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The Justice of God: Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam -- Violence At The Door Of President Abbas, Video

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Violence At The Door Of President Abbas, Video

Some days ago, on 29 November 2011, I was “punished” by the PA mission and Fatah representatives because of what I said last year at the UN Vienna during the observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in 2010, as recorded in the video below. One year later, the PA used the official work visit of President Mahmoud Abbas to Vienna to snub me, after I had received all respect and appreciation from the Austrian government and authorities.

Only recently and after speaking about this with colleagues I understood the reason for the violent behavior of these people. It had been because I confronted Dr. Nabil Shaath, a senior PA official, with the demand to stop jailing Palestinians in the occupied territories, and reporting about his answers to me, and because I declared a Palestinian State because of my distrust of the PA and all what they do.

I demanded from Dr. Shaath that the Palestinian Authority should stop their so-called “security coordination” with the Israeli war criminals and stop protecting them, because this is the only thing that makes us Palestinians weak. I also asked him to stop jailing the Palestinian politicians and resistance. I told him that I see the PA coordination with the Israeli war criminals as a weakness in the position of the PA. The Israeli occupation is using the PA to capture and to jail the Palestinian resistance, to do their dirty work.

What I said was:
“Again, I demand that the PA stops this criminal coordination and lets see how Israel and the US will react. It is horrible what PA is doing to Palestine. You are continuing to deal with them from the position of a weak partner, while we are strong and those people who you meet and kiss in the Ramallah headquarters are all war criminals. I am ashamed and bored of all what you are doing in Palestine. Over 23 years of negotiations with the Israeli occupation and all what we have received is NOTHING. Don’t you have another qualified negotiator instead of Mr. Saeb Erekat, who has been in his place as a negotiator since 23 years?”

I did not publish the video below with this confrontation with the Dr. Shaatا because his non-answers to my demands are just too silly and completely off topic. He laughed loudly after I spoke, as if it was a joke. His irresponsible reply and his crazy laughter made me aware of what kind of Palestinian Authority we have. The video takes place after Dr. Shaat arrived 1 hour late to the session – reportedly because he had gone shopping to the city center – and submitted the remaining audience to 40 minutes of abstruse rambling. Dr. Shaat, the apparently insane man in the video, is who the zionists want to keep in power against overwhelming popular will beyond May of 2012, so that their autocracy of traitorous kleptocrats can stay put in Palestine.

Q/A Session with Nabil Shaat from Kawther Salam on Vimeo.

With loud laughter Dr. Shaath answered to my intervention that it was better if I continued photographing instead of talking. Ambassador Zuheir Al-Wazeer also intervened and said to me “you are a good photographer, and you make excellent photos”. His nervous laughter clearly reflected his confusion. Shaath replied to my confrontation with words which completely lacked any sensitivity and were totally off the subject. He mixed between things and caused himself to become involved into a confrontation with the Consul of the Republic of Syria, Mr. Jamal Agha, who was present at the event.

Shaath said that “he understood well my argument”, and then engaged in minute-long rambling: “but once the people decides to go in a military actions they go, but when they do not want to go to a military action they do not free the people to do so. This is not what Fatah is doing in the West Bank, but also what Hamas is doing in Gaza. You can’t allow people to shoot rocket when you are not ready to continue a fight against the Israeli occupation, like what happened in Gaza in 2009. You can’t allow people to go on their own and fight Israel in West Bank while there is a decision not to go to a military fight now, and if you are a Syrian you do the same at the Golan Height, and you do not allow people to go to the border to make war against Israel while the Syrian are not ready to do it”.

“You can’t allow the Egyptian to go the border to fight with Israel if you are not ready for that. You do not allow the Lebanese to go to the border to fight with Israel when there is no decision to do so, even Hezbollah will arrest and jail the people if they go to border to fight with Israel without a decision of going to a military fight”.

“I understand you that we have enough people at the Israeli Jails, and that we do not want to act like them and to put the Palestinians in Palestinian jails or the Syrian in Syrians jails. We have enough people at the Israeli Jails. I understand you but that is not really all about, there are two things which have to be considered, first: we do not want any political prisoners in Palestinian jails in Gaza and the West Bank. And second, we do not want the people to take the matter in their hands and to decide that they want to go to make war when their people are not really ready to fight that war.”

“In Gaza 25% of the homes are destroyed, and 50,000 Palestinians were injured, and 14 hundred were killed, and the Israelis if they decided to attack Gaza again, they can destroy the whole of Gaza if Hamas did not stop the people in jail who want to shoot on the Israelis, and this is the same in the West Bank, we have decided that this is not the right time to go in full military confrontation with the Israelis. We did that for 27 years plus 6 years of Intifada. All together 33 years we did the military confrontation with Israel, and now we are not ready for that. Because of this reason we decided to go in a popular struggle against Israel.”

I answered: “But you are still jailing the popular resistance Mr. Shaath, and you are protecting the Israeli occupation instead of your people, the Israelis continue killing, jailing and invading our towns and cities, humiliating the people, destroying their property under you supposed full protection, so who will protect me and the Palestinians”.

This long answer of Dr. Shaath was off topic. I just asked him to stop the so-called security coordination with the Israeli occupation and to use this paper as a pressure on Israel in order to stops its arrogance in dealing with the Palestinians who they treat miserably, even in small things like that President Mahmoud Abbas needs a travel permit from the occupation whenever he moves from his basement to another Palestinian canton or to so-called peace negotiations.

In Palestine there are no borders which Shaath should protect from a “military war”. There are cantons, ghettos, and small jails where all Palestinian are humiliated by both the Israeli occupation and the PA puppets. During the 33 years which Shaatا mentioned, there was no “military war” against Israel, there was ONLY resistance struggle against the Israeli occupation, which was taken up by the PLO and the people directly affected by the Israeli crimes. Either Dr. Shaath did not know what he was speaking, or he was sick and confused.

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A President Who Greets His People Without Barriers

ماذا جرى في منتدى كرايسكي خلال زيارة الرئيس عباس / أصغر صعلوك على بوابة الرئاسة يفرض الحصار على الرئيس محمود عباس /لماذا رفض السفير أن اقدم الأعتذار لقيادته؟؟؟ /تعليمات السفير الفلسطيني تقضي بإقصائي من لقاء الجالية الفلسطينية / الرئيس عباس يلتقي الجالية الفلسطينية في النمسا

Austria is a peaceful western country – whoever sees Austrian President Dr. Heinz Fischer with a big smile in the morning must feel optimistic throughout the rest of his day. In contrast, whoever sees the face of an Arab dictator or so many other Western and Americans leaders must feel hurt fear for a catastrophe on that day. There is a big difference between a peaceful President who loves his people and whose people love him, and a President or leader who claims grandiosity but who could not care less for the interests of his people but instead only brings war and disasters to his and other nations.

As in most countries, the president can be seen as an expression of the political culture and climate of the country. President Fischer, with his long political record of successful work for Austria and the Austrians, does not need barriers, heavy guns and paranoid guards between him and his people whenever he wants to meet them, shake hands and to participate in their activities.

Before the background of its own history, Austria has sought for decades to play a role in fostering peace and resolving conflicts in the Arab- and other regions. To this end, the political establishment has understood for many decades to use the neutrality of the country as an asset in its relations with other countries. It is not surprising that the State of Austria plays a silent yet active role in attempting to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while being, by example, a compass for peace. (Click on the small image to see it bigger).

On last Monday, November 28 2011, at quarter to eleven, President Fischer came to the inner Hofburg square to receive his guest, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. President Fischer was accompanied as usual by his military adjutant, some people from his team and a security detail. He arrived in friendly mood, smiling at everybody. Since he arrived some minutes early, he used the time to greet everybody – he went to a group of people, passers-by and tourists behind a barrier and began shaking hands with them, then he went to greet some of the present journalists, and finally with some of the men from a military detachment.

How great the Austrian President Dr. Fischer is, who refuses to put barriers between him and his people. I am truly astonished each time when I see the complete absence of paranoia on part of the President and the people around him. I don’t know of another country where the President, or any other member of the government, meets the people on eye level and everybody just smiles.

While waiting for his guest President Abbas to arrive, Dr. Fischer described President Abbas as a “dear friend” to the press teams on location. A few minutes later, landscape changed noticeably with the arrival of President Abbas and his Palestinian security crew, which jumped from the car as if they were expecting a war, or at least some incoming artillery rounds.

It looks that the Palestinian security staff received their training in the USA or in Israel, two places whose regimes are markedly affected by paranoia and self-conceit. The contrast in the behavior of the Palestinian security crew to the Austrian crew was obvious: while the Austrians appeared to put efforts into not being noticed, the Palestinians would constantly stare in suspicion at everybody during the troop review. I did not know how things would go downhill from here.

Two weeks before the arrival of President Abbas to Austria, I spoke several times with the Palestinian Ambassador Dr. Zuheir Al-Wazeer. Since I had asked some uneasy questions to the Palestinian delegations and to Nabil Shaat at the UN, we are not on the best of terms. He was apparently afraid that I could ask similarly critical questions to President Abbas at press meetings.

I had managed to cause major embarrassment for the Palestinian delegations, especially Nabil Shaath at the UN, by asking questions with documentary evidence about their indifference before the issue of “honor killings”, wanton murders of Palestinians by PA personnel, the growing number of events of sexual harassment against female employees of the PA perpetrated by PA staff, the issue of “security” prisoners and their torture at PA prisons and lastly the issues ofcorruption and constant abuse of power by PA employees and the imposition of censorship on the Palestinian media.

Dr. Al-Wazeer told me in his own grandiloquent words: “It will be written in the historical book of the Palestine if you did not ask Abbas your critical questions before the western media during his visit to Austria”. I tried to quite Dr. Al-Wazeer. I told him that I supported Abass and that I love him, but that my love for Palestine was bigger than anything else.

Despite my long clarification and our long discussion, Dr. Al-Wazeer he did not manage to get rid of his fears, especially after I requested from him to include a meeting with the Palestinian community in Austria on the agenda of the President Abbas during his visit to Vienna. Dr. Al-Wazeer did not agree to my request, but upon my insistence and because of his fear of discussing this matter in the media, he saw himself obliged to set such a meeting on Abbas’ agenda in Vienna.

The second day of President Abbas work visit to Austria was concluded by speech at the Kreisky Forum. Among other things, President Abbas said in his speech that “the State of Palestine will be a state of democracy, of respect for human rights, women rights and of private and public freedoms”. I was very happy to hear that. The only thing that made me uncomfortable and worried were the signs of anxiety and fatigue on the face of President Abbas, and the medical emergency team which accompanied him on his visit to the Kreisky Forum.

November 29 2011, 11:30 was the time supposedly set for a meeting between President Abbas and the Palestinian community in Vienna at the Hotel Imperial. I went to the Hotel Imperial after Ambassador Al-Wazeer invited me; I thought that I had succeeded in convincing the ambassador to organize an encounter of the President with the Palestinian community in Vienna.

Unfortunately, things went differently. I was faced with a violent Palestinian security thug at the entrance of Abbas’ room. He threatened me to get out and to leave the hotel before pushing me out violently. He said that he “wanted to teach me how to write critical reports in the media”. I only asked him to talk to me in a polite way, but Mr. Ihab Al-Ghoul, from the Embassy ordered me to get out of the room too.

The Austrian security people standing outside were astonished, one of them even asked me what had gone wrong. I told him that they had punishing me because of some critical reporting of mine. I asked Consul Hazem Shabat from the Palestinian Embassy why I was being denied to meet President Abbas. He said he would go and ask. He sent me another Palestinian intelligence agent to tell me that I had to leave the hotel “as punishment for reporting criticism about PA figures and their corruption in the western media”.

That same guy together with one of his colleagues had been following me around and insistently trying to get my phone number because “I have beautiful eyes” the day before while Abbas’ delegation was at the Chancellor’s office and at the Parliament, constantly commenting on my “beautiful dress” and other inanities.

The night before, at the Kreisky Forum, before Chancellor Faymann, President Fischer and at the Parliament, President Abbas had solemnly insisted that a “State of Palestine” would respect democracy, human rights, women rights, individual and collective rights and freedom of expression”.

The behavior of these thugs, “teaching me how to write critical reports about PA personalities”, kicking me out of a meeting with Abbas “in punishment for reporting about corruption in the PA in western media”, in addition to the exclusion of almost all Palestinians living in Vienna beyond certain people widely suspected of being involved in shameful illegal activities, shows how honest Abbas’ inflated propaganda rhetoric at the Kreisky Forum and elsewhere was. It shows what kind of “State” is waiting for Palestinians after 64 years of living under the Israeli occupation and the increasingly brutal dictatorship of Abbas’ PA.

Simply said, the USA and the Western community are supporting the birth of a dictatorial regime while all around in the Middle East dictatorial regimes are collapsing.

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The Final Trial: Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty, Who is and Who was and Who is to come

The Final Trial: Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty, Who is and Who was and Who is to come

THE PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS AND HIS ORDER

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Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty, Who is and Who was and Who is to come

Let us praise and glorify Him forever.

Lord our God, You are worthy to receive praise and glory and honor and blessing

Let us praise and glorify Him forever.

The Lamb Who was slain is worthy to receive power and divinity and wisdom and strength, and honor and glory and blessing

Let us praise and glorify Him forever.

Let us bless the Father and the Son with the Holy Spirit:

Let us praise and glorify Him forever.

Bless the Lord, all you works of the Lord

Let us praise and glorify Him forever.

Sing praise to our God, all you His servants and you who fear God, the small and the great.

Let us praise and glorify Him forever.

Let heaven and earth praise Him Who is glorious

Let us praise and glorify Him forever.

And every creature that is in heaven and on earth and under earth and in the sea and those which are in them.

Let us praise and glorify Him forever.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit:

Let us praise and glorify Him forever.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Let us praise and glorify Him forever.

Let us pray:

All-powerful, most holy, most high, and supreme God:

all good,

supreme good,

totally good,

You Who alone are good; may we give You all praise, all glory, all thanks, all honor:

all blessing,

and all good things.

So be it.

So be it.

Amen.

O OUR most holy FATHER,

Our Creator, Redeemer, Consoler, and Savior

WHO ARE IN HEAVEN:

In the angels and in the saints,

Enlightening them to love, because You, Lord, are light

Inflaming them to love, because You, Lord, are love

Indwelling and filling them with happiness, because You, Lord, are the Supreme Good,

the Eternal Good

from Whom comes all good

without Whom there is no good.

HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME:

Mav our knowledge of You become ever clearer that we may know the breadth of Your blessings

the length of Your promises

the height of Your majesty

the depth of Your judgments.

YOUR KINGDOM COME:

So that You may rule in us through Your grace

and enable us to come to Your kingdom

where there is an unclouded vision of You

a perfect love of You

a blessed campanionship with You

an eternal enjoyment of You.

YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN

HEAVEN:

That we may love You with our whole heart by always thinking

of You

with our whole soul by always desiring You

with our whole mind by directing all our

intentions to You and by seeking Your

glory in everything

and with our whole strength by spending all our energies and affections

of soul and body

in the service of Your love

and of nothing else

and may we love our neighbors as ourselves

by drawing them all with our whole strength to Your love

by rejoicing in the good fortunes of others as well as our

own

and by sympathizing with the misfortunes of others

and by giving offense to no one.

GIVE US THIS DAY:

in memory and understanding and reverence

of the love which You in our Lord Jesus Christ had for us

and of those things which He said and did and suffered for us.

OUR DAILY BREAD:

Your own Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES:

Through Your ineffable mercy

through the power of the Passion of Your Beloved Son together with the merits and intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and all Your chosen ones.

AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST

US:

And whatever we do not forgive perfectly, do you, Lord, enable us to forgive to the full so that we may truly love our enemies and fervently intercede for them before You returning no one evil for evil

and striving to help everyone in You.

AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION

Hidden or obvious

Sudden or persistent.

BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL

Past, present and to come.

Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit

As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

ANTICHRIST FREEMASONIC ZIO-COMMUNIST VATICANISTAS: SNIPPITS AND SNAPPITS: INDEPENDENT HISTORIAN UNVEILS CABALIST CONSPIRACY

SNIPPITS AND SNAPPITS: INDEPENDENT HISTORIAN UNVEILS CABALIST CONSPIRACY:

MY COMMENT

The Final Trial: Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty, Who is and Who was and Who is to come

St. Francis was the bright shining light in the middle of the nefarious affair of the colonizing of the Holy Land for political ambition begun by the Byzantine Emperor and Pope Urban II. St. Francis went to the Sultan of Egypt, Malik-al-Kamil, the nephew of Saladin, and did not insult his faith, but instead prayed with him. The Sultan was so moved by St. Francis, that upon his leaving he presented St. Francis with a horn used by the muezzin to call people to prayer five times a day. St. Francis used that horn thereafter to call his fellow Christians to prayer with when he returned to Italy. To commemorate his meeting with St. Francis and the profound impact of meeting a true Christian, the Sultan’s tomb was engraved with this, that what changed his (the Sultan’s) life was the meeting between a Christian monk (St. Francis) and the sultan in his tent. The Sultan remained a devout Muslim the rest of his life.

This impression of the real honest decency of a true Christian is what was the reason that, when the Palestinian patriots (both Christian and Muslim together) threw out the Colonizing Freemasonic Crusader Invaders, the only European Christians allowed to remain by the Muslim rulers were the Franciscans. The Franciscans were even given charge over the Christian sites of the Holy Land by the Muslim rulers.

Concerning Saladin:

THE CRUSADES 1095-1291:

“Saladin's lasting reputation among Christians, as a man of chivalry and honour, derives above all from his treatment of the inhabitants of Jerusalem. The contrast, eighty-eight years earlier, with the behaviour of the crusaders in Jerusalem could not be greater. Instead of pillage and massacre, there is an orderly handing over of the city. Holy places are respected. A ransom is to be paid for each Christian to depart in freedom, but it is not high. Among those who cannot afford it, many are released by Saladin instead of being sold into slavery.

To the very end, the Christian authorities set an appalling example. The patriarch, after buying his freedom with ten dinars, departs with wagonloads of valuable treasure which could have been used to free fellow Christians.”

[End of excert of THE CRUSADES]

Concerning the Crusaders:

The very first Crusaders were well received by the Muslim overlords for especially the example set by the original St. John Hospitallers (before their Freemasonic corruption) who helped Muslims and as well as Christians with medical aid and protected both of them against the criminal thieves in the area. Later the Vatican showed its true colors when a Cardinal had the Crusaders slaughter all the inhabitants of Jersualem including the Catholics in union with Rome that lived there – which the Crusaders had informed the Cardinal were there. “God knows His own , kill them all,” was the Cardinal’s response; the horrified Crusaders did what they were told.

The vain attempt by the Vatican of today to cover their Antichrist occult Satanic Devil worship of the Assisi interreligious prayer meetings with mentioning St. Francis is absurd. Neither St. Francis nor the Sultan would have anything to do with the Vatican today. Neither do any faithful Catholics. I was baptized (by a Franciscan priest as a matter of fact) years before Vatican II and it would violate my baptism and profession of faith in Christ to have anything to do with the Antichrist, ad-Dajjal, slave that the Vatican is today.

The Crusades brought back the Hermetic Satanic Magic that forms the basis for Freemasonry and that is what has totally corrupted and destroyed the Vatican in terms of any real confession of Christian faith by them. Muslims know this and faithful to Christ Catholics know this.

The Illuminati: The Core of the Illuminati

Palestine Cry: Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

Palestine Cry: Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

Palestine Cry

Palestine Cry: Beware the rebuilt temple -Palestine Cry: Beware the rebuilt temple Beware the rebuilt temple Beware the rebuilt temple. It is damnation for all who align themselves with it.

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THE JUSTICE OF GOD: THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES VERSUS IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN

Napoleon I Atheist Heroic Materialist Renaissance enemy of God. click on picture for link to Versailles - Iraq

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Palestine: State of Law and Women Rights?

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In the presence and under the patronage of the Federal President of Austria, Dr. Heinz Fischer, the Former Federal Chancellor Dr. Franz Vranitzky and former Federal Minister Dr. Rudolf Scholten welcomed the President of the Executive Committee of the PLO and President of the Palestinian National Authority Dr. Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, November 26 2011, to give a lecture about “The Peace Process: Deadlock and Solutions” before dozens of ambassadors, diplomats and intellectuals, Austrians, Arabs and Jews, at the Kreisky Forum in the 19 district in Vienna, an occasion which coincided with the 100th anniversary of Bruno Kreisky. (Click on the small images to make them bigger).

Bruno Kreisky was born in 1911 and died in 1990; he was the Chancellor of Austria in 1970. The Palestinians remember Kreisky as a leader of peace. He succeeded in breaking the blockade around the PLO and to be the first Western leader who met with President Yasser Arafat in 1979. Pictures of Kreisky and Arafat during their historical meeting hang on the wall of the Kreisky Forum. The former Chancellor attended the Palestinian National Council session held on Nov. 15 1988, in which the Palestinians announced the declaration of independence in Algeria, and he authorized the opening of the Palestinian representative mission in Vienna, the first in the world. The former residence of the Kreisky family in Vienna is today home to the “Kreisky Forum for International Dialog”.

President Abbas was amazed at seeing the album with many historical pictures of the meeting held between Kreisky and the late Palestinian President Arafat. President Abbas also signed the visitors book at the Kreisky Forum, which many leaders, politicians and diplomats have signed.
Former Chancellor Dr. Vranitzky welcomed President Abbas with a short speech: “First I want to welcome President Abbas and the Palestinian delegation joining him in this house. A lot of history was made in this house, where many important issues were discussed by chancellor Kreisky and his international friends. Many of them were related to faith of the Palestinian people, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, many ideas towards the solution of the conflict were born and analyzed here.
In the early 1970, Chancellor Kreisky shocked our friends and allies by granting recognition to the PLO and by suggesting that only through direct negotiations between the parties directly involved one could come closer to a solution.

In Austria we see only one possible solution; two secure states within secure boundaries living next to each other. The Palestinians with a considerable Israeli minority, and Israel with a considerable Palestinian minority under international guarantees and with full protection for their human rights. This is what we work for and this is what during decades with patiently worked for.” Dr. Vranitzky then invited President Abbas to give a speech before the invited guests.

You can hear the full speech of Dr. Vranitzky below.



President Abbas thanked the organizers of the event at the Kreisky Forum on behalf of the Palestinian people. Some quotes from his speech:
“On this occasion we remember the friendly state of our friend, Chancellor Dr. Bruno Kreisky, where today we relive the memory of a centenary (100 year) of his birth, and his historical role in leading and building the issues of justice, peace, democracy and independence, especially the issue of the Palestinian people, stressing that the Palestinians will continue mentioning and remembering his true role in the field of the establishment of just and lasting peace in our region through many initiatives for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict  and to enable our people to achieve their freedom and independence.”
Abbas appealed to the audience saying: “The United Nations decided on November 29 1947 the partition (division) of Palestine, and here is one state, the State of Israel is recognized, and the second one, the State of Palestine, is still struggling for international recognition after sixty-four years”.

From left: Gudrun Harrer/DerStandard, President Abbas, Former Chancellor Vranitzky, Dr. Saeb Erekat

Abbas said: “Ending Israel’s occupation of Arab territories and Palestine, since June 1967, and the establishment of a Palestinian State in Gaza and the West Bank and its capital is East Jerusalem will lead to the recognition on side of the Arab and Muslim countries of Israel and to a normalization of the relations with them as stipulated in the Arab peace initiative, supported in full by the international community and approved by UN Resolution 1515.”
Abbas said that the settlements (colonies) are the main obstacle to peace, and that the  Israeli government continues to expand the settlements in the West Bank “The most grave issues in the ongoing judaization of East of Jerusalem and the apartheid wall, which changes the facts on the ground, and surrounds our towns and villages at a time when we are in greatest need to build bridges of peace and coexistence”.

From left: Dr. Saeb Erekat, President Abbas

He added: “We are still together with the international quartet and the various countries involved in the process of peace, waiting for a clear and written stance (position) from the Israeli government on the themes of borders and security”.
“We will continue to adhere to the option of peace and negotiations, and we bet on the ability of the international community to launch a process of meaningful negotiations, based on the terms of reference of the peace process and the foundations that we have mentioned, without double standards on the application of the resolutions and international legitimacy.
Abbas clarified the application for membership at the United Nations, saying that it is not an unilateral act and it is not meant to isolate or to delegitimize Israel or to clash with international community, but that it is our legitimate right, which will put an end to the historical injustice inflicted on our people.
On the level of the internal Palestinian affairs, Abbas said: “We have made great efforts at the level of security and strengthening the power and the rule of law, transparency, building public institutions, development of national economy and a culture of peace, and the peaceful transfer of power through the elections”. He confirmed that the State of Palestine will be a state of democracy, of respect for human rights, women rights and of private and public freedoms. “We have come a long way in achieving an important reconciliation and ending the Palestinian division” he said.
At the end of Abbas speech, he said: “We are looking forward with great hope to continue your support for Palestine and our fair demand to a full membership of the United Nations because this will be an approach towards building a just and lasting regional peace, and it will end at once the violence in the region”. He added: “It is not possible that the situation will continue like that under the “Arab spring” prospers in the region, which we hope will bear the fruits of establishing lasting democracy and human rights in the Arab world”. He said that the key to security, stability and prosperity in the Middle East depends on two factors: “peace and democracy”.
You can hear the full speech of President Abbas in Arabic below.

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Palestine Cry: Beware the rebuilt temple

Palestine Cry: Beware the rebuilt temple

Beware the rebuilt temple. It is damnation for all who align themselves with it.

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The target of the Zio-Communist New World Order is the Noble Sanctuary

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AL NABKA 2011

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Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam | Abbas kennt Dauer der Verhandlungen nicht

Abbas kennt Dauer der Verhandlungen nicht

Während einer gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz der Präsidenten Mahmoud Abbas und Heinz Fischer am 28. 11.2011 im Maria-Theresiensaal der Hofburg und nach einem ersten Treffen, hat Präsident Fischer einige Ausführungen zu den gemeinsamen politischen Positionen gemacht. Präsident Abbas war mit den Ausführungen des Bundespräsidenten im wesentlichen einverstanden.

Präsident Abbas hatte allerdings keine Antwort auf die Frage eines Journalisten, wie lange die Verhandlungen noch dauern würden bis die Palästinenser sich über ihre Grundrechte erfreuen könnten. Weiter meinte Abbas während der Antwort auf diese Frage, resignierend, dass Israel über allen internationalen Gesetzen stehe, dass das internationale Gesetz “keine Bedeutung” für Israel habe.

Auf die Frage eines anderen Kollegen antwortete Präsident Abbas, dass ein Teil der Differenzen mit der Hamas geklärt worden seien und was die offenen Differenzen mit Hamas betreffe, sagte er, könne sich die Hamas seinen Positionen anschliessen. Laut Abbas hat sich die Hamas zu einem Waffenstillstand in Gaza und der Westbank bekannt, zu friedfertigem Widerstand und zu Verhandlungen auf basis der Grenzziehung von 1967.

Die wichtigste Forderung des Palästinensischen Volkes, nämlich das Recht zur Rückkehr von Millionen von Palästinensern in ihre Heimat, wurde zu keinem Zeitpunkt angesprochen, was grosse Sorge begründet.
Präsident Fischer über die Lösung des Nahostkonflikts:
„Es ist bekannt, dass Österreich eindeutig und im Sinne einer langjährigen Diskussion auf dem Standpunkt steht, dass durch Verhandlungen zwischen Palästinensern und Israelis ein Ziel erreichen muss, das darin besteht, dass beide Seiten, die Israelis und die Palästinenser als künftiger Staat, friedlich nebeneinander leben, sich gegenseitig anerkennen, und damit einer der schwierigsten, langwierigsten und kompliziertesten Konflikte der letzten Jahrzehnte friedlich gelöst werden kann.
Das ist unser Ziel, und von diesem Ziel lassen wir uns nicht abbringen, wir unterstützen jeden Schritt, der uns in diese Richtung weiterbringt“.

Präsident Fischer über die Lage in Syrien:
„Wir haben auch über die entwicklung im nahen osten gesprochen über die frage palästina und israelis hinaus. die situation in syrien ist sehr besorgniserregend, sehr ernst, wir haben mit interesse wahrgenommen, dass die arabische liga einen eindeutigen standpunkt bezogen hat, sanktionen verhängt hat. österreich ist natürlich daran interessiert, dass blutvergiessen, dass gewalt gegenüber der eigenen bevölkerung vermieden wird, aber die situation scheint sehr schwierig zu sein“.
Präsident Fischer über den Status der Palästinensischen Vertretung in Wien:
„Wir haben heute auch vereinbart, als eine politische geste, das heisst als eine symbolische geste, die palästinensische vertretung in wien von ihrem bisherigen status zu einer “mission of palestine” mit einem botschafter an ihrer spitze, der ein beglaubigungsschreiben, wie alle anderen botschafter, an den bundespräsidenten überreichen wird. wie gesagt, die ist eine geste die von präsident abbas auch mit genugtuung aufgenommen wird, die zeigt wie sehr wir anteil nehmen am schicksal der palästinenser und wie sehr wir hoffen, dass eine friedliche lösung dieses problems möglich sein wird nach so langer zeit“.
Präsident Fischer hat sich während der Pressekonferenz bei Präsident Abbas für seinen Bericht über die vorangegangenen Gespräche mit Khaled Mishaal von der Hamas bedankt, und gesagt, es werde darüber noch weitere Gespräche geben, deren Veröffentlichung aber zu diesem Zeitpunkt “nicht zweckmäßig” wäre.
Präsident Fischer über die Aufnahme Palästinas in die UNESCO:
Österreich hat auch für die aufnahme Palästinas in die UNESCO gestimmt, aus guten Gründen weil wir der Meinung sind, es kann nichts schlechtes dabei sein wenn die Palästinenser in einer internationalen, in einer Bildungsorganisation mitarbeiten Können, ihre Ideen einbringen können und sich auch mit anderen Staaten beraten können.

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam | The History of Broken Promises & Imposed Solutions On Palestinians

The History of Broken Promises & Imposed Solutions On Palestinians

Vienna, 29 November 2011 – A special meeting was held today at the United Nations Office at Vienna in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The meeting was chaired by Mr. Manuel Santiago Fernandez Rondon, representing the Chairman of the Committee for the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. Mr. Sandeep Chawla, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, delivered the statement of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Further statements were made, among others, by Dr. Zuheir El Wazer, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations (Vienna); Ambassador Khaled Abdelrahman Shamaa, Permanent Representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt, on behalf of the Chairman of the Non-aligned Movement; Ambassador Mikhail Wehbe, Permanent Observer of the League of Arab States; and Mr. Murat Smagulov, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan, on behalf of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
The President of the International Progress Organization, Dr. Hans Koechler, delivered the following statement on behalf of civil society:

What is commonly referred to as “the Middle East peace process” has in actual fact become a history of broken promises and imposed solutions. 20 years of negotiations on a settlement of the territorial dispute in Palestine have brought profound disillusionment on all sides, with the Palestinian people paying the price for the games of regional and international power politics. The United Nations Organization that – more than six decades ago – provided the blueprint for the creation of two states in historical Palestine has nevertheless been unable to guarantee the legal rights of the Palestinian people.

In the face of continued occupation, confiscation and expropriation of their land, the talk of peace has become virtually meaningless. As the occupying power, the State of Israel – during two decades of intermittent negotiations – has continued to build, and has systematically expanded Jewish settlements on Arab land, ignoring international public opinion and stubbornly rejecting resolutions of the United Nations and calls from concerned UN member states.

During my first visit to the region in the spring of 1974, on a fact-finding trip for the International Progress Organization, I had been confronted in the Palestinian refugee camps with the reality of forced migration, expulsion and dispossession; I also became aware of the “legacy of disinformation” that characterized the reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict in the decades after 1948 and that, for many years, prevented international civil society (particularly in the Western world) from taking a more active stand.
Much has changed in the meantime, and the world public is now more conscious of the suffering of the Palestinian people – notwithstanding the political stalemate within the United Nations and in the negotiations between the two conflicting parties.
A new actor has emerged in the year 2011: Arab civil society. We are indeed witnessing a tectonic shift in the regional political landscape. Although the eventual outcome of these momentous developments cannot seriously be predicted at this stage, it can be safely said today that the events triggered by the “Arab Spring” amount to the most serious challenge of the regional status quo since the end of the bipolar order of the Cold War. In the new spirit of self-confidence which people have displayed vis-à-vis the traditional order, Arab citizens, including the Palestinians, are not anymore prepared to accept regional solutions that are imposed upon them from outside.
In the course of 2011, two new developments have in fact determined the Palestinian issue: Apart from the changing political constellation in the region, with a new role played by an emerging civil society, it is the membership bid of the State of Palestine that has initiated a new phase at the United Nations – in the face of the collapse of negotiations that were conducted under the euphemistic formula of an ever more elusive “peace process.”
The vote in the General Conference of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has documented the political reality at the global level, namely strong and broad support among the international community for an independent Palestinian state. This decision has demonstrated what could be achieved at the United Nations Organization without the obstructive effect of the (undemocratic) veto in the Security Council, which the most powerful member state threatens to use should a majority of Council members vote in favor of recommending the admission of Palestine to the General Assembly (Art. 4[2] UN Charter).
However, in view of extremely negative reactions to UNESCO’s bold and principled decision on the part of some of the key players of the so-called “peace process,” first and foremost the United States, a fresh look at their strategy and at the process itself, insofar as it has been shaped by those actors, appears appropriate. It is clear, by now, that the US, because of the domestic political situation, rejects the recognition of Palestinian statehood “outside of an agreement” negotiated between the two parties. Resolution 185 of the United States Senate, adopted on 16 May 2011, threatening “restrictions on aid to the Palestinian Authority,” has again demonstrated this position.
Furthermore: halting payments, which the country is obliged to contribute as a member of UNESCO, because of that organization’s recognition of Palestinian sovereignty, is an act of retaliation for a legitimate political stand of that organization. The withholding of tax and customs revenues, which the occupying power in Palestine collects on behalf of the Palestinian National Authority, would be an even more serious act of revenge or political blackmail that targets the Palestinians’ exercise of their inalienable right to self-determination. The same holds true for the announcement by the occupying power to intensify Jewish settlement activity and issue tenders for about 2,000 housing units on occupied land.
The outright rejection, declared in advance, by the United States of the membership bid in the Security Council has made it obvious to the entire world that the most influential veto-wielding country is not yet prepared to accept a “peace process” in the sense of negotiations between equals, namely between the sovereign states of Palestine and Israel. The lobbying of non-permanent member states not to vote for the admission of the State of Palestine is another sign of that country’s apparent bias and lack of credibility as a “mediator.” What we witness here is indeed a vicious circle of political obstruction: Recognition of Palestinian sovereignty is portrayed as an obstacle to any further negotiations while, in actual fact and in the view of the large majority of UN member states, it is an element of, even a guarantee for, meaningful negotiations.
What is at stake is the very essence, and integrity, of the peace process. How can one negotiate in good faith if one party persistently creates faits accomplis (“facts on the ground” in diplomatic newspeak) that prejudice, even preclude, a negotiated outcome? A two-state solution – which implies the recognition of the sovereignty of both parties – is rendered meaningless if, in the course of the negotiating process, “state 1” confiscates territory of what is to become “state 2.” Negotiations about a permanent status are utterly meaningless in the face of a “settler colonialism” that is diametrically opposed to the sovereign status of the territory in question.
What is also at stake is the credibility of those states that have introduced themselves as chief facilitators, and mediators, in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. How, for instance, can a state be an honest broker if, because of a discriminatory law, its government is obliged to “punish” any organization that dares to admit Palestine as a member state? How can such a country be taken seriously by both parties if the President, as has actually happened, revokes his erstwhile principled rejection of a resumption of negotiations as long as the building of illegal settlements continues? Barack Hussein Obama’s celebrated speech at Cairo University seems to be a distant memory.
On 4 June 2009, he evoked “the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own” and said that “[t]he only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security.” These “Remarks by the President on a new beginning,” as they were advertised by the White House at the time, appear to be an empty promise in the light of recent developments, which have made the US bias against a sovereign Palestinian state as negotiating partner painfully obvious. This state of affairs has been highlighted in a recent article in Time Magazine (9 November 2011) according to which “Israel’s overwhelming advantage in domestic political support effectively precludes even-handedness.” A mediator, in order to have a chance of success, must be perceived as impartial. Lack of such perception also seems to be the handicap of the Middle East Quartet collectively, which, unfortunately, has not been able to play an effective role so far.
It is said that the establishment of the State of Palestine, to be followed by its international recognition, including admission to the United Nations as a full member, should be the end result of negotiations, and not a condition for their resumption or continuation. This sounds reasonable, at first glance. However, the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, followed by its admission to the United Nations, the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland, and the occupation, confiscation and annexation of Palestinian land etc., were not the result of a negotiating process, but of the use of armed force.
In all the years since the occupation and annexation of Palestinian land has taken hold, the world has witnessed a total lack of accountability for violations of international humanitarian law. Not only is the establishment of settlements on occupied land a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 1949, a position which the Security Council stated long ago, namely in resolution 465(1980) of 1 March 1980; the siege imposed on the population of Gaza constitutes a grave violation of fundamental human rights and a most serious breach of Israel’s obligations as occupying power. This blockade should be lifted immediately.
As long as the question of recognition of Palestinian statehood before the International Criminal Court (ICC) is still pending* and Palestine has not (yet) been able to accede to the Rome Statute of the ICC, there also exists a vacuum in terms of international criminal law since Israel is not a State Party of the court and the Security Council, because of the pro-Israeli position of at least one veto-wielding member, will not refer the situation in Gaza (where international crimes appear having been committed) to the ICC on the basis of Article 13(b) of its Statute. I would like to refer here to the appeal of the Committee under whose auspices we are meeting today, namely that “[t]he Security Council and the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention should act urgently and decisively to guarantee the protection of civilians in all situations and ensure accountability for violations of international law,” and I would like to recall the Committee’s stated support “to global campaigns to challenge Israeli impunity and promote the concept of Israeli accountability for its actions towards the Palestinian people.”**
I am afraid that the hopes and expectations that accompanied the Madrid Conference and the Oslo negotiations of the 1990s have given way to profound disillusionment. In the face of the ongoing serious violations of international humanitarian law in occupied Palestine, and in view of the effective collapse of a “peace process” that has only brought upon the Palestinian people more misery and the continued expropriation of their ancestral land, it is certainly not too much to expect a little bit of honesty on the part of the major global players. Admittedly, international politics has traditionally been considered an area free of morality, a space almost exclusively shaped by the “national interests” of sovereign states. The world, so the most influential global actors say, has now nevertheless proceeded to a higher state of moral awareness, including the development of a doctrine on the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) – but what about the fundamental and inalienable rights, not to speak of the legitimate national interests, of the Palestinian people?

• * Re. Declaration recognizing the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, signed at The Hague, The Netherlands, 21 January 2009, for the Government of Palestine by the Minister of Justice Ali Khashan.
• *port of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to the General Assembly, General Assembly Doc. A/66/35, 7 November 2011, Paragraphs 79 and 81 respectively.