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Closer than Ever: US Preparing with ’Israel’ a Camp David-style Summit, Gulf Monarchies on Guests List

November 7, 2019, 1:37 am
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“Israeli” News channel 12 revealed that the United States and the Zionist occupation entity are advancing plans for an agreement with some Gulf Arab states to tackle their mutual enemy, Iran.
The initiative, championed by Zionist Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz, will see Arab Gulf states sign a non-aggression treaty and economic cooperation agreement, a major step towards normalizing relations with the apartheid “Israeli” entity.
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the initiative is “excellent”, News 12 reported.
Katz also said during talks with American officials that “the goal is to sign an agreement [with Gulf states] on the White House lawn, during Trump’s current administration”.
In November 2018, Katz announced the “Peace Rails” initiative that would connect some Gulf monarchies to the Mediterranean ports of Occupied Palestine.
Katz presented the “Israel”-Gulf initiative to the former US envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt, and according to News 12, the initiative aims at “developing friendships and cooperation ties”.
The initiative will oblige its parties to “take effective measures so that acts of wars, threats or hostility” or any incitement does not arise from signatories’ territories against any of the treaty’s parties.
The sides will be obliged to “refrain from joining, promoting or assisting a coalition, organization or an alliance of military or security nature, with a third party”, News 12 added.
In January, it was reported that the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is “seriously considering” setting up a “game-changing” Camp David-style summit meeting with Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with US President Donald Trump playing host.
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Turkish Forces Loot Electric Power Transformers in Northeastern Syria

November 7, 2019, 4:16 am
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By Arabi Souri
Global Research, November 06, 2019
Syria News
Forces loyal to Erdogan in the Turkish Army and accompanying terrorist groups looted electricity power generators and transformers from a number of villages and towns they infested in the Hasakah countryside. A car blew up with the invaders while they were preparing it to blow up civilians in a market.
Among the towns infested with Erdogan forces that witnessed the robberies were Shallah and Amirt in the countryside of Ras Al-Ain in the northern Hasakah province.
Meanwhile, the Turkish Army and its al-Qaeda affiliates are preventing the residents from returning to their homes in the villages infested.
This is not new for the Turkish Army, since the early days of the US-led War of Terror waged against Syria, Erdogan forces have stolen oil drilling and extracting heavy machinery, factories, and its production machines, especially in Aleppo stripping it to the walls and most of the times destroying that as well, wheat and burning what they can’t steal, and the oil first looted by the FSA then by Nusra Front to be replaced by ISIS followed by the Kurds and now the Trump forces, all robbed items go through Turkey.
Erdogan Terrorists on Terror Frenzy in Tal Abiad and Aleppo City
Syrians call the Turkish pariah Erdogan ‘the thief of Aleppo’. Syrian President Bashar Al Assad reiterated that in his latest interview by saying: ‘When I called Erdogan a thief (during the visit to the SAA troops in Idlib last month) I wasn’t calling him bad names, I was just describing him, he’s a thief.’
While Erdogan forces were looting cities, others were preparing more killing tools but tasted the poison themselves when a car they were booby-trapping to detonate in yet another market blew up prematurely.
The explosion killed scores of the terrorists in the village of al-Ahras in the countryside of Ras Al-Ain, another number of the terrorists were injured and severe damage to the properties was caused.
Some local sources reported seeing Turkish army officers among the terrorists when they were preparing the vehicle.
Syria has declared the Turkish incursion in northern parts of the country as an illegal invasion despite any Putin – Erdogan agreements and the ‘Syrian state is determined to fight this invasion and all other invasions by all means until liberating the last inch of the Syrian territories’ numerous official statements by all Syrian officials.
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Accused of Treason and Imprisoned Without Trial: Journalist Kirill Vyshinsky Recounts His Harrowing Time in a Ukrainian Prison

November 7, 2019, 10:00 am
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Eva Bartlett sat down with recently released Ukrainian journalist Kirill Vyshinsky. Vyshinsky endured 15 months of appalling conditions in a Ukrainian prison after being falsely accused of treason.
by Eva Bartlett
October 28th, 2019
In November 2018, I became aware of the case of Kirill Vyshinsky, a Ukrainian-Russian journalist and editor imprisoned in Ukraine without trial since May 2018, accused of high treason.
Soon after, I interviewed Vyshinsky via email. He described his arrest and the accusations against him as politically-motivated, “an attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to bolster the declining popularity of [then] President [Petro] Poroshenko in this election year.” 
Vyshinsky noted that his arrest was advancing the incessant anti-Russian hysteria now prevalent among Ukrainian authorities, as he holds dual Ukrainian and Russian citizenship. He noted that the charges against him, which pertain to a number of articles he published in 2014 (none of them authored by Vyshinsky), became of interest to Ukrainian authorities and intelligence services four years after they were published. To Vyshinsky, this supports the notion that neither the articles nor their editor were a security threat to Ukraine, instead, he says, they were a political card to be played.
In early 2019, I traveled to Kiev to interview Vyshinsky’s defense lawyer Andriy Domansky about the logistic obstacles of his client’s case. Domansky viewed the Vyshinsky case as politically motivated and expressed concern that he could himself become a target of Ukraine’s secret service for his role in defending his client, an innocent man.
Domansky told me at the time,
The Vyshinsky case is key in demonstrating the presence of political persecution of journalists in Ukraine. As a legal expert, I believe justice is still possible in Ukraine and I will do everything possible to prove Kirill Vyshinsky’s innocence.”
To the surprise of those following the case against Vyshinsky, in late August 2019 he was released with little fanfare after serving more than 400 days in a Ukrainian prison but still faces all of the charges brought against him by the Ukrainian government and is “obliged to appear in court or give testimony to investigators if they deemed it necessary.”
By early September, Kirill Vyshinsky was on a plane to Moscow. Despite never being tried or officially convicted, he found himself the subject of a prisoner exchange between the Russian and Ukrainian governments.
A banner reading “Freedom to Kirill Vyshinsky” is held at a June 16, 2019 rally in Moscow. Maxim Shemetov | Reuters
I interviewed Vyshinsky in Moscow in late September. He told me about his harrowing ordeal, the Ukrainian detention system, other persecuted journalists, and what lies ahead for him.
He also touched on the inhumane conditions he experienced in Ukrainian prisons. He noted that a pretrial detention center as we know it in Western nations is a very different entity in Ukraine and that Ukrainian prisons were so over-crowded that it was common for inmates to sleep in three shifts in order to allow enough standing room for inmates crammed into a cell.

Ukrainian prisons like a “concentration camp”

Aleksey Zhuravko, a Ukrainian deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of V and VI convocations recently published photos taken inside of an Odessa pretrial detention center showing utterly unsanitary and appalling conditions. Zhuravko noted, “I am shocked at what was seen. It is a concentration camp. It is a hotbed of diseases.”
Another Ukrainian journalist, Pavel Volkov, was subjected to the same types of accusations lobbed against Vyshinsky. Volkov spent over a year in the same pretrial detention center as Vyshinsky. He was arrested on September 27, 2017, after Ukrainian authorities carried out searches of his wife and mother’s apartments without the presence of his lawyer and with what he says, was a false witness.
Volkov spent more than a year in a pretrial detention center on charges of “infringing on territorial integrity with a group of people” and “miscellaneous accessory to terrorism.” On March 27, 2019, he was fully acquitted by a Ukrainian court.
Volkov shared his thoughts on the persecution of journalists in Ukraine, saying:
The leaders of the 2014 Euromaidan movement, who subsequently occupied the largest positions in the country’s leadership, repeatedly stated that collaborators from World War II who participated in the mass extermination of Jews, Russians, and Poles are true heroes in Ukraine, and that the Russian and Russian-speaking population of Ukraine are inferior people who need to be either forcibly re-educated or destroyed.
They also believe that anyone who wants peace with the Russian Federation, and who believes that the Russian language (the native language for over sixty percent of Ukraine’s population) should be the second state language, is the enemy of Ukraine.
These notions formed the basis of the new criminal law, designed to persecute politicians, public figures, journalists, and ordinary citizens who disagree with the above.
Since 2014, security services have arrested hundreds of people on charges of state treason; infringing on the territorial integrity of Ukraine; and assisting terrorism for criticizing the current government in the streets or on the Internet.
People have been in prison for years without a conviction. And these are not only the journalists included in the ‘Vyshinsky list’.
Activists from Odessa, Sergey Dolzhenkov and Evgeny Mefedov, have spent more than five years in jail just for laying flowers at a memorial to the liberators of Nikolaev [Ukrainian city] from Nazi invaders.
Sergeyev and Gorban, taxi drivers, have spent two and a half years in a pretrial detention center because they transported pensioners from Donetsk to Ukraine-controlled territory so that they could receive their legal pension.
The entrepreneur Andrey Tatarintsev has spent two years in prison for providing humanitarian assistance to a children’s hospital in the territory of the Lugansk region not controlled by Ukraine.
Farmer Nikolay Butrimenko received eight years of imprisonment for paying tax to the Donetsk People’s Republic for his land located in that territory.
The 85-year-old scientist and engineer Mekhti Logunov was given twelve years because he agreed to build a waste recycling plant with Russian investors. The list is endless.
People often incriminate themselves while being tortured or under the threat of their relatives being punished, and such confessions are accepted by the courts, despite the fact that lawyers initiate criminal proceedings against the security services involved in the torture. These cases are not being investigated.
The only mitigation that has happened in this direction after the change of government was the abolition of the provision of the Criminal Procedure Code stating that no other measure of restraint other than detention can be applied to persons suspected of committing crimes against the state.
This allowed some defendants to leave prison on bail, but not a single politically-motivated case has yet been closed. Moreover, arrests are ongoing.
The only acquittal to date from the so-called journalistic cases on freedom of speech is mine. However, it is still being contested by the prosecutor’s office in the Supreme Court.
Ninety-nine percent of the media continue to call all these people ‘terrorists’, ‘separatists’, and ‘enemies of the people’, even though almost none of them have yet received a verdict in court.”
Volkov’s words lay bare the true nature of the allegations made against Kirill Vyshinsky as well as the countless other journalists and citizens of Ukraine that have fallen victim to the heavy hand of Ukrainian authorities.
Feature photo | Kirill Vyshinsky poses while covering Ukraine’s Maidan protests in 2014. Photo | Zenit-ka.ru
Eva Bartlett is a Canadian independent journalist and activist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and occupied Palestine, where she lived for nearly four years. She is a recipient of the 2017 International Journalism Award for International Reporting, granted by the Mexican Journalists’ Press Club (founded in 1951), was the first recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism, and was short-listed in 2017 for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. See her extended bio on her blog In Gaza.
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الاتصالات مغارة علي بابا فهل تقتحمها «الثورة»؟

November 7, 2019, 4:44 pm
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نوفمبر 6, 2019

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– سيكتشف مَن يحقق فعلياً في وضع قطاع الاتصالات مئات المخالفات المتصلة بنهب اللبنانيين، من دفعة الـ 500 التي سُدّدت كتأمين على شراء الخطوط ولم تتم إعادتها، إلى ما يُسمّى بالاشتراك الشهري بقيمة 25 على الخطوط الثابتة، وصولاً للأسعار التي لا تشبهها أي أسعار في العالم، وبالمناسبة في سورية المجاورة لا زالت الخدمة أفضل والسعر أقلّ بكثير، وبين المشغلين شركة أجنبية عالمية. أما عن طريقة الفوترة فحدّث ولا حرج، من انقطاع الاتصال مراراً لتسجيل تراكم دقائق أولى، إلى خدمات الإنترنت القائمة على سرقة موصوفة بأرقام خيالية لكل استهلاك زائد عن الباقات المباعة، كما سيكشف كل تحقيق جدّي أن ثمة رواتب خيالية تدفع لأشخاص متنفعين تمّت إضافتهم بلا مبرّر لهيكلية الشركات ومستشاريها، وستفوح رائحة الفضائح من عقود علاقاتها العامة، إضافة لموازنات بعشرات ملايين الدولارات، وضعت بتصرف الوزراء المتعاقبين تمّ إنفاقها على مجالات لا تهم الدولة ولا المواطن، وأغلبها تسديد لخدمات سياسية لحساب الوزير وحاشيته، وترف إنفاق استهلاكي فردي على حساب الدولة، وصولاً لفضيحة شراء المبنى الجديد لشركة تاتش.

– تسعير خدمات الخلوي بالليرة اللبنانية ليس كل شيء بل هو بعض من أشياء يتمّ الكذب بصددها وتجب معالجتها، وحبذا لو أن الحراك يضع قطاع الاتصالات أولوية له، ولا يبدّد جهوده نحو ميادين أخرى. فالتضليل الذي وقع الحراك ضحيّته تحت شعار استقالة الحكومة وتشكيل حكومة جديدة عنوانها كفاءات تُنقذ البلد من ذوي الكفاءات والمشهود لهم بالنزاهة. تفتح باب السؤال لذوي الدرسات العليا في العلوم السياسية في صفوف الحراك، هل حسمت البشرية بفلسفاتها ونظرياتها العالمية، طريقة لكيفية اختيار هذه الحكومة واصطفاء النخب المناسبة للحكم، أو ليست الديمقراطية محاولة لتحقيق هذا الهدف، وتداول السلطة اعتراف بإخفاقها؟

– تاه الحراك عشرين يوماً تحت شعار الحكومة الجديدة مانحاً القوى السياسية التي يئس منها مجدداً فرصة الإمساك باللعبة، لأن المرور عبرها إلزامي في كل تشكيل سياسي أو حكومي. كما تاه في زواريب أشكال التحرّك الضاغط، خصوصاً قطع الطرقات التي لم تعُد على الحراك سوى بالسلبيات، ومنح القوى السياسية التي تمّت الثورة بوجهها فرص اختراق هذه الثورة ، والتحكم بسمعتها وعلاقاتها بشوارع لبنانية يسعى بعضها للتنمّر على بعض وتسجيل نقاط لا يخصّ الحراك ولا يخدمه، وتشكل انتهاكاً لأبسط حقوق الإنسان التي يُفترض أنها من محرّكات الحراك، ولم يظهر قطع الطرقات إلا أسوأ ما لدى الحراك لأن الثورات في تاريخها تكتب أن المهام الشارعية لا تستقطب في الثورات سوى أسوأ عناصرها فتضيع المسافة بين الثوار وقطاع الطرق ويبدأ الذبول والانهيار والتآكل، لذلك لا بد مع تذكر الحراك مهامه في قطاع الاتصالات من التذكير بأن هذا القطاع مفتاح هام لا يجب أن يضيع وسط الصخب. وبداية الحديث عن أولوية هذا القطاع تعني أولوية التعرّف على ما تحتوي مغارة علي بابا، بدعوة نخب وخبراء ومدراء سابقين ووزراء سابقين يملكون المعلومات ومستعدين للإدلاء بها ليطلع الشعب اللبناني على الحقائق. والأهم كي يتسنى للحراك وضع جدول بالقضايا المطلوب حلها، في قطاع حيويّ للشعب والخزينة، ومحوري في عيون صائدي الصفقات، وهو اليوم على جدول أعمال البيع السريع قبل أن يستفيق الشعب.

– أهم ما يفعله الحراك سريعاً، هو التفرّغ لقطاع الاتصالات، وهو بالتحديد تشكيل إدارة ظل لقطاع الاتصالات من خبراء وتقنيين وذوي اختصاص، ودعمها بتحرك شعبي هادر أمام الشركات والوزارة وقصر العدل، وليكن اعتصاماً مفتوحاً لمدة محددة حتى تتم التلبية المتعددة العناوين من الإجراءات المالية والخدمية، والملاحقات القانونية، والشفافية المحاسبية. وبعد نهاية المهلة يكون معلوماً أن إدارة الظل ستتحوّل إلى إدارة فعلية مؤقتة وتقتحم الشركات، وتضع يدها على إدارة القطاع بما يحقق وفراً للخزينة ويخفف الأعباء عن المواطنين، وهذا عمل ثوري تهون في سبيله التضحيات والمواجهات، وسيقف الشعب كله وراء الحراك مدافعاً لمنع النيل منه ومن ثواره .

– هذا هو مفهوم الثورة الحقيقية التي تعرف كيف تكافح الفساد وتدافع عن حقوق الشعب، ولا يعادل هذا الإنجاز إذا تحقق أي تشكيلة حكومية ينتظرها الحراك بعدما جعل إسقاط الحكومة وتشكيل حكومة جديدة قضيته الأولى، ويختلف الاشتباك لأجلها عن الاشتباك لمنع المواطنين من التنقل.

– عندما يتحقق كل إنجاز في هذا المجال، فهو إنجاز يطال كل مواطن، ويقدم مثالاً ويشكل سابقة قابلة للتكرار في قطاعات أخرى، ويشكل رسالة تجعل للحراك ديناميكية لا يستطيع أحد إيقافها، ويُحسَب لها ألف حساب وحساب.

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خيار المقاومة ليس في أزمة

November 7, 2019, 6:52 pm
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ـ يتخيّل بعض المتربصين بالمقاومة أنّ المنطق المعتدل الذي تعتمده في التعامل مع الوضع الذي يعيشه لبنان ناتج عن قلق المقاومة على وضعها في ظلّ ما تقوله عن مشروع أميركي لاستهدافها، متناسين الفرق بين وجود المشروع وما تملكه قوى المقاومة لمواجهته.

ـ ما لا تريده المقاومة هو المبادرة لخيارات دفاعية تحتفظ بها إذا قرّر الأميركيون الخروج من الشراكة العملية في السلطة في لبنان، سواء عبر تمثيل الجماعات التي تراهن على مشروعهم وتشكل التجسيد اللبناني له بنسب مختلفة، أو عبر دورهم المالي في إبقاء لبنان بعيداً عن الإنهيار المالي الذي أسّس الأميركيون للإمساك به عبر سياسات الإستدانة المفتوحة وما رافقها من إنفاق تفوح منه روائح الفساد برعاية أميركية عبّرت عن نفسها بمواصلة منح التمويل والديون لمواصلة فساد تراه وترعاه.

ـ تدرك المقاومة أنّ الخروج الأميركي من هذه الشراكة وصولاً للانهيار المالي يؤذي لبنان ولقتصاده وشعبه، خصوصاً مع انهيار سعر صرف الليرة اللبنانية، ولذلك فالمقاومة لا تبادر لوضع هذا الخيار كمشروع لها بمثل ما تتعامل مع مشروع الحرب بمبادرة ذاتية على كيان الاحتلال، فهاتان حربان لا تريدهما وتعرف الخسائر والأكلاف فيهما لكنها تثق بربحهما ولذلك إذا فرضتا فهي لا تخشاهما.

ـ نموذج اقتصاد من نوع مختلف موجود على مقربة من المقاومة في سورية حيث مستوى المعيشة رغم حرب السنوات التسع أفضل من لبنان وأسعار الخدمات أرخص والأزمات في ملفات الكهرباء والنفايات وسواها أقلّ.

ـ منع السفر وحجز الأموال والأملاك لكلّ الذين تولوا الحكم خلال السنوات الثلاثين الماضية وفتح ملفات الفساد واسترجاع الأموال المنهوبة بلا رحمة واستثناءات سيكون الشق الثاني من هذا المشروع نحو اقتصاد المقاومة حكماً.

ـ الانفتاح على السوق السورية والعراقية والإيرانية بخطة تكامل في مجالات النفط والكهرباء وسكك الحديد وتكامل أسواق المنتجات والخدمات والسياحة مشروع جاهز، وإدخال لبنان في منظومة شرقية روسية صينية يوفر التمويل والنهوض بديل جاهز، لكنه بديل دفاعي وليس بديلاً هجومياً كما هو مشروع استهداف العمق «الإسرائيلي» والدخول إلى الجليل بديل على طاولة المقاومة، لكن كردّ دفاعي على الحرب إذا فرضت وليس خياراً يؤخذ بمبادرة…

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فاسدون يقودون ثورة الإصلاح

November 8, 2019, 4:31 am
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نوفمبر 7, 2019

شوقي عواضة
«نتعاطف مع نضال الشعب العراقي من أجل الحرية والحياة الكريمة، ونستنكر بشدةٍ أعمال القمع والقتل ضدّ المتظاهرين بقيادة قاسم سليماني، وحرس الثورة الإيراني»، بتلك العبارة غرّد وزير الخارجية الإسرائيلي ووزير الشؤون الاستخباراتية سابقاً يسرائيل كاتس معلناً تضامنه وكيانه مع الشعب العراقي. تلا ذلك تغريدة للرئيس الأميركي دونالد ترامب لمشهد حرق جدار القنصلية الأميركية في محافظة كربلاء بالتزامن مع الذكرى الأربعين لاحتلال السفارة الأميركية في طهران واحتجاز رهائن أميركيين بُعيد انتصار الثورة الإسلامية. موقفان رسميان وواضحان فيهما تبنّ صريح لتعزيز العداء لإيران بل لمحاربتها ومحاولة الثأر منها والحدّ من تصاعد قوة محور المقاومة في المنطقة من خلال بعض أدواتها، حربٌ بوجه آخر أعلنتها صراحةً صحيفة «واشنطن بوست» في مقالٍ لها جاء فيه «إنّ التظاهرات في العراق ولبنانً من شأنها أن تحقق ما عجزت عنه الإدارة الأميركية من خلال سياسة الضغط الأقصى على إيران»، مضيفة أنه بالرغم من كلّ الخطوات التي اتخذها الرئيس ترامب للضغط على إيران من خلال العقوبات والانسحاب من الاتفاق النووي، فإنه أخفق في تحقيق أية نتيجة، بل جاءت النتائج عكسية عززت حالة المواجهة داخل إيران. ووفقاً للمؤشرات فإنّ مؤسّسات ومراكز الأبحاث الصهيونية التي تراقب عن كثبٍ تسابق الأحداث في لبنان بقيت عينها على منظار الأحداث من ناحية تأثيره على حزب الله وهو النقطة الأهمّ بالنسبة إلى الكيان الصهيوني الذي ينظر إلى دور التظاهرات وانعكاسه على حزب الله وحجم المطالبة بنزع سلاحه وتأثير المجريات على أداء الحزب في صراعه مع العدو ومدى إشغاله وإدخاله في معارك داخليةٍ تنعكس على أدائه في مواجهة العدو الذي يدرك يقيناً أنّ حزب الله سيبقى بكامل قوته وجهوزيته لأية معركة معه في ظلّ استمرار التظاهرات المطلبية أما في حال انتشار الفوضى فإنّ العدو الصهيوني يدرك تماماً أنّ حزب الله سيكون أكثر جهوزية وتسلحاً وتطويراً لقدراته القتالية من أيّ وقتٍ آخر وهذا ما أكدته الباحثة في معهد أبحاث الأمن القومي الاسرائيلي في جامعة تل أبيب أورنا مزراحي، التي رأت أنّ ضعضعة الاستقرار الداخلي في لبنان سيجلب المخاطر على كيان الاحتلال لا سيما في ظلّ تعاظم قوة ونفوذ حزب الله نظرية عززها معظم الصحافيين الإسرائيليين حين عبّروا عن خيبتهم من تحقيق أيّ تغيير جذري في لبنان في ظلّ طريقٍ مسدودٍ. وبناء عليه فإنّ الرهان على تحقيق أيّ إنجازٍ يضعف حزب الله في لبنان هو وهمٌ، لذلك يرى الخبراء الصهاينة أنّ التركيز الإعلامي والرسمي على العراق هو من أولويات المؤسسات الصهيونية نظراً لرؤية واشنطن وتل أبيب اللتين تريان في العراق الشريان الحيوي الأكبر والأهمّ لإيران في كسر العقوبات الدولية والأميركية المفروضة عليها ولأنها تشكل الرئة التي يتنفّس منها محور المقاومة حيث يعتبر العراق هو الممرّ الأهمّ لإمدادات المقاومة من إيران إلى العراق وسورية ولبنان وفلسطين بعد فتح معبر البو كمال، إضافةً إلى «أنّ الحركة المطلبية الاجتماعية في العراق ذات الأغلبية الشيعية التي خرجت طلباً للإصلاح ومحاكمة الفاسدين وهي حركة محقة لا بدّ من استثمارها إسرائيلياً وأميركياً وتحريف وجهتها باتجاه إيران من خلال دعم بعض القيادات السياسية والأمنية والإعلامية والشخصيات الدينية من خلال دفع المجموعات المندسّة داخل التظاهرات مثل مجموعات الصرخيّين التابعة للإرهابي محمود الصرخي

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وهو معممٌ شيعي مدعومٌ أميركياً ومن حلفاء داعش والذي كان له الدور الأكبر في عمليات التخريب والقتل من خلال نشر مجموعاته داخل التظاهرات إضافةً إلى الهجوم على القنصلية الإيرانية في كربلاء مما دفع القوى الأمنية العراقية إلى شنّ حملة اعتقالاتٍ في صفوف مناصريه الذين بادروا لفتح معركةٍ مع القوى الأمنية أدّت إلى اعتقاله مع العديد من مناصريه في كربلاء بالأمس. وإلى جانب ذلك الإرهابي عملت مجموعات الحركة الشيرازية المدعومة من بريطانيا الى تأجيج الشارع والقيام بأعمالٍ تخريبيةٍ والاعتداء على القوى الأمنية، تلك الحركة التي تمّ اعتقال أربعة من عناصرها في آذار من العام الماضي بعد هجومهم على السفارة الإيرانية في لندن. إضافةً إلى ذلك وفرت الاستخبارات الأميركية والاسرائيلية والسعودية العديد من المعمّمين الشيعة شيعة الاستخبارات المهيّئين للتعبئة والتجييش ضدّ إيران منهم حسن الموسوي واسمه الحقيقي نزار جبار مطشر الذي يدّعي أنه مرجع وهو ضابط سابق في قسم الاغتيالات في مخابرات صدام حسين وإضافةً إلى قائمةٍ طويلةٍ من الأسماء لبعض المعمّمين منهم من يديرون الحملات على إيران من لبنان من خلال التواصل مع مشغليهم وبروزهم على بعض وسائل الإعلام السعودي لتأجيج الوضع.

لا يتوقف دورهم عند ذلك وبغضّ النظر عن الدعم المالي والمتاجرة بدماء الشعب العراقي فإنّ مجمل الأسماء لمجموعة شيعة الاستخبارات هم ثلة من الفاسدين يقدّمون أنفسهم رواد إصلاحٍ للشعب العراقي وترى فيهم واشنطن وتل أبيب رافعةً للأصوات الرافضة لإيران وتعوّل عليهم بأن يكونوا قياداتٍ في المستقبل ولهم دور بارز في القرار العراقي نظراً لعدائيتهم لإيران ولموقفهم الإيجابي تجاه الكيان الصهيوني، وهذا ما أكده أمين عام عصائب أهل الحق الشيخ قيس الخزعلي في مقابلته المتلفزة، حيث أشار إلى وجود نشاطٍ وإدارة مخابراتية إسرائيلية أميركية في العراق وتورّط أحد الرؤساء العراقيين الثلاثة في التآمر على الشعب العراقي، إضافةً إلى تقديم ثلاثة قادةٍ أمنيين طلباً إلى نائب رئيس هيئة الحشد الشعبي الحاج أبي مهدي المهندس بقمع الحشد للمتظاهرين لكن المهندس رفض الطلب.

على ضوء ذلك يتجلى المشهد العراقي واضحاً لا سيما في ظلّ مواكبة المرجعية لتطور الأحداث ونظراً لخطورة المرحلة التي تستهدف العراق وشعبه الذي دفع أثماناً باهظةً في مواجهة الاحتلال الأميركي والإرهاب. ثمة إنجازاتٍ ستدفع باتجاه الحلّ بدأت بشائرها ببلورة تفاهمٍ واتفاقٍ مع زعيم التيار الصدري السيد مقتدى الصدر والقوى السياسية المؤثرة والمتضامنة مع مطالب الشعب، وبقيام القوى الأمنية بحملة اعتقالاتٍ تطال كلّ المندسّين والمرتزقين الذين تسبّبوا بتأزيم الأوضاع وكادوا أن يضيّعوا مطالب الشعب المحقة.

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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in Palestine Territory (31 October – 06 November)
Israeli violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory
31 October – 06 November 2019
  • Palestinian civilian killed and another wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis as IOF carried out dozens of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip

  • 147 Palestinian civilians shot and injured by IOF, including 55 children, 3 women, 2 paramedics and 1 journalist at GMR protests in Eastern Gaza Strip
  • West Bank: 4 civilians shot and injured, including 2 children

  • During 89 incursions into the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem: 73 civilians arrested, including 12 children and 3 women, including:
  • Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, Fadi al-Hedmi; Member of the Dissolved Palestinian Legislative Council, Khaleda Jarar; and writer Ali Jaradat.

  • 10 military orders and notices issued for the confiscation of 3630 dunums in the West Bank
  • Residential Building demolished and 10 demolition notices issued in occupied East Jerusalem; a barn and a tent bulldozed in Hebron

  • Settlers continued their attacks against Palestinian farmers in the olive-harvest season in the West Bank for the 5th consecutive week

  • 5 shootings reported at Palestinian agricultural lands, and 4 shootings at the Palestinian fishing boats, east and west of Gaza Strip
                                                
  • 42 temporary checkpoints erupted in the West Bank: 3 Palestinian civilians were arrested

  • Palestinian merchant from the Gaza Strip arrested at Beit Hanoun “Erez” Crossing.


Summary
                                               
This week, PCHR documented 165 violations of the international human rights law and international humanitarian law (IHL) by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and settlers in the occupied Palestinian territory.
As part of the Israeli violations of the right to life and bodily integrity:
In the Gaza Strip, IOF killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded another in an airstrike on Khan Younis as IOF warplanes carried out several strikes across the Gaza Strip.  Moreover, IOF wounded 147 Palestinian civilians, including 55 children, 3 women, 2 paramedics and a journalist on the 81st Friday of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege protest (GMR). In addition, seven shootings at agricultural lands and shepherds were documented near the eastern side of the Gaza-Israel border while 4 shootings were reported at fishing boats in the western Gaza Strip.  No casualties were reported. Meanwhile in the West Bank, IOF wounded 4 Palestinian civilians, including 2 children, in separate incidents.
Under IOF incursions and house raids, 89 incursions into the West Bank were reported. Those incursions include raids of civilian houses and shootings, enticing fear among civilians, arresting and/or injuring many others. During this week’s incursions, 73 Palestinians were arrested, including 12 children and 3 women.  Among the arrestees was Khaledah Jarrar, Member of the Dissolved Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC); ‘Ali Jaradat, a writer, and Fadi al-Hedmi, Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, who was later released.
In the Gaza Strip, IOF carried out a limited incursion during which it leveled lands it had previously bulldozed amidst continued shooting. No injuries were reported.
Under the settlement expansion activities in the West Bank, PCHR documented 10 military orders and 10 military notices to seize 3630 dunums in the West Bank and Jerusalem.  Moreover, IOF demolished a residential building and distributed 10 demolitions notices in occupied East Jerusalem; meanwhile a tent and barn were demolished in Hebron by IOF. Also, 4 settler-attacks were documented against farmers in the olive-harvest season.
In terms of the Israeli closure policy, the Gaza Strip still suffers the worst closure in the History of the Israeli occupation of the oPt as it has entered the 14th consecutive year, without any improvement to the movement of persons and goods, aggravating the humanitarian conditions and bearing catastrophic consequences on all aspects of life. Meanwhile, the West Bank is divided into separate cantons with key roads blocked by the Israeli occupation since the Second Intifada and with temporary and permanent checkpoints, where civilians’ movement is restricted and others are arrested.
  1. Violation of the right to life and to bodily integrity

  1. Excessive Use of Force against the Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip
IOF continued its excessive use of lethal force against GMR peaceful protests organized by Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
On 01 November 2019, Israeli forces wounded 147 civilians, including 55 children, 3 women, 2 paramedics and a journalist in the 81st Friday titled: “Down with the Balfour Declaration.”
Thousands of civilians took part in the GRM in the five encampments across the Gaza Strip, where some protestors raised the Palestinian flags and chanted national slogans and attempted to set tires on fire, throw stones, Molotov Cocktails and firecrackers at the Israeli forces, who responded with excessive force.
The incidents were as follows:

  • Northern Gaza Strip: demonstrations took part adjacent to Abu Safiyah area protests, northeast of Jabalia, and in southeast of Beit Hanoun. Israeli forces’ attacks against protestors resulted in the injury of 47 civilians, including 22 children, 2 women and a paramedic: 24 with live bullets and shrapnel, including 13 children; 19 with rubber bullets, including 9 children, a woman and a paramedic; and 4 were hit with tear gas canisters, including a woman. Shady Fayez Awadallah Awadallah (33), a paramedic, was shot with a rubber bullet in his right leg; Moath Mohammed Mohammed Abu-Amira (25) was shot in the head with a live bullet, and he is in extremely critical condition.
  • Gaza City: IOF shot and injured 12 civilians, including 3 children: 7 with live bullets and shrapnel and 5 with rubber bullets. It is notable that participation at the Malakah area has significantly decreased and participants are generally less active and remain within the vicinity of the established tents. Furthermore, a park was established in the area and named “al-Awda” (The Return) Park.
  • Central Gaza Strip: Protestors burnt tires, a coffin with the Israeli flag on it and a figurine of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and hrew stones and Molotov Cocktails at Israeli forces. IOF shot and injured 16 civilians, including 7 children and a woman: 7 with live bullets, 2 with rubber bullets, and 7 were hit with tear gas canisters.
  • Khan Younis: IOF’s’ attacks resulted in the injury of 33 civilians, including 13 children and a paramedic: 7 with live bullets and shrapnel. Many protestors suffocated due to tear gas inhalation and received treatment in the field. A few protestors set tires on fire adjacent to the border fence. Sami Moussa Abu-Moustafa (35), a paramedic, sustained a rubber-bullet-wound to his left hand. Abu-Moustafa volunteers with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS); IOF targeted a PRCS ambulance with rubber bullets, shattering its windshield with no injuries.
  • Rafah: IOF shot and injured 39 civilians, including 10 children and a journalist; 3 were deemed in critical: 27 with live bullets and shrapnel, 8 with rubber bullets, and 4 were hit with tear gas canisters. Abdul Rahman Mohammed Deeb al-Khatib (42), a freelance journalist, sustained a rubber-bullet wound to his right arm. Ahmed Jum’a al-Lolahy (20) and Mohammed Saleh Ahmed Abu-Jarbou’ (20) were shot in their lower extremities with live bullets, and Mahmoud Abdul Rahman Ramadan Abu-Taim (18) sustained a live bullet to the head; all three are in critical condition.
  1. Excessive use of force in the West Bank:
  • At approximately 19:00 on Saturday, 31 October 2019, IOF dispersed a peaceful protest in Bab al-‘Amoud area in the centre of occupied East Jerusalem in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons. Israeli police attacked participants and then arrested 4 young men. Eyewitnesses said that IOF dispersed a group of Palestinians, who were chanting national slogans in support to the prisoners in Bab al-‘Amoud area. The soldiers chased and attacked them physically and arrested Farah Sa’eed Bayadsah (29), a lawyer at Addameer, Danan Mustafa Ruweidi (23), Omer al-Khatib and Mo’ayad Debah. The eyewitnesses added that IOF detained the arrestees in a room in Bab al-‘Amoud area, surrounded the area and attempted to forcibly keep civilians away from the area. The arrestees were later taken to Salah Eden police centre. Few hours later, IOF released Ruweidi, al-Khatib and Debah with a 2-week ban on entering Bab al-‘Amoud area and Salah Eden Street, while Bayadsah was released with no conditions.
  • At approximately 18:00 on Friday, 01 November 2019, dozens of Palestinians youngsters gathered at the entrance to al-Fawar refugee camp, south of Hebron. They threw stones and empty bottles at Israeli soldiers stationed at the camp’s entrance. The soldiers fired live bullets and tear gas canisters at them, wounding a 16-year-old child with a live bullet in the left thigh. The child was transferred via a PRSC ambulance to Abu al-Hasan al-Qasem Hospital in Yatta, south of Hebron for treatment.
  • At approximately 17:00 on Saturday, 02 November 2019, IOF dispersed a peaceful protest organized on Salah Eden Street, in the centre of occupied East Jerusalem in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons for the third time a week. They attacked the protestors and arrested Ahmed Hussein al-Safadi (45), Member of the National Action Commission. Eyewitnesses stated that IOF surrounded the participants, who raised pictures of prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons, and forcibly dispersed them with the help of the Israeli mounted police and arrested journalist Ahmed al-Safadi and took him to Salah Eden police centre for investigation.
  • At the same time, dozens of Palestinian young men and children, gathered in Bab al-Zawhiyah area in the centre of Hebron. They threw stones at Israeli soldiers stationed at the military checkpoint established at al-Shuhada’a street entrance. The soldiers chased stone-throwers until they reached ‘Alia Hospital’s square, causing fear among the patients, and fired sound bombs and tear gas canisters at them. As a result, a number of them suffered due to tear gas inhalation.
  1. Shooting and other violations of the right to life and bodily integrity
  • At approximately 09:00 on Friday, 01 November 2019, IOF stationed in eastern Khan Younis area in the southern Gaza Strip, opened fire at agricultural lands in eastern Khuza’ah village for half an hour. A live bullet hit the window of Hafez Hussein Mohammed al-‘Amour’s 80-square-meter house, home to a family of 4 and located at least 1 kilometer away from the border fence.
  • At approximately 21:30 on the same Friday, Israeli gunboats stationed in western Jabalia shore in northern Gaza Strip, heavily opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats sailing within 3 – 5 nautical miles and chased them. As a result, fishermen were forced to flee fearing fire their lives; neither casualties nor material damage was reported.
  • On Saturday dawn on 02 November 2019, A Palestinian civilian was killed and another was wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house, which is used as a resort, southwest of Khan Younis, within a series of Israeli airstrikes throughout the Gaza Strip.
According to PCHR’s investigations, at approximately 01:37, an Israeli drone fired a missile near Mahmoud Hamzah al-Farah’s 60sqm summer house located on a 1-dunum land in an agricultural area in al-Mawasi, southwest of Khan Younis.  Few minutes, later an IOF warplane fired a missile at the house and destroyed it completely causing a huge crater.  As a result, Ahmed Mohammed ‘Abdullah al-Shahri (27) was killed and his body was retrieved from the rubble, while Khamis Ayman Khamis ‘Abdin (24) sustained wounds and bruises in the head, back and hands.  ‘Abdin stated to PCHR fieldworker that he and al-Shahri were sleeping at the summer house, which his family looks after, when they were woken up by the sound of an explosion and then a louder one.  He recalls waking up later to find himself in Nasser Hospital sustaining various injuries and then he learnt that his friend was killed.  It is noteworthy that there were no armed groups related sites near the targeted area.
This attack was part of a series of airstrikes on 12 military sites and agricultural lands across the Gaza Strip.
Later on, Avichay Adraee, Spokesperson of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), said in a statement that IOF warplanes carried out several airstrikes on several Hamas targets, including a military navy site, an air defense site, another site with an anti-missile shooting simulator, military training, weapons manufacturing and storage sites; as well as, Hamas underground networks in the northern, central and southern Gaza Strip.
Refuting the Israeli claims, all initial data collected by PCHR fieldworker, who visited the targeted house and land in Khan Younis, emphasize that the targeted area is civilian as are the victims.
  • At approximately 07:00 on Sunday, 03 November 2019, IOF assigned to guard the annexation wall, opened fire at Mohammed Ahmed Mass’oud Jaradat (32), from Sela al-Harithiyah villages west of Jenin. As a result, Mohammed was shot with a live bullet to the left leg while attempting to sneak into Israel through ‘Anin village, west of the city. Mohammed was transferred to Salem military camp where a PRCS ambulance took him to Khalil Suleiman Hospital in Jenin for treatment.
  • At approximately 14:00 on the same Sunday, IOF stationed in eastern Khan Younis, sporadically opened fire at agricultural lands in eastern Khuza’ah village for few minutes; neither casualties nor material damage was reported.
  • At approximately 09:30 on Monday, 04 November 2019, IOF stationed in eastern Khan Younis, sporadically opened fire at agricultural lands in eastern Khuza’ah village for few minutes; neither casualties nor material damage was reported.
  • At approximately 20:00 on Monday, 04 November 2019, Israeli gunboats stationed adjacent to western Jabalia shore, north of the Gaza Strip, sporadically opened fire and chased Palestinian fishing boats sailing within 3 – 6 nautical miles. As a result, fishermen were forced to flee fearing for their lives; neither casualties nor material damage was reported.
  • At approximately 05:40 on Tuesday, 05 November 2019, assigned to guard the annexation wall, opened fire at Faisal Ibrahim Ghanamah (24), from Sela al-Harithiyah village, west of Jenin. As a result, Ghanamah was shot with 2 live bullets in the legs while attempting to sneak into Israel through Thuhor al-‘Abed village, southwest of Jenin. Ghanamah was transferred via a PRCS ambulance to Khalil Suleiman Hospital in Jenin for treatment.
  • At approximately 07:30 on the same Tuesday, Israeli gunboats stationed adjacent to western Jabalia shore, north of the Gaza Strip, heavily opened fire and chased Palestinian fishing boats sailing within 3 nautical miles. As a result, fishermen were forced to flee fearing for their lives; neither casualties nor material damage was reported.
  • At approximately 01:50 on Wednesday, 06 November 2019, Israeli soldiers stationed adjacent to eastern al-Shoka village, east of Rafah, opened fire at Palestinian agricultural lands; no casualties were reported.
  • At approximately 07:30 on the same Wednesday, Israeli soldiers stationed adjacent to eastern Khan Younis, south of the Gaza strip, opened fire at Palestinian agricultural lands in eastern al-Qararah village; no casualties were reported.
  • At approximately 08:30 on the same Wednesday, Israeli gunboats stationed in northwest of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza Strip, heavily opened fire and chased Palestinian fishing boats sailing within 3 nautical miles. The shooting continued from time to time until 09:00 on the same day morning. As a result, fishermen were forced to flee fearing for their lives; neither casualties nor material damage was reported.
  • At approximately 15:00 on the same Wednesday, IOF moved into al-Thaher area, south of Beit Ummer village, north of Hebron, claiming that they were stoned from behind the border fence adjacent to “Carmi Tsur” settlement established on Palestinian confiscated lands. The soldiers raided a house were a number of construction workers presented in the area and then arrested Rami Tawfiq al-‘Alami (17), taking him into the mentioned settlement. The soldiers fired rubber bullets at a number of children, who were in the area. As a result, Omer ‘Arafat Za’aqiq (17), was shot with a rubber bullet to the left leg. He was transferred to a military camp in “Carmi Tsur”
Second: Incursions and Arrests
Thursday, 31 November 2019:
  • At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into Kafr Qalil village, southeast of Nablus. They raided and searched Ahmed Ali Sabri’s (29) house, and arrested him.
  • At approximately 02:30, IOF moved into Beit Fourik village, east of Nablus. They raided and searched Murad Rebhi Nasasra’s (37) house, and arrested him.
  • At approximately 03:00, IOF moved into Ramallah, and stationed in al-Irsal neighborhood. They surrounded the house of the former MP Khaleda Kanan Mohammed Jarrar (56). IOF raided and searched her house then she was arrested and taken to the investigation center at “Ofer” prison, southwest of Ramallah. It should be mentioned that Jarrar has been banned from travelling internationally since 1998. Then an administrative detention was issued against her on April 2015, and then she was released on 28 February 2019, after serving a total of 20 months in detention since July 2017.
  • Around the same time, IOF moved into Batn al-Hawa and al-Teera neighborhoods in Ramallah. They raided and searched the house of prisoner Samer Mina al-Arabeed (44); no arrests were reported. It should be noted that on 25 September 2019, al-Arabeed was arrested and taken to “Ofer” detention at “al-Maskoubeya” investigation center in Jerusalem where he was tortured, and accused of participating in “Ein Bubin” explosion in Deir Ibzi, west of Ramallah on 23 August 2019. IOF also raided and searched Waleed Mohammed Hanatsha’s house, the financial director at Union of Health Work Committees, who was arrested since 03 October 2019.
  • At approximately 04:40, IOF moved into al-Beira, and stationed in al-Baloa’ neighborhood north of the city. They raided and searched Ali Abdulraheem Jaradat’s (64) house, and searched their ID cards and then arrested him. I should be noted that Jaradat is a journalist and writer, and he spent a total 14 years in IOF prisons on separate periods.
  • At approximately 05:00, IOF moved into Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem. They raided and searched several houses then arrested (3) civilians: Alaa Hmaidan Mtour (27); Araz Akram al-Wa’ra (23); and Fadi Darweesh Abu Srour (39).
  • At approximately 15:00, IOF moved into Zwata village, west of Nablus, and stationed around the Palestinian special police forces’ station. IOF established a temporary military checkpoint at the entrance of the village, checked civilians vehicles and ID cards. No arrests were reported.
  • At approximately 18:00, IOF moved into Wadi al-Joz neighborhood, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem’s old city. They raided and searched Hanadi Mohammed al-Halawani’s (38) house, and her husband’s store, Ibrahim Abdullah Abu Ghalya (51). IOF then took Ibrahim to al-Maskoubeya investigation center in the West Jerusalem.
Al-Halawani said that IOF stormed and searched her house, arrested her husband and scared her little son, Mohammed, and confiscated cameras and surveillances devices from her house while she was outside. It should be mentioned that Hanadi is one of al-Aqsa Mosque female guards who was ordered to keep a distance of 200 meters from Bab al-Silsila for two months. Additionally, she was banned from entering al-Aqsa Mosque for six months two weeks ago. For the second day in row, IOF is targeting the female guards’ houses, as they raided and searched Ayda al-Sidawi’s (59) house.
  • At approximately 20:00, IOF, stationed at Za’tara checkpoint, south of Nablus, arrested Ahmed Amer Nour (22) from Anabta, east of Tulkarm, and took him to an unknown destination.
  • IOF carried out (5) incursions in Beit Oula, Nuba, Bani Na’em, in Hebron; Izbet al-Tabeb village, east of Qalqelya; Murda village, north of Salfit. No arrests were reported.
Friday, 1 November 2019:
  • At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into Ramallah, and stationed in al-Masyoun neighborhood. They raided and searched Hassan Khader Ishtaya’s (52) house and arrested him.
  • At approximately 04:00, IOF moved into Beit Loqya, southwest of Ramallah. They raided and searched Ahmed Mohammed Bader’s (17) house and arrested him.
  • Around the same time, IOF moved into al-Jalazon refugee camp, north of Ramallah. They raided and searched Abdullah Jamal Mubarak’s (36) house and arrested him. It should be noted that the abovementioned civilian was a former prisoner for 5 years.
  • At approximately 08:00, IOF moved into Obaid neighborhood in al-Issaweya village, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City. They raided and searched Faisal Lo’ay Abed’s (18) house and arrested him.
IOF carried out (6) incursions in Dura and Hebron villages; Ya’bod village, southwest of Jenin; Qariout village, southeast of Nablus; Kafl Hares, north of Salfit; Azoun village, east of Qalqelya. No arrests were reported.
Saturday, 2 November 2019:
  • At approximately 09:00, IOF moved into al-Issaweya secondary school, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem. They stormed and searched the school yard and classes, then they hit the student Saleh Taha al-Taweel (16), the school head teacher, and the school guard, then they arrested them. Mahmoud Fayez Mahmoud, a member of school parents committee in al-Issaweya, said that IOF stormed the school and arrested the student al-Taweel after beaten him. IOF also attacked Tareq Jalajel, the school head teacher, the school guard, and another student, then they threw sound bombs. Mahmoud said that the member of school parents committee in al-Issaweya announced the school strikes in all the village’s schools to protest against the IOF attack on the sanctity of the school and endanger the lives of students.
  • At approximately 18:00, IOF, stationed in al-Jeep military checkpoint, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City, arrested Wadea’ Abdulrazik Farraj (26), from Bethlehem while he was back from his work through this checkpoint. He was taken to an unknown destination.
IOF carried out (7) incursions in Hebron and Yeta villages ; Ain Yabrud, Beit Loqya, Kafr Malek, Kafr Ne’ma villages, in Ramallah; Hibla village, south of Qalqelya. No arrests were reported.
Sunday, 03 November 2019:
  • At approximately 00:00, IOF moved into Bab Hata neighborhood, in the occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City. They raided and searched several houses, and arrested (3) civilians: Rowad Ma’moun al-Razim (24); Wissam Mohammed Thalji Sidr (29); and Yousif Khaled al-Loulou (23).
  • At approximately 01:30, IOF moved into Nablus. They raided and searched several houses, and arrested (2) civilians: Kamal Ibrahim Abu Zarifa (58) from al-Jabal al-Shamali in Nablus; and Mohammed Eid Sbaih Sobhi Tabanja (39) from Khilla al-Amoud, south of Nablus.
  • Around the same time, IOF moved into Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus. They raided and searched Maher Mohammed Harb’s (48) house, and arrested him.
  • At approximately 01:45, IOF moved into Jenin. They raided and searched several houses, and arrested Rami Hisham Abu Farha (23); and Aseel Dia’ al-Zara’eni (27).
  • At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into Bet Fourik village, east of Nablus. They raided and searched Ayman Arif Haj Mohammed’s (55) house and arrested him.
  • Around the same time, IOF moved into Raba village, southeast of Jenin. They raided and searched Khaled Basel al-Bazour’s (30) and arrested him.
  • Around the same time, IOF moved to Dura village, southwest of Hebron, and stationed in al-Sharaf neighborhood. They raided and searched Moa’taz Ali Abu Znaid’s (22) house. Before the withdrawal, IOF handed him a summons to refer to the Israeli intelligence service in “Gosh Etzion” settlement, south of Bethlehem.
  • At the same time, IOF moved into al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem. They raided and searched Dawoud Zakaria Mousa’s (24) house and arrested him.
  • At approximately 02:30, IOF moved into ‘Awerta village, southeast of Nablus. They raided and searched several houses from which they arrested Nabih Abdul ‘Aziz ‘Awad (57) and Mohammed Sa’eed Yusuf ‘Awad (34).
  • At the same time, IOF moved into ‘Asirah northern village, north of Nablus. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Ja’afar Omer Abul ‘Aziz Rawajbah (23), ‘Ali Nour Eden Daraghmah (38) and ‘Ali Omer Hamed al-Shuoli (22).
  • At approximately 03:00, IOF moved into ‘Arabah village, southwest of Jenin. They raided and searched a house of Mahmoud Mustafa Mardawi (23), a student at the American Arab School in Jenin, and arrested him. It should be noted that most of the abovementioned arrestees, from north of Ramallah, are activists at the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
  • At approximately 05:00, IOF moved into al-Sowanah neighborhood, north of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City. They arrested Fadi ‘Arafat al-Hadmi (43), Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, from his house after attacking him in front of his family. Al-Hadmi, who was arrested for the third time and summoned for dozens of times since he took office, was taken to an investigation center in occupied Jerusalem.
  • At approximately 20:00, an Israeli Infantry unit raided and searched ‘Emad ‘Awni Abu Shamsiyah’s (45) house in Tal al-Ramidah neighborhood in Area classified (H2) in the center of Hebron, searching for young men IOF claimed had entered it. An Israeli officer ordered Abu Shamsiyah and his son ‘Awni, who had a surgery on his left leg 3 days ago, to tell him about the young men, who were in their house. After a fight erupted between Abu Shamsiyah, his son and the soldiers, the latter attacked ‘Awni and kicked him on his wounded leg. Fayzah (40), ‘Awni’s mother, attempted to intervene to stop ‘Awni’s arrest, but the soldiers pushed her away and she fell on the ground. The soldiers also attacked ‘Awni’s father and Bassam Rajab Abu ‘Aishah (60), who was in the house, when he also intervened. An hour later, the soldier arrested ‘Awni; he was later released to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), which arrived at the military checkpoint (56). IOF fired live bullets in the air to disperse the crowding civilians and arrested Abu ‘Aishah and Fayzah Abu Shamsiyah, taking them to detention center in “Kiryat Arba” settlement, east of the city. At approximately 00:00, Fayzah Abu Shamsiyah was released and fined with NIS 500 until the court appointment, while Abu ‘Aishah was transferred to “Ofer” military prison, southwest of Ramallah.
  • IOF carried out incursions in al-‘Aroub refugee camp and Karmah village in Hebron; and Hablah village, south of Qalqiliyah.
Monday,04 November 2019:
  • At approximately 00:15, IOF moved into Nablus and stationed in al-Makhfiyah neighborhood, west of the city. They raided and searched student accommodation on Mahmoud Abdul Rahim Street and arrested Mustafa Suleiman Khalil Abu al-Rab (21), a student at En-Najah National University from Sir Village, southeast of Jenin.
  • At approximately 00:30, IOF moved into ‘Asirah northern village, north of Nablus. They raided and searched ‘Ala’a Monther Sawalmah’s (26) house and arrested him.
  • Around the same time, IOF moved to Jenin refugee camp, west of Jenin. They raided and searched Oday Shawqi Staiti’s (25) house and arrested him.
  • At approximately 01:00, IOF moved into al-Issaweya village, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem. They raided and searched several houses and arrested Fayeq Nassif Habash (28); Mohammed Habash (32) and Mohammed Younis (26).
  • At approximately 01:30, IOF moved into Hebron. They raided and searched two houses belonging to Mo’men Abd al-Ghaffar Abu Shamseya (22) and Ahmed Mohammed al-Yamani (35), and then arrested them.
  • At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into al-Ram village, north of occupied East Jerusalem. They raided and searched Ibrahim Sameer Kana’an’s (45) house and arrested him.
  • Around the same time, IOF moved into Yeta village, south of Hebron. They raided and searched two houses belonging to Mousa Gabriel al-Amour (30) and Hasan Ibrahim al-Harini (28), and arrested them.
  • At approximately 03:00, IOF moved into al-Izareya village, east of occupied East Jerusalem. They raided and searched the house of the Palestinian Police Officer Amjad Na’em al-Khateeb (52). IOF took him and his son Na’em (16) to an unknown destination.
  • Around the same time, IOF established a temporary military checkpoint on the entrance of Nazlet Issa village, north of Tulkarm. They searched the vehicles and the ID cards and arrested Owda Reyad Owda Tholthen (25), from Kafr al-Lobad, east of the village; he was taken to an unknown destination.
  • At approximately 05:00, IOF moved into Kafr Na’ma village, west of Ramallah. They raided and searched Tamer Abdu’s (20) house, and then arrested him. It should be noted that Tamer was a former prisoner.
  • Around the same time, IOF moved into Deir Abu Misha’l village, northwest of Ramallah. They raided and searched Saleh Ahmed Ata’s (25) house, and arrested him.
  • IOF moved into al-Issaweya village, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem three times on this day, during which they arrested Mohammed Ramzi Mhaisen (13) while he was standing in front of his house and took him to an unknown destination. IOF also arrested 3 other children: Isma’el Yousif Mhaisen (15); Waseem Eyad Dari (17); and Omar Ahmed Mahmoud (14).
IOF carried out (3) incursions in Tulkarm; Faroun village, south of the city; Hawara village, south of Nablus. No arrests were reported.
Tuesday, 05 November 2019:
  • At approximately 01:30, IOF moved into Beit Ummer village, north of Hebron. They raided and searched houses, from which they arrested 3 civilians, including a child. The arrestees were identified as ‘Issa Ahmed ‘Abed al-Fatah Ta’amrah (22), Hasan Mohamed Hasan Moqbel (25), and Yaseen ‘Adel Ahmed Za’aqeeq (16).
  • At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into Hebron, where they raided and searched Waseem Ja’far Abu ‘Isha (20) house and then arrested him.
IOF carried out (8) incursions in Qalqiliyia, Fer’itah and Kafur Qaddoum villages, northeast of the city; Dura and al-Dahiriyia villages in Hebron; and Serda, Kafur Ni’mah and Abu Qash villages in Ramallah and al-Bierah. No arrests were reported.
Wednesday, 06 November 2019:

  • At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into ‘Aydah refugee camp, north of Bethlehem. They raided and searched 2 houses belonging to Mohamed Hamdi al-Masa’eed (25) and Ashraf Mahmoud al-Shaiekh (19) and then arrested them.
  • At approximately 03:00, IOF moved into al-‘Izzah refugee camp, north of Bethlehem. They raided and searched Nawaf Isma’il al-Qaisi’s (45) house and then arrested him. It should be noted that al-Qaisi was arrested, noting that he is a cancer patient and suffers poor health condition.
  • At approximately 04:00, IOF moved into al-‘Issawiyia village, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem. They raided and searched houses, from which they arrested 3 civilians, including 2 children. The arrestees were identified as Akram Ghadeb ‘Obaid (17), Mohamed Sami ‘Obaid (15) and Majd Basheer Ahmed (18).
  • Around the same time, IOF moved into Beit Jala and stationed in al-Jadawel neighborhood. They raided and searched Mohamed Nader Jawarish (17) house and then arrested him.
  • At approximately 07:00, IOF backed by military construction vehicles headed to Abu Safiyia Gate, 50 meters to the west of border fence, northeast of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip. They leveled and combed lands that were previously leveled amidst Israeli sporadic shooting.  No casualties were reported.
  • At approximately 15:00, Israeli forces arrested Mohamed Naser Hussain al-Badawi (17) while present in al-‘Aroub refugee camp, north of Hebron. He was then taken to an unknown destination.
  • On evening hours, IOF arrested Jamal Mousa Hasan al-Zaini (57), from Khan Yunis, while traveling via Beit Hanoun (Erez) Crossing in northern Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Liaison, IOF detained al-Zaini and interrogated him before informing them that he was arrested. Al-Zaini’s wife said to PCHR’s fieldworker that her husband left his house on Wednesday morning and headed to Eres Crossing in order to travel to the West Bank through businessman permit. She added that she knew that her husband was arrested though media.
IOF carried out (4) incursions in Hebron, Samou’a, Bani Na’iem and Sureef. No arrests were reported.
  1. Settlement Expansion and settler violence in the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem
  1. Demolition and Confiscation of Civilian Property for Settlement Expansion Activities

  • On Thursday, 31 October 2019, IOF hanged notices and maps on the steel fence, erected as a 1st step towards the completion of the annexation wall, southwest of Jenin. The notices announced the continued seizure of large parts of Jenin lands, for the 15th Rabee’ Abu Baker, Public Relations Officer in Ya’bod Municipality, said to PCHR’s fieldworker that IOF issued a decision to renew the seizure of 409 dunums from Ya’bod, Barta’ah, al-‘Arqah, Zebdah, Nazlet al-Yad, and Daher al-‘Abed villages as a prelude to the completion of the annexation wall. These notices and maps were signed by Nadav Padan, IOF Commander in Judea and Samaria.
  • On Saturday, 02 November 2019, Israeli authorities notified Hezmah and al-Ram villages, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, of the confiscation of hundreds of Palestinians’ dunums for settlement expansion. Mayor of Hezmah Municipality, Musallam Abu Helo, said that the Israeli authorities handed the Palestinian Liaison a notice to seize at least 500 dunums from Hezmah village, which is located adjacent to “Adam” settlement and 3 others. It should be noted that Hezmah village connects the West Bank’s north with its south, and is one of the main roads for Jerusalem-West Bank traffic. Mayor of al-Ram Municipality, Raqi al-Ghazawnah, said that the Palestinian Liaison handed the municipality decisions to seize a total of 39.9 dunums of al-Ram village lands. It should be noted that the Israeli authorities recently escalated its seizure policy in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.
  • On Saturday, IOF distributed notices and maps to seize 126 dunums from Majdal Bani Fadel village, southeast of Nablus, for the expansion of 3-km street that connects the village’s intersection to the checkpoint of ”Ma’ale Ephraim”
  • On Sunday, 03 November 2019, IOF distributed notices and maps signed by Nadav Padan, IOF Commander in Judea and Samaria, to seize 36 dunums from Tubas village and expand “Psagot “settlement in northern Jordan Valley, east of Tubas.
  • On Monday, 04 November 2019, Israeli authorities notified dozens of Palestinians in al-Jab’a village, southwest of Bethlehem, of an order to seize 2000 dunums from their agricultural lands in order to expand “Beit Ayin” settlement, established on the lands of al-Jab’a, Nahaleen, Sureef, and Safa villages. Diab Masha’lah, Head of al-Jab’a village council, said that dozens of Palestinians found seizure notices placed in their lands in Nassar Mount, Wadi al-Khanzeer, and al-Khour areas while heading to harvest olive trees. The notices concerned at least 2000 dunums located adjacent to the annexation wall. Masha’lah added that “Beit Ayin” settlement’s settlers flooded a plot of land belonging to Mohamed Ibrahim Abu Loha with water in order to prevent his sons from harvesting the olive trees.
  • In the same context, on Monday, the Israeli authorities distributed notices to seize 66 dunums from Beit Doqo village lands, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem. A press release issued by the village council stated that Israeli authorities handed the Palestinian Liaison decisions to seize 66 dunums from the village lands. It should be noted that during this week Israeli authorities issued many seizure notices for thousands of dunums from different areas in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem for settlement expansion.
  • On the same day, Beit Loqiyia Municipality stated in a press release that IOF handed a military decision to seize 150 dunums from the village, west of Ramallah. The municipality clarified that it contacted the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority and competent bodies to follow –up on the issue.
  • On the same day, the Israeli authorities issued notices to seize 243 dunums from the lands of Sureef village, northwest of Hebron. Mohamed ‘Edwan, Mayor of Sureef Municipality, said that Palestinian farmers found notices to seize their lands in Khelet Abu Ghnaim, al-Mansarah, and ‘Ain Hamam areas near “Beit Ayin” settlement. The mentioned lands belong to Ghanimat Family.
  • On Tuesday, 05 November 2019, IOF distributed notices and maps signed by Nadav Padan, IOF Commander in Judea and Samaria, to seize 60.4 dunums from the lands of Jablun and Faqou’a villages, northeast of Jenin. The decision enters into force from the date of its signature and ends on 31 December 2022. The owners of these lands have the right to challenge within 7 days through the Liaison and Coordination Office or the Legal Adviser Office in Jenin.
  • At approximately 10:00 on Tuesday, the Israeli Municipality bulldozers demolished a residential building belonging to Mo’tasem Mahmoud ‘Abasi in Abu Tayieh neighborhood in Silwan, south of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City, under the pretext of non-licensing. Al-‘Abasi said that the Israeli Municipality staff accompanied with a large number of police officers, border guard officers and special forces, surrounded his residential building, forced them out and proceeded to demolish it. Al-‘Abasi said that he managed to delay the demolition decision several times before, but he did not know that the court approved the decision. Al-‘Abasi clarified that his building was established in 2011 and in 2018 he paid a fine for the Israeli Municipality estimated at NIS 72,000, in addition to paying a monthly bill of NIS 1255 to avoid the demolition. Al-‘Abasi added that his building comprised of 2 story; each one built on an area of 100 square meters and sheltered 9 persons. It should be noted that Israeli municipality bulldozers demolished 6 shops belonging to Al-‘Abasi family in last June.
  • At approximately 13:00 on Tuesday, Israeli Municipality staff moved into many neighborhoods in al-‘Issawiyia village, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem. Mohamed Abu al-Humus, Head of the Follow-up Committee in al-‘Issawiya village, said that the municipality staff took photos of buildings and streets and distributed 10 notices as well as summonses under the pretext of building without licensing.
  • On the same day, Haaretz Newspaper stated that the Israel’s housing cabinet approved to build a cable-car route adjacent to al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. The route would reportedly pass from West Jerusalem’s German Colony district over the Mount of Olives to the al-Magharebah Gate adjacent to East Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The cable -car will ferry up to 3,000 people an hour about 1.4km (0.9 miles) from West Jerusalem to the Western Wall in occupied East Jerusalem. According to Israel Hayoum, the service will operate 73 cable cars per hour with each able to carry 10 people. The plan has drawn widespread opposition from architects, local Palestinian residents and environmentalists who criticized the expected damage to the historic landscape of the Old City. In addition, critics say the cable car will not solve the area’s transportation and access problems. They also said that the project would mar Jerusalem’s Old City and bolster the Jewish presence in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan.
  • At approximately 10:00 on Wednesday, 06 November 2019, IOF backed by military construction vehicles and accompanied with a vehicle of the Israeli Civil Adminstration moved into Mughair al-‘Abid area, southeast of Yatta, south of Hebron. They demolished 2 residential tents belonging to Mohamed ‘Ali Mohamed Dababsah and ‘Amer Mohamed Dababsah, in addition to demolishing and confiscating a livestock barn belonging to Nuzha Makhamrah, under the pretext of non-licensing. It should be noted that the tents were donated by PRCS after destroying their houses few months ago. Furthermore, IOF notified Mohamed ‘Ali Dababsah to demolish his house built 2 weeks ago within 96 hours.
        
  1. Israeli Settler Violence

  • On Friday, 01 November 2019, farmers from Dir Hatab village, east of Nablus, were shocked to find their olives already harvested by settlers from “Alon Moreh“ The olive trees are located in Khelet Shehada, Khelet Abu Ramlah, Bab al-Maghar, Ras Hazem, and Khelet Skik. The trees belong to Shehada ‘Abed al-Baqi Shehada ‘Amer, Nedal ‘Ali Dawoud Zamel, and Hussain Qasem Hussain. The farmers discovered that at least 30 olive trees planted 70 years ago from Shehada ‘Amer’s land were uprooted in order for the construction of a road connecting between 2 settler-houses built in the area and a barn for an Israeli settler.
  • At approximately 10:00 on Saturday, 02 November 2019, an Israeli settler attempted to enter a plot of land belonging to Badawi Jadallah for breeding his livestock. Jadallah’s land is located near “Negohot” settlement, which is established on Palestinians’ lands in southern Dura, southwest of Hebron. Jadallah attempted to prevent the settler from entering the land, meanwhile, an Israeli force arrived at the area and fired sound bombs and tear gas canisters. As a result, many civilians suffocated due to tear gas inhalation.
  • On Sunday, 03 November 2019, Palestinian farmers entered their lands in al-Talmah area, north of al-Sawiyia village in southern Nablus, upon a prior security coordination. The farmers were surprised that their crops were already harvested by settlers from “Rahim” settlement, and then called media and Palestinian Liaison to inform them about what happened. These lands belong to Fayiq Sa’ied Abu Ras and his sons, Bashar Saleh Metleq Abu Ras and his sons, ‘Amer Mousa Abu Ras and his sons, ‘Odah ‘Abed al-Kareem al-Khatib, Nawaf ‘Izz al-Deen al-Khatib, Ghaleb Saleh Sa’ied, and Mahmoud Faisal Sa’ied. Afterwards, IOF expelled the farmers from their lands, confiscated their belongings and canceled the security coordination until further notice. It should be noted that IOF prevents Palestinian farmers from entering their lands, which are isolated behind the annexation wall and surrounded by settlements, and only allows them in during the olive harvesting season.
  • On Tuesday, 05 November 2019, Palestinian farmers were allowed to enter their lands in Area C for harvesting olive trees, upon a prior security coordination. Tayseer Mostafa Basheer al-Nobani and his family, from the Eastern Laban neighborhood, headed to their 30-dunum- plot of land near “Eli” settlement and found out that it was harvested by settlers.
  1. Closure policy and restrictions on freedom of movement of persons and goods
West Bank
In addition to permanent checkpoints and closed roads, this week witnessed the establishment of more temporary checkpoints that restrict the goods and individuals movement between villages and cities and deny civilians’ access to their work. IOF established 42 temporary checkpoints and arrested 3 civilians.

The military checkpoint were as follows:

Hebron:
  • On Thursday, 31 October 2019, IOF established 3 checkpoints at the southern entrance to Halhoul village, and at the entrances to Samou’a and Ethna villages.
  • On Friday, 01 November 2019, IOF established 4 checkpoints at the entrances to al-Shayyoukh, al-Dahiriyia and Beit Ummer villages, and at the entrance to al-Fawar refugee camp.
  • On Saturday, 02 November 2019, IOF established 3 checkpoints at the southern entrance to Halhoul village, and between Beit ‘Awaa and Samou’a villages.
  • On Sunday, 03 November 2019, 4 similar checkpoints were established at the entrances to Beit Ummer, al-Shayyoukh and al-Moreq villages, and at the entrance to al-‘Aroub refugee camp.
  • On Tuesday, 05 November 2019, IOF established 5 checkpoints at the entrances to Ethna, Beit Kahel and al-Majd villages, at the entrance to al-Fawar refugee camp, and on Khelet al-Mayaa road in Yatta.
  • On Wednesday, 06 November 2019, IOF established 2 checkpoints at the entrances to al-Shayyoukh and al-Hadab villages.
Ramallah and al-Bireh:
  • On Friday, 01 November 2019, IOF established 4 checkpoints at the entrances to al-Nabi Saleh, Dir Abu Mish’al, and al-Moghair villages, and at the intersection of “Hemlish” settlement.
  • On Saturday, 02 November 2019, IOF established 3 checkpoints at the entrances to al-Nabi Saleh and Dir Abu Mish’al villages, and at ‘Ain Sina Square.
  • On Sunday, 03 November 2019, a similar checkpoint was established at the entrance to Ras Karkar village.
  • On Monday, 04 November 2019, IOF established 2 checkpoints at the entrance to Dir Abu Mish’al village and on al-Mo’arajat Road.
Qalqiliyah:
  • At approximately 18:40 on Thursday, 31 October 2019, IOF established a checkpoint at the eastern entrance to Qalqiliyia.
  • At approximately 21:30, a similar checkpoint was established at Jeet village intersection, northeast of the city.
  • On Sunday, 03 October 2019, IOF established 3 checkpoints at the eastern entrance to Qalqiliyia, and at the entrances to Heblah and Jal’oud villages.
  • At approximately 20:40 on Tuesday, 05 November 2019, IOF established a checkpoint at the intersection of Jeet village, northwest if Qalqiliyia.
  • At approximately 22:45, IOF established a checkpoint at the eastern entrance to the city.
  • At approximately 09:20 on Wednesday, 06 November 2019, a similar checkpoint was established at the eastern entrance to Qalqiliyia.
Salfit:
  • At approximately 19:00 on Thursday, 31 October 2019, IOF established a checkpoint at the eastern entrance to Kaful Hares village, north of Salfit.
  • At approximately 23:15 on Saturday, 02 October 2019, a similar checkpoint was established at the northern entrance to Salfit village.
  • At approximately 18:20 on Tuesday, 05 November 2019, Israeli forces established a checkpoint at the entrance to Kafur al-Deek village, west of Salfit
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المقاومة والحراك: ثلاث معادلات حاكمة في لبنان

November 8, 2019, 6:44 am
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نوفمبر 7, 2019

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– يدور الوضع المأزوم في لبنان على ثلاثة محاور في آن واحد: الأول هو محور المواجهة بين المقاومة والمشروع الأميركي، الذي يلعب على حافة الهاوية في لحظة تكاد حروب المنطقة تصل لنهاياتها بخسائر جسيمة لحقت بهذا المشروع تكرّست خلالها اليد العليا لمحور المقاومة وحلفائه في سورية واليمن والعراق وجهة الملف النووي الإيراني مع عجز العقوبات الأميركية عن إخضاع إيران او دفعها للانهيار، ومع العجز الأميركي عن مجاراة قدرة إيران وقوى المقاومة على مواصلة التحدّي في الميدان العسكري كما قالت عملية إسقاط الطائرة التجسسية الأميركية العملاقة في هرمز، وعملية أفيفيم في شمال فلسطين المحتلة، وعملية أرامكو في السعودية. وعلى هذه الجبهة التي يحاول الأميركي عبرها إلحاق خسائر بقوى المقاومة من بوابة الضغط المالي وصولاً للانهيار، بهدف تحقيق تفوّق تفاوضي أو توازن خسائر لا تزال المقاومة تراقب حدود القرار الأميركي بأخذ لبنان نحو الانهيار المالي، من خلال مواقف تتظهّر على الساحة اللبنانية السياسية والأمنية، ومنها حدود ما يجري على ساحة الحراك.

– تتصرّف المقاومة على هذه الجبهة بتروٍّ وهدوء، لأنها لا ترغب بالذهاب لخيارات راديكالية تتمثل بتشكيل حكومة موالية للمقاومة وخيارها بالكامل في ظل وجود أغلبية نيابية كافية لذلك ووجود رئيس جمهورية قادر على ذلك، وترك الانسحاب من الشراكة العمليّة في السلطة في لبنان على أكثر من صعيد، التي يشكل الأميركي مباشرة عبر التمويل، وبصورة غير مباشرة عبر حلفائه، الطرف المقابل فيها. وعندما يبدو ثابتاً أن الأميركي ذاهب لكسر الشراكة، وصولاً لدفع لبنان نحو الانهيار المالي، سيكون الخيار الراديكالي حاضراً، وفيه إجراءات تتخطّى موضوع الحكومة الملتزمة بالمقاومة، وصولاً لمحاكمات نوعية في ملفات الفساد واستعادة الأموال المنهوبة وكلها تمّت تحت العين الأميركية وبرعاية وتشجيع أميركيين كما تقول مواصلة عمليات التمويل ومنح القروض الدولية، وكذلك ستكون المحاكمة على سياسات الاستدانة التي تمّت برعاية وتشجيع أميركيين. والأهم أن لبنان سيكون ضمن محور اقتصادي يبدأ من الجيرة الجغرافية مع سورية والعراق وصولاً لإيران وانتهاء بالصين وروسيا. والمعطيات المتوافرة تقول إن الأميركي لن يذهب لنهاية الطريق في دفع لبنان نحو الانهيار لأنه يدرك النتائج والتبعات.

– المحور الثاني الذي تدور عليه التطورات هو محور العلاقة بالمكوّنات السياسية الأخرى، وخصوصاً ثنائي تيار المستقبل والحزب التقدمي الاشتراكي، وعنوان المراقبة والمتابعة هنا هو، رؤية مدى وجود مشروع خفي يريد الانقلاب على نتائج الانتخابات النيابية بداعي مقتضيات تشكيل حكومة جديدة تلبي تطلعات الشارع، وإفساحاً في المجال لتظهير النيات، تنفتح المقاومة على خيارات عديدة تطرح على الشركاء في الحكومة السابقة، تلاقي في جوهر برامجها حاجات الإصلاح ومكافحة الفساد والنهوض بالاقتصاد ولا مانع من مراعاتها في الشكل للكثير من الحساسيات والحسابات، شرط حفظ التوازنات التي حملتها الانتخابات من جهة، وعدم تبطينها لقرار أميركي باستبعاد المقاومة عن الحكومة أو السعي لإلحاق خسائر بأي من حلفائها. وعلى هذا الصعيد لا يزال البحث جارياً عن تلاقٍ في منتصف الطريق، يبدو ممكناً وتقول الأجواء السياسية بأنه يحقق تقدماً.

– المحور الثالث، هو التجاذب والتلاقي مع الحراك الشعبي الذي لاقته المقاومة بانفتاح وترحيب، ووجدت فيه قوة ضغط نحو مكافحة الفساد وإصلاح الوضع الاقتصادي، وسجلت قلقها من شعاراته غير المحسوبة مثل إسقاط الحكومة وصولاً للعهد والمجلس النيابي، وما يترتّب على ذلك من قفزة في المجهول وتسريع للفراغ والفوضى، كما سجلت اعتراضها على أساليب قطع الطرقات والشتائم التي طبعت الحراك في أيامه العشرين. وكانت تراقب تطور الحراك وتأثير خطابها في أوساطه، ويبدو أن التلاقي في منتصف الطريق يقترب، وأن تموضع الحراك على خط الانسحاب من قطع الطرقات، وتركيزه على الاحتجاجات المرتبطة بملفات الفساد، وابتعاده عن الشتائم، يجعله أقرب للتلاقي مع المقاومة في منهج عمل يتيح ضخّ قوى ومقدرات شعبية لحساب الضغط المنسّق من أجل تحقيق أهداف الحراك.

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Iran: IAEA’s inspector had explosive nitrates

November 8, 2019, 6:48 am
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Tehran says an IAEA inspector who was barred from entering a nuclear facility in central Iran had tested positive for explosive nitrates.

Iran will not allow security of nuclear facilities to be compromised: IAEA envoy

Thu Nov 7, 2019 04:44PM
Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says he has communicated Tehran’s concerns about security of the country’s nuclear facilities to the agency, especially with regard to an IAEA inspector who was prevented from entering an Iranian nuclear site for carrying “suspicious” materials.
Kazem Gharib-Abadi said on Thursday following an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Governors of the IAEA that he had offered a lengthy report on this issue to IAEA’s board, detailing everything that happened from entry of the aforesaid inspector to Iran till the time she left the country.
“I emphasized that Iran has security concerns in this regard and does not intend to violate immunity of IAEA’s inspectors, because we have not violated their rights and are aware of the stipulations of international law and our commitments.”
Iran’s IAEA envoy noted that detectors at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility had issued alarms with regards to this inspector, showing that she was carrying dangerous materials, saying, “Various measures were taken later and detectors were used at various locations, giving the same result, even when they were applied to her handbag.”
Noting that an investigation is underway on this issue in cooperation with the agency, Gharib-Abadi said, “We told members of the IAEA that in view of the past record of acts of sabotage against our nuclear facilities, we will under no circumstances compromise our national security and security of our nuclear facilities, and we insist that the agency must offer us full cooperation to carry this investigation until its final stage.”
He emphasized that the agency has announced in writing that it is ready to cooperate with Iran in the investigation of the incident regarding its inspector and this issue has been welcomed by the Iranian side.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) on Wednesday announced that an inspector of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who was prevented from entering a nuclear site of the Islamic Republic, has left the country.
The AEOI added that the female monitor left her mission unfinished and flew out of Iran after security staff at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility didn’t let her in.
“As it is protocol, all of the IAEA inspectors’ belongings are closely inspected and scanned before they enter any of the country’s nuclear facilities,” read the AEOI statement.
“Upon this lady inspector’s entry, the security control machines sounded the alarm and denied her entry,” it said, adding that Iran had reported the issue to the IAEA.
Iran also told the international agency in the report that the inspector’s previous admissions at various sites were all scrapped and as a result, she decided to abort her mission and go back to the Austrian capital of Vienna.
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Saudi Arabia Recruits Twitter Employees Charged For Spying

November 8, 2019, 7:16 am
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Saudi Arabia Recruits Twitter Employees Charged For Spying
The Saudi government, frustrated by growing criticism of its leaders and policies on social media, recruited two Twitter employees to gather confidential personal information on thousands of accounts that included prominent opponents, prosecutors announced on Wednesday.
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The complaint unsealed in US District Court in San Francisco detailed a coordinated effort by Saudi government officials to recruit employees at the social media giant to look up the private data of Twitter accounts, including email addresses linked to the accounts and internet protocol addresses that can give up a user’s location.
The accounts included those of a popular critic of the government with more than one million followers and a news personality. Neither was named.
Two Saudi citizens and one US citizen worked together to unmask the ownership details behind dissident Twitter accounts on behalf of the government in Riyadh and the royal family, the US justice department said.
According to a court filing, they were guided by an unnamed Saudi official who worked for someone prosecutors designated “Royal Family Member-1,” which The Washington Post reported was Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman or MBS as he is commonly known.
Those charged were Twitter employees Ali Alzabarah and Ahmad Abouammo, along with Ahmed Almutairi, a marketing official with ties to the royal family.
“The criminal complaint unsealed today alleges that Saudi agents mined Twitter’s internal systems for personal information about known Saudi critics and thousands of other Twitter users,” said US lawyer David Anderson.
“US law protects US companies from such an unlawful foreign intrusion. We will not allow US companies or US technology to become tools of foreign repression in violation of US law,” he said in a statement.
The lawsuit comes as US-Saudi relations continue to suffer strains over the brutal, Riyadh-sanctioned murder one year ago of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who wrote for, among others, The Washington Post newspaper
A critic of MBS, Khashoggi was killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
According to the Post, US intelligence has concluded that the prince himself was closely linked to the murder.
The criminal allegations reveal the extent the Saudi government went to control the flow of information on Twitter, said Adam Coogle, a Middle East researcher with Human Rights Watch.
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ISRAELI ADVANCED DAVID’S SLING INTERCEPTOR MISSILE FELL INTO RUSSIAN HANDS: REPORT

November 8, 2019, 8:18 am
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Israeli Advanced David's Sling Interceptor Missile Fell Into Russian Hands: Report
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Russia is allegedly in possession of an advanced Israeli interceptor missile, Chinese news outlet Sina reported on November 6th. In Jule 2018, two interceptor missiles were fired by the David’s Sling missile defense system.
An internal Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) investigation revealed that the David’s Sling system determined that at least one of the Syrian missiles would land in Israeli territory, and it was decided to launch an interceptor. When it became clear that the attacking missile’s course had changed, it was decided to destroy the interceptor in mid-air.
However, a second interceptor that was launched shortly afterward did not hit its target and landed in Syria Syrian territory allegedly without suffering any major damage.
Thus, the Syrian military salvaged it and provided it to the Russian side to reverse engineer it.
According to SINA, Israel and the United States asked Russia to return the missile. Neither Russia nor the Israel Defense Forces provided a comment on the report.
There’s really no conformation of the report being true, if it is then it is rather concerning for Rafael.
“I don’t know if it’s true” Brig.-Gen (res.) Zvika Haimovitch, the former Aerial Defense Division Commander, told The Jerusalem Post about the Chinese report. But he stressed Israel always assumes her foes are trying to get their hands on sensitive information. “I think that we should always be concerned and worried about our secrets and information and our data that our enemies could get their hands on it. I assume that our enemies are always looking for very sensitive data and about our capabilities and gaps and failures. It’s part of the way that we need to think, that our enemies are always trying to get this sensitive information.”
The David’s Sling interceptor is designed to deal with missiles coming from between 40 kilometers and 300 kilometers away, making up the middle tier of Israel’s advanced air defense array. Each interceptor launched by the system costs an estimated $1 million.
Israel also has the Iron Dome system for short range projectiles, and the Arrow 3, which is designed to intercept long-range ballistic missiles.
David’s Sling, which was declared operational in April 2017, and is meant to replace the Patriot missile systems in Israel’s defense infrastructure.
It was formerly known as Magic Wand and is an advanced missile defense system jointly developed by Rafael and Raytheon. It is designed to intercept enemy planes, drones, tactical ballistic missiles, medium- to long-range rockets and cruise missiles.
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Leaked footage shows moment Israeli policewoman shoots Palestinian in the back ‘for fun’

November 8, 2019, 11:11 am
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  • Israeli policewoman alleged to have shot Palestinian after telling him to run away
  • She was later sacked after the offence was released and may face charges
  • Video of the incident was released by Israel’s Channel 13 news agency
  •  Believed to have been recorded at the al-Zaim checkpoint outside of Jerusalem
  • Human rights group B’Tselem said the incident was down to ‘culture of impunity’

William Cole – Mail Online Nov 5, 2019

This is the shocking moment an Israeli police officer was recorded shooting a Palestinian man in the back ‘for fun’.
Leaked footage, believed to be from the al-Zaim checkpoint outside of Jerusalem, shows the man falling to the floor in howls of pain after being hit with a sponge-tipped bullet.
Broadcast on Israeli television, the cruel footage shows border officers shouting at the young man to ‘get out of here!’ in Arabic.
One officer then points his rifle at the Palestinian man, who holds his hands up and starts to calmly walk away.
However, Channel 13 news agency report that the police then continue to shout contradicting instructions at him as he begins to panic, before one of them shoots him in the back.
They report the police as saying the man was not seriously hurt, although newspaper Haaretz reported that he was ‘seriously wounded’.
Israeli police said they removed the policewoman from the force after learning of the incident, while other police involved in the incident were re-assigned.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the justice ministry had opened an investigation into the incident, which he said took place a year and a half ago.

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هل اقتربت نهاية «إسرائيل» الوظيفية

November 9, 2019, 10:09 am
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نوفمبر 8, 2019

محمد صادق الحسيني

أكثر من علامة ومظهر ومؤشر في الأفق تفيد كلها بأنّ ثمة تحوّلات كبيرة في مسرح عمليات المواجهة بيننا وبين عدونا التاريخي المركزي في حالة حصول تجعل من الأخير يقترب كثيراً من خط النهاية…

وفي ما يلي بعض من علامات وأعراض ذلك الانقراض الذي بدأ يحيط بعدونا الإسرائيلي :

عندما يصف المحلل في صحيفة هآرتس، روغل الفير، يوم أمس الأول، التصريحات التي نشرها السفير الإسرائيلي السابق في واشنطن، مايكل أورين، في مجلة ذي أتلانتيك الأميركية، والتي تحدث فيها عن سيناريو الحرب، الذي ناقشه مجلس الوزراء الإسرائيلي المصغر، في آخر اجتماعاته، بأنه سيناريو رعب… ويقول للإسرائيليين انّ لديهم كلّ الحق بالشعور بالرعب وذلك لأنّ حرب 1973 ستبدو كلعبة أطفال أمام ما ستتعرّض له إسرائيل في أيّ حرب قادمة مع حزب الله وإيران وبقية أطراف حلف المقاومة…

نقول انّ هذه التوصيفات لا تدلّ إلا على تشكّل شعور جمعي، في داخل الكيان، بأنّ وجود الدويلة قد شارف على الانتهاء، وانّ ذلك المجتمع لم يعد يشعر بأنه مجمّع محمي، لا من جيشه ولا حتى من جيش الولايات المتحدة…!

وعندما يردّ الرئيس الأميركي، على طلب نتن ياهو منه بضرورة رصد أموال إضافيه لتمويل الأجهزة الأمنية التابعة للسلطة الفلسطينية، كي تتمكّن من الاستمرار في القيام بدورها في التنسيق الأمني مع إسرائيل ، خدمة للاحتلال، ويردّ ترامب قائلاً: إذا كان هذا مهمّاً التنسيق الأمني فعليه هو أيّ نتن ياهو أن يدفع…!

فهذا يعني أنّ الولايات المتحده لم تعد تضع أمن إسرائيل على رأس سلّم أولوياتها، وأنها عملياً قد أعلنت تخليها عن نهج أوسلو، الذي أنتج التنسيق الامني الفلسطيني ـ الإسرائيلي .

وهو ما يمكن اعتباره تقييماً أميركياً سلبياً للدور الذي اضطلعت به تل أبيب وفشلت في تحقيقه. ونعني بالتحديد فشلها في الوصول الى أية نتائج إيجابية أيضاً من خلال انخراطها في مساعدة عصابات داعش والنصرة وغيرهم، سواء في سورية او في العراق أو في غيرهما.

أما الفشل الأكبر فهو الصدمة الاستخباراتية الإسرائيلية، في موضوع صاروخ المقاومة اللبنانية، الذي أطلق قبل أيام ضدّ المسيَّرة الإسرائيلية في جنوب لبنان، والذي لا يمكن إلا أن يكون عاملاً جديداً في زيادة السلبية في تقييم الولايات المتحدة لأداء إسرائيل وجيشها في المنطقة، وهي التي لم يكن يغيب عنها لا شاردة ولا واردة كما ظلت تزعم طوال عقود مضت!

أخيراً وليس آخراً فإنّ تل أبيب ورغم انخراطها في التخطيط والتنفيذ لمحاولات الانقلاب الحاصلة في كلّ من لبنان والعراق فقد أثبتت بأنّ قدراتها الاستخبارية رغم كلّ استعراضاتها الشكلية والخارجية، أثبتت أنها ضحلة جداً، بدليل أنّ الوضع في البلدين على الرغم من كلّ التدخلات القوية جداً والضغوط الهائلة وبإسناد مدفعي إعلامي قلّ نظيره فإنّ الوضع في هذين البلدين ما زال يخضع للسيطرة التامة لقوى حلف المقاومة، علاوة على انّ من يمسك بالأرض، عسكرياً، هي قوات حلف المقاومة التي لا تزال تعيش حالة الاكتفاء الذاتي في تسيير حتى أمورها المعاشية والمالية، وشاهدنا على ما نقول هو قول سيد المقاومة بأنه ومهما حصل من تهافت في الوضع الاقتصادي العام للبنان فإنّ المقاومة لن تتأثر بهذا الأمر وأنها ستظل قادرة على دفع معاشات مقاتليها…

وهو ما يعني أنه حتى مع ذهاب واشنطن بعيداً في الضغط على دول المنطقة، فإنّ أيّ انهيار مالي محتمل أيضاً لن يكون له تأثير على عمل هذه القوات التي لا تعتمد على تمويلات حكومية، لا في لبنان ولا في العراق كذلك…

وحده الكيان الدخيل والطارئ والقاعدة الأميركية المقامة على اليابسة والمياه الفلسطينية هو الذي سيتأثر في لعبة عضّ الاصابع، لانه كيان طفيلي وظيفي يخبو ويأفل نجمه مع تراجع سيده واقتراب موسم هجرته من غرب آسيا الى مضيق مالاقا وبحر الصين تاركاً أذنابه يتامى حروب البقاء المستحيل!

بعدنا طيّبين قولوا الله…

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Who Stole the Dreams of the Lebanese People? Hezbollah Executive Chief : “We’ve Been Defending People’s Demands All Along”

November 9, 2019, 10:10 am
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Who Stole the Dreams of the Lebanese People?
Who Stole the Dreams of the Lebanese People?
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Hezbollah Executive Chief Tells BBC “We’ve Been Defending People’s Demands All Along”

Hezbollah Executive Chief Tells BBC “We’ve Been Defending People’s Demands All Along”
Chief of Hezbollah Executive Council His Eminence Sayyed Hashem Safieddine said that the Lebanese resistance movement has been supporting the people’s demands all along, stressing that the demands of the protesters in Lebanon are rightful.
In an interview with the BBC, Sayyed Safieddine added that Hezbollah will transfer all the demands to any future government.
The Hezbollah senior official, however, warned of the economic track that is pushing the country to the abyss.
“In order for the honest cries of most of the people who are suffering in different Lebanese areas to be purposeful, it should be filtered from all the leaderships, sides and embassies that “rode the wave” for political goals.”
Sayyed Safieddine stressed further that “Hezbollah had a reform raft that was way bigger than what was agreed on in the Cabinet,” noting that Hezbollah’s political track provides that the taxes shouldn’t be paid by the poor people.
He also emphasized that the talks on forming the new government have seriously began, adding that communications are still in the first stage.
“We are still approaching the pains, rhetoric, emotions of the squares, and we carry such demands. We also don’t consider there is a link between what is happening in Lebanon and the protests in Iraq,” Sayyed Safieddine concluded.


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Israel’s Supreme Court — Upholding “Targeted Assassinations” and Torture

November 9, 2019, 10:10 am
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By Stephen Lendman
Global Research, November 08, 2019

Time and again, Israel’s high court upholds human and civil rights abuses committed by the state.
In 2006, the court upheld its targeted assassinations policy, claiming they’re OK when no other choices exist to protect against dangers to national security — that don’t exist it failed to say.
The policy contravenes Israeli law, the laws of war, and human rights law. Time and again, Israel falsely calls legitimate self-defense by Palestinians “terrorism,” unjustifiably justifying its lawless actions, most often upheld by its high court.
In Public Committee against Torture in Israel et al v. the Government of Israel et al (1999), Israel’s Supreme Court banned the practice it earlier OK’d, ruling “psychological pressure (and) a moderate degree of physical pressure” are permissible.
Israel’s 1987 Landau Commission condemned harsh interrogations amounting to torture, but approved the practice to obtain evidence for convictions in criminal proceedings, saying these tactics are necessary against “hostile (threats or acts of) terrorist activity and all expressions of Palestinian nationalism.”
Despite calling the 1984 UN Convention against Torture “absolute (with) no exceptions and no balances,” Israel’s high court OK’d coercive interrogations in three cases.
It permitted violent shaking, painful shackling, hooding, playing deafeningly loud music, sleep deprivation, and lengthly detainments.
Loopholes in the high court’s 1999 ruling OK’d abusive practices amounting to torture despite banning the practice.
It notably allowed physical force in so-called “ticking bomb” cases, giving Israeli interrogators and others wide latitude on their actions.
The court effectively ruled both ways, approving torture and other abusive practices despite banning it.
International law is clear and unequivocal on this issue, banning it at all times, under all circumstances with no allowed exceptions.
In 2015, Israel’s Supreme Court rejected a petition by human rights groups and political movements that called for overturning the Anti-Boycott Law.
At the time, the Global BDS Movement and Coalition for Women for Peace called the bill “one of the most dangerous anti-democratic laws promoted” by Knesset members, adding:
Racist Israeli Supreme Court Decisions
“Boycott is a nonviolent, legal and legitimate means to promote social and political aims that are protected in civil rights of freedom of expression, opinion and assembly. The bill constitutes a fatal blow to all these civil rights.”
The police state law punishes entities or individuals that call for boycotting Israel, or an economic, cultural, or academic boycott of its illegal settlements.
According to the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Israel’s Supreme Court “ignored the chilling effect of this law, and missed the opportunity to tell legislators that there are limits to their anti-human rights actions. This law encourages discrimination against the Arabs in Israel.”
The 2012 Nakba Law “harms both the freedom of expression and the civil rights of Arab citizens, even before its implementation.”
“Because the law’s formulation is so broad and vague, many institutions have already begun and will self-censor in order not to risk incurring penalties.”
Israel’s high court upheld the law, falsely claiming it “does not raise difficult and complex questions.”
It violates Arab history, culture, heritage, and the right to express, teach, or disseminate it freely.
Arab intellectual Constantin Zureiq earlier called the Nakba “the worst catastrophe in the deepest sense of the word, to have befallen the Arabs in their long and disaster-ridden history.”
Compromising their ability to publicly denounce what happened compounds the high crime against them.
Speech, press, and academic freedoms in Israel are gravely endangered. In 2017, legislation was enacted that banned foreign nationals who support BDS from entering the country.
Last April, Israel’s Jerusalem district court ruled against Human Rights Watch’s Israeli office director Omar Shakir, a US citizen, ordering him deported for supporting the global BDS movement, his lawful free expression right.
HRW appealed the ruling, petitioning Israel’s Supreme Court to overturn the injustice. It got an injunction to let Shakir stay in the country until the high court heard his case.
On Tuesday, the court ruled against him, Shakir tweeting:
“Breaking: Israeli Supreme Court upholds my deportation over my rights advocacy. Decision now shifts back to Israeli gov; if it proceeds, I have 20 days to leave…(W)e won’t be the last.”
Critic of Israeli human rights abuses Amnesty International said
“the court has made it explicitly clear that those who dare to speak out about human rights violations by the Israeli authorities will be treated as enemies of the state.”
Israel’s Supreme Court ruled against free expression. Without it, all other rights are jeopardized.
Compromising speech, press, and academic freedoms is the hallmark of totalitarian rule — the new normal in the US, other Western societies and Israel, affirmed by its high court.
Is is just a matter of time before Western ones rule the same way?
Is digital democracy in the West and Israel endangered?
Are abuses against Chelsea Manning, other whistleblowers, Julian Assange, and other independent journalists prelude for much more severe crackdowns against fundamental freedoms ahead?
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Lebanon Protests: Ex-PM Questioned Over How $11 Billion Was Spent

November 9, 2019, 10:10 am
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Lebanon Protests: Ex-PM Questioned Over How $11 Billion Was Spent
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora was questioned by a state prosecutor on Thursday over how $11 billion in state funds was spent while he was in power.
His office, however, issued a statement claiming the spending was entirely legal.
It was the first time a former Lebanese prime minister had been summoned for such questioning, and it follows protests against a ruling elite that is widely accused of state corruption.
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Opponents of Siniora, who was prime minister from 2005 until 2008 and had two spells as finance minister, emphasize that $11 billion in government funds was unaccounted for while he was in power.
But in its statement, Siniora’s office claimed he had explained to the financial public prosecutor where the money was spent and that is was used in meeting state needs.
Meanwhile, dozens of protesters gathered outside Siniora’s home in Beirut and outside his office in the southern city of Sidon, chanting and waving Lebanese flags, Reuters television reported.
بعد القضاء .. "الحراك" يقاضي السنيورة على طريقته

بعد القضاء .. “الحراك” يقاضي السنيورة على طريقته

يلاحق شبح الـ “11 مليار” رئيس الحكومة السابق فؤاد السنيورة على المستويين القضائي والشعبي.بعد أن استمع المدعي العام المالي القاضي علي ابراهيم إلى السنيورة في الدعوى المقدمة ضده بشأن قضية الـ11 مليار دولار، تداعى شباب الحراك الشعبي إلى محاسبته لكن على طريقتهم.

فقد تظاهر عدد من المحتجين اليوم الخميس أمام منزل فؤاد السنيورة في شارع بليس بالحمرا، مطالبين باستعادة الأموال المنهوبة ومحاسبة كل الفاسدين، لينضم إليهم لاحقًا عدد من مناصري التيار الوطني الحر، في مشهد وصفه موقع “التيار” بأنه ينطلق من دعوة فخامة الرئيس ميشال عون لتوحيد الساحات.

ومن الحمرا انتقل المحتجون إلى أمام منزل وزير الاتصالات في حكومة تصريف الأعمال ​محمد شقير​.

وفي صيدا أيضاً تجمّع عدد كبير من المحتجين أمام مكتب السنيورة مطالبين بالكشف عن الأموال المنهوبة وإعادتها للدولة اللبنانية.

كذلك اجتمع المحتجون أمام منزل وزير الداخلية السابق نهاد المشنوق في قريطم، مطالبين عبر مكبرات الصوت باستعادة الأموال المنهوبة، ورددوا شعار “وين الـ ١٠٠ مليون دولار يا حرامي”.

هذا، وقد أطلق الناشطون على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي هاشتاغ “#مش_بس_11مليار” مطالبين بمحاسبة السنيورة على كافة الملفات ابتداءً من تاريخ توليه وزارة المالية في العام 1992 حتى يومنا هذا.   ‎

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بعد القضاء .. "الحراك" يقاضي السنيورة على طريقته

بعد القضاء .. "الحراك" يقاضي السنيورة على طريقته

بعد القضاء .. "الحراك" يقاضي السنيورة على طريقته

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Vegan Washing: How Israel Uses Veganism to Gloss Over Palestinian Oppression

November 9, 2019, 10:23 am
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By Alan Macleod
Most of us are now aware that we constantly receive micro-targeted advertisements in our social media feeds based on our interests, location or habits. Those in the vegan community are no exception.
However, an increasing number of  promoted posts targeted at vegans on apps like Facebook or Twitter are clearly Israeli Defense Force (IDF) propaganda. Most of these are videos discussing, in English, how accommodating to the plant-based lifestyle the IDF is and how easy it is to be a vegan soldier.
Israel, its government tells us, is a vegan paradise of tolerance and open-mindedness, where its soldiers can serve their country according to their ethical principles, eating vegan food and wearing clothes free from leather, wool, or other animal products. There are now around 10,000 vegan soldiers in the IDF, and that figure is quickly rising. Meanwhile, Tel Aviv markets itself to foreigners as the “vegan capital of the world”.
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Apartheid Isn’t Vegan

There is a fundamental contradiction between veganism and apartheid. Veganism at its core is an ideology of radical compassion for and non-violence towards all sentient beings. As vegan website Live Kindly explains, it means “to live in a way which shows appreciation to our humanity, our home and those who share it with us.” It should go without saying that this is completely incompatible with successive Israeli governments going back to 1948 and Israel’s commitment to being a Jewish supremacist state. Thus, in Israel, a country that cares about animals more than its indigenous human population, you can be vegan, but you can’t support Palestinian rights.
Nevertheless, Israel continues to use the fact that thousands of its soldiers abscond from animal products as proof that it is a forward-thinking, progressive nation. Mainstream and corporate media have, unsurprisingly, parroted this assertion. The BBC, for instance, tells the story of an IDF soldier, Daniella Yoeli, so moral that “had the army not been able to provide conditions that had harmed no living creatures, she might not have enlisted in a combat unit where she would not have been able to provide her own food.” Unexplored in the article was whether or not Palestinian humans qualified as human beings to her.
More alarming, however, is how many vegetarian and vegan outlets have swallowed the bait as well. Veg News reports how Israeli soldiers march to war in leather-free boots and have plentiful plant-based ration options. Live Kindly noted how the IDF’s deputy chief of staff is a vegetarian and how it recently appointed its first vegan officer. Meanwhile, PETA went so far as to advise the Swiss Army to “take a leaf out of the Israel Defense Forces’ book”. But especially troubling is that none of the articles even mentioned any criticism of the IDF, the government, or their actions, effectively amplifying Israeli propaganda worldwide.
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With a host of celebrity advocates, including Tobey Maguire, Emily Deschanel and Zac Efron, veganism is growing exponentially across the West. Noting that a quarter of 25-34 year old Americans are vegetarian or stricter, The Economist labeled 2019 the “year of the vegan.” Yet uncritical regurgitation of IDF press releases subtly presents the Middle East region as liberal, forward-thinking Israelis vs. backward, close-minded Arab Muslims.
This framing is particularly misleading for a number of reasons. Firstly, much of the most commonly celebrated Israeli vegan food (falafel, hummus, baba ghanoush, stuffed vine leaves) is simply the appropriated cuisine of the local peoples Israel displaced during its creation. Secondly, the great irony is that the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development statistics show that Israelis actually consume the most poultry per capita in the world, with 80% of the population eating it every day. As a whole, Israelis eat over 200 pounds of meat every year, more than even the famously carnivorous Americans.
Furthermore, as the Palestinian Animal League notes, while 3% of Israeli Jews are vegan, the number of their Palestinian Israeli counterparts is twice as high. Therefore, the narrative begins to disintegrate upon even modest inspection.

From Vegan Washing to Pink Washing

In a similar fashion, Israel presents itself as a haven of acceptance for the LGBT community in a region of intolerance. After winning the event in 2018, the country received the right to host the Eurovision Song Contest, a continent-wide celebration of flamboyantly gay music and culture (despite not being a European nation).
The Israeli government saw the country’s victory as a huge diplomatic triumph, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring winning performer Netta Barzilai as its “best ambassador.” Barzilai flew back home to perform at a government-sponsored victory celebration. The same day the IDF slaughtered at least 58 Palestinians. There was a considerable amount of pushback to the idea of Israel hosting the competition this year, with some acts refusing to perform. Nevertheless, the show went ahead as planned in Tel Aviv, another coup for the government.
While Israel is indeed a land that is both comparatively tolerant of LGBT people and accommodating to vegans, the general progressiveness that implies does not extend to the realm of politics, where the country continues to lurch ever more rightward to the point where even its former Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, has warned that the country is “infected” with fascism and the government must be stopped. Thus, in the Jewish-only state, female bulldozer drivers can destroy Palestinian villages, vegan tank commanders can run over wheelchair-bound children, and transgender pilots can bomb wedding receptions. The trick the IDF is trying to play is to get as much of the world to concentrate on its (limited) liberal inclusivity and ignore its near-genocidal military policy. And it appears to be working.
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العقلانية والواقعية لا التهويل والحرب النفسية

November 9, 2019, 10:30 am
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– الحراك الشعبي الذي لا يزال تعبيراً عن غضب الشعب اللبناني بشرائحه الواسعة من فشل وفساد أداء السلطات المتعاقبة، في المجلس النيابي والحكومة والمرافق المالية والقضاء، ليس صاحب نصوص قرآنية أو إنجيلية لا تقبل النقاش، خصوصاً أن الغضب أسوأ موجّه للسياسة، في بلد شديد الحساسيات السياسية، وبصورة أخصّ أن الشعارات والمواقف الوافدة على الحراك سواء عبر الإعلام أو عبر الجمعيات المنظمة التي تلقي شعاراً وتواكبه بحملة تسويق، ليست ثوابت لا يستطيع الحراك التحرّر منها. وها نحن أمام تحوّلين كبيرين في مسار الحراك لصالح إعادة نظر في عناوين طبعته منذ يومه الأول.

– اتهم كل مَن نادى بانسحاب الحراك من قطع الطرقات، وشرح حجم الأذى الذي يتسبّب به ذلك العناد المشاغب على الناس ومدى الضرر الذي يلحقه بالحراك نفسه، ويؤدي لانفضاض الشعب عنه وفقدانه صفة التمثيل الجمعي للوجدان اللبناني، بأنهم جماعة السلطة الفاسدة وحماة الفساد. وعندما تراجع الحراك عن قطع الطرقات لأنه بدأ يستشعر الضمور والتراجع وانفكاك الناس، حاول الراكبون على موجة الحراك لتحويله أداة أحقادهم هم وسياساتهم هم، وأغلبهم لا يميّزون بين الحراك الشعبي وحركة 14 آذار التي يمجّدونها وهم ينعون فشلها كل يوم، لأن قادتها لم يخلصوا لها، وسادتها في الخارج لم يثبتوا دفاعاً عن سقوفها المستحيلة. وبالطبع ينتقم هؤلاء الأربعتش آذاريون من انتصار المقاومة التي ناصبوها العداء بمحاولة جعل الحراك هزيمة لها، بينما تراجع الحراك عن قطع الطرقات تأكيد لصدق المقاومة مع الحراك، ولفرص تلاقي الحراك مع المقاومة.

– بالطريقة ذاتها تمّ دسّ شعار إسقاط الحكومة على الحراك، ومن خلفه تمّ دسّ شعار حكومة تكنوقراط، بمثل دسّ قطع الطرقات، ومثلما لقطع الطرقات حسابات أمنية لا تمتّ للحراك بصلة، لإسقاط الحكومة وحكومة التكنوقراط حسابات سياسية لا تمتّ للحراك بصلة، وتخدم أهداف أصحابها بقوة استعمال الحراك، وسهل استنتاج الآثار المدمّرة لاستقالة الحكومة على الحراك والبلد، بمجرد تخيّل الوضع لو لم تستقل الحكومة وبقيت تطبق ورقتها الإصلاحية، سواء لجهة العفو العام وقوانين مكافحة الفساد وقروض الإسكان، والسير بمؤتمر سيدر. فالأكيد أن الوضع المالي والنقدي كان أفضل، والطريق نحو إقرار قانون جديد للانتخابات وصولاً لحكومة من غير المرشحين تشرف على الانتخابات في الربع الأول من العام المقبل بسلاسة تمهيداً لانتخابات مبكرة تجري على أساسه في الصيف أو الخريف من العام المقبل. وخير دليل على مراجعة الحراك مضمون دعوته لاستقالة الحكومة القائمة على ركيزتين، كلن يعني كلن و حكومة تكنوقراط ، أن الحراك بغالبية مكوّناته وساحاته شهد مراجعة وتراجعاً عن شعار كلن يعني كلن بإيجاد مبررات واقعية وعقلانية لاستثناء رئيس الحكومة سعد الحريري من هذا الشعار ليس لتبرئته من المسؤولية، بل لمنع تصوير استبعاده إخلالاً بتوازن طائفي بين الرئاسات، ولضمان تحقيق المرتجى من مؤتمر سيدر حيث لوجوده دور أساسي، والدليل الثاني أن الحراك الذي رفع شعار حكومة تكنوقراط، نقض شعاره ومضمون الثقة العمياء بالتكنوقراط بخوض معركة مواجهة مع أبرز رموز التكنوقراط في لبنان وأكثر المشهود لهم بالخبرة، وأكثرهم ثقة في الخارج، وهو حاكم المصرف المركزي، وصولاً لرفع الحراك شعار يسقط حكم المصرف . وهذه كلها دلائل على أن شعارات الحراك ليست قرآناً ولا إنجيلاً، وعلى أن الحراك يعيد النظر بشعاراته بعقلانيّة وواقعيّة، ولا يحتاج للمبخّرين أو المخبرين وبينهما مجرد اختلاف ترتيب حروف.

– مخاطبة الحراك بالدعوة للعقلانيّة والواقعية لحكومة جديدة تشكل تلبية للحاجة المزدوجة لتكنوقراط ملتزم بالسياسات الوطنية والشعبية، ولا تشكل تحقيقاً لأجندات خارجية وداخلية بتحقيق مكاسب سياسية لا صلة لها بحقوق الناس ولا تخدمها، هي مخاطبة تشبه دعوة الحراك للانسحاب من قطع الطرقات، وقد لاقت تجاوباً، ومشابهة لما فعله الحراك بقبول بقاء الرئيس الحريري، وما فعله باستثناء منظومة التكنوقراط من القدسية والتأليه، ما يسهّل فرص تصحيح خطأ استقالة الحكومة، التي لم تخدم الحراك ولا البلد ولا الناس، ويفتح الطريق لحكومة تلتزم برنامجاً إصلاحياً يوسّع مضمون الورقة الإصلاحية وصولاً لقانون انتخابات جديد، على اساس الدائرة الواحدة والنسبية، لكنها حكومة لا تخلّ بالتوازنات التي جاءت بها الانتخابات النيابية، ضماناً لاحترام نتائج الانتخابات المقبلة التي يطالب الحراك أن تكون مبكرة، ولا مصلحة له بتسجيل سابقة عدم احترام تمثيل الحكومات لنتائج الانتخابات.

– ما يجري الآن هو لحس مبرد يستثمر عليه داخل وخارج يسرعان بلبنان نحو الانهيار، بالاستقواء بكذبة عنوانها، أن الحراك لن يقبل إلا بنسف المعادلات السياسية التي ثبتتها الانتخابات، ليمتطي بعض الداخل والخارج هذا النسف للقبض على لبنان، بحكومة يسمّيها هذا الداخل والخارج ويستثني فيها من يريد من معادلة كلن ، ويصيب بها من يريد، هي حرب نفسية قاسية تُخاض في أروقة المصارف وعلى شاشات التلفزة، ولا يهمّ أصحابَها أن يفقد اللبنانيون فيها ودائعهم، ومصادر رزقهم، وتسقط ليرتهم بالضربة القاضية، في ظل هتاف، ثورة ثورة ثورة.

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SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC FORCES’ SHORT-TERM THINKING PROBLEM

November 9, 2019, 3:00 pm
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The political and military leadership of the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has appeared to be in a shaky situation since the withdrawal of US troops from Syria’s north and the start of Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring. Since the start of the US invasion of Syria, Kurdish armed groups, primarily the People’s Protection Units (YPG), relied on foreign power to fend off the ISIS offensive and expand their control across northern and eastern Syria. The US military, political and financial support made Kurdish leaders believe that Kurdish armed groups were a kind of “integral” part of Washington’s strategy and that they had a voice to decide their future under a US protectorate. This illusion predetermined the YPG-SDF stance towards cooperation with the Damascus government and its allies.
In January-March 2018, YPG forces in Afrin were defeated by the Turkish Army and pro-Turkish armed groups and were forced to flee towards Syrian Army positions near Aleppo city. Prior to Turkey’s Operation Olive Branch, YPG leaders once again rejected Syrian-Russian proposals to settle their status and re-integrate into the Syrian state. Instead, they repeatedly asked the US and the so-called ‘international community’ for help – help which was not forthcoming.
The very same approach led to the start of Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring in northeastern Syria in 2019. On January 19, the so-called Autonomous Administration of Eastern Syria, a political body created by the SDF/YPG to manage the seized areas, issued a de-facto ultimatum to the Damascus government. Besides formal claims about the need to keep the unity of Syrian land and ensure rights to minorities, the 10-point long list included such demands as:
  • to accept the Autonomous Administration as a legal part of the Syrian political system;
  • to guarantee the Autonomous Administration representation in the Syrian Parliament;
  • to use the Autonomous Administration flag alongside the Syrian flag;
  • to allow the Autonomous Administration to conduct its own independent foreign policy;
  • to allow SDF units to keep control of the Syrian border;
  • to keep the SDF security force Asayish as the main security force within northeastern Syria;
  • to distribute “Syrian wealth to the Syrian regions in a fair manner.”
Summing up these claims, the SDF demanded Damascus should legally recognize a de-facto independent US-backed pseudo-state and its military force within Syria and fund this state from the Syrian state budget. This behavior undermined Damascus attempts to launch a real political dialogue to settle differences and the SDF became even more dependent on the US amid open preparations of Turkey for a military action in northeastern Syria. So, when US troops withdrew and the Turkish Army crossed the border, there was nobody to protect the Kurds. President Donald Trump turned up the heat even more by advising the Kurds, if they want US protection, to resettle into oil areas, control of which its administration sees as one of its main priorities.
Therefore, the SDF leaders rushed to reach a protection agreement with Damascus and Russia. Syrian Army troops and Russian Military Police were deployed along the border and the M4 highway limiting the Turks to the area that they had already captured. Moscow negotiated with Ankara a safe zone agreement. The Turkish Army limited its actions to the aforementioned chunk of the border. Rescued SDF units started withdrawal from a 30km zone away from the Turkish border.
Despite this, the SDF and its political representatives continue insisting that the agreement with Damascus is solely a security agreement and political terms and conditions are yet to be negotiated. The group also expressed hopes that it will be able to ‘restore’ dialogue with the US to the level that they had before the troop withdrawal. The SDF even criticized statements by the Syrian Defense and Interior Ministries suggesting SDF members should settle their legal status within the Syrian state and join the army if they want. The SDF claimed that it will not accept any deal that would not “recognize and preserve” the group’s “privacy and structure.” These actions demonstrate that at least a part of the Kurdish leadership has learned little from the Afrin and northeastern Syria cases and still believes that it is in a position to use the language of ultimatums. The involvement of Kurdish leaders in the US-run oil smuggling operations also play a role. It is likely that they do not want to lose revenues from their illegal cooperation with the foreign power that is looting Syrian natural resources.
These factors add additional instability to the situation in northeastern Syria and complicate its further de-escalation. Developments south of Ras al-Ayn where clashes between Kurdish and Turkish-backed fighters have recently erupted, are a result of the lack of coordination in the implementation of the safe zone agreement additionally to the aggressive behavior of both sides.
Nonetheless, the SDF will have to find a kind of political understanding with Damascus because the main and most likely alternative is the resumption of the Turkish offensive.
The Kurdish armed groups known as the SDF have recent experience of betraying the Syrian nation. In the most precarious situation, they abandoned Syria and made a pact with the US, the foreign power that seeks to undermine the country’s territorial integrity and, at that stage of the conflict,  was supporting the actions of al-Qaeda in Syria. There were – as there ought to be – consequences and the SDF suffered them. Washington abandoned its proxies, when it was deemed of higher value to the US to enable Turkey to carry out its offensive, than it was to protect them.
The US is not leaving Syria and the SDF is once again demonstrating that it may be prepared to sell its loyalty for American coin if a proposal were to come their way. However, if such a proposal is made and the SDF sabotages the reconciliation with Damascus, what guarantee is there that the US won’t abandon them once again?
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Assange Might Die from Mistreatment in Captivity

November 9, 2019, 3:14 pm
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By Stuart Littlewood
Sure, your rights are protected. But you’ll just have to wait another 4 months before we listen to concerns that you might die from mistreatment in captivity…

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I’ve received a reply from my MP Alister Jack (who is also Secretary of State for Scotland). I asked him to obtain an explanation from our Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Buckland QC MP, on concerns about the proceedings to extradite Julian Assange to the US, since he is the person accountable. But Mr. Jack’s response doesn’t make clear whether the response is his and, if not, where it actually comes from.
I wanted to know…
  • Why Assange is held under the inhuman conditions reserved for terrorists when he’s a journalist.
  • How the Justice Department accounts for Assange’s poor physical and mental state.
  • Why the question whether political offenses are excluded from extradition under Article 4 of the UK/US Extradition Treaty hadn’t been addressed before these expensive proceedings began.
  • Why Assange’s defense team haven’t been given easier access and more time to prepare.
  • Why high-security Belmarsh is chosen for February’s hearing, where the opportunity for public scrutiny is minimal.
  • And whether District Judge Baraitser will preside in February when, according to Craig Murray, she has already failed to behave impartially?
In particular, I wanted to know why, according to witnesses, Assange’s physical and mental states have deteriorated so rapidly while in the UK justice system’s care.
There’s no attempt to answer most of these points. However, Mr. Jack reminds me that Assange was jailed for 50 weeks on 1 May for breaching bail and holing up in the Ecuador Embassy.
“The UK’s criminal justice system is one in which rights are protected and in which, contrary to what Mr. Assange and his supporters may claim, he and his interests will be protected,” writes Mr. Jack brimming with confidence.
But, he points out, the Home Secretary when signing an extradition warrant is limited in what he’s allowed to consider. For example, the Crime and Courts Act 2013 requires any judgment about human rights and health issues to be made in court.
The administrative hearing on 21 October ruled that Assange will face a 5-day extradition hearing starting 25 February and, Mr Jack says, that’s when his human rights and poor health will be considered. It is for the judge to determine whether or not extradition would be a human rights breach and whether it would be oppressive and unjust on account of his state of health.
In other words, nobody in the UK justice system could give a toss about Assange’s wellbeing for another 4 months – an awful long time when you’re already in bad shape and worried sick that you’ll wind up in Guantanamo Bay for….. for what, exactly?
Former ambassador Craig Murray, a friend of Assange, attended the October hearing and reported that he was distressed by how his appearance had deteriorated after long confinement, and by his rapid ageing and stumbling speech — “the most articulate man, the fastest thinker, I have ever known” reduced to a “shambling and incoherent wreck”.
Some have expressed concern that Assange may not live to the end of the extradition proceedings.
From tomorrow MPs will cease to exist and Parliament will cease to function until after the general election on 12 December. So nobody is representing anybody in the cesspit of Westminster for the next 5 or 6 weeks.
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