Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday night that the northern border could soon witness an escalation with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. 

in a meeting United Nations Headquarters in New York City, Gallant warned Guterres of "threats that destabilize the Middle East, foremost of which is Iran's actions against Israel by financing and arming Hezbollah, Hamas and other organizations," according to the Israeli news site Ynet.

Gallant told Guterres of the United Nations that "Iran is pushing Hezbollah to these violations and provocations," and that is increasing "the potential for escalation on the northern borders."

Last night, young Ammar Abu Zayed (34 years old) was killed in Lod, after he was shot by unknown persons.

According to the Arabic-speaking Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, the number of victims since the beginning of the year among the Palestinians inside Israel has risen to 158.

The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said, on Tuesday, that the repercussions of the crisis of revealing the secret meeting between Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and his Libyan counterpart Naglaa al-Mangoush in Italy will make it difficult for Israel to talk with Islamic and Arab countries due to the lack of trust following the strong blow that took place during the past two days.

According to the newspaper, what happened will force officials in the Arab countries to think twice before going to any secret meeting with any Israeli official, because they may find themselves the next day in the headlines of news bulletins through statements officially published by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and they face violent protests in their countries as it was in Liya.

The newspaper believes that the biggest beneficiary of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs' involvement in the Libyan issue is the "Mossad", which is considered more successful in maintaining secrecy in similar cases, and competes with the ministry in diplomatic contacts to expand the circle of relations and normalization with Arab countries.

The newspaper indicated that the Italian wisdom close to the Libyans put great pressure on Tripoli to open a rapprochement in relations with Israel, but the Libyan government is also thirsty for international legitimacy and wanted to achieve it through rapprochement with Israel, which was admitted by a senior official in an interview with Reuters that the meeting between Al-Manqoush and Cohen were the result of the desire of the government of Abdul Hamid al-Dabaiba to mobilize American and international support in its favour.

Last night, an Israeli plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, this is the first Israeli plane since the opening of Saudi airspace to the movement of Israeli aircraft that has to land at Jeddah airport.

On board this plane, which will take place this morning from Jeddah to Tel Aviv, 128 Israelis were on a flight to the Seychelles island in the Indian Ocean.

The plane's passengers spent the night at Jeddah airport.

The head of the Israeli General Security Agency, the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, warned the political level in the last session of the Cabinet, and in other security meetings, of the seriousness of the prison overcrowding crisis with Palestinian prisoners, and the lack of space in those prisons, which may make the task difficult arresting more wanted persons in light of the wave of attacks and the state of security tension in the West Bank.

According to the Hebrew newspaper, Israel Hayom, senior officials in the security services have also warned of the continued overcrowding in prisons, especially since, starting from the first of next month, the release of Palestinian prisoners with reduced sentences of between one month and three years, who are released before their term ends with a short period to alleviate the overcrowding situation, believing that this will make the problem of overcrowding more difficult and actually harm the possibility of arresting more wanted persons.

The Minister of the so-called National Security, the extremist Itamar Ben Gvir, had worked to pass a bill in the Knesset recently preventing the release of these people with the aim of punishing them and keeping them until the last day of their sentences inside prisons.

Those who were arrested for throwing stones and other minor accusations against them were released within the so-called "administrative release mechanism", so that they would be released in the last days or weeks of their sentences. It is a mechanism mainly used to reduce overcrowding inside Israeli prisons. And to make room for more detainees.

And with the entry into force of the new law next Friday, security warnings continue to cancel the arrests of security and administrative wanted persons, because there is no longer room in prisons.

Senior officers from the Israeli Prison Service said: "The situation is serious... It is a national crisis, and a real disaster."

And the Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom claimed that the Israeli army last week refrained from carrying out important arrests at the request of the Prison Service due to the overcrowding of the prisons with Palestinian prisoners. .

According to the newspaper, in recent months, the number of detainees has increased dramatically due to the state of security tension in the West Bank and the wave of attacks, noting that there has been a jump in the number of administrative detention orders issued during the past two years, as in 2021 there were 450 new administrative detentions, but in 2022 The number jumped to more than 900, and during the current year more than 500 Palestinians have been arrested so far.

The newspaper claims that the Israeli army may have to stop some of the arrests, while a military official commented, "It's more ridiculous, and it has already happened several times."

In response, Ben Gvir said, "I am not ready for there to be a easing of penalties for those who work against the State of Israel in my era... There will always be a place for security prisoners in prisons." according to his expression.

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

Those forces arrested about 30 civilians from villages, towns, camps and cities in the West Bank.

Palestinian Education Minister Marwan Awartani submitted his resignation on Monday to Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh over the teachers' strike, sources close to him told Al-Quds.

Teachers in Palestinian public schools have been holding one of the longest internal strikes in Palestinian history over pay and unionization. 

Sources in the know, however, said that Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh will likely reject the resignation. 

Clashes broke out with the Israeli occupation forces, on Monday evening, in the village of Kharbatha Bani Harith, and the town of Betunia, west of Ramallah.

President Mahmoud Abbas chaired, this evening, Monday, at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, a meeting of the leaders of the security services.

During the meeting, they followed up on the latest developments in terms of providing security and safety for citizens, and preserving the rule of law.

President Abbas stressed the need to implement the rule of law, provide security and stability to protect the Palestinian people and all their national institutions, and provide everything that would strengthen the steadfastness of the Palestinian citizens on their land, praising the efforts of the Palestinian security services.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will go "soon" to Russia to discuss with his counterpart Vladimir Putin the revival of the agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain, according to what Erdogan's party spokesman Omar Celik said Monday.

"Our president took the initiative (to hold talks to revive the deal) to avoid the world facing a food crisis," Celik said.

He (Erdogan) will visit Sochi soon. We believe that new developments can take place after this visit."

The Turkish or Russian authorities have not yet announced any specific date for this visit.

However, the "Bloomberg" news agency indicated that the meeting of the two presidents may take place on the eighth of September.

For his part, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the two sides are preparing for the meeting "extensively", without mentioning a possible date or place for it.

Erdogan relied on the good relationship he has with Putin to try to play a mediating role between Russia and Ukraine since the first began its invasion of its neighbor's lands in early 2022.

Erdogan announced in July that Putin would visit Turkey this August, but the Kremlin did not confirm this.

The last meeting between the two presidents dates back to last October, and it was hosted by the Kazakh capital, Astana. The two leaders also held a videoconference in April during which a nuclear power plant was inaugurated in Turkey, which was established with Russian funding, ahead of the country's presidential elections.

Turkey and the United Nations mediated between Russia and Ukraine to conclude an agreement in the summer of 2022, which allowed the export of Ukrainian grain through safe passages in the Black Sea, in an effort to avoid additional increases in food prices globally and to avoid supply shortages in Africa and other regions of the world as a result of the conflict.

However, Moscow withdrew from the aforementioned agreement at the end of July. Since then, Russia has vowed to attack any ship sailing from Ukraine in the Black Sea.

Turkey is seeking to revive the agreement, hoping to use it as a lever to resume peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.

Ukraine currently relies mainly on land corridors for the export of grain, which greatly limits the quantities that can be sent. Two ships departed from the Odessa region in the south of the country and sailed close to the coasts of Romania and Bulgaria, which are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, before arriving in the Turkish city of Istanbul.

However, Ankara warned of the danger of these attempts in light of the Russian threats.

On Friday, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said during his visit to Kiev that he saw "no alternative" to reviving the grain deal.

"We know that alternative ways (to transport grain shipments) are being considered, but we do not see an alternative from the first initiative because (these ways) involve risks," he added.

Fidan is scheduled to go to Moscow in the coming days to discuss the Kremlin's demands in this regard and to prepare for a meeting between Erdogan and Putin.

The military judiciary in Lebanon is investigating a Russian citizen on suspicion of spying on Hezbollah for Israel, a security official told AFP on Monday.

The security official explained that the Lebanese security authorities obtained information from Hezbollah, the most prominent political and military force in Lebanon and the sworn enemy of Israel, stating that the Russian citizen "was recruited by the Israelis and asked to explore headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut and southern Lebanon."

After he tried to reach an apartment in the southern suburbs, Hezbollah informed the security authorities about him, and they stopped him about two weeks ago while he was trying to leave the country at Beirut International Airport, accompanied by his wife and their child.

After the Lebanese General Security finished listening to him, he was referred to the military judiciary, which is currently expanding its investigation with him.

Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid al-Dbeibeh announced from the Palestinian embassy in Tripoli on Monday that he had dismissed his foreign minister Naglaa al-Manqoush, who met with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen in Rome. 

Al-Dbeibeh arrived at the Palestinian embassy alongside several government ministers, where he expressed Libya's refusal to normalize relations with Israel, and his commitment to criminalizing any contact with official representatives. 

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry welcomed the announcement, adding that al-Dbeibeh affirmed his support for the Palestinian struggle to achieve their "full rights" and the establishment of independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. 

Manqoush and Cohen met last week under the auspices of the Italian foreign minister to reportedly discuss the establishment of ties between the two countries and the possibility of Israel providing humanitarian assistance to Libya.

Once the news of the meeting broke, Libyan people took to the streets to protest any ties with Israel, prompting officials both from Libya's UN-backed government and its competing authority to denounce the meeting.  

The Internal Security Agency at Tripoli Airport denied on Monday that it had allowed the foreign minister of the internationally recognized government, "suspended from work," to leave Sunday for Turkey, after announcing that she had recently met her Israeli counterpart.

Social media pioneers circulated news that a Falcon-type plane was tracked on the Flight Radar application and may have transported Minister Naglaa Al-Manqoush to Turkey, after permission to leave Tripoli was granted by the Internal Security Agency.

The Turkish Anatolia News Agency quoted "security sources" as saying that Al-Mangoush left the Libyan capital for Istanbul on a government plane.

The Internal Security Agency denied, in a statement, "what is being circulated on social media regarding allowing or facilitating the travel of the suspended foreign minister, who did not pass through the official channels at the Mitiga airport outlet, whether the regular, private or presidential terminal, according to the customary context, and the surveillance cameras will clarify this." .

The Internal Security Agency added that it had "included the name of the concerned person in the list of those banned from traveling until they comply with the investigations."

In Israel, there is almost unanimity and outrage over the Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen's haste to meet the foreign minister at night, accusing him of betraying the Libyan minister, by quickly announcing the meeting because of a photo.

There is no Libyan denial and Israeli confirmation, and that the meeting between Cohen and Manqoush took place in a coordinated manner and in an arrangement between senior officials from both sides. Cohen specially traveled to Rome to meet with her in an official Italian hospitality, and the meeting was announced in a coordinated manner with Libyan officials, and the meeting or its announcement was not random. .

Eli Cohen's display cost Israel the loss of a new normalization victory, and he believed that he had attained an achievement for his leader, Netanyahu, that might help him in the acute political crisis in Israel. A number of analysts considered that this stupidity harmed Israel's interests and priorities and its secret work in weaving Arab normalization relations, which it has been working for years, especially the Mossad, which works to develop Israel's relations with Libya through Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Haftar.

And from imaginary achievements of normalization with Libya to Israeli political controversy and disagreement, and criticism from Lapid and Gantz, who attacked Eli Cohen against the backdrop of leaking his meeting with the Libyan Foreign Minister, and considered that this harms secret relations with Libya and other countries.

Despite all this, criticism and controversy, there is a state of Zionist consensus to condemn Cohen, as well as continuing to seek and work to persuade Arab countries for normalization and the need to work secretly, and despite the opportunism of Israeli politicians, they work in the interest of Israel.

And that all the vehicles of the occupying state are working diligently on several fronts and have not stopped developing their relations with the Arab and non-Arab regimes and concluding political, security and economic agreements in various places and fronts and the United States is assisting them in that. Especially in their relentless pursuit to conclude a normalization agreement with them, even if the talk is about interests America, and it is at the heart of common Israeli interests.

What is disgusting is the situation of us Palestinians, and the leadership is still betting on Israeli society, as well as the Arabs, and the competition by the Arab regimes to win the favor of the American administration through the gateway to Israel, which is mired in its crises. Despotic, rickety, corrupt regimes are looking for their interests, staying in power, and controlling the resources of the Arab peoples.

The Libyan foreign minister, who met the Israeli foreign minister in Rome and fled to Turkey after the Libyans protested, did not take that step in isolation from the Libyan government as she raced with other groups to win America's favor through Israel.

Monday morning, the headline in the Israeli newspapers was about Cohen's scandal and his stupid behavior, as described by many in Israel, and the Libyan Foreign Minister whose departure from Libya was headlined by Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper and the Israeli media, as "escape."

Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested Jerusalemites in occupied East Jerusalem.

Local sources said that the occupation forces arrested Khaled Halabiya, a student at Al-Quds University, after storming his house, in the town of Abu Dis, east of occupied Jerusalem, and another whose identity was unknown, after stopping his vehicle, which he was driving on the road between the towns of Hizma and Jaba, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.

Israeli police arrested a young Palestinian from the town of Ya'bad in Jenin while he was inside '48 territories.

Local sources identified the man as Moamen Muhammad Rihan.

Also on Monday, Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian from the Old City of occupied Jerusalem and other Palestinians in Abu Dis.

One of the detainees were identified as Khaled Halabiya, a student at Al-Quds University, after Israeli occupation forces stormed his family home in the town of Abu Dis, east of occupied Jerusalem.

The international NGO Human Rights Watch said on Monday that the Israeli army and border police have killed a record number of Palestinian children in 2022 and 2023 without being held accountable. 

According to the group, last year was the deadliest year for Palestinian children since 2008, and this year is on course to overtake this peak. 

As of August 22nd, Israeli forces had killed at least 34 Palestinian children in the West Bank this year.

“Israeli forces are gunning down Palestinian children living under occupation with increasing frequency,” said Bill Van Esveld, associate children’s rights director at Human Rights Watch. “Unless Israel’s allies, particularly the United States, pressure Israel to change course, more Palestinian children will be killed.”

The rights group investigated the killing of four Palestinian minors.

One example was the case of Mahmoud al-Sadi, 17, who was killed by Israeli forces as he walked to school near the Jenin refugee camp on November 21, 2022. The IDF did not address his killing – but said its forces had been conducting arrest raids in the camp, during which they exchanged fire with Palestinian fighters, even though the nearest exchange of fighters was over 300 meters away from where he was shot. 

According to Human Rights Watch, "Mahmoud stood by the side of a road, waiting for the sounds of shooting in the distance to stop, and was not holding any weapon or projectile, a witness said and a security-camera video that Human Rights Watch reviewed showed. After the distant shooting had stopped and the Israeli forces were withdrawing, a single shot fired from an Israeli military vehicle roughly 100 meters away struck Mahmoud, the witness said."

Today, Monday, Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh called on the world to take all necessary measures to stop the Israeli crimes of "apartheid" against the Palestinian people.

In his speech at the beginning of the government session in Ramallah, Shtayyeh said, "The apartheid regime in Israel is not only a practice, but Israel has enacted many laws that serve its racist regime, whether it is the national law or something else."

He pointed out that the world did not need to hear the statement of the Israeli Minister Itamar Ben Gvir in order to be convinced and ascertained of the racist ideas that shape the thought and behavior of those who today assume the reins of power in the occupying state.

Shtayyeh said: "What Ben Gvir and all the pillars of the Israeli government are doing in terms of racist practices that embrace the doctrine of killing, arson, erasure and genocide, are enough for the world to stop dealing with this government, condemn its practices and activate international laws calling for boycotting it, and providing protection for the Palestinian people from that." criminal practices.

He added, "The apartheid regime imposed by the Israeli government makes the Palestinian consume 72 liters of water and the Israeli consume 430 liters, and that there are buses that Palestinians are forbidden to ride, and that there are buildings in which Palestinians are forbidden to rent an apartment, and that Jews have the right to build anywhere." While the Palestinian is prevented from building on his land, and his house is even demolished.

Shtayyeh continued, "Israel claims that some Jews owned some homes in Palestine before 1948," and what about the thousands of homes owned by Palestinians that still exist to this day? What about the seized lands? What about the books and antiquities that were stolen? What about the apartheid wall that separates the Palestinian from the other Palestinian? Who made the Palestinian live in bantustans and outposts isolated from each other? What about preventing the Palestinian from accessing his land in order to impoverish him and turn him into a cheap labor force in the Israeli labor market, and push him outside his land to seize it later? What about the fragmentation of the Palestinian lands: Gaza is isolated and divided, a white area, a yellow area, Hebron is divided H2 H1, Jerusalem is surrounded by a wall, and the rest of the lands of Palestine are divided?

Shtayyeh stressed that this fragmentation creates a torn legal, administrative and economic system, and he said: "Above all of this, the reunification of Palestinian families is prevented. This is the height of criminality and racism, and we, on our part, put this before international platforms and institutions and confront it on the ground, and the world must prevent its companies from participating." any colonial practice on our land.

He pointed out that the cabinet will discuss security and financial reports today, the greening of Palestine program, strengthening the steadfastness of the people of Al-Walaja village, renewing the Internet for all Palestinian schools, publishing the Convention for the Prevention of Torture, energy, water and school projects, and other files.

Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday that Palestinian statehood will not be on the table in negotiations with Saudi Arabia over a deal to normalize relations with the Kingdom.

While he noted that a deal is "in the interest of everyone" and that Israel is "ready to give a lot to the Saudis," he said that there will be "no concessions" on the West Bank. 

"This is just a fantasy...it will not happen. Palestinians will not get anything," he added.

Smotrich also hit back against the Biden administration over its criticism of settler construction in the occupied West Bank. 

In an interview with Israeli Army Radio, Smotrich called the U.S. "hypocritical."

"I don't want to talk about the Americans and how they behaved in Afghanistan and Iraq.. but they should not preach to us about human rights," he said. 

It seems that the occupying power is serious this time in its threats to assassinate the leaders of the Palestinian resistance, especially the leaders of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other military leaders, especially since this threat came from Prime Minister Netanyahu, along with other Israeli forums that described the deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas, Saleh al-Arouri, as Head of Al-Aqsa and poses a strategic threat to Israel.

The return of the occupying power to the policy of assassination is expected at any moment. Although this aggressive method was stopped during the truce between Hamas and the occupation, mediated by Arabs. However, the occupying power is ready to violate the agreements whenever it wants. It is not bound by any agreements, and many of its leaders declare agreements unholy. Just as it did not abide by the Oslo Accords, but rather shirked even though it detracts from the national rights of our people, it will do so now, after it assassinated months ago the field leaders of the Jihad movement in the Gaza Strip, Damascus and elsewhere..

The occupying power believes that a return to assassinations can stop the resistance and operations against it in the West Bank, especially as it accuses Hamas, Jihad, Hezbollah and Iran of being behind these operations, which have so far led to the killing of about 35 Israelis, including soldiers and settlers.

The occupying power also believes that through assassinations it can stop the protests and demonstrations against the Netanyahu government because of what it is doing to weaken the Israeli judiciary, in favor of Netanyahu, who is trying, through this, to save himself from charges of corruption and treason against him. He believes that through assassinations he is killing two birds with one stone, as the saying goes. Stop the massive protests against his government and evading the prison. But what Netanyahu and his government's extremists and racists missed is that these assassinations, if they resume, do not intimidate our people and will not make them retreat from continuing the struggle for the full realization of their inalienable national rights of return, self-determination, and the establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Likewise, any attempt to take this step by assassinating Palestinian leaders, especially those whom Israel accuses of being leaders of the resistance, the consequences of this will be wide and will affect the occupying state and not only the Palestinian side. Especially since the occupying state rejects peace and is working on expansion and annexation and the establishment of more settlements in the West Bank, including Jerusalem. It works to increase the number of settlers to establish an apartheid state.

Also, the other parties that the occupying state accuses of supporting the armed resistance in the West Bank, such as the Lebanese Hezbollah, Iran and Syria, will not stand idly by, which may lead to a wide war that does not know when it will end and the occupying state will be a loser, by all standards, if this war and escalation erupts. 

The question is: Will the occupying power adopt a policy of returning to assassinations, or is that just an Israeli attempt to verbal deterrence?

Ideological propaganda and accusations have emerged in the Palestinian arena since 1994, and were strengthened after the bloody coup in the Gaza Strip in 2007, that the role of the Palestinian National Authority is limited to a functional framework that serves the security and interests of the occupation, and contradicts the interests of the Palestinian people and their aspiration towards liberation and independence. These accusations were also accompanied by occupation policies aimed at stripping the PA of its national role, and limiting it to a functional role that serves the security of the occupation.

In the same direction, the Israeli occupation has sought to diminish the role of the National Authority since its inception, to distance it from its national role, and to make it a service authority that administers the autonomous regions, and undertakes security, civil and administrative functions in accordance with the interests of the Israeli occupation. This was accompanied by the occupation taking systematic practical measures targeting the Palestinian people and their legitimate authority. It expanded the existing settlements, built new settlements, and opened new tunnels under Al-Aqsa Mosque, with certainty that the National Authority would remain powerless and would not respond.

The occupation's visions of the impotence of the National Authority were nothing but illusions. The occupation was stunned by the fusion of the authority and its security services with the Palestinian people in the fields in defense of Al-Aqsa in 1996, while no other faction intervened. The occupation was also stunned when the National Authority and its security services responded militarily, and on orders from the immortal martyr Yasser Arafat, to Ariel Sharon’s storming, in coordination with the head of the occupation government, Ehud Barak, on the al-Aqsa Mosque in 2000, as a response to Arafat’s refusal to make concessions at the Camp David summit. In the same context, the Israeli occupation systematically targeted, during the second intifada, the symbols and cadres of the national authority, with assassination and arrest, and destroyed its security headquarters in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The culmination of the occupation targeting has reached the absence of the immortal martyr Yasser Arafat from the Palestinian national scene.

After the coup of 2007, the National Authority fell between two fires, either it continues the armed struggle, and this means that the occupation will target it, or give an opportunity for another coup against it in the West Bank, or it adopts popular resistance and international political struggle. This also provides an entry point for the treason and blasphemy that some Palestinians pursue, and of course the authority chose the second path, as it is also a matter of popular and factional consensus.

In the same context, after the end of the role of the National Authority in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation sought to reactivate its previous vision of limiting the role of the Authority to an incomplete functional framework (education, health, and security for the benefit of the occupation). Accordingly, the Israeli occupation intensified its bloody, repressive, Judaizing, and economic policies against the Palestinians, targeting the symbols of the national authority and the security services morally. Here, a question arises: has the Israeli occupation succeeded in achieving its mission? The facts show that the Israeli occupation has failed, as in the past, to subjugate the national authority.

  This is evidenced by the authority's success in achieving international political and diplomatic gains, its continuation in adopting and supporting the option of popular resistance, and its emphasis on Palestinian constants, foremost of which is the establishment of the Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital, and the right of return of refugees. In addition, it continues to pay the salaries of martyrs and prisoners despite the economic blockade, and the Israeli occupation’s piracy of its financial capabilities.

The National Authority project aims to build a Palestinian state that leads the Palestinian people towards inevitable freedom and independence. It is a national role that contradicts the policies and interests of the occupation. It is also a functional role within the framework of the interest of the Palestinian people only, which also means that the national and functional roles are complementary.

The path of the National Authority will not be easy in preserving its gains, as it will face the systematic policies of the Israeli occupation.

The occupation government seeks to cauterize the national consciousness, strike the foundations of the Palestinian Jerusalemite identity, distort the national value in the mind of our holy students, and tamper with the basics of upbringing and the personality of the Jerusalemite student to distort their awareness and national identity to reach their goal of colonizing and occupying the minds of our students in Jerusalem, the occupied capital, through the policy of the Israeli government to impose an infamous law. Where the Israeli “Knesset” endorsed it by increasing oversight and restrictions on schools and teachers, preventing budgets for schools teaching the Palestinian curriculum and withdrawing permits, claiming that the Palestinian curriculum contained “incitement against the Zionist entity” and “anti-activities” against the Israeli occupation and not granting building and renovation permits to Palestinian schools to increase the number of classes. In it, in proportion to the natural population increase, and the refusal to recognize the Palestinian high school diploma, are all means through which the occupation achieves its plans.

 And it gave a grace period for granting a temporary license for a year, as a deadline for withdrawing “incitement” courses, in return for doubling the education budget in schools that teach Judaization courses by allocating 700 million shekels to support Israeli education, of which 206 million shekels is for extracurricular education. 45,367 students from East Jerusalem are studying in 138 schools with four official bodies that monitor the educational process in Jerusalem and demand their right within the international legitimacy of human rights and international law in the right to education.

The fierce attack on our Palestinian Jerusalemite Islamic and Christian identity by tightening restrictions on schools and curricula in light of the five-year plan recently approved by the Israeli government, “with a value of 2 billion shekels until 2023, to strengthen its sovereignty in East Jerusalem, is to urge Palestinian schools to move from the education curriculum Palestinian to the Israeli curriculum.

By replacing or deleting methodological and informational materials that consolidate the Palestinian Jerusalemite identity, and replacing them with other materials that promote the Zionist narrative and justify the occupation policy.

The war of israelization of education in Jerusalem has not started now, but what we are witnessing is the occupation authorities’ efforts to interfere in private and private schools and endowments, through conditional grants, which allow work permits for schools to be “compatible with the Israeli curriculum,” where approximately 20% of the total Educational institutions in East Jerusalem study the Israeli curriculum, compared to only 7% 5 years ago.

Among the efforts aimed at the Judaization and Israelization of education in Jerusalem is what was put in place by the so-called experts of the Ministry of Education of the Occupation, “the Bagrut Curriculum” to erase the Palestinian identity by following the principle of gradual administrative and financial penetration of the Arab, Islamic and Christian schools in Jerusalem.

This is an open invitation to official institutions to activate their decisions to support Jerusalem, to enable it to stand unified in the face of the occupation that devours our schools in Jerusalem, the capital.

In 2015, the Netanyahu government granted the “Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage” the powers to integrate the heritage dimension into plans and activities for the city of Jerusalem in particular, and in the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, which it calls “Judea and Samaria.” Since 2018, the Ministry has played a pivotal role in developing draft Resolution 3790, within the framework of which the Israeli government approved the East Jerusalem development plan with a budget of NIS 3.2 billion, which will be spent on construction, organization, transportation, education and integration sectors, and on enhancing the technological environment for business.

In the same context of Judaization plans, the Israeli government approved the "emergency plan for the period 2023-2027" presented by the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage and entitled "Protecting archaeological and heritage sites, preventing their destruction and theft, and enabling the heritage infrastructure in" Judea and Samaria "and the Jordan Valley."

The budget for implementing the plan amounted to 150 million shekels, and upon its approval, the Minister of Jerusalem and Heritage stated, “The heritage sites represent biblical and Jewish historical assets, and they will receive full protection within this plan.” He added that the preparation for the implementation of this plan was to transfer the affiliation of the “Israeli Antiquities Authority” from the “Ministry of Culture and Sports” to the “Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage”, while giving the “Antiquities Authority” a Judaizing arm through its cooperation with the “Jewish National Fund” to seize the archaeological and heritage sites scattered on the lands of the West Bank in order to strengthen the settlement policy and to try to legitimize the settlements and all their outposts and annex what remains from the Palestinian territories.

During the last period, the Israeli government took a series of measures to Judaize a site in the classified area (B) in Mount Ebal in the West Bank, where the Palestinian National Authority supervises the archaeological sites.

Israeli archaeologists and American evangelical archaeologists supported them claimed that the Biblical site is called Joshua's Altar. In response to Western statements that the Israeli measure contradicts the Oslo Accords, the Minister of Jerusalem and Israeli Heritage said, "The error called the Oslo Accords, which led to the abandonment of many heritage sites, will soon end, and every heritage site, regardless of its location, will be protected."

And later, in a precedent that is the first of its kind, the official of the American Office for Palestinian Affairs, a few months ago, handed over to the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism an artifact dating back to the Assyrian civilization, confiscated by the airport security in America  and returned to Palestine. It was later revealed that the piece was stolen from an archaeological site called Khirbet al-Koum in the Hebron Governorate. The Minister of Jerusalem and Heritage denounced what the official of the American Office for Palestinian Affairs did and promised to examine the "legality" of his handing over the artifact to the Palestinian National Authority.

The Israeli government allocates hundreds of millions of shekels to Judaize all the heritage and archaeological sites in historic Palestine, knowing that these archaeological sites are nothing but witnesses and preservers of the Palestinian historical and national narrative that completely refutes its extraneous narrative. As for those who follow the systematic Israeli settlement policy, they certainly realize that the Israeli media machine has been promoting that one of the most important justifications for the settlement policy is "protecting the biblical and Jewish heritage from Palestinian vandalism."

And as a continuation of its policy of stealing the Palestinian Arab heritage, Israel claims and markets that the popular Palestinian national dishes such as shakshuka, falafel, maqlouba, and kunafa sweets are part of the Israeli heritage. It also claims that the Palestinian dress, the keffiyeh, and the embroidered belt are “authentic components of a stolen Jewish heritage.”

The national folklore was not spared. Several years ago, Israeli singing groups began to imitate the Palestinian "dahya" and perform it in concerts as their folklore. In conclusion, "Palestine will remain, and those who cross it will leave it as an invader."

The colonial settlers can practice ceremonial dancing, all kinds of music, because they are expanding and influential and partners with the decision-makers in the religious right-wing coalition government. However, they will not be able to take over the homeland of the people of Palestine, the Golan Heights of Syria, and the heights of southern Lebanon, because they are strangers to it, even if they possess power and the tools of oppression and killing. Weapons alone do not defeat people in front of their occupiers, and occupation, any occupation, will not be able to seize or continue to seize the capabilities of a homeland and the dignity of another people.

This is what happened in Algeria, Yemen, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and many countries and peoples of the world, and this also happened to the people of Palestine. Although Palestine is still in the midst of the turmoil, and inside the battle, and the results are not yet clear. However, it must be clear that the Israeli expansionist colonial project has succeeded in occupying Palestine, but it has failed strategically in expelling, displacing and alienating all the Palestinian Arab people from the entire land of their homeland. Today, they are more than seven million people in their homeland, that is, they are not a community, they are not a minority, they are not a submissive people who surrender before the colonial power and supremacy, but they are a people who rose from poverty and inferiority.

The settlement project also failed to domesticate the first Palestinian component in the regions of Carmel, Galilee, Triangle, Negev, and the five mixed Palestinian coastal cities with an Israeli majority and a Palestinian minority: Lod, Ramla, Jaffa, Haifa, and Acre.

Their project to Israelize  the Palestinians for 75 years since 1948 has failed. Attempts to push them to leave their patriotism and nationalism, and their principled adherence to their Islam, Christianity and Druze, have been made with strength and faith. Rather, they have proven more than once that they are an integral part of the Palestinian Arab people, and an extension of the second component, the people of the regions of the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, and an extension of the third Palestinian component: the children of refugees and displaced persons, who hold the right of return in accordance with International Resolution 194, their right of return to the cities and villages from which they were expelled and displaced. .

So the settlers can dance and show off, but they will be no better off than the French in Algeria, the Americans in Vietnam, and the Europeans in Rhodesia and South Africa.

The Palestinians, with their three components, and their geographical distribution, cling to their three rights: 1- The right to equality in the 48 areas, 2- The right to independence in the 67 areas, 3- The right of return for the refugees, and therefore the three rights of the Palestinian people will not die, as long as there are those behind them who demand their restoration, in a gradual, multi-stage manner. . The open battles, with the toughness of young men and women, before men and the elderly, and their sacrifices are only an indication of the continuity of survival, steadfastness and the continuation of the struggle.

I was in Aqaba at the breakfast table and two children were sitting at a nearby table alone. I said hello guys, and they answered: Welcome, I said where are you from? They both answered from Palestine. I was happy with that, and I thought they were from the Palestinian West Bank. I was astonished when I asked where Fadi said: From Acre, and this is my friend Samir from Shefa Amr!!

Imagine that these two children, who are not more than eight years old, said that they are from Palestine, from Acre and Shefa Amr, and I asked who taught you that?? Fadi said: My father works as a lawyer. I got to know him and thanked him strongly for the right answer and the courage of Fadi and his friend Samir.

The intimidation of Judaization of Jerusalem has not stopped since the first day of the occupation of East Jerusalem. When the eastern part of the city was occupied in 1967, the Zionist Moshe Dayan, with the support of the occupation leaders, instructed the engineers and planners to work on creating a new reality in Jerusalem for the benefit of the Jews. Within a few days after the occupation, the entire Moroccan Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem was demolished, nearly a thousand Arab citizens were expelled from their homes, the Al-Buraq Wall square was established, and 17,700 dunums of land were confiscated, according to the Israeli policy aimed at controlling the largest possible area of land with less possible number of Arab residents.

When Golda Meir entered Jerusalem after the occupation of Jerusalem in the year 67 AD, she and all her ministers were walking behind the rabbis barefoot weeping as they walked towards the Al-Buraq Wall, which they call the Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem. In 1967, the occupation government issued a decision stipulating the annexation of 70,000 dunums of Jerusalem lands to the occupying state. This was followed by the dissolution of the Jerusalem Municipal Council and its annexation to the West Jerusalem Municipality. After the occupation of the city of Jerusalem, the occupation resorted to enacting laws aimed at speeding up the Judaization and control of Jerusalem.

The occupation has succeeded in imposing its control over the Holy City by confiscating the homes of Jerusalemites and seizing their lands under false pretexts, such as the property of absentees and others. The visitor to the city sees the extent of the destruction that befell the city, its markets are empty, the doors of the shops in the city open in the morning and close in the evening, without achieving commercial movement that benefits the owners, and there is no one to move those markets in light of the harassment of the occupation. The occupation has succeeded in directing the trade movement out of the city, and the Jerusalemite citizen has found what he is looking for outside the old markets of Jerusalem, specifically in cities close to Jerusalem, such as Bethlehem and Ramallah. This is due to the obstruction of Al-Maqdisi’s access to shopping within the alleys of the Old City, the imposition of restrictions on queuing up vehicles, and the imposition of heavy fines on those who park their vehicles at the entrances to the Old City.

Israel used its security presence in Jerusalem to exercise its influence in and around Jerusalem. However, in recent years, the seizure of Islamic religious and archaeological sites has escalated. Such as the attempts of the occupation to exhume a cemetery in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque and other religious places. The occupying power has sought to preserve its plans by strengthening the settlers' presence and offering financial inducements and establishing them in Jerusalem at the expense of the indigenous population. The idea of the entity state was to establish settlement population centers in the vicinity of the Holy City and link them with internal and external bypass roads, to isolate them from their Palestinian depth first, and secondly to isolate them from nearby Jerusalemite villages such as Al-Eizariya, Abu Dis, Al-Ram and other Palestinian villages that were administratively affiliated to it. The occupation government is trying to change the compass towards directions related to the biblical religious dimension, and that Jerusalem is the city of David and the capital of their southern kingdom after the Prophet Solomon.

The intransigent and arrogant policies of the policy makers in the Israeli governments did not create a reality that deals with their false Torah. It is true that there is a Judaization of Jerusalem, but the falsity of the claims of the Israeli rabbis is exposed. Despite what the Israeli Antiquities Authority is doing to excavate antiquities proving the Jewishness of Jerusalem, it has failed to do so. There is an explicit admission by some Zionist scholars such as Thomas Thompson, who said in one of the interviews that none of the archaeologists, diggers, or prospectors, throughout Palestine, was unable to obtain a single proof confirming that the Jews had a presence in the land of Palestine before the first hundred of Christ, peace be upon him. As for the second scholar, it is the American archaeologist "Keith Whitlam," who wrote a book entitled: "Theft of the Land of Palestine," who said, "The picture of Israel's past, as it appeared in most chapters of the Hebrew book, is nothing but a fictional story, a fabrication of history."

Religious Zionism does not care about what is said about the invalidity of their biblical account of the city of Jerusalem, and the falsity of what the Torah brought about their entitlement to Jerusalem. They are continuing to Judaize Jerusalem at a very high rate, and this is represented in the policy of harassing the residents of Jerusalem, imposing more taxes on them, and unleashing settlers to criminalize the rights of the Palestinians in and around Jerusalem. Despite this, the Jerusalemite citizens are steadfast in the face of the fierce winds, in addition to the deterioration of their economic and financial situation, they are still clinging to their land and defending their houses with all the means available to thim.

The great administrative thinker "Peter F. Drucker", who is considered one of the most prominent figures in management in the modern era, says in his famous book (Drucker's Ideas in Management), especially what he said in the second note, which was titled (Foreseeing the Future), that scholars of future studies measure their successes by a number of The things they expected would happen that actually happened, and they did not count those important things that did happen but were not within their expectations.

All the futurists say may come true, but they may miss the most important things in the plain facts before them, and worse, they may not pay any attention to them.

And Drucker continues, “We are not here to talk about errors that occur when predicting the future. Important and distinctive things are always the result of changes in values, concepts and goals, that is, they are in things that can be deduced and not predicted.”

Drucker adds, however, the most important work that an organization manager can do is to identify the changes that actually occur. The main challenge facing society in both its economic and political fields is to exploit these changes that actually occur as opportunities. The important thing is to anticipate the future from what is actually happening and then develop approaches that enable it to realize and analyze these changes.

Drucker concludes his note by proposing a practical procedure for managers of organizations that seek progress and promotion: Identify the main trends that are already emerging in the market, and write a paper on the possibility of continuing these trends and the extent of their impact on your life and your organization.

The world around us is shifting and changing, and this change has prompted some experts in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict among American Jews to say, “The year 2023: is a turning point in favor of Palestine in international politics.” This is the title of an article by the expert in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for more than 40 years (Mikhail Platnik) published In English, on the American Mondoweiss website, last Friday, 8/18/2023.

Platnick based his prediction on three variables, the first of which relates to the fact that Israel has been exposed as an apartheid state. The mark that increases the conviction of world public opinion, including Jewish public opinion, every moment and every day. Platnick goes on to say that the weekly demonstrations in Israel calling for democracy and an end to the coup against the judicial institution confirm that Israel is a racist state, especially as it calls for democracy for its Jewish citizens only, as it does not allow Palestinian citizens to rise to the stage of rhetoric and demand their rights.

Of note in this regard is the fact that the name Israel is associated with apartheid more than 11 million times per week, according to Semrush. Whereas, the number of such conjunctions did not exceed 50 times in the period from 1948 to 2000, according to a note published by the Strategic Assessment Journal issued by the Israel Institute for National Security Studies seven years ago.

As for the second variable, it revolves around the dramatic changes that are increasing at the level of the Democratic Party and its support for Israel. As other reports show that he did not remain supportive of Israel in the hierarchy of the party's leadership, except for the top of the hierarchy only. As for its base and center, they have made up their minds about Israel, and it is expected that this matter will be fully resolved in favor of the Palestinian right within a decade.

The third variable relates to the rise of China and the end of the unipolar era, and its China's demand,  with its partners among the rising powers to lead the global system to lift the injustice against the Palestinian people, which was clearly evident in the closing statement of the BRICS summit several days ago.

In conclusion, I argue that the Palestinian people are well aware, especially at this moment in time, that "justice alone does not turn the wheels of history," as our great poet Mahmoud Darwish said in the document declaring Palestine's independence in 1988. It is also not hidden from the Fatah movement, which has Palestinian patriotism. And its leadership announced its decision to hold its eighth conference at the end of this year. Exploiting and investing the opportunities entailed in the changes in the Palestinian strategic environment requires it not to produce the past and to choose qualified people who are able to understand and realize the moment and build on what (Mikhail Platnik) said in his article.

The Israeli navy arrested four Palestinian fishermen after blockading their boats in the Al-Sudaniyya Sea, north of Gaza City, on Monday. 

Also on Monday, several Israeli military vehicles entered Palestinian land in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

French Education Minister Gabriel Atal announced on Sunday that he would "ban the wearing of the abaya in schools" on the pretext that this dress violates strict secular laws in the field of education in the country, stressing his endeavor to set "clear rules at the national level" for school principals.

When the minister was asked about the issue that has been controversial for months due to incidents related to wearing this dress, Atal said in a statement to TF1, "It is no longer possible to wear the abaya in schools," revealing that he is seeking "as of next week" to meeting with officials of these educational institutions to help them implement the new ban.

The minister stressed that "secularism is the freedom to liberate oneself through school."

The right and the extreme right had pushed for the adoption of this ban, while the left, for its part, considered it an attack on civil liberties.
There are reports that abayas are increasingly being worn in schools, and that there are tensions within schools over the issue, between teachers and parents.

Since he assumed the portfolio of national education and youth at the end of July, Attal considers going to school in the abaya "a religious manifestation that aims to test the extent of the republic's resistance in terms of what the school should constitute as a secular edifice." "When you enter a classroom, you should not be able to tell the students' religion just by looking at them," he added in his statement to TF1 on Sunday.

The issue of wearing the abaya, which the French Council of the Islamic Religion does not consider a religious appearance, was previously included in a circular of the Ministry of National Education last November.

The circular stated that abayas, like veils for hair and long skirts, are considered garments that may be banned if they are worn "in a manner that publicly demonstrates religious affiliation." But school principals were waiting for clearer rules in this regard as accidents increased.

According to a memo by state agencies, a copy of which was seen by Agence France-Presse, violations of secularism have been increasing dramatically since the murder of teacher Samuel Paty in 2020 near his school, and it has increased by 120 percent between the academic years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.

In addition, religious appearances and clothing, which constitute the majority of violations of secularism, increased by more than 150 percent in the past academic year.

Since the law was promulgated on March 15, 2004, “religious appearances and clothing through which pupils openly display their religious affiliation are prohibited in public schools, colleges, schools, and high schools.” These include large crosses, the Jewish skullcap, and the Islamic headscarf.

On Sunday, the minister praised school principals, considering that they are "in the first front line regarding these issues of secularism," promising to meet them "next week (...) to give them all the rules so that they can impose this" new rule.

The decision was welcomed by the right-wing camp, as the head of the Republican Party, Eric Ciotti, said on the “X” website (formerly Twitter), “We have repeatedly called for banning abayas in our schools,” adding, “I welcome the decision of the Minister of National Education, which proves that we are right.”

On the left, Clementine Otan of the "France Proud" party expressed her indignation at the decision, considering Attal's declaration "unconstitutional" and "contrary to the founding principles of secularism" and that it is symptomatic of the government's "obsessive rejection of Muslims."

The ban on wearing abayas represents the first major step announced by Atal, 34, since his promotion this summer to take over the highly controversial education portfolio. Along with Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin (40 years old), Attal is seen as a rising star who could play an important role after Macron steps down in 2027.
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Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man from the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

The Authority for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said, "22 detainees are held in the "Hawwara" detention center, suffering from extremely harsh and miserable life conditions.

In a statement issued today, Monday, after the visit of her lawyer, Anan Khader, the authority stated that the detention center in "Hawwara" lacks the minimum necessities of human life, and that the prison administration has not provided them with hot water for bathing for more than two weeks, as well as the lack of sufficient blankets for detainees.

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