THE TRUTH IS, like Western mad cow's milk,
semi-skimmed, skimmed, and filtered milk, filtered truth costs the nations of
the world twice as much if not more just like organic food does, but greatly
improved by the added State and Church approved ingredients of False Flags to make
it more attractive and acceptable or palatable to the dumb down masses and they
love it except for the very few who still own and control a free human mind. So, you, damn Earthlings, what can make Satan
happier?
"DEEP STATE PARIS MASSACRE EXPOSED"
First, Satan does not
exist as a separate entity from the human kind.
He (as an ageless and sexless entity) is part of our biological make-up
and resides in us all the time like a time bomb ready to explode as soon as we
forget that the Great Jihaad (struggle) against the evil tendencies in
ourselves has to carry on nonstop.
Muhammad, one of the Arab or Middle Eastern Prophets, brought the best
way of life for humankind known as Islam and gave the world the Greatest
Revelation inspired by a human and ever written, known as the Furqân, the
Qur'ân, the Book of Wisdom, etc. That Book was regarded as so Holy that it was
recited day and night for more than 1400 years in every Muslim household in the
four corners of the Earth and revered as the Holy Qur'ân, the Best Book Ever to
be psalmodised, recited in the best of manner and voice by one and all, young
and old. Traditionally, all Muslim life
starts with Allahu Akbar - God is Greatest - and ends with "There is no
other God but God".
DISINFO ALEX JONES
"Paris Terror Attacks are False Flags"
But, in time,
humans who submitted to the Will of God, without any coercion whatsoever, and
called Muslims, lost track of what God was and is because of extremely bad
teachers and leaders and because they stopped thinking and spent their entire
lives believing in religious and traditional dogmas and rituals, but without
doing the works for which God had missioned them to accomplish on Earth as His
Own Vice-Gerents and for their own benefits, those of their neighbours and the
whole of human and other kind. By
practicing more or less useless rituals they were convinced they were doing as
God had ordained them. But, as promised
Satan was watching every single one of their daily moves, even at every single
one of their heart beats, ready to invade their entire body and soul and making
each one of them his follower, a Satanist.
And Atheists, Agnostics, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Christians, Muslims
joined him by the hundreds of millions and to such an extent that the world is
populated today mostly by Satanists, both active and passive ones although the
active Satanists are only few but very well armed by all kinds of weapons of mass
deception and mass destruction.
Whether Muhammad
really believed in SUCH A GOD Who promised humankind a Heavenly Paradise or
warn them of a Heavenly Hell or that in the very end He will judge humankind is
not the issue here. The undisputable
fact remains that Muhammad was inspired to reveal to humankind what he was
convinced came from another dimension.
Whether it was God or something else is not the issue here. No other Holy Scripture in the entire human
History can claim such authenticity as the Holy Qur'ân, which gave the world
the blueprint for the Best Nation for humankind. But, Muslims made the colossal mistake in
believing it was their personal property and they could allow their leaders to
do whatever they wanted with it! They
even divided themselves into Sects which is strictly forbidden in Islam. They forgot that without Universal Unity
there can be no Universal Nation of Muhammad and that they could thus never be
able to lead the world in righteousness.
Muslims thus
allowed Satan to take over all power and destroy them wherever they were
found. Satan destroyed not only Muslims
but everybody who stood in his path for the conquest of the entire Earth. Vedantists or Hindus and Buddhists did not
pose any problem at all as they were not Universal religions. Post-Christian Judaism posed no threat as the
Judaic leadership had already joined his Luciferian religion, but could not but
keep quiet and peaceful as long as they were living under the magnanimous rule
of Muslims, but as soon as they were released by the decadent Christian
leadership, they took the entire of
Christendom because Satan had infected the Christians too, their Royalty,
nobility, aristocracy, Churches, including the Vatican and finally almost the
entire of Christendom.
Today, Satanic
rule is undisputable over the entire Earth despite of the fact that quite a
great number of Atheists, Agnostics, Judaics, Buddhists, Christians and Muslims
here and there are still fighting him intellectually or by armed resistance
because Satan has the most sophisticated weapons of mind control and
destruction the human mind has been able to create, some say with
extra-terrestrial technology. But, most
of us have not yet understood that the main and best weapon Freedom-from-Satan
Fighters have, given they are unarmed, is TOTAL
ECONOMIC, CULTURAL AND POLITICAL BOYCOTT! This one weapon that guarantees immediate
result, but not without having to bear the wrath of Satan who will immediately
retaliate, is not being used because we have all been brainwashed, mind
controlled to such an extent that we are no better than living dead or
Zombies. Without sacrifice, courage,
sincerity, dedication, perseverance and nonstop struggle by whatever means
necessary nothing can be achieved.
What is better,
getting killed by millions by doing nothing or getting killed while fighting
and resisting the forces of Satan?
I have studied and
lived in the USSR for 4 years (1964-1968), studied, lived and worked in France
for 13 years (1975-1988), lived and worked in Mauritius for nearly 3 years
(1988-1991), and now in Great Britain for 24 years (1991-2015), and I have
never seen or met with a single "MUSLIM TERRORIST" in the entire of
my adult life!
On the contrary, I have heard of, seen, met with and
been a victim as well as my family of EUROPEAN
TERRORISTS, RACISTS, PERVERTS and MASS
MURDERERS or their ACCOMPLICES all my
life! So, I was always able to spot the
lie at the very second I heard the same Europeans or their acolytes accuse
Muslims of terrorism! I even saw our
best independent experts on the matter write even nonsense about "Muslim
terrorism" without ever being able to identify or locate them or even say
how many are they.
But, even if the
entire world understands what is happening to them, its inhabitants live in
constant fear and are forced to be selfish and continue with their parasitic
life on the blood and sufferings of more than half of humanity. They are ruled by cannibals and savages who
listen to Classical music and dress elegantly, but make and use weapons of mass
destruction at will on innocent nations!
Muslim lands are being bombed nonstop, their inhabitants, murdered, terrorised,
traumatised, and the survivors are enslaved forever by the usurers and the
Judaics who hold and use the guns while preaching of human rights, peace, non violence
and democracy! All of this is a lie, a
deception and the one holding the gun is the master of the world. Their names are well known: the militarist
West and their bastard child Israel, China, Russia and their client State of India. The Western intelligentsia has been taken
hostage by their respective totalitarian terrorist regimes disguised as
democracies.
Yes, all is lies and deception, starting with their
God the Christ-ians call Jesus Christ and the Judaics call Lucifer. The Roman Flavian idea of a Christ borrowed
from Palestine was wonderful, but not as a scapegoat or sacrifice or a begotten
son of God, begotten not made, that a criminal Father God sent to Earth to be tortured
and crucified in order to save humanity from their sins and abominations. Yes, God the Son saved millions of individuals
worldwide making them people of compassion and peace, but as nations his followers
were and still are among the worst this world and History has ever known! To prove this, we just need to read their own
corrupted and heavily censored Scriptures, the so-called Gospels, letters
written by anonymous writers and Saul or Paul, and Revelations (Apocalypse) written
allegedly by John of Patmos, as well as the post Christian Talmud. The so-called Old Testament is a collection
of worse than fairy tales, of incest, rape, fornication, plunder and mass
murder.
And He is simply "The God" - Al Lah or Ilahi and "Christ" called Him ILAHI in Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ" mistransliterated ELI in English, but pronounced ILAÏ, or ÉLI
in French. The same term is transliterated differently in other languages.
"You, Bedouins know the God of Abraham?"
This was "Moses" (Charlton Heston)
addressing an Arab Patriarch of Madyan, Modiana,
North Western Arabian Peninsula, and whose daughter Zipporah or Sephora he would later
marry. A so-called Levite marrying a
non Levite! First Abraham did not invent the concept of The One God
and Moses (in Jewliwood "Ten Commandments" was a fool to ask such a stupid question thinking that
only the Children of Israel knew and worshipped "The One God", those Calf Worshippers he allegedly saved from the
Egyptian "Terrorists" or "Nazis" by an Exodus that never took place nor the
servitude of the Children of Israel! The Judaics can brag of the purity of their
"race", but they were all of the same biological stock, ARABS,
natives of Arabah the desert region of what the West now calls the Middle and
Near East!However, the racist "Levite"
Moses married an Arab who carried his descendents! But, it would be unfair to make any kind of judgement
based on such spurious sources, both the
"Bible" and Jewliwood. Anyway,
did Moses ever exist or even Jesus Christ for that matter?
Conclusion
Lies, deceptions, perversions and all kinds of
abominations will continue to rule over us and our descendents as long as we do
not get informed and STAND UP AND FIGHT
by whatever means necessary in order to make a difference, and not just get
emotional, demonstrate in the streets (picnics), scream and lament, sign useless
petitions or vote in bogus elections. Is
there any hope? None, at first
sight! Satan holds all the cards! And what about God? Oh, THAT
GOD that never was and is not! A
wonderful allegory that might have saved humanity, but it did not! So, forget about the Judaics, the cancer is
right in us! Amd only when Christendom
will stop bashing Islam, Arabs and Muslims, and when Muslims will stop
following sects and stop holding to dogmatic, traditional or tribal extremism,
and keep away from fanatics, we will see peace on Earth - before it is far too
late - at least between nearly one half of humanity and we still have some 2-3
billion followers of Christ and Islam! Israel,
Christ and Islam are one and the same religion, and not a bogus turn-the-other-cheek
religion, but unarmed we are just lambs to the slaughter - all of us so-called believers
and so-called non believers alike! The
good US American Christian has the right to keep and bear arms against all
foreign and domestic enemies, why Muslims cannot keep and bear arms,
individually as well as nations?
Monday 23rd of November 2015
"MUSLIM NAZI" INVASION OF WHITE EUROPE!
French far-right leader to face trial for inciting racial hatred
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Lyon (AFP) - Marine Le
Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Front, has been ordered
to stand trial in October on charges of inciting racial hatred after
comparing Muslim street prayers to the Nazi occupation, legal sources
said Tuesday.
Le Pen was
campaigning to take over leadership of the FN from her father in
December 2010 when she made the comparison, complaining that there were
"10 to 15" places in France where Muslims worshipped in the streets
outside mosques when they were full.
"I'm
sorry, but for those who like talking a lot about World War II, if it
comes to talking about the occupation, we can talk about it, because
that (Muslims praying on the street) is the occupation of territory,"
she told a crowd in the southeastern city of Lyon.
"It
is an occupation of part of the territory, suburbs where religious law
is applied. Sure, there are no armoured vehicles, no soldiers, but it is
an occupation nonetheless and it weighs on residents."
After the
comments, which provoked outrage in France, Le Pen was investigated for
inciting racial hatred but the probe was later closed with no result. But a complaint by an association led to a judicial enquiry which was opened in January 2012.
France's far-right National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen leaves the party's headquarters …
(Marine) Le Pen was charged in July
2014 after her immunity as a member of the European Parliament was
lifted following a vote requested by French authorities.
- 'I'll be at trial' - Le Pen told AFP she intended to attend the trial. "Yes, of course. I wouldn't miss such an occasion," she said. Since
taking over her father's party in 2011, Le Pen has tried to soften its
image and has scored a series of election successes.
However
the party remains staunchly anti-EU and anti-immigration and Le Pen has
seized upon Europe's migrant crisis to win votes ahead of regional
elections in December.
The FN is already leading opinion polls in several regions.
Le
Pen has leaned on traditional party arguments, calling for an end to
Europe's borderless Schengen zone as well as actions seen as enticing
migrants to France.
However
she also stepped up the rhetoric, comparing the flood of migrants on
Europe's doorstep to the "barbarian invasions" of the fourth century.
Speaking
to Paris-based foreign journalists on Monday, Le Pen said of migrants:
"We should warm them up, feed them and then send them back where they
came from."*
Despite its
growing popularity, the party's image suffered after a bitter public
spat between Marine and her father and the party's founder Jean-Marie Le
Pen which led to her ousting him over a series of controversial
comments.
Marine Le Pen
decided enough was enough after her father repeated his view that the
Nazi gas chambers were merely a "detail" of history and also claimed
France should establish close relations with Russia to save the "white
world".
The FN has also been slapped with charges of fraud as part of an ongoing probe into campaign financing.
DON'T LAUGH, THE JEWS AND THE STATE OWN AND RUN BROTHELS IN PARIS AND PROSTITUTES PAY TAXES
This one is a distraction!
Le Pen's godfather arrested for pimping in Paris
14th April 2011, 0 comments
The ageing godfather of French far-right leader
Marine Le Pen has been arrested and charged with running brothels in
Paris' notorious Pigalle red light district, officials said Thursday.
Henri
Botey, 77, is known in the city's seamy underworld as "Monsieur Eric"
and has been accused of running two hostess bars, Le Mucha and Le
Lorelei, as fronts for prostitution, sources close to the investigation
told AFP.
In 1969, Botey was godfather at the baptism of Le Pen,
who took over the leadership of the anti-immigrant National Front from
her father Jean-Marie Le Pen in January, but she insists she has had
little contact with him since.
"I must have met him five times in
my life. The last time was 20 years ago. I'd had so little news of him I
assumed he was dead," she told AFP, noting: "Babes in arms don't choose
their godfather when they are baptised."
Botey and an alleged
accomplice have been remanded in custody pending trial after they were
charged on April 8 with living off immoral earnings.
Investigators
told Le Parisien newspaper that Botey's name does not appear on the
bars' ownership documents, but that police believe they can tie him to
the properties and to illegal acts of prostitution on the premises.
The
paper, which broke the story, quoted a retired vice squad officer who
alleged that Botey had been a famous figure in the local sex industry
for many years.
BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 22 Nov – A prominent Israeli settler ran over a 16-year-old Palestinian girl and then shot her dead [on Sunday],
saying that he believed she intended to carry out a stabbing attack at
Huwarra checkpoint in the northern occupied West Bank district of
Nablus, Israeli media reported. The Palestinian military liaison office
identified the teenager as Ashraqat Taha Ahmad Qatanani
from Nablus, and said they had notified her family of their daughter’s
death. Israeli news site Ynet identified the man who ran over and shot
Qatanani as Gershon Mesika, the former head of the “Samaria regional
council,” which represents Israel’s illegal settlements in the northern
West Bank. After running the girl over with his car and landing in a
ditch, Mesika reportedly got out of his car and opened fire on the girl,
alongside Israeli forces who also opened fire, Israeli media reported.
An Israeli army spokesperson did not immediately respond when asked for
comment. No Israelis were reported injured in the alleged attack.
3 Palestinians and 1 Israeli killed Sunday; 94 Palestinians killed since 10/1 (List)
IMEMC 23 Nov — Three Palestinians, including a 16-year old girl, were shot and killed by Israelis on Sunday.
All three were accused of ‘having a knife’, but in two of the three
killings, eyewitnesses contradicted the Israeli military’s account that
the person killed ‘had a knife’. In the third incident, an Israeli settler was stabbed multiple times and killed
before the alleged assailant was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers
stationed at the Gush Etzion military camp south of Bethlehem. The full
list of the 94 Palestinians and 16 Israelis killed since October 1st is
below. In the latest numbers on injuries, from this past Friday,
November 20th, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported that more than
10,000 Palestinians were injured since October 1st, including at least
1458 who were shot with live army fire, and 1,070 shot with
rubber-coated steel bullets. The Ministry also said that 300
Palestinians suffered fractures and bruises after being assaulted by
Israeli soldiers and paramilitary settlers in the West Bank, in addition
to 26 Palestinians who suffered burns due to Israeli gas bombs and
concussion grenades, while 6,400 Palestinians suffered the effects of
tear gas inhalation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. [for some
reason ShadiZuhdi ‘Arafa from Hebron is listed among the Israeli casualties. so the total may be at least 95]
Names Of The 94 Palestinians Killed By Israeli Fire Since October 1st:
Palestinian girl shot dead after alleged attack near Jerusalem market
BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 23 Nov — Israeli forces shot two Palestinian teenage
girls, killing one and wounding the other, after they were allegedly
involved in a stabbing attack near a central Jerusalem market on Monday morning,
Israeli police said. The incident took place near the Mahane Yehuda
market on Jaffa Street, with Israeli media initially reporting that two
Israelis were wounded in the alleged attack. However, a spokesperson for
Hadassah hospital later confirmed that one of those injured was a
70-year-old Palestinian resident of Bethlehem, who had a light stabbing
wound in his back, and the other was a 27-year-old Israeli security
guard who was shot in the hand, possibly by friendly fire. The
Palestinian girls were 16 and 14 years old, Israeli police said. One of
them died soon after the incident, while the other was taken to Shaare
Zedek hospital in Jerusalem. A hospital spokesperson said that she had
been taken into the operating room in serious condition, with two bullet
wounds in her stomach. The spokesperson was unable to confirm the
girl’s age, as she was taken to the hospital without any identification.
The girls were reported by Israeli media as having used scissors to
carry out the alleged attack.
Settler shoots dead 2nd Palestinian following alleged attack attempt
BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 22 Nov — A Palestinian was shot and killed near the
illegal Israeli settlement of Kfar Adumim in the central occupied West
Bank on Sunday, after the Palestinian, driving a taxi, ran into
another car on a main road, an Israeli police spokesperson said. Micky
Rosenfeld said that after the car incident, a Palestinian taxi driver
“walked out his vehicle with a knife in his hand and was shot dead.”
Rosenfeld said he was not aware whether the Palestinian was shot by a
civilian or by Israeli forces, although Hebrew-language media reported
the shooter was a settler from the area. Rosenfeld added that the area
had been cordoned off, without adding further details. Israeli sources
identified the Palestinian as Shadi Mohammed Mahmoud Khseib, 32, from al-Bireh
city, near Ramallah. It was unclear whether the car crash was an attack
or accidental, although following the incident, an Israeli settler
corroborated the police account that Hassib [Khseib?] exited the car
holding a knife. Israeli news site Ynet reported that an Israeli settler
“was lightly wounded, suffering a scratch to his hand,” adding that it
was unclear whether the scratch came from the car crash or the alleged
attempted stabbing attack. [WAFA:
Witnesses, however, refuted the Israeli narrative, saying the settler
opened fire on the Palestinian man after the latter’s car inadvertently
collided with the settlers’ car.]
Palestinian shot dead after stabbing Israeli to death near Gush Etzion
BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 22 Nov — A Palestinian man was shot and killed by
Israeli forces after he stabbed to death a 21-year-old Israeli woman
near the illegal Israeli settlement bloc of Gush Etzion [Sunday],
Israeli sources said. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma‘an that
after the Palestinian stabbed the woman at the Gush Etzion junction,
“forces on site responded to the imminent threat and shot the attacker,
resulting in his death.” The Israeli victim, identified as 21-year-old
Hadar Buchrus, was evacuated to Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem where
she was pronounced dead. A spokesperson for the hospital said: “She was
brought to the hospital almost dead.” The Palestinian attacker was
identified as 34-year-old Issa Thawabta from Beit Fajjar
in Bethlehem district, just south of Gush Etzion. A Ma‘an reporter who
was in the area during the attack said that he witnessed dozens of
Israeli soldiers rushing to the hitchhiking station at the Gush Etzion
junction, firing gunshots. The soldiers then shut down the main bypass
road known as Route 60. Thawabta was the third Palestinian to be killed
on Sunday, after another two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli
settlers after allegedly attempting to attack Israelis.
Israeli terrorists burn Palestinian citizen of Israel to death
IMEMC/Agencies 22 Nov — A group of Israeli terrorists burnt to death [on Friday night] a 22 year old Palestinian citizen of Israel, identified as FadiHoosh.
Israeli police found the burnt body of the Israeli-Palestinian citizen
inside a car in the garbage dump of the neighbourhood of Kafr Kannah [an
Arab town in the Galilee, Israel]. Israeli media sources reported that
the police decided to have the body autopsied, in order to know the
reason of death, and to search for any hints related to the
perpetrators. Witnesses told ‘Days of Palestine’
that the car was damaged from the inside, that it did not appear to
have been burned from outside. Palestinian witnesses said that they saw a
number of Israeli Jews attacking the 22-year old man, then putting him
inside the car and setting it on fire. “After a couple of minutes, they
extinguished the fire and left him inside the car and very quickly fled
the scene,” witnesses said.
Undercover police assault elderly man in Jerusalem
IMEMC/Agencies 23 Nov — Members of Israeli special forces assaulted, on Saturday evening, 90-year-old Mohammed Abbasi, severely beating him while he was in the Ras al-Amud neighborhood of Silwan.
Wadi Helwah Information Center said, according to Al Ray, that the
elderly [man] was in front of his son’s house, in Ras al-Amud, as
Israeli troops were hunting the Palestinian youth.
The old man was quoted as saying: “I did not expect, for a moment, that
they would prosecute or assault me but, suddenly, they pushed me from
behind. I fell to the ground, and a number of undercover police officers
beat me on the head and chest, using rifles.” Abbasi’s grandson said
that the neighbors responded to the family’s distress, rushing to the
scene and taking Abbasi to the health center and, then, to Makassed
Hospital.
Israeli forces shoot, injure Palestinian at West Bank crossing
BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 21 Nov — Israeli forces on Saturday evening shot and
wounded a Palestinian who was attempting to rush through a
Qalqiliya-district checkpoint to reach a hospital in Nablus where his
father had passed away, Palestinian sources said. The Palestinian was
identified as Hamada Abd al-Aziz Atwani, 27, from al-Jiftlik
village north of Jericho. After his family informed him that his father
had passed away in Rafidia hospital in Nablus, he attempted to leave
Israel, where he works, and enter the occupied West Bank through the
Oranit crossing south of Qalaqiliya. Palestinian sources said that he
told Israeli soldiers at the crossing that he had an emergency. However,
an Israeli army spokesperson said that he “attempted to run past the
crossing,” and when Israeli forces sought to stop him, he “attacked”
them. She said that Israeli forces then opened fire on his “lower
extremities,” and Atwani had to be evacuated for medical treatment.
Israeli forces shoot, injure 2 Palestinians near Nablus
NABLUS (Ma‘an) 22 Nov — Israeli forces shot and injured two Palestinian
youths overnight Saturday on the main road near the northern occupied
West Bank village of ‘Aqraba, south of Nablus, Palestinian security
sources told Ma‘an. Palestinian security sources said Ayham Deriyya and Younis Munir Bani Fadil
were shot by Israeli soldiers who were stationed behind a barrier which
blocked the main entrance to ‘Aqraba. Both of the injured were
evacuated to a nearby hospital in moderate condition. The sources
highlighted that Israeli forces closed the village’s entrance on
Thursday, forcing residents to use alternate, less convenient routes. An
Israeli army spokesperson said two Palestinians were “hurling rocks at
Israeli vehicles” in the area, and that “Israeli forces responded to the
threat, firing at the lower extremities.” The spokesperson confirmed
that two Palestinians were shot and wounded in the area. Shortly before
the young men were shot, residents said Israeli forces told them they
would intensify security procedures near ‘Aqraba, because of reports
that Palestinian youth from the village had been throwing rocks at
passing cars in the area.
Israel bars Palestinian workers from Gush Etzion settlement bloc
BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 23 Nov — Israel barred Palestinians from entering illegal settlements in the Gush Etzion
bloc on Monday after a 21-year-old Israeli woman was stabbed to death
in the area a day earlier, Israel’s army said. “In light of the recent
attacks and following situation assessments, precautionary security
measures have been taken in Gush Etzion,” an Israeli army spokesperson
told Ma‘an. The measures will prevent Palestinians from entering
settlements in Gush Etzion, home to over 90,000 Israeli settlers, as
well as the Efrat and Beitar IIlit settlements nearby. An estimated 2,000 Palestinians work in the settlement bloc south of Bethlehem.
Amid escalation, IDF to check every Palestinian vehicle on roads shared with Israelis
Haaretz 22 Nov by Gili Cohen — Following the terror wave the Israeli
army started checking every Palestinian vehicle on roads used by
Israelis in the Hebron and Bethlehem areas. Random checks were
implemented in the rest of the West Bank. According to army sources, the
new guidelines were accepted on Friday, and were first implemented by
forces on Saturday. In areas were no roadblocks were erected, some
junctions were completely closed off. In recent days, the Israel Defense
Forces reinforced its troops in Hebron and Gush Etzion, and two
additional infantry battalions were deployed in those areas. The forces
in the area are now at their highest level since the current unrest
broke out last month . . . Meanwhile, dozens of settlers have been
blocking several roads in the South Hebron Hills areas. The IDF said it
deployed troops to the sites of the demonstrations.
Israeli protesters demand separate roads for Palestinians, Israelis
BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 22 Nov — Dozens of Israelis protested in front of an
Israeli government building in Jerusalem on Sunday, demanding
Palestinians be barred from using the same roads as Israelis in the
occupied West Bank, Hebrew media reported. The protesters also called
for increased violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Many of the protesters were reportedly from the illegal Israeli
settlements of Gush Etzion and Kiryat Arba, Hebrew media
reported. Additionally, Israeli students in the illegal Kiryat Arba
settlement on Sunday went on a strike in protest of the current security
situation. On Thursday, Israeli officials agreed to increase security
measures in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, located in the occupied
West Bank, including increased restrictions on the movement of
Palestinians . . . Israeli news site Ynet reported Friday that the
measures could include the temporary restriction of movement of
Palestinians in the area, the deployment of extra Israeli security
forces, and the construction of a “fence” along certain roads. The
discussed measures came after a meeting between the Israeli Minister of
Defense Moshe Yaalon, the Israeli army’s chief of staff, and the mayor
of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, an administrative body for illegal
settlements in the area.The regional council also urged settlers who own
firearms to voluntarily accompany children on school buses to assist as
first responders after attacks.
Israeli forces close checkpoints, impose curfew near Nablus
NABLUS (Ma‘an) 22 Nov — Israeli forces on Sunday evening imposed a curfew on the village of Huwwara
south of Nablus and closed the village’s key checkpoint in addition to
Beit Furik checkpoint east of Nablus. Awwad Najim, a Fatah spokesperson
in Huwwara, told Ma‘an that Israeli forces had carried out the measures
after saying that several Molotov cocktails were thrown at settlers’
vehicles traveling through the village. Hawwara lies along Route 60, a
central artery of the northern West Bank that serves as a major
thoroughfare for both Palestinians as well as Israelis living in illegal
settlements. Locals said that Israeli forces also detained 13-year-old
Hamid Jasir Hamid Hamayel from Beita village at Zatara checkpoint south
of Nablus. The boy reportedly suffers from several medical conditions.
The checkpoints were reopened about an hour later, locals said, after
huge traffic congestion was reported. However, it was not clear whether
the curfew had been lifted, and a Palestinian activist group, the
International Solidarity Movement, said that as of 8.15 p.m. Israeli
forces were still keeping stores shut, in what the group described as
“collective punishment.” The group added that one local shopkeeper was
“threatened with pepper spray” after he argued with Israeli forces over
the closure of his store.
Israeli forces impost heavy restrictions on movement around Hebron
HEBRON (Ma‘an) 22 Nov — Israeli forces have imposed severe restrictions
on movement for residents of the Hebron district in the southern
occupied West Bank since Friday, locals told Ma‘an. Locals have reported
a massive increase in flying military checkpoints on main routes, while
other routes have been completely closed off with concrete blocks and
earth mounds. Military checkpoints have been set up between Hebron city
and many towns and villages, such as Idhna, Beit Ummar and Sair. The
main roads into and out of the villages of Nabi Younis, Beit Einoun,
Farsh al-Hawa and Bani Naim have all been blocked off with earth mounds,
locals said. Meanwhile, the main roads of the villages of Wadi Sair,
Dura al-Fawwar and Zeif-Yatta, as well as the main road into al-Fawwar
refugee camp, have been closed off with iron gates. Palestinians who
travel southbound from Hebron only have access to two main routes, which
are closely monitored by Israeli military checkpoints, locals said.
Locals told Ma‘an that everyone who travels through the two routes are
being thoroughly inspected by Israeli forces, adding that sometimes
strip-searches are performed . . . A shop owner who lives in Hebron, but
works in Bethlehem city told Ma‘an that his usual 20-30 minute drive to
work now takes two to three hours. Similarly, an employee of the
Bethlehem directorate of health told Ma‘an it takes more than two hours
to make his usual 45 minute trip from home to work.
Settlers attack school in Nablus village of Burin
NABLUS (WAFA) 22 Nov – Israeli settlers Sunday attempted to raid and attacked with stones a secondary school in the village of Burin,
south of Nablus, according to a local official. Ghassan Daghlas, who
monitors settlement activities in the West Bank, informed WAFA that a
group of settlers gathered near Burin Secondary Co-ed School and
proceeded to pelt it with stones, in an apparent attempt to raid it. The
village locals subsequently gathered near the school to fend off the
settlers’ attack, at which point soldiers arrived at the scene and
proceeded to attack locals, leading to clashes. Israeli
forces reportedly shot live and rubber-coated steel rounds toward
locals, however, there were no reports of injuries.
Settlers attack Palestinian homes in Hebron
HEBRON (Ma‘an) 22 Nov — Israeli settlers on Sunday night attacked Palestinian homes in the southern West Bank city of Hebron,
amid ongoing movement restrictions imposed by the Israeli army inside
the city. A Ma‘an reporter said that a group of settlers attacked the
Wadi al-Hussein, Wadi al-Nasara, and al-Kasara neighborhoods of the
city, throwing stones at houses and Palestinian residents. Issa Amro,
head of the local activist group Youth Against Settlements, said that
settlers threw stones and empty bottles at Palestinian homes near the
illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba. He said the attacks
followed a pattern frequently repeated in recent weeks, with Israeli
forces choosing not to protect the Palestinians, despite being “present
all the time.” Last month, Israeli rights group B’Tselem released video
footage that captured five straight days of settler attacks in the same
area, while Israeli forces either “looked on” or actively “joined the
settlers.” B’Tselem said it provided “an extreme example of the
imbalance of power in the West Bank, with Israeli forces backing settler
violence.”
Army kidnaps a woman and a child in Hebron
IMEMC/Agencies 22 Nov — Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, Sunday, a Palestinian woman at a roadblock near the Ibrahimi Mosque,
in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and a child in the al-‘Arroub
refugee camp, north of the city. The soldiers kidnapped Ghadeer Diaeddin Sharif,
43 years of age, as she was trying to cross the roadblock while heading
to pray in the Ibrahimi Mosque. The woman was ordered to go through a
metal detector, and when the machine sounded, indicating the presence of
metal, a female soldier asked her to try again, but before she did so
the soldier assaulted her, and struck her on both her legs, before many
soldiers kidnapped the woman and took her to the section of the mosque
that is under full Israeli military control. Head of the Ibrahim Mosque,
Monther Abu al-Felat, said the machines installed on the roadblock
repeatedly malfunction, and that there have been various similar cases
in the past.
In addition, the soldiers kidnapped a child as he was heading to school in the al-‘Arroub refugee camp,
north of Hebron, and took him to an unknown destination. The child has
been identified as ‘Ala Ibrahim Mahfouth, 14 years of age; the soldiers
cuffed him and took him to an unknown destination.
Three Palestinians including child injured in Qalqilya
QALQILYA (PIC) 21 Nov — Three Palestinians including a 7-year-old girl
were injured on Saturday by Israeli gunfire in Qalqilya in the West
Bank. Local sources revealed that Israel forces stormed al-Neqqar
district to the west of Qalqilya amid shooting of gunfire and unleashing
of tear gas canisters in clashes with Palestinian youths who threw
stones at Israeli soldiers. The sources pointed out that the Israeli
troops stormed a number of houses, and added that the Israeli shooting
caused the injury of three residents including a 7-year-old girl. She
was shot by a rubber[-coated steel] bullet in her right eyelid while she
was at her family’s home. Dozens of other residents choked on tear gas
fired by the soldiers during clashes, the sources added.
Israeli forces detain young woman in Hebron for ‘carrying knife’
HEBRON (Ma‘an) 21 Nov — Israeli forces detained a young Palestinian
woman at a military checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron’s Old
City for allegedly carrying a knife. Director of the mosque, Munthir Abu
al-Feilat, told a Ma‘an reporter in Hebron that Israeli soldiers at the
checkpoint detained a woman and took her to a police station in the
area, al-Feilat added. An Israeli police spokesperson for Arab media,
Luba al-Samri, said in a statement that a 27-year-old Palestinian woman
from the Yatta area of Hebron was detained after Israeli police
found a kitchen knife in her possession. Al-Samri said that Israeli
border police officers “noticed a young woman approaching them in a
suspicious way” and ordered her to halt. When the woman “ignored the
orders,” officers handcuffed her while another officer pointed a gun at
her, the spokesperson said, adding that she was taken for questioning.
The woman is at least the fourth Palestinian this month to be detained
at the military checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque for allegedly
carrying a knife. Several alleged, attempted, and actual attacks took
place on Israeli military forces in the area over the past month.
Israeli troops detain 18 in West Bank, raid homes
HEBRON (Ma‘an) 21 Nov — Israeli forces detained 18 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank overnight Friday in ongoing arrest raids, local Palestinians and the Israeli army said. Locals told Ma‘an that Israeli forces raided the Hebron
areas of Ras al-Jora, al-Salam Street, Hebron University, and the
neighborhood of al-Zaytoon . . . Atef al- Awawdah, the mayor of a joint
municipal council for villages east of the city of Hebron, told Ma’an
that Israeli soldiers turned the area into a closed military zone.The
area includes the villages al-Muwarraq, al-Kum, Beit Awwa, and Deir
Samit, where several homes were searched by Israeli forces and clashes
broke out between Palestinian youth and soldiers. Locals reported the
use of live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets by Israeli forces
during the clashes. No injuries were reported. In the villages of Beit
Awwa and Deir Samit, homes belonging to Palestinian prisoners Muhammad
al-Hroub and Jalal Shaher Muhammad Rayyan were searched. Three
Palestinian residents of the al-‘Arrub refugee camp were also detained,
identified as Nael Haroun Halayka, 24, Yasser Khader abu Ghazi, 17, and
Basel Yacoub Badawi, 17. In the village of Dura, forces raided the home
of Palestinian prisoner Ahmad al-Sharawna before detaining Ahmad Muneer
Qazzaz, locals told Ma‘an.
In the Jenin area, Palestinian security forces told Ma‘an that
Anas Nihad Rafiq Qabha, 21, and Riyad Hilal Qabaa,18, were detained from
the village of al-Tura, and Muhammad Omar Mahmoud abu Mualla, 23, was
detained from al-Milisiya village. An ambulance driver was reportedly
assaulted by Israeli forces in al-Tura as he was trying to reach a man
in the village.
Soldiers kidnap 19 Palestinians in Hebron, search hundreds of homes
IMEMC/Agencies 22 Nov — The Israeli army carried out, late [Saturday] night and on Sunday at dawn, massive invasions into hundreds of Palestinian homes, in the Hebron
district, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped
at least 19 Palestinians, including a wheelchair-bound man. Media
sources in Hebron said hundreds of Israeli soldiers surrounded and
invaded Beit ‘Awwa town, broke into and violently searched more than 150
homes, deliberately causing damage to their furniture and property, and
kidnapped five Palestinians . . . The WAFA News Agency said the
soldiers caused excessive property damage to the invaded homes, and
stole gold from a home belonging to resident Mahmoud Yassin, in addition
to summoning Moath Jihad Abu Ghalia for interrogation in the Etzion
military base. The soldiers completely isolated Beit ‘Awwa town after
placing sand barriers on its entrances, and after closing its iron gate,
preventing the Palestinians from entering or leaving the town . . . In
addition, media spokesperson of the Popular Committee in Beit Ummar
town, north of Hebron, Mohammad Ayyad Awad, said the army kidnapped
five Palestinians, including two children, in the Safa area, after more
than 100 soldiers invaded it and stormed homes . . . The soldiers
assaulted and struck the detainees with clubs and batons, before cuffing
them, and forcing them to walk with them to the Etzion military base . .
. In the Shiokh [or al-Shuyukh] town, the soldiers invaded the
building of the Islamic Charitable Society, for the third time in less
than two weeks, and confiscated all of its furniture and equipment,
including tables, chairs, files and electric supplies. Also in Shiokh,
the soldiers invaded a medical center and confiscated several medical
supplies and equipment in addition to deliberately destroying equipment.
4 hurt in Kiryat Gat stabbing attack, terrorist caught after manhunt
[with photos, videos] Ynet 21 Nov by Matam Tzuri — A Palestinian
teenager stabbed four people, including a 13-year-old girl, in the
southern city of Kiryat Gat [in Israel] on Saturday evening. The
18-year-old attacker managed to flee the scene, but was caught several
hours later after a massive manhunt. The victims included the
13-year-old girl, a 51-year-old man and two other women aged 44 and 56,
Magen David Adom said. All were in moderate condition. A Bedouin Arab
man was lightly wounded when local residents mistook him for the
terrorist, beat and bound him. The five were all evacuated to the
Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon. Some 250 police and Border
Policemen searched the area for the terrorist who fled the scene,
assisted by helicopters searching from the air. Roadblocks were erected
at the entrances to Kiryat Gat for the duration of the search,
effectively enforcing a complete lockdown of the city. The suspect was
captured after a five-hour manhunt at the yard of a home on King David
Street, where the attack took place, with the blood-soaked knife he used
for the attack in his possession. The suspect was caught after two of
his friends gave him up to the authorities and he was subsequently
identified as Muhammad Shaker al-Tarda, an illegal worker from the village of Yatta near Hebron. Two other suspected accomplices were arrested as well.
Bedouin near-lynching victim is not angry at his attackers
Ynet 22 Nov by Rotem Elizera —Five people were wounded in a terrorist stabbing attack on Saturday evening, among them was Salem,
a 40-year-old Bedouin Arab who was attacked when a group of locals
suspected him of being the terrorist. “I’ve been working in Kiryat Gat
for almost two months, and I was supposed to start working as a security
guard at Intel,” Salem said, speaking from his hospital bed. He
recounted the harrowing experience, “Civilians who saw me stabbed me in
the back. I told them ‘I’m not the terrorist’, but they kept stabbing
again and again for a long while. A policeman and another civilian
stopped them, it lasted for about five minutes. “I told the people who
hit me that I was an Israeli, but they didn’t listen, they went on and
on,” he continued. He added that his family, which lives in Segev
Shalom, doesn’t even know about his attack. “I have small children and
they don’t know about what happened.” “They know me in Kiryat Gat.
There’s a shop in town that I always come to and have coffee with the
shopkeeper. I also have a lot of Jewish friends in town,” Salem said.
Despite his wounds, Salem doesn’t appear to be angry. “I wouldn’t want
those who hurt me to be punished. The terrorist did something bad to
them, you can understand them,” he said. Salem was admitted to Barzilai
Medical Center in Ashkelon. “I feel really unwell, I have injuries in my
back and my leg too,” he said. “These days I feel scared to walk
around, I hardly leave home, really afraid to walk down the street,” he
added.
Clashes, mock air raids reported in Gaza
GAZA (PIC) 22 Nov — Violent clashes broke out Sunday evening between
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and Palestinian youths east of al-Bureij
refugee camp in Gaza Strip, local sources reported. Dozens of
Palestinian youngsters gathered late Sunday near the Israeli border
fence protesting against the Israeli continued crimes and violations in
the West Bank. Israeli forces opened heavy gunfire at the protesters who
responded by throwing stones. No injuries were reported during the
clashes. Earlier on Sunday, Israeli warplanes carried out sudden and
intense mock air raids over Gaza Strip.
IOF carries out limited incursion east of Rafah
RAFAH (PIC) 22 Nov — The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday
evening carried out a small-scale incursion into the eastern border area
of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, and detained a young man with
special needs for a while before releasing him. Local sources said that
Israeli soldiers opened machinegun fire close to a young man with
special needs before detaining him for about two hours near the
perimeter fence, east of Rafah. They added that the IOF also carried
out, amid intensive gunfire, a limited incursion into an eastern area of
Rafah.
Rocket fired from Gaza hits southern Israel
BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 23 Nov — A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in
southern Israel on Monday, with no injuries reported, Israel’s army
said. A spokesperson told Ma‘an that the rocket was launched at 6:30
a.m. and landed in an open area of the Eshkol regional council.I sraeli
forces are currently searching the area. No political group in Gaza has
claimed responsibility.
Closure of the Rafah crossing causing tragedies (report)
(PIC) 20 Nov — Gazan resident Mohamed Kamel has been counting with fear
and anxiety the days that are going fast, getting close to the date
23-11, the day on which his residency in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
expires. This made him observe the news every minute in a hope to hear
the good news of the opening of the Rafah crossing, since the continued
closure of the crossing means the expiry of his residency and thus the
loss of his work, which he got with much effort. Mohamed is not the only
Gazan suffering in the besieged Gaza Strip, as hundreds of Gazans would
lose their residencies soon as a result of the continued closure of the
Rafah crossing, but the more difficult situation is the dispersion of
families due to the expiration of the residencies, and the loss of
students’ seats at universities outside the Strip, threatening their
already threatened future by the practices of the Israeli occupation.
Hamas to ‘distribute land’ among Gaza’s unpaid civil servants
GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 21 Nov — Gaza’s de facto leaders Hamas on Saturday
announced plans to distribute land among civil servants hired after 2007
whose salaries the Palestinian Authority has refused to pay. Hamas’
finance minister Ziad al-Thatha made the announcement during a symposium
in Gaza City, where he also said the employees would be exempted from
unpaid electricity and municipal bills. He said that memorandums and
protocols had already been signed between his ministry, municipal
councils, and Gaza’s land authority, electricity company, and banks.
Al-Thatha said around 1,000 dunams (250 acres) of public property had
been allocated for the purpose across Gaza, although he did not specify
where. He said the land “badly needs to be inhabited for political,
security, social, and economic reasons. “The decision is likely to fuel
tensions between Hamas and the Fatah-dominated PA. The question of
Gaza’s government employees has been a major point of dispute between
the two rival factions. (Continued)
Factions reject Hamas plans to allocate land to unpaid civil servants
GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 22 Nov — Palestinian factions in Gaza on Sunday
slammed a decision announced by Hamas the day before to distribute
public land among civil servants hired after 2007, whose salaries the
Palestinian Authority has refused to pay. Representatives of several
Palestinian factions, including Fatah and the Palestinian People’s
Party, called the move illegal, adding that it would threaten the
already contentious relationship between Hamas and the Fatah-dominated
PA. Walid al-Awad, a senior leader of the Palestinian People’s Party,
told Ma‘an that a meeting had been arranged between a number of
political factions in Gaza later on Sunday to discuss Hamas’ plans. He
added that factions would use the meeting to reiterate their position
that the decision to distribute public land was “illegal” and
“unacceptable.” Al-Awad said that faction leaders believed the plan
“demonstrates that Hamas, not the Palestinian national consensus
government, is still controlling the Gaza Strip, and that they are
controlling it by military force.” . . . On Sunday, al-Awad told Ma‘an
that while he sympathizes with the rights of unpaid civil servants, he
disagreed with Hamas’ decision primarily because public land is “owned
by the Palestinian people — not by Hamas or any other faction.”Fatah
officials also expressed opposition to Hamas’ decision, describing it as
a “dangerous and illegal procedure, lacking any nationalistic or
political standards.” The deputy speaker of the Union of Palestinian
Lawyers, Safi al-Dahdouh, also described the move as illegal under
Palestinian law, saying that public property could not be “touched by
any individual, even if they have certain jurisdiction.”
QRCS holds emergency drill in southern Gaza
DOHA 22 Nov — The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has conducted a mock
drill in Gaza as part of its $135,000 projects to give psychological
support to victims of the 2014 Gaza War. At the beach of Khan Younes in
southern Gaza, the drill recreated tsunami sweeping homes and shops amid
ambulance sirens, victims everywhere and volunteers rushing to help. As
typical in such cases, the stricken areas were evacuated and the
casualties were moved to hospitals. Psychological support, protection,
and restoring family links staff were deployed to help victims, move
them to safe places and provide socio-psychological support for the
people, especially women and children. Some 120 psychological, ambulance
and emergency management staff from Palestinian Red Crescent Society
(PRCS) took part in the drill, in collaboration with QRCS and Spanish
Red Cross. Azmi Al Akhtal, Psychological Programme Manager, QRCS, said:
“Now, our staff are better prepared for any disaster.
Gaza: The power plant needs a permanent fuel tax exemption
GAZA (PIC) 23 Nov — The Palestinian authority of energy and natural
resources in Gaza has called on the unity government in Ramallah to
permanently exempt the besieged Strip’s power plant from the “blue tax”
on industrial fuel. In a press release on Sunday, the energy authority
described the Palestinian cabinet’s decision to give the Gaza power
plant a one-month tax exemption on fuel shipments “insufficient to
address the longstanding electricity problem in Gaza.” The authority
expressed hope that the tax exemption on Gaza fuel could be permanent in
order for the power plant to work without stop, especially during the
current winter months and until a durable solution to the problem was
found.
Exclusive: Hamas foils mass ISIS prison break in Gaza
JAFFA, Israel (Breitbart – not one of our usual sources) 22 Nov by Ali
Waked — Salafists allied with ISIS ideology were caught in the act of
planning a mass escape from a Hamas prison in the Gaza Strip last week,
according to Hamas sources speaking to Breitbart Jerusalem. The event
spotlights the continued rise of support for ISIS in the
Hamas-controlled territory. The escape attempt was planned by a former
leader of Hamas’ so-called military wing who joined the ISIS-aligned
Salafists in recent years. He was imprisoned by Hamas last May during
deadly clashes between the two jihadist groups when ISIS challenged
Hamas’s rule in Gaza. The Hamas sources said the management of the
prison discovered the escape plot and decided to let the Salafists
continue with their plans until a short time before the ISIS ideologues
were set to carry out the operation. On Friday, Breitbart Jerusalem obtained and published
exclusive images of what jihadists said was an ISIS training camp in
Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. One of the most significant elements of the
camp is the Gaza-centric imagery. One image contains a sign bearing the
name Sheikh Imam Abu Noor al-Maqdisi, also known as Sheikh Abdul Latif
Musa. Maqdisi was the leader of a Salafist group in Gaza who proclaimed
the formation of the “Islamic Emirate of Gaza” on August 14, 2009. One
day later he was killed by Hamas forces.
In Gaza, wealthy elite casts spotlight on inequality
GAZA CITY (Channel NewsAsia) 22 Nov by Halla Alsafadi — Eight in 10 people in the Gaza Strip live below the poverty line, but among them a wealthy elite co-exists — For
eight years, Gaza’s economy has plummeted under an Israeli blockade.
The construction sector is paralysed and tens of thousands are
unemployed. Those who do work like Mohammed Abu Bassi, survive on less
than US$10 a day. This 27-year-old sells corn, coffee and tea in a
vending cart by the sea, and times are so tough that he has attempted
suicide twice . . . But the situation is not bleak for everyone. An
unequal society exists in Gaza. While many are barely earning enough to
survive, there are pockets of wealth here that own investments worth
millions of dollars.”Nine years of a blockade and three wars on Gaza
created a class who benefited and made very high incomes,” said Sameer
Abu Mudalala, an economics professor at Al-Azhar University . . . It is a
different story for wealthy Gazans, whose businesses are built on real
estate worth millions of dollars. Those willing to pay for a lavish
lifestyle keep the hotels and restaurants, by the Gaza beach and close
to the refugee camps, busy at night. Tourism has taken off too . . . As
Gazan investors continue to pour money in the strip fancy resorts,
hotels, and restaurants continue to open as if in defiance of a
deteriorating economy, political instability, and the risks of war and
violence.
Hamas-Fatah squabble put future of 25,000 Gazan students at risk
GAZA CITY (Al-Monitor) 20 Nov by Moath al-Amoudi — The Fatah-Hamas dispute over the chairmanship of Al-Aqsa University has raised major concerns among students. In a statement issued Sept 7, the Education Ministry threatened to revoke the university’s accreditation
if the board of trustees does not agree on appointing a consensus
chairman within a week of the issuance of the statement. The situation
escalated after the resignation of former chairman Ali Abu Zuhri
in early August, when Hamas appointed Mohammed Radwan as acting
chairman of the university without input from the ministry . . . Marah
al-Batta, a freshman Arabic-language studies student, told Al-Monitor,
“Both parties are willing to take control over the university without
taking into consideration its exalted educational mission. I’m afraid
that the conflict will result in the university being unaccredited,
which will prevent many high-school graduates — especially female
students — from completing their university studies. The difficult
economic situation is prompting the parents to deny education to their
daughters, due to the high cost at other private universities.” (Continued)
Israeli Arabs protest ban on Israeli Movement
JPost 21 Nov by Ariel Ben Solomon — Joint List MK Jamal Zahalka said
Saturday the government decision to ban the northern branch of the
Islamic Movement could push Arabs to join more extremist groups. “This
is a stupid move because it harms the mainstream Islamic Movement, which
will strengthen extremists, and pushes people into the arms of Islamic
State,” the Balad party head told The Jerusalem Post Saturday
night. “We condemn the ban of the Islamic Movement,” he said, adding,
“The decision will harm everyone.” Israeli-Arabs protested the ban in
various Arab localities over the weekend . . . The northern and southern
branches of the movement are highly integrated into Arab society and
have the support of most Muslim citizens.
How Israel is erasing Arabic from its public landscapeHaokets22 Nov by Umar Al-Ghubari — Driving
towards Jerusalem on Highway 1, you may notice a relatively new
phenomenon taking place on the road signs directing you to the city.
Readers of Arabic will see that the name of Jerusalem in Arabic has
undergone a change: the word in brackets, القدس,
Al-Quds, which appeared there until very recently, no longer exists on
the new signs that have recently been put up by the roadsides in those
sections where highway’s recent expansion been completed . . . The State
of Israel, and the Zionist movement before that, have acted, and are
still acting, to erase the Arabic names from the land and to replace
them with Jewish–Hebrew names . . . Although there are more methods than
one for determining the names, the purpose is one: the Judaization of
the land and the erasure of Arab identity from it and from the mind. At
times the committee has based its decision on names from historical
Jewish sources — which it has revived — as in the case of Yerushalayīm
[Jerusalem], Modi’in, Gezer, etc. It has also replaced Arabic names with
names mentioned in the Jewish sources even if the difference between
them is minor, as in Akko [Acre] instead of Akka, Yafo [Jaffa] instead
of Yafa, and Tzora instead of the Arab village Sora’a (by the way, these
names are not necessarily Jewish or Hebrew, they existed before the
Israelites arrived in Canaan). (Continued)
Kerry visit to Israel and Palestine not about peace accord, says US official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) 21 Nov — Secretary of State John Kerry
will meet next week with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the region
to try to stop ongoing violence, although a senior US official insisted
on Saturday the visit was not a renewed effort to broker a peace accord.
The State Department said Kerry would travel to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and
Ramallah on a trip that will also include a stop in the United Arab
Emirates to discuss the Syrian conflict . . . With the latest visit,
Kerry hopes to move things in a “more positive direction” and prevent
the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, the official said. The talks
will explore a “variety of ideas” on how to ease tensions, the official
said without elaborating.
Fatah official banned from entering Turkey
JPost 22 Nov by Khaled Abu Toameh — Turkish authorities on Friday banned
a senior Fatah official from entering the country citing security
concerns. Gen. Tawfik Tirawi, member of the Fatah Central Committee and
former head of the Palestinian Authority General Intelligence Force who
had been invited to an event organized by the Palestinian Embassy in
Turkey to mark the 11th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat, was
detained for five hours at Istanbul Airport before he was deported to
Jordan. Tirawi, who also heads a Palestinian commission of inquiry into
the circumstances surrounding Arafat’s death, said the Turkish
authorities considered him persona non-grata and refused to allow him to
enter the country. “I don’t think this has to do with security-related
issues,” Tirawi said. “The only reason I can think of is my position
toward the Muslim Brotherhood and my criticism of the group on TV.”
Tirawi’s Fatah faction strongly condemned the decision, saying it was
directed against all Palestinians, and that the ban was in violation of
all diplomatic norms and exposes Turkey’s bias in favor of Hamas.
Otherwise Occupied // Fadi and Kathy, who invented you?
Haaretz 23 Nov by Amira Hass — Fadi and Kathy care deeply about the
Palestinian cause, which is why, they wrote, they reported suspicions of
corruption at Al-Haq, one of the oldest and most prominent Palestinian
human rights organizations. Al-Haq is among the leading nongovernmental
organizations that has pressured the Palestinian Authority to appeal to
the International Criminal Court, and it takes action against Israel’s
impunity over war crimes and the systematic violation of international
law. Al-Haq is also very active in the international effort to ban
settlement products. Thus, it is particularly embarrassing for
allegations of corruption against the organization to arise just as the
European Union decided on the mandatory labeling of products made in
settlements. Kathy and Fadi have maintained their anonymity, including
with the recipients of the emails in which they detailed their
allegations, foreign diplomats and directors of Palestinian human rights
organizations. Haaretz has obtained copies of the emails, but Kathy and
Fadi have not responded to our requests for comments . . . Both claim
the international accounting firm Ernst & Young is investigating
allegations of “financial irregularities, corruption, fraud and misuse
of donations and funds.” . . . So, is there anything to the allegations?
Checks by Haaretz have determined the following: • On September 2, the
Ramallah office of Ernst & Young received an anonymous communication
alleging “systemic dishonest behavior” at Al-Haq. The firm asked for
further details, but the anonymous sender of the communication
disappeared. As did Kathy and Fadi. • In contrast to Fadi and Kathy’s
claims, Ernst & Young is not investigating and has not investigated
Al-Haq. • Ernst & Young found no evidence of fraud in its most
recent annual audit of Al-Haq’s financial reports. • On the request of
Al-Haq, the Palestinian State Audit and Administrative Control Bureau
last week began an audit of the NGO’s operations, for which purpose
Al-Haq has given access to the accounts of the organization, its
management and employees. This, following Ernst & Young’s
clarification that a routine review cannot fully guarantee the absence
of fraud. • Hamdallah has made it clear that Al-Haq was not among the
organizations he had complained about. (Continued)
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.687720 How Israel pressures BBC into changing headlines
EI 19 Nov by Amena Saleem — In the early hours of 12 November,
approximately two dozen Israeli gunmen, one disguised as a pregnant
Palestinian woman, others wearing fake beards, invaded a hospital in
Hebron and gunned down a 28-year-old man. In a rare burst of reporting
on an Israeli atrocity, the BBC ran an article on its website headlined:
“Israelis shoot dead Palestinian in Hebron hospital raid.” It was a
straightforward headline which summed up the story. But later in the
day, a different headline appeared above the report, reading: “Israelis
in disguise raid Hebron hospital, seizing suspect.” As is standard
practice for the BBC, the amendment was not noted at the bottom of the
page, so newcomers to the story would not have known the headline had
been altered. It was spotted, however, by the watchdog Media Lens, which
posted a screengrab of the two headlines on its Facebook page, asking:
“What happened? Pro-Israeli flak? Bending to pro-Israeli pressure?”
These questions are even more pertinent in the light of a documented
exchange which took place between the BBC, the Israeli Government Press
Office (GPO) and the Israeli embassy in London at the beginning of
October about another of the broadcaster’s headlines . . .The
Times of Israel reported then on Israeli fury sparked by the 4 October
BBC Online headline “Palestinian shot dead after Jerusalem attack kills
two.” The headline is factually correct, but offense was caused to
Israel’s PR machine because the killing of 19-year-old Muhannad Halabi
took precedence in the headline over the slaying of two Israelis. The Times of Israel
wrote: “The [Israeli] Government Press Office on Sunday warned the BBC
it could face sanctions for running a news headline highlighting the
death of the Palestinian terrorist shot by the police Saturday after
fatally stabbing two Israelis, rather than the attack itself.” . . .
Whatever the GPO’s harsh words were, they appear to have been enough to
scare the BBC into changing the headline . . . In its report of
4 October, The Times of Israel noted: “According to a GPO
official, Israel expects an official apology from the network, and said
the office was considering annulling the press cards of BBC journalists,
a decision that if implemented would not allow the network to continue
operating in Israel.” This is not an idle threat, and BBC staff know it .
. . In 2003, the Israeli government severed ties with the corporation, accusing it of the “worst of Nazi propaganda” after it broadcast the documentary Israel’s Secret Weapon which shed light on the country’s nuclear and chemical arsenal (Continued)
AAA conference passes BDS resolution
IMEMC/Agencies 23 Nov — With over 10,000 members, the American
Anthropological Association (AAA) has become the largest scholarly
institution in the United States to endorse the academic boycott of
Israel when its general conference voted overwhelmingly, last night, for
a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) resolution. The historic vote
attracted an unprecedented 1176 votes, with 1,040 votes for the motion
(88.5%) to boycott Israeli academic institutions and 136 votes (11.5%)
against the motion. This paves the way for the entire AAA membership to
vote on the resolution in the coming months. An anti-BDS resolution was
resoundingly defeated at the conference just before the vote for the BDS
resolution.
for comparisonCheckpoints isolate many immigrants in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley
BROWNSVILLE, Texas 22 Nov by Manny Fernandez — Elizabeth Lopez swam
across the Rio Grande 19 years ago to come to America, where she began
cleaning houses and raising three daughters in this city of swaying palm
trees at the southern tip of Texas. It did not matter to her that her
life was confined to a narrow sliver of the country — a zone north of
the Mexican border but south of traffic checkpoints that the Border Patrol
operates within Texas. Everything changed in 2010 when her fourth
child, Angel, was born with Down syndrome and colon and heart problems.
Living in what some call “la jaula de oro” — the golden cage —
suddenly took on a whole new meaning. For decades, these interior
checkpoints up to 100 miles north of the border have left thousands of
undocumented immigrants and their families in the Rio Grande Valley in
something of a twilight zone. Their isolation has only intensified as
border security has tightened. And though neither side of the debate
about immigration has focused on the issue so far, that may be changing.Those
stuck here have little choice but to stay put. They cannot go north for
fear of either being caught while trying to cross the checkpoints by
car or dying in the vast expanses of brush while trying to walk around
them. And they will not go south for the same reasons they left Mexico
in the first place.(Continued)
ZIONIST RATZINGER
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