixth grade, and the Creativity School for Arts in Shuafat. Also from the first to the sixth primary grade, which will study mathematics, science, chemistry and other scientific subjects, in addition to a technology school in the Al-Sala’a area - Jabal Al-Mukaber, with a “computer” course from the ninth to the twelfth grade, and the goal here is not only the Palestinian curriculum, but targeting Of this amount, 200 million shekels will be allocated to integrate Palestinian students into Israeli universities, primarily the Hebrew University. So that there will be intensive work to integrate them into the university's programs and activities within the framework of normalization and common relations with Jewish students, in a way that affects their position and national tendencies. 

Matters did not stop at this point within the framework of the process of “Israelization” of awareness. Rather, part of this budget was allocated for the establishment of what is known as the “House of Culture” instead of a parking lot located in the courtyard of the “Jerusalem” municipal library near Al-Zahraa Street and Al-Mamounia Secondary School for Girls. It can accommodate 200 cars and is being closed at a time when Jerusalem and its residents suffer from an acute shortage of parking spaces. This forces them to park their cars illegally and exposes them to persecution, stalking, and violations by the occupation police and its municipality inspectors. On the other hand, the entity municipality confiscated a plot of land in the Sheikh Jarrah area, which is targeted by Judaization, and allocated it as a parking lot for settlers' cars in order to facilitate their arrival to the area. We are fully aware that the aim of building the "Cultural House", which includes a theater and a cultural center, is not to develop its Arab population culturally and artistically, and to create space for them for cultural and artistic activities. The entity's state seeks to obliterate and erase everything related to culture, identity, narration, arts, and Palestinian and Arab history in the city. Because this institution will have a goal within the framework of normalizing relations between the city's Arab residents and "Jews" and establishing joint cultural and artistic activities and events. From another angle, the entity's municipality and its security services will seek to close the artistic and cultural institutions and youth centers in the city, under the pretext that they spread extremist culture and conduct provocative activities and events that endanger the security of the entity's state. Any cultural or artistic institution that provides activities and events related to the patriotic and awareness-raising aspect and stressing the rights of our people, their identity, culture, narrative and history, must be written off and disposed of. Therefore, one of the objectives of this "cultural house" will be to seek to cancel the existence and withdraw licenses of cultural, artistic and youth institutions in Jerusalem, such as the Yabous Cultural Center, the Edward Said Art Center, the Palestinian National Theatre, Al-Hakawati, the Burj Al-Luqluq Foundation, and others. From clubs and community and youth organizations.

Looking at the items of the proposed plan, we find that it is a security plan par excellence, as the security budget alone is 120 million shekels, as well as more censorship, more militarization, more police stations and security men, and more segregation and apartheid.

The development of roads and infrastructure for settlement projects and plans has a share of this budget, in order to connect the settlements to each other, expand the network of trains and tunnels, and build more bridges, tunnels, and an air train that facilitates access to the eastern part of the city and settlers' access to it.

Certainly, the development they are talking about will be in favor of the settlers, by establishing more settlements and outposts, and bringing more settlers to the city, who need security, protection, transportation, infrastructure, playgrounds, schools, health centers and parks, so that they can live and live in the city. And this needs huge funds, the money that this plan provides for them, their housing, and their welfare.

We realize that this plan came mostly to satisfy the settlers. They will distract Jerusalemites with daily issues and crises. This plan came to say to the Israeli society in general and the settlers in particular, we have brought you budgets that will reduce all acts of "terrorism" and give you security.

The occupation is not born of the moment, the occupation has been 56 years, or even 75 years of its occupation of this land, and its plans continue with it, and what it failed to pass in the past, will return to it again. They are always open battles, and the time limit is open. What is not achieved now will happen in the future. This is how the occupation was able to remain in the country for the past 75 years! With force, plans, policies, laws, and unlimited resources, but what is new today is the budgets that come from abroad, thinking that only money can obey humans.

The occupation did not succeed in achieving the system of integration and Israelization, as it sought in other areas of historical Palestine. Imposing projects with different titles to recruit young people, under the title of improving living conditions, civil service and community centers, institutions with different names, with the aim of linking Jerusalemite society to the Israeli system by exploiting the financial and living conditions of young people. We are also witnessing an escalation of the attack on education, as education is the main gateway to obliterating the Palestinian narrative, history and national identity. The occupation began to intensify its support for the "Israelization" of education by building dozens of schools in the various Jerusalem neighborhoods that follow the Israeli educational system and curriculum. And the battles continue with the Jerusalemites over the curriculum, and when he felt that this did not resolve the matter in its final form, he came up with the five-year plan as another window to achieve more linkage, expulsion, Judaization, Israelization, and control.

There is no doubt that the decline in the role of the Palestinian national movement has cast a shadow over the entire components and structures of Palestinian society and its various social groups. The division, and what it generated from the absence of accountability and domination over the limited resources of our people, and their misuse and mismanagement, led to the exacerbation of social crises and the spread of corruption, poverty, unemployment and nepotism. This exacerbated the burdens and forms of discrimination suffered by women, and the youth, as they were among the groups most affected by this deterioration at the various economic, social and political levels, especially in terms of their exclusion from political participation and the decision-making process.

In my previous article, I briefly looked at the reality of the youth and the role that this vital sector can play in the process of democratic change, the defense of the national destiny, and the requirements of building a national movement with new features and a young leadership that opens up horizons for completing national liberation and democratic construction in accordance with the characteristics of the current stage that is witnessing tremendous changes, on the the regional and international levels, the dangers that threaten the Palestinian cause, and the national rights of our people.

It goes without saying and re-emphasizing the importance of the vital and historical role played by Palestinian women throughout the years of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, from before the Nakba until now. The feminist movement has had a prominent role since 1920, when waves of national struggle swept through Palestine, as it spread to major cities with Jerusalem, and the rest of the towns and villages, major demonstrations took place on February 27, 1920, in which tens of thousands of Palestinian women and men participated, expressing their rejection of the British Mandate and Zionist ambitions in the land of Palestine.

During the Mandate era, women took the initiative to form many feminist associations, and a feminist conference was organized in Jerusalem in 1929 to unify the feminist effort, in which 200 women participated, and many decisions were issued that established the requirements for advancing the status of women, and the Women’s Union was established in 1930, which is considered a step Mission in unifying and mobilizing the women's movement in Palestine.

Following the Nakba and the Zionist movement's seizure of 78% of the land of Palestine, the women's movement in the Gaza Strip, and the three women's associations present in it, were able to unify their efforts under the name of the Women's Union Society in 1964, and then the General Union of Palestinian Women was established under the supervision of the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1965 At the Jerusalem Conference, which contributed to organizing the struggles of Palestinian women and unifying their struggles on the national and social levels.

However, the Palestinian feminist movement witnessed an unprecedented qualitative shift during the Great Intifada in December 1987, as previously that women in the Palestine Liberation Organization factions were able to build an organized mass feminist movement. Then, in 1989, the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees “The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine” was established, followed by the establishment in 1981 of the Union of Women’s Committees for Social Work “Fatah Movement”, and the Union of Palestinian Working Women’s Committees “The Palestinian Communist Party”, where these mass frameworks and organizations played Feminism and its network of social institutions played a fundamental and prominent role not only in the social struggle with its various dimensions in facing the policies of repression and collective punishment practiced by the Israeli occupation forces, but also played a role in leading the uprising itself, as this great role is highlighted by the movie “Naela and the Intifada” by the Brazilian director of Lebanese origins Julia Pasha.

The Palestinian feminist movement, as well as the mass movements of other sectors, “students, workers and professionals”, most of them arose from the womb of the national struggle in the face of Zionist colonial ambitions since the Nakba of 1948, and after the completion of the occupation of Palestine during the 1967 aggression. The occupation expanded within its framework the forms of popular participation, and vice versa.

The important matter that must be presented to public opinion, and now deserves a serious discussion, is why, despite the expansion of the formation of women's civil institutions since the establishment of the National Authority, the feminist movement and women's rights that they wrested in their national struggle against the occupation are witnessing a noticeable decline?! This requires all social and national forces seeking change, rebuilding and renewing the national movement, and correcting the compass of the national struggle against the occupation with the requirements of social democratic construction and its essence is strengthening people’s steadfastness and their ability to survive and confront liquidation schemes, to stop carefully before the reasons for this decline and prospects, ways and tools. Re-energize it within the framework of a national and social vision that is an alternative to the reality of the current national and popular movement. This is what we will try to discuss in a later article to examine the challenges and opportunities for achieving this.

Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy head of Hamas and the official in the West Bank, gave a series of interviews in which he appeared as a strong leader who did not fear assassination, was patriotic and united, and in line with the Israeli threats to assassinate him, which have escalated significantly in the recent period in response to the continuation and escalation of resistance operations, in an attempt by the government Netanyahu Smotrich Ben Gvir to portray that the resistance is not a result of occupation, aggression, racism and settlement, but rather is caused by people and movements dependent on external axes.

The Palestinian resistance has been going on for a hundred years, and whenever leaders and generations rise, they are replaced by new leaders and other generations. The resistance because of certain people like Al-Arouri and others does not return to the importance of their role. Rather, it is Palestinian nationalism. These are Israeli claims to justify the occupation's inability to stop the resistance.

With such allegations, the Netanyahu government is trying to kill more than one bird with one stone, as it magnifies the external danger in an attempt to contain the widespread opposition to the government's plan, and seeks to employ resistance operations to provide cover for the continuation of the decisive plan that works in an unprecedented manner for annexation, Judaization and displacement, and paves the way for military aggression that you will think Much in its scope and targets for fear of a reaction, and perhaps the magnitude of the threat campaign does not bear serious intentions to implement it as much as it is an attempt to restore deterrence, intimidate the resistance and urge it to stop the resistance or limit its escalation, because whoever wants to assassinate does not announce it, and Israel may resort to silent assassinations In Gaza or abroad, meaning that Israel is not directly responsible for it, and it will focus on confronting the resistance in the West Bank and its symbols more than anywhere else first, and Gaza second.

The resistance announced through a number of its leaders and spokesmen that it takes the Israeli threats to carry out assassinations against its leaders and symbols very seriously, and that it will surprise the enemy with the size and type of response to any Israeli escalation. Because the inability to stop the resistance threatens the Kahanist government with its downfall, as it came to decisiveness, and instead of decisiveness, the resistance escalated during its reign much more than most of the previous governments that were always criticized by the parties participating in the current government. Since the beginning of this year, 36 Israelis have been killed as a result of the escalation of resistance operations. Thousands of operations, which included firing bullets, placing explosives, destroying the property and infrastructure of the settlements, and confronting the incursions of the occupation forces and the attacks of the settler colonizers, which have escalated at very high rates since the beginning of this year.

The crucial point in Al-Arouri's interviews is that he preached the possibility of defeating the occupation from the West Bank within a year, which is a very important point. Because the West Bank is the centerpiece of Israeli plans at this stage, and because it sets for the Palestinian people a central, realistic and achievable goal for several reasons, including: First, the presence of about four million Palestinians in the West Bank against a million settlers, who are determined to resist, as evidenced by the fact that the resistance continues, wave after wave. With a noticeable escalation in the waves of resistance that the West Bank witnessed during the last two years; secondly, because there is a global rejection of occupation and settlement based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and this is an important factor whose importance must not be underestimated, and it does not liberate the land, but it helps to liberate it; And third, because Israel is going through the worst phase since its establishment because of the deep internal crisis that is likely to get worse if it does not find a way out, and it is expected that the crisis will be exported abroad and against the enemies of Israel.

Beware of exaggerating resistance abilities and underestimating enemy strength

There are some drawbacks to Al-Arouri's point of view, which are exaggerating the strength and capabilities of the resistance and exaggerating what it has achieved so far, and underestimating the strength of the occupying power and the achievements it has made during the last two decades. It is true that Israel is in its weakest state, but it is still strong and capable of oppression, and it relies on an American-Western alliance that is ready to save it, even from itself, when needed.

For example, the Gaza Strip, despite the Israeli "withdrawal", did not become liberated, but rather semi-liberated. The type of resistance operations in the Gaza Strip and the resulting losses are not enough to explain the Israeli retreat. The Israeli withdrawal from Gaza is mainly due to the existence of a plan by Ariel Sharon, based on making the Israeli political initiative the only game in the city, and blocking the way for any other initiatives, by taking action Taking one step back in Gaza in exchange for advancing ten steps forward in the West Bank, and sowing discord and rift between the Palestinians, and this, with regret and bitterness, is what actually happened. The hateful division took place in it, while it was besieged and exposed to aggression, and the strength accumulated and accumulated by the resistance, despite its importance and being an important development that should not be denied without exaggeration and underestimation, especially that it took place against the Israeli wind, and yet we must not forget that it is taking place within a larger and longer framework Imprisoned in history, this does not diminish its capabilities, but rather defines its conditions that must be taken into account when making calculations of confrontation, its possibilities and its future.

Priorities of the Axis of Resistance

The "axis of resistance", if this term is used correctly, despite the importance of its existence and role, is also in a difficult situation, despite the progress it has made, and any look at the conditions in Lebanon, Syria and Iran and the internal and external crises that they suffer from clarifies what is meant. It also does not work according to Palestinian priorities, calculations, and agenda only or primarily, as the Palestinian player is not the strongest player in it, nor is it the only possibility nor likely that a regional war will break out. war and peace.

In the context of this transitional period, any major war is undesirable from various sides; Because the results are not guaranteed, because no party has the ability to resolve at this stage, so the world is satisfied with the repercussions of the Ukrainian war, and because peace is also elusive, so it is expected that we will witness skirmishes, tensions, and contradictory signals, sometimes towards calm and at other times towards escalation, small battles and temporary settlements It aims to prevent collapse, explosion, and détente, until new variables, developments, and factors introduce a change in the rules and outcomes of the conflict, perhaps the prisoner exchange deal with giving Iran billions of dollars, and Tehran’s commitment not to exceed the sixtieth line in uranium enrichment, skirmishes on the Palestinian-Lebanese borders, and the start of exploration for Oil in Lebanese territorial waters, the Iranian-Saudi reconciliation, the inclusion of countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE in the BRICS group, the continuation of negotiations on the Iranian nuclear file, and a major deal in the region whose most prominent title is the Saudi-Israeli normalization; All indications of what we went to.

In this context, it is wrong to set a short timetable by Al-Arouri to end the occupation of the West Bank, as he is currently saying, and as previously reported in speeches by other leaders of the Hamas movement and the resistance forces. The realistic thing is to set achievable goals on the way to achieving bigger and bigger goals, and so on, such as : Strengthening the factors and elements of steadfastness and popular presence on the homeland, keeping the flame of resistance burning while the cause is alive, and doing everything possible to thwart the Saudi-Israeli normalization and not encourage it or ignore it, which if it happens will inevitably be at the expense of the Palestinian cause, and we do not say that it is easy but rather unlikely, especially in light of current Israeli government, but its occurrence must not be ruled out entirely.

In addition to this, the continuation and escalation of the comprehensive resistance in all its forms, within accurate calculations without recklessness or lethargy; Where it does not give pretexts to the occupation to commit massacres and carry out cleansing and displacement operations, and the intense endeavor to involve wider popular sectors in the popular resistance, and not to focus on armed resistance only.

Here, the boycott of the occupation and the imposition of sanctions and isolation on Israel worldwide must take on the importance it deserves. So that the boycott campaign spreads in all its forms, as well as expanding, generalizing, rooting and organizing field unity, to include all sectors and fields, in a way that provides the infrastructure to end the division. Without national unity, it is impossible to end the occupation, especially in light of the renewed bets of the Palestinian official leadership on the possibility of a political horizon, on the basis of The background to the major deal that the Biden administration is trying to achieve between Riyadh and Tel Aviv before the end of next year.

It is also possible during this stage to struggle to thwart the plans of the current Israeli government that focus on annexing Areas (C), completing the Judaization of Jerusalem and its captivity, especially Al-Aqsa, lifting the siege on the Gaza Strip, thwarting the scheme of deepening apartheid, and plunging our people at home into a spiral of crime and violence. procedure.

One last point, which is related to national unity; Al-Arouri showed great concern for dialogue and national unity by distinguishing between the Fatah Resistance Movement alongside all the resistance factions and narrow circles immersed in security coordination. However, a distinction must be made between the importance of continuing to work for unity, and what this requires of continuing the national dialogue and meetings. With the various components of the Palestinian political movement, and between holding a meeting like the El Alamein meeting, which resulted in a zero cube, and one team came out with many points, while the other team returned with nostalgia.

As for the distinction between arrests, the arrests carried out by the authority during the era of the late President Yasser Arafat were at a stage in which there was a political process and an authority that resisted, negotiated and made concessions, and was witnessing what the occupation opposed of the revolving door policy. As for the arrests in the period that followed and those that took place recently, they took place in light of the authority’s efforts to restore its prestige, prevent the continuation and escalation of the resistance, and continue its security role without a political process or mutual commitments.

Yes, the national dialogue and meetings between the components of the political movement must continue, but preparations must be made for it, and it must be based on national and democratic will, ground, and foundations. As for the dialogue that took place in the El Alamein meeting, it was not a dialogue. It aimed, at maximum, to tame and contain the opposition factions, and at the minimum, to obtain factional legitimacy for the authority, despite its continuing course on the miserable path, in light of the worst government in Israel taking power without progress. Authority is nothing in return, not for the factions, nor with regard to stopping arrests on political grounds and for the resistance fighters. This is something that needs to be re-evaluated and lessons drawn.

A well-informed Palestinian source suggested, on Tuesday morning, that the percentage of public employees' salaries, which are scheduled to be paid next week, will be raised.

The source explained to Al-Quds.com that the increase in the exchange rate will depend on the funds expected to arrive from the clearing house after stopping deductions from them, as well as the transfer of funds collected by the occupation authorities from the Al-Karama crossing.

The source pointed out that the percentage may rise to 90%, if the occupation government adheres to that, indicating that there are promises to do so from several sides.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two young men from the town of Silwan in occupied Jerusalem.

According to the affairs of prisoners and ex-prisoners in the Jerusalem governorate, those forces arrested Jerusalemites Nihad and Imad al-Abbasi, after they raided and searched their homes.