ARAB AND WORLD

Thu 04 May 2023 2:54 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Iranian president calls from Damascus for "unity of resistance" in confronting Israel

On Thursday, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi began his second day of his strategic visit to Damascus by stressing that the unity of the "resistance forces" in confronting Israel is now "more necessary than ever."


Raisi arrived Wednesday at the head of a high ministerial delegation to Syria, in the first visit by an Iranian president in more than 12 years, despite the great economic, political and military support provided by Tehran to Damascus and helped change the course of the conflict in favor of the government forces.


Following extensive talks with his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, during which he affirmed his country's renewed support for Syria and the depth of bilateral relations, Raisi met Thursday morning at the presidential palace with a group of "leaders of Palestinian factions," according to the official Iranian news agency, IRNA.


Raisi said, according to the same source, "Today, more than ever, the unity and cohesion of the forces of resistance, the region and the Islamic world is necessary to accelerate the defeat of the Zionist regime."


He stressed that "the issue of Palestine and the liberation of Jerusalem is the most important issue in the Islamic world today and should not be forgotten," stressing that it constitutes a "priority" in his country's foreign policy.


Tehran is the main supporter of factions and groups fighting Israel, led by the Lebanese Hezbollah, the archenemy of Israel, in addition to Palestinian factions.


In a celebration held in the Gaza Strip on "International Al-Quds Day" on April 14, Raisi's speech was televised, in a step that is the first of its kind during a ceremony by Palestinian factions. During the festival, the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, praised the Iranian support "logistically, financially, and with weapons for the Palestinian resistance."


Raisi's visit to Damascus comes in the midst of a rapprochement between Riyadh and Tehran, which announced in March the resumption of their relations after a long rupture, while an Arab, Saudi openness in particular, is being recorded towards Damascus, which has been boycotted by several Arab countries since 2011.


On Wednesday, Raisi praised the "victory" achieved by Syria after 12 years of devastating conflict, "despite the threats and sanctions" imposed on it, stressing that the relationship between the two countries "is not only a political and diplomatic relationship, but also a deep and strategic relationship."
On Wednesday, according to the official media, the two presidents signed a memorandum of understanding for a "comprehensive long-term strategic cooperation plan", which includes several areas, including agriculture, railways, civil aviation, oil and free zones.


Raisi said, "Just as the Islamic Republic stood by the Syrian government and people in combating terrorism, it will stand by its Syrian brothers in the field of development and progress" in the reconstruction phase.


Since the first years of the conflict, Tehran has sent military advisers to Syria to support the Syrian army in its battles against the jihadist organizations and the opposition, which Damascus classifies as "terrorist". Tehran contributed to pushing groups loyal to it, led by the Lebanese Hezbollah, to fight in Syria alongside the government forces.


The fronts in Syria have relatively calmed down since 2019, although the war has not actually ended. Government forces currently control most of the areas they lost at the beginning of the conflict. Attracting funds for the reconstruction phase has become a priority for Damascus, after the war destroyed infrastructure, factories, and production.

PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 2:38 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation prevents the export of furniture from the Gaza Strip

Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation authorities banned the export of furniture products from the Gaza Strip, with the aim of inflicting more losses on the various industries in the Strip, which are suffering due to the continuous blockade.


Today, Thursday, the Ministry of National Economy said, "It is seriously studying with its partners in the private sector to stop the supply of furniture through the Kerem Shalom crossing, to put pressure on the Israeli occupation to reopen exports of furniture."


The ministry held the occupation responsible for the consequences of the large losses that would result from the furniture industry, in addition to depriving dozens of workers of their source of work.


And she called on the international community to put pressure on the occupation to allow freedom of import and export without restrictions so that this sector can rise and overcome what the blockade left behind.

ARAB AND WORLD

Thu 04 May 2023 1:55 pm - Jerusalem Time

Moscow accuses Washington of being responsible for the "Kremlin attack"

On Thursday, the Russian presidency accused the United States of ordering Ukraine to launch the supposed attack that targeted, by two drones, the Kremlin building in Moscow on Wednesday, with the intention of assassinating President Vladimir Putin, which was thwarted by Russian defenses, and Kiev denies any involvement in it.


Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, "Efforts by Kiev and Washington to deny any responsibility (for the supposed attack) are completely absurd. Decisions regarding such attacks are not taken in Kiev, but in Washington. Kiev just does what is asked of it."
"Washington must understand that we know this," he told reporters.


Peskov said that Putin "works in the Kremlin and will hold an important meeting with the Minister of Economic Development" on Thursday, stressing that security measures will be "strengthened" after the supposed attack.


He said, "All of this will be strengthened, for sure, and everything has been strengthened in the framework of preparations for the military parade" in Red Square in Moscow to commemorate the ninth of May, that is, the victory over Nazi Germany.


He explained that "specialists" are in the process of "conducting in-depth analyzes" to understand how the supposed attack was carried out with two drones.


On Wednesday, Kiev denied any involvement in the attack, accusing Moscow of deliberately highlighting it in the media to justify any possible escalation of the conflict.
In recent days, drone incursions and acts of sabotage with bombs on Russian territory have been repeated.


On Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said, "The terrorist and sabotage operations of the Ukrainian armed forces are taking on an unprecedented dimension."

PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 1:53 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation demolishes a restaurant in Bethlehem

Today, Thursday, Israeli bulldozers demolished a restaurant in Al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem.


According to local sources, these bulldozers, accompanied by a force of the occupation army, stormed the Ain Jweza area and demolished a restaurant belonging to Rashid Barghout, under the pretext of not having a license.

PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 1:43 pm - Jerusalem Time

The "Prisoner's Club" holds the occupation responsible for the fate of the captive Khrusha

Today, Thursday, the Prisoners' Club held the Occupation Prisons Administration fully responsible for the fate of the prisoner, Muhammad Kharousha, after he was brutally assaulted by the jailers yesterday, and as a result he was transferred to a hospital, without knowing sufficient details about his health condition yet.


The prisoner Kharusha had confronted one of the jailers in response to the murder of the martyr Khader Adnan.


It is noteworthy that the prisoner Kharousha has been detained since last March, and he is a former prisoner, and the son of the martyr Abdel Fattah Kharousha.


PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 1:33 pm - Jerusalem Time

Pictures || Huge crowds mourn the bodies of the three martyrs in Nablus

Today, Thursday, large Palestinian crowds mourned the bodies of the three martyrs in the Old City of Nablus.


The martyrs' procession started in front of Rafidia Hospital, with the participation of a number of representatives of official and popular events, towards the Martyrs' Roundabout in the city center.


The mourners performed the funeral prayer for the three martyrs, before transferring the martyr Hassan Qatanani to the Askar camp, and the two martyrs Moath Masri to the eastern cemetery, and Ibrahim Jabr to the western cemetery, for their burial.


The three young men were shot dead this morning by the occupation forces after they stormed the old town of Nablus.




PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 1:29 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation publishes the results of its investigation into the failure of Iron Dome

On Thursday, the Israeli army claimed that the Iron Dome system had suffered a technical malfunction during rocket fire from Gaza last Tuesday.


According to the initial investigation of the Israeli army, this defect appeared in the noon hours, causing rockets to fall in Sderot and causing injuries.


And he indicated that the defect was addressed immediately, and during the night, the missiles were intercepted by 90%.


The Israeli army was investigating whether Iron Dome did not identify buildings under construction as inhabited after 3 foreign workers were injured in a building under construction in the town of Sderot.

PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 1:05 pm - Jerusalem Time

Tension prevails in the prisons departments and the prison administration continues to close them

Today, Thursday, the Prisoners' Club confirmed that a state of great tension still prevails in the prisoner sections in all the occupation prisons, two days after the assassination of the martyr Khader Adnan.


The club added in a statement, "The prison administration continues to close the sections to this day, in anticipation of any confrontation that the prisoners may carry out against the wardens, and threatens to impose (penalties) on them, in the event that there is no commitment from the prisoners to stop the threats announced by them, especially after the confrontation that took place." It was carried out by the prisoner Muhammad Kharousha from Nablus, against one of the warders in (Megiddo) prison yesterday, in response to the assassination of Sheikh Khader Adnan.


The Prisoners' Club held the occupation prison administration fully responsible for the fate of the prisoner Kharousha, after he was brutally assaulted by the guards, and as a result he was transferred to a hospital without knowing sufficient details about his health condition so far, noting that the prisoner Kharousha has been detained since last March, and he is a former prisoner, And the son of the martyr Abdel-Fattah Khrusheh.


It is worth mentioning that prisoners in all prisons have implemented a series of protest steps following the assassination of the martyr Khader Adnan, which consisted of returning meals, stopping all aspects of daily detention, and informing the prison administration that mourning will be open until the crime is answered.


It is noteworthy that the number of prisoners in prisons is about 4,900.


ARAB AND WORLD

Thu 04 May 2023 1:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Syrian refugees in Türkiye hope that Erdogan will win the presidential elections

Syrian refugee Nayrouz Hussein picks up some washed clothes from a rope hanging in the sun on the roof of a building in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa, and expresses her hope that "Erdogan will win" the presidential elections "because he will help us stay here."


The housewife from Kobani, which is predominantly Kurdish in northern Syria, hopes that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been in power for 20 years, will win the Turkish presidential elections scheduled for May 14th.


Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria in 2011, Turkey has officially hosted 3.7 million Syrians (likely more than five million in total) who have fled the Bashar al-Assad regime, Russian bombing and attacks by the Islamic State.


With the elections approaching, this community, most of whom live in a "temporary protection" situation, fears the victory of opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu (CHP), who promises to return Syrians to their homeland "within two years."


Newroz, 35, and her husband, Adel Sheho, 38, arrived in Turkey in 2015. "Two weeks after our marriage, Kobani was attacked by the Islamic State," according to the husband.


The family settled in the city of Sanliurfa (south), 40 kilometers from the Syrian border, and says it considers Turkey its "second home."


"Our four children were born here, they don't know Syria. We were received well at the beginning, but things changed because of the economic situation," with inflation exceeding 85 percent last fall and the deterioration of the value of the Turkish lira, Adel added.


And he continues, "Even if they don't return us all at once, they will put pressure on us, demand papers, and increase rents and bills...".


In 2021, the mayor of Bolu (Northwest), affiliated with the Republican People's Party, abolished social assistance and raised the water bills of Syrian refugees by 11 times, and doubled the taxes imposed on registering marriages in order to discourage them from doing so. However, his party disowned him and he had to pay a fine.


The incident reflected the winds of change that have blown Turkey since it became the world's largest home to refugees and migrants under Erdogan's Islamist rule.


About 240,000 Syrians in Turkey acquired citizenship and thus gained the right to vote, through investments (in companies, buying real estate...) or, like Hussein Ataba, through studies in desirable fields.


Hussein (27 years old), who obtained Turkish citizenship in 2020, will vote for the first time, but he is the only one authorized to vote in his family, and for the sake of the future of his mother Zara and his five siblings, he will vote for Erdogan.


"My friends and I share the same opinion: not only because we are Syrians, but also because we see what he (Erdogan) has done for the country," said the mechanical engineering student.


Regarding the Republican People's Party's commitment to a "voluntary and dignified return" of the Syrians to their country, he says, "We cannot go back and trust Bashar al-Assad."


After arriving from Raqqa in 2015, after the Islamic State declared it its "capital", the family does not intend to leave.


Zara, a 50-year-old mother who was widowed three months ago, started a home-catering service in her neighborhood. "We were here in 2018," when the previous presidential elections were held, "but this time we are more afraid: in every speech (the CHP) talks about bringing us back," she says.


"They will hunt us at night. Even our Turkish neighbors are afraid of us."


In front of his office in Şanlıurfa, local CHP official Halil Barot says reassuringly: "The most important thing is their safety, they are our brothers. We cannot throw them into the fire, send them back to the war."


He rectifies, "But with their arrival, housing and rent prices rose, which harmed us," even if the Syrians provided cheap labor in several sectors, including textiles, construction, and agriculture.


For Omer Kadkoy, a researcher at the TEPAV think tank in Ankara, the scenario of mass repatriation seems "unrealistic". "Even with the end of the war in Syria, it will be necessary to ensure their security and safety, because disappearances, persecution and kidnappings continue there," he explains.


The researcher believes that the speech of "returning" the Syrians to the homeland is a "practical tool" for the electoral campaign of the Republican People's Party, "instead of addressing urgent issues such as the economy, justice and democracy...".


As Muhammad Utbah, 25, delivered an order that his mother had prepared for a neighbor on a scooter before returning to his job as a security guard, he asked why anyone would want to return it, saying, "We don't do anything wrong here. We are useful to Turkey."

PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 12:56 pm - Jerusalem Time

A new Israeli bill to deduct funds from the Authority

The Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom reported, on Thursday, that the Israeli Knesset approved yesterday, in its first reading, a draft law that allows the families of Israelis killed in Palestinian attacks to file claims to compensate them from the Palestinian clearing funds.


According to the Hebrew newspaper, the law was introduced with the support of Knesset members from the government coalition and from the opposition, claiming that the Palestinian Authority encourages "terrorism" and families can be compensated with their money.


The bill also stipulates that NIS 10 million can be automatically deducted to the families of those killed without proof of damage.

ARAB AND WORLD

Thu 04 May 2023 12:08 pm - Jerusalem Time

Two drone attacks targeted oil refineries in Russia

Media and local authorities reported that two drones targeted oil refineries in southwestern Russia, near Ukraine, following a supposed drone attack on the Kremlin.


The "TASS" and "RIA Novosti" agencies quoted emergency services as saying that a fire, which the firefighting teams were able to put out later, broke out in an oil tank at the Elsky refinery in the Krasnodar region, as a result of an attack by an "unidentified drone."


The governor of the region, Veniamin Kondratyev, said in a post on the Telegram application that the fire was initially contained within an area of 400 square meters, and then quickly extinguished by emergency services.


About an hour later, Vasily Golubev, governor of the Rostov region bordering Ukraine, announced that a drone had been shot down at a local oil refinery near the village of Kiselivka.


According to the same source, the plane caused an explosion and fire, which the refinery workers put out "immediately."


Golubev added, "There were no casualties, and the damage to the facilities was minimal."


For his part, the governor of the Voronezh region bordering Ukraine also announced, via Telegram, that the local air defenses shot down a drone early in the morning, without causing casualties or damage.


These two attacks come after other similar attacks with explosive-laden drones that have targeted sites in Russia or in the Crimea peninsula, which Russia annexed to it, in recent days.


The most prominent of these attacks occurred with two drones that targeted, according to Moscow, the Kremlin building in Moscow, and were shot down by Russian defenses.


Russia accused the Ukrainian authorities of being behind this failed attempt to "assassinate" President Vladimir Putin, but Kiev denied any involvement in this attack.


On the night of Tuesday-Wednesday, a drone attack targeted a fuel depot in Volna, Krasnodar region.
Although Ukraine has not announced any of these attacks, it comes at a time when Kiev says it has completed its preparations for the big spring offensive announced weeks ago.

ECONOMY

Thu 04 May 2023 12:07 pm - Jerusalem Time

The White House warns of an economic catastrophe if there is a default for a long time

The White House warned Wednesday that if the Republican opposition does not back down from its refusal to raise the public debt ceiling, the United States will witness an economic disaster if it falls into a state of default for a long time.


President Joe Biden's economic advisors said that if the world's largest economic power fails to meet its financial obligations on time and this default is prolonged, the American labor market may lose more than eight million jobs this summer.


They added that if this catastrophic scenario materializes, the gross domestic product will contract by 6%, while the financial markets will lose 45% during the third quarter of the year.


But if the United States witnessed a default for a short period, then the advisors affiliated with the “Council of Economic Advisers” in the White House expect that the American economy will suffer from a rise in unemployment rates and a lower recession.
This issue poses a great risk to the United States, as the country has never found itself in default on its debt.


Republicans refuse to agree to raise the federal public debt ceiling, which is usually a routine procedure, unless the Democrats first agree to significant spending cuts.


The administration warns that failure to raise the public debt ceiling will lead to the United States defaulting on its $31.4 trillion debt, in a historical precedent that would shock the United States and the world alike.

PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 12:03 pm - Jerusalem Time

Prisoner Amarneh continues his hunger strike for the 12th day in a row

Today, Thursday, the Captive Club said, "The detainee, Sheikh Majd Amarneh (51 years), from the town of Ya`bad / Jenin, known as Sheikh Izz al-Din Amarneh, continues his open hunger strike for the 12th day in a row, in rejection of his administrative detention."


The club stated in a statement that Sheikh Amarneh is blind and suffers from several health problems and is in need of care and health follow-up on a permanent basis, pointing out that the occupation forces arrested him on February 21, 2022, and three administrative detention orders were issued against him, the first and second orders. Their duration is 6 months, while a third order was issued against him last March for a period of four months, noting that he is a former prisoner who spent nearly nine years under administrative detention.


Sheikh Amarneh is married, and the father of five sons and daughters. His male children are detained in the occupation prisons alongside him, namely Ahmed and Mujahid. His son Ahmed is an administrative detainee, while his son Mujahid is serving a 24-month prison sentence.

Thu 04 May 2023 12:02 pm - Jerusalem Time

The British government confirms its readiness to maintain security two days before the coronation of Charles III

The British authorities tried to reassure about security after the arrest of a suspected gunman near Buckingham Palace, confirming that they will deploy more than ten thousand police during the coronation ceremony of King Charles III and his wife Camilla on Saturday.


Seventy years after the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain is preparing to crown its new king. In a sign that the countdown has begun, some of the royal family's staunchest supporters have begun to take up positions on the long avenue from Buckingham Palace.


Tens of thousands of Britons and tourists are expected to line the route that Charles and Camilla's motorcade will take between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey. About 2,300 people were invited to the ceremony, including 100 heads of state.


Eight months after Operation London Bridge, the codename for organizing Elizabeth II's funeral, British police are carrying out Operation Golden Orb for the king's coronation.


Secretary of State for Security Tom Tugendhat said Wednesday that the ceremony, which culminates in three days of festivities, will be "one of the most important security operations" Britain has witnessed.


He added that "our intelligence services and other security forces are fully aware of the challenges we face and are ready to meet them, as the police did brilliantly" on Tuesday evening.


On Tuesday evening, around 19:00 (18:00 GMT), a man suspected of being armed was arrested after he approached the Buckingham Palace fence and threw objects believed to be firearm cartridges into the palace garden.


A police statement said, "A security cordon was set after a suspicious bag was found in the man's possession," noting that experts detonated it as a precaution. Police said the suspect had been arrested and later said they were not currently treating the case as terrorism-related.


King Charles was not in the palace at the time, but he had received, shortly before that, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, as part of one of the diplomatic meetings preceding the coronation.


On Saturday, more than 11,500 members of the security forces will be deployed, as announced by the London police. "This will be the biggest one-day mobilization of police in decades," said Adi Adelekan, a Scotland Yard official.


Over a week, 29,000 security personnel will be deployed.


In central London, the police will use facial recognition technology. Snipers will be posted on the rooftops.


In addition to the threat of terrorism, the police closely monitor climate activists, many of whom have come to London in recent days, as well as anti-monarchists.


The Republic group had planned a rally in Trafalgar Square and along the King's motorcade for Friday morning. Organizers said they expect more than 1,000 people to participate.


And London's police warned, saying, "Our tolerance for disturbances, demonstrations or any other matter will be weak," adding, "We will deal firmly with anyone who intends to disrupt this celebration."


Seven thousand soldiers will take part in the procession, which will run between Buckingham and Westminster. Edward William FitzAlan-Howard, who is in charge of organizing the coronation, said it would be "an event of great pomp".


The religious ceremony -- the King being the head of the Anglican Church -- will last two hours. "It's a good time to remember the pride we feel in our great country and our unwritten, thousand-year-old constitution," he added.


Upon their return to Buckingham, Charles and Camilla will greet the audience from the balcony. And if Prince Harry, who left the country amid turmoil in 2020, will attend the ceremony in Westminster, he will not appear with the family on the balcony, according to British media.


A six-minute air show will be held over London.


In addition to the coronation ceremony, Britain is preparing for three days of festivities. The people were invited to participate Sunday in a "big lunch" as part of the parties taking place in the neighborhoods, where the "coronation tart" will be on the menu, the recipe of which was revealed by the palace in mid-April.


And at night, a concert will be held at Windsor Castle in west London, which will be attended by 10,000 randomly selected Britons. Katy Perry, Lionel Richie and tenor Andrea Bocelli lead a special poster for this concert marked by the absence of British stars.


Finally, the royal family will invite Britons to do volunteer work on Monday, May 8, which will be a day off.

PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 11:40 am - Jerusalem Time

Updated || A young woman was killed by the occupation forces, south of Nablus

The young woman, Iman Ziyad Ahmed Odeh (26 years old), was killed today, Thursday, as a result of being shot by the occupation soldiers, under the pretext of carrying out a stabbing attack at Dou Einabus near Hawara, south of Nablus.


According to the Ministry of Health, Odeh died of a bullet wound to the chest.


According to the Hebrew channel Reshet Kan, the young woman stabbed and lightly wounded an Israeli soldier, and she was shot.

OPINIONS

Thu 04 May 2023 11:38 am - Jerusalem Time

Between the single champion and the national championship

Raed Mohammed Al-Dubai

Raed Mohammed Al-Dubai

Opinion Writer

The heroic martyr, Sheikh Khader Adnan, walked out of his dark cell towards the sun, dismounted to water the anemone trees, and guarded the shades of almonds and olives, etching his name in the corners of memory and the terraces of the soul. About food in his five battles with racists, enemies of the sun, bread, freedom, and children, Sheikh Khadr left us, not caring about our populist expectations and our excessive confidence that the master of deliverance would take life a fifth time, just as he did in the past four times, Sheikh Khadr left us without forgetting to supervise all the details of his journey The last, a will fit as a gospel for the revolutionaries, and a quiet departure in the dead of night just as the saints depart. He stopped at Ramla in order to make his metaphorical return, even if the price was his life. No one knows the details of his last moments. Did he forgive us for our shortcomings, or did he think of his children and his patient wife? Did he hurt him? More hunger, or our collective defeat in front of his last breaths in the darkness of an insignificant cell guarded by a racist settler who only connects him to this land with Talmudic myths and endless hatred. And the green paths of his Palestinian people, he set out to incite us living metaphorically to love, revolution and resistance, and to engrave his name in the consciences of the free, the braids of young women, the takbeers of mosques, the hymns of churches, the prayers of grandmothers, and the guns of militants.


Sheikh Khader Adnan, and thousands of other Palestinian and Arab pioneers and activists, for whom limited lines are not enough, constitute bright examples in the travel of the Palestinian revolution, including Sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam, Farhan al-Saadi, Abdul Qadir al-Husseini, Yasser Arafat, and generations of honest people who died in the course of the Palestinian struggle. And those who form the pillars of the Palestinian narrative, but rather that they are often the body of the narrative and what remains is the margin, while the Zionist movement is distinguished in that it was based on a group of institutions that serve its subjugating racist ideology, based on Talmudic and Biblical myths, and based on a base based on “more land.” and less Arabs, through the establishment of a number of institutions that serve its ambitions, perhaps the most important of which are the Founding Fund, the “Kern Hisod”, the Jewish National Fund, the “National Fund” and the Jewish Agency, which seeks to collect funds and donations from wealthy Jews with the aim of uprooting the Palestinian from his land, and encouraging The immigration of Jews from all over the world to Palestine, and the organized crimes of settlers against the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Jerusalem are based on a diverse network of financial institutions, functional institutions, al-Qaeda terrorist organizations, military religious schools, and digital platforms capable of mobilizing, inciting and recruiting, which from Most notably the Yesha Council, the Hilltop Youth, Women in Green, the gangs of “Bnei Akiva”, “Ezra”, “Arael”, Regavim, Nahalah, and other dozens of institutions that serve the strategies of the Zionist movement, as “David Ben-Gurion” is the first president Minister of Israel, and the first to assume the position of the so-called Ministry of Defense and one of the most prominent leaders of the Zionist movement and the Labor Party, and one of the most prominent leaders of the Zionist settlement in Palestine, he retired in 1970, devoted himself to writing his memoirs and his vision of the history of Israel, and was buried quietly in the settlement of Sde Boker at Ben Gurion College, Without anyone claiming that his absence from the political arena would cause a national catastrophe, or lead the political system into a dark tunnel, just as Israel organized five parliamentary elections in four years, without this causing a political crisis, or stopping its official institutions, whether the judicial institutions, security, or public services.


It is our duty to sanctify the value of martyrdom, and to pay tribute to the martyrs and fighters, and it is their right that we keep the ember of their memory burning in the minds and memories of generations, but it is unfair to burden a group of pioneers and heroes with the tasks of the entire society, and the duties of the nation as a whole, because we all, without exception, see Bakhader Adnan, the Lions' Den youths, the Jenin battalion, and others from the Resistance Brigade bearers, are expressions of our feelings of anger, rejection, and an unbridled desire to rebel against occupation, racism, and injustice, while that feeling only motivated us to rely more, so I believe what Sister Randa said. Musa, the wife of the martyr Khader Adnan, "We used to say that the Sheikh was dying... But no one believed it. We will not accept anyone who consoles us with the Sheikh. We say to all the factions, to everyone who let down Khader in this battle, congratulations to you. Live and be happy in your homes. Store your weapons until they rust. Whoever did not rise to support Khidr, we do not want him to be revenge for Khidr.” Words that shorten the pain, summarize the meaning, and sum up all the meanings. There is no good in all that we heard of crying over his pure body, and there is no value for all the expressions of veneration over his shrouded body. He needed all of that. He is alive, struggling with hunger alone in his dark, cold cell for the sake of all of us, our honor, and our dignity. It is also not fair to throw all the liberation tasks on dozens of young men in the old town of Nablus, or in Balata camp, or Jenin camp, and lean on Our weakness, and our prayers for them victory and empowerment.


We need a society based on the institution and teamwork. We want a political system, factions, movements, parties, forces, media, and public opinion leaders based on information, permanent evaluation of performance, drawing lessons, accumulating achievement, teamwork, rational performance, and correcting the path. We need A society that adopts and practices the values of citizenship and fruitful resistance, hard work, fighting corruption, and ending the shameful division, and it is not enough to praise the heroes through the means of communication, and from behind the armchairs, only then we have the right to cry Sheikh Khadr as good citizens, and blame those who are negligent, and those who are most committed to his approach The resistance, but today we are all anxious, and we are all falling short.

OPINIONS

Thu 04 May 2023 11:38 am - Jerusalem Time

2024... a possible rerun of the Biden and Trump races

James Zogby

James Zogby

Opinion Writer

A rematch of the Biden-Trump presidential campaign in 2024 may not be the contest most Americans want. But in all likelihood, it may be the match they will watch. President Joseph Biden's situation is complicated. Opinion polls show that the “Democrats” have a positive attitude towards the president and approve of his job performance, but almost half of the “Democrats” prefer that someone else be the bearer of their principles in the 2024 round.


This may present a problem for the re-election of the President, except for four factors. The first is that Biden's successful and sober two-and-a-half years in office means that there is no serious "Democrat" willing to challenge his re-election. Secondly, Biden's potential successor is Vice President Kamala Harris, but her approval ratings are so low that "Democrats" see Biden, despite his advanced age, as a safer bet in the general election contest against any "Republican". And third, other potential Biden replacements are all centrists, meaning any challenge would be based on personal differences rather than politics and displease the party establishment.


Finally, a challenge is unlikely under the new schedule of presidential primaries. A few months ago, the Democratic National Committee, the party's governing body, replaced Iowa and New Hampshire, which had long been the first states to contest the electoral process, in South Carolina. Iowa and New Hampshire, which the Democratic establishment has deemed problematic, have long catapulted recalcitrant candidates into the national spotlight against the party establishment's preferences. And with Iowa and New Hampshire, which caused Biden's defeat in 2020, out of the way and replaced by South Carolina.


Notably, South Carolina represented an easy win and a turning point for Biden in 2020. Hence, the bipartisan establishment feels confident that it has paved the way for a repeat of Biden in 2024. Trump's story is almost entirely different from that. Just as in 2016, when Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination and continued to advance until he won the White House, it seems that the Republican Party establishment is uncomfortable with his attempt in 2024 to return to office. But their efforts to find an alternative are turned upside down by Trump's strong control of a large majority among the "Republicans".


Trump's base remains firmly attached to him, regardless of the indictments against him. condemning those who attack him; This front includes the media, law enforcement, and "Democrats" or even other "Republicans" who accuse them of betraying principles. And Trump's leadership stems from the intense attachment to his person from his base, whose feelings of alienation and anger he successfully exploited, and from his relentless attacks against those who dare to challenge him.


And with DeSantis' star fading in the face of Trump's attacks and other Republican elected officials fearing to step over him -- few others may emerge as contenders. But, like in 2016, although some of these hopefuls may soon be heralded as "flavor of the month," they will be no better off than Desantis. At this point, few odds may prevent Trump from ascending as the candidate of the Republican Party.


One such possibility is that he decides to support someone else (which is almost unimaginable) or fails to run. And if Trump loses, which is unlikely, a painful primary battle, he will emerge as a bloodied champion without the support of his loyal followers. And so, at this point, 2024 feels like a repeat of 2020, but with a difference.


Both candidates are getting older. Biden has become more circumspect and less close to the public, but he still attracts a wide swath of voters with a business record and his appeal as "working-class Joe from Scranton." On the other hand, Trump still espouses the delusional and dangerous notion that the last election was rigged and uses that grudge to motivate his loyal followers. And his behavior will ensure that 2024 is likely to be more dangerous than 2020.


* President of the Arab American Institute - Washington

OPINIONS

Thu 04 May 2023 11:35 am - Jerusalem Time

The martyr Khader Adnan

Hamada Pharaohs

Hamada Pharaohs

Opinion Writer

The truth of those who said: They attack stones, trees, and people, confiscate property, plunder the land, demolish the homes of Jerusalemites and Khalayleh to seize their property in Old Jerusalem and Old Hebron, with the aim of destroying the history of the Palestinians and making their heritage for the Israelis, and that they have a history and a reality, by imposing Hebrews, Israelization, and Judaization on them. Islamic and Christian holy sites and their environs.


The foreign colonial settlers uproot the perennial olive trees from hundreds of years ago, which indicates the extent of the Palestinians' interest and attachment to their trees and land, and the olives are the fruit of this overlap and adhesion between the Palestinian and his homeland, his address, and his adherence to it.
We all remember the scene of the Palestinian cucumber, who embraced her olive tree, in the face of foreign settlers protected by the colony's army, who were trying to uproot her tree from her land, and she put her life as a price for the survival and protection of the tree.


Here is the martyr Khader Adnan, one of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad Movement, from the village of Arraba, paying with his life for his stubborn choice to refuse to submit to injustice and unfair administrative detention, after a hunger strike in the clinic of Ramla prison, for a period of 87 days, insisting on wresting his freedom from his executioners, the leaders of the colony .


The martyr, Khader Adnan, was not convicted by one of the courts of the colony, so he remained arrested by a decision of the Shin Bet intelligence service, without charge, but by imposing precautionary detention and arrest to prevent his freedom and his militant role among his people.


The Islamic Jihad movement is particularly targeted on behalf of the rest of the resistance factions by the occupation army. It does not engage in political disputes, neither with Fatah nor with Hamas. It does not beg for position and power, as Fatah and Hamas do, and it rises above the power disputes in Ramallah and Gaza, which have become captive. The occupation, its leaders are being assassinated, and no one is protesting or responding, neither from Gaza, where its most prominent leaders were assassinated last year, nor from Ramallah, who are committed to security coordination between Ramallah and Tel Aviv, and the security calm between Gaza and Tel Aviv.


The martyr Khader Adnan was not the first detainee to die in the colony's prisons and detention centers. Rather, he was recorded as Martyr No. 236 of the Palestinian captive movement, who rose while they were in the occupation's prisons and detention centers.


With the martyrdom of Khader Adnan, he lit a candle on the long road leading to the freedom and liberation of Palestine at the end of the journey of torment, struggle and victory.


A people did not win, and did not enjoy freedom and independence without sacrifices and sacrifices of people inhabited by faith, awareness, and willingness to sacrifice, and here is the case of the people of Palestine, whose talents in giving, sacrifice, and tools of action in confronting the occupation are multiplied, walking on the path of victory, as are the peoples who defeated their occupiers and colonialism.


Ben Ghafir, the right-wing colonial extremist, Minister of Security, blames the colonial courts for releasing the youth of the civil protests on financial bail, and demands that they continue their detention decisions and practice cruelty against Jerusalemites and the people of the 48 areas. He knew that the life of the administrative detainee, Adnan Khader, was in danger, according to the diagnosis of the doctors of the Ramla prison clinic. However, he was insisting on the decision not to release him, and thus Khader Adnan, against the background of the decision of the security forces and the Minister of Security, ended his life.


It is a full-fledged crime committed by the Netanyahu government, its minister Ben Gvir, and their apparatuses against the Palestinian citizen, as they do against all of his people, properties, sanctities, and olive trees. They are truly criminals against stones, trees, and people in Palestine.

OPINIONS

Thu 04 May 2023 11:35 am - Jerusalem Time

And they did not kill him or crucify him, but it was likened to them

Issa Qaraqe

Issa Qaraqe

Opinion Writer

The prisoner, the fighter Sheikh Khader Adnan, was martyred on 2/5/2023 during his open hunger strike for 86 days against his arbitrary arrest at the hands of the Zionist occupation state, and it was harsh and deadly days, the narrow solitary cell in which he was martyred turned into a grave and a funeral home, alone with drops Few waters, grains of salt, and starving wishes. Death agonized several times. Death flew away, then returned carrying a heavenly veil, and slowed down a lot. Perhaps free life would suggest another time for Sheikh Khadr to live, and the jailer, the iron, the murderer, and the oblivion to withdraw.

For the first time death cries, he sits in front of the sheikh writing a will slowly, he wipes his blood and wets his lips and wakes him up from the repeated coma, and he tells him I will wait a little bit, perhaps the International Red Cross delegation will arrive now, perhaps the United Nations will move and wake up to save a person who defends human justice, perhaps there are those He will come to provide protection and safety and to bring Sheikh Khader out of the trap of myths and Zionist machinations that are firmly set around him. Death sought the help of all available possibilities, but the darkness is thick and thick, gasps rising and falling, cold silence in the body and the wall, the world became mute until tears choked under the surface of words.

Sheikh Khader Adnan was victorious in his life and in his death. Death is life in Palestine. There is no bargaining over freedom and dignity. There are no negotiations even if they uproot your body from the place. Khader turned into a people in an individual and a fedayeen in a battalion. What is this saint who is guarded by stubborn wills and the verses of the Most Merciful?

Death was perplexed when he saw the angels, clouds, and birds carrying Sheikh Khadr to the seven heavens. The jailers mobilized, the doors were pulled down, and a state of emergency was declared in all parts of the occupying state. Sheikh Khadr triumphed, but Ben Ghafir and the fascist religious Zionism did not. He is received by angels, prophets, imams, fedayeen, and holy books. Jerusalem, Jenin, Nablus, Gaza, songs and the land of poetry receive him.

The Zionist state deliberately killed Sheikh Khader Adnan. All its evil forces allied against him. The executioners, the intelligence apparatus and the government gathered together and mobilized all means of repression and death. They said this Palestinian rejects imprisonment, humiliation and slavery. This Palestinian rejects our racist legislation and laws. This Palestinian rebels and refuses to deal with our discriminatory military courts. This Palestinian shakes the pillars of our prisons and our state, neutralizes our most powerful weapon in the world, and penetrates our nuclear arsenal. This Palestinian shakes our being with the chains that tie his feet and hands. This Palestinian has a prophecy that heralds our demise from this land, drowning in sin, corruption, and criminality, and a deep descent into apartheid and the abyss.

The Zionist state killed Sheikh Khader Adnan premeditatedly, execution and liquidation, a state that is afraid of this school, the school of those who return to their first words and the brightness of the sun in meaning and language, the school of the present absentees defending their presence on earth, sky, history and identity, the school of generations that searches for lessons and quarantine for her next life.

They killed Sheikh Khader Adnan, as if they wanted to kill every hero, symbol, and victim in us. They wanted to kill every uprising, donation, and demonstration. Sheikh Khader besieged the occupiers in prison and all over the world. He became a universal humanitarian message, the voice of the Palestinian people that reached all international platforms and institutions, the voice of thousands. Prisoners languishing in the heavy years of life, the sick, the handicapped and those with chronic diseases, the sound of slow time in dark cells and cellars, the voice of a people who seek, thirst and die for justice, peace and freedom.

The Zionist state killed Sheikh Khader Adnan in cold blood. They realized that the Sheikh had turned into a novel that clashed and refuted their imaginary myths. A prisoner who establishes a different consciousness and embodies the culture of resistance. He refuses submission and defeat. He possesses weapons that they do not possess. Hunger, patience, hope and prayer. He calls the call to prayer in the mosque and rings the ears of the church. It is present everywhere, in the street, at home, in marches and demonstrations.

Death sitting in the cell is convinced that this dead man is still alive. Here he is writing his will:

In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Compassionate: (Those who believe will have no fear, nor will they grieve, and God will not grant the unbelievers a way against the believers, and it is our right to help the believers). My bones and my strength have weakened from my prison in Ramla, the beloved and authentic Palestinian city.

Death became convinced that there is a supernatural power in this man crucified on the death stake, the power of the ancient Palestinian cities, the power of the sea, the wind and the olive trees planted in the deep earth, the power of thought and will that were not subject to shackles and fences, the power of the Palestinian prisoner who creates freedom with beauty, love, hope and a free life.

The captive, Khader Adnan, was martyred. He descended from the cross freely, an overwhelming light that lifted him into space. He did not die and did not perish when he was stained with steadfastness, blood and pride.

And God Almighty believed when He said: (And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, but it appeared to them).

OPINIONS

Thu 04 May 2023 11:35 am - Jerusalem Time

So that Sudan is not lost

Dr.. Mustafa Barghouti

Dr.. Mustafa Barghouti

Opinion Writer

With a deep sense of pain and anger, we followed and continue to follow what Sudan and its people are going through in terms of destruction and serious deterioration resulting from the raging infighting between military generals, which does not carry any good for Sudan and its people.


Our pain has been exacerbated by the terrible deterioration in economic and humanitarian conditions, the disruption of health services, the collapse of electricity networks and the foundations of human life.


And this pain was preceded, for us Palestinians, by another pain when we saw Sudan’s military leaders holding meetings and agreements of normalization with the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime, in contradiction to the sincere national spirit and absolute solidarity with Palestine that has always distinguished the brotherly people of Sudan and its living forces.


What brought Sudan, the loyalties of the famous Khartoum summit, to this sinister situation? What is the justification for transforming a country, which could be the breadbasket of the entire Arab world, and a source of rich wealth that guarantees the progress and well-being of the Sudanese people, into a bloody war arena between different military parties, fueled and exploited by colonial powers seeking to control the wealth (and capabilities) of this country, which is threatened with further division and fragmentation. By separating western Sudan (Darfur) after it bisected its south with well-known support and conspiracy from Israel itself, with which normalization took place.


Was escaping from the entitlement of democratic transition and the transition to civil rule the real motive for this armed conflict to destroy all the achievements of the sacrifices of the Sudanese people who had previously risen up against the military dictatorship?


Is it destined for Sudan to continue the transition from a dictatorial military rule to another military dictatorship, in which the rulers sacrifice the interests of their peoples, their wealth and their homeland time after time in order to preserve the seats of power and its economic privileges, and seek the support of external powers and parties, greedy in Sudan and its people?


Isn't what is happening in Sudan a new confirmation of the causes of the crises and tragedies experienced by Iraq, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon and other Arab countries?


Without neglecting the first causes of these tragedies, which are external interventions and conspiracies from colonial powers, other greedy ones, and a third party representing complicit parties with colonial powers, including Israel, it must be said that the internal factor represented in depriving peoples of their right to participate in managing the affairs of Their countries, the choice of their leaders, and the practice of democratic life, including freedom of political and social organization, freedom of opinion and expression, and the most basic human rights, is what makes these countries weak and permissible prey from external parties and powers in a world that is governed only by interests after values and principles have retreated.


Neither Sudan nor any Arab country can overcome its current crises, and even more dangerous crises that lie in wait for it, without its leadership and government being accountable to its people, without being subject to periodic democratic elections, without allowing freedom of opinion, political pluralism and freedom of organization, and without launching The civilized development of a prosperous and effective civil society, and without fair laws that prohibit corruption and prevent the use of foreign and internal political money for the purpose of political hegemony, and without the subordination of the security services and armies to the democratically elected civil authorities, and their absolute distance from indulging in economic and political activities.


The tasks of the armies and the security system, in any civilized system, must be limited to protecting the country from external aggressions and interference, providing safety for the people, combating crime, and not indulging in oppressing peoples and suppressing their freedom, spying on the lives and privacy of their individuals, and competing in controlling natural wealth, economic projects and corruption. And then indulge in wars and conflicts with each other, greedy for those wealth and projects.


The democratic transition has not and will not be an easy process, and we have seen how the apparatus of the deep state was able to pounce on the results of great popular revolutions in which Arab peoples achieved real miracles, only to find themselves prey to a counter-revolution that pulled them back towards a worse situation than it was before the explosion of their revolutions.


Therefore, the revolutionary action and popular struggle was subject to repeated defeat if it was not based on organized and persevering forces that convince the people and prove to them that they give priority to the interests of these peoples over their own and partisan interests.


We wish Sudan not to descend into a fierce civil war that destroys its future and leads it to the destruction of fragmentation and division, and causes unforgivable suffering to its people. It seems that there is no solution to avoid that black fate, except for the resignation of the military contending for power, and opening the door to the transition to a civil democratic system.


As for the countries of the world that claim to be democratic and believe in democracy, they must be put to the test, by asking them to stop feeding the conflicting parties with weapons, support and influence, with our deep awareness that the decisive solution was and will remain in the hands of the Sudanese people themselves, and no external party will guarantee Sudan a path of safety, for that depends on the people of Sudan. Sudan itself, and its ability to isolate the conflicting parties in defense of their own interests, and to impose democratic transformation.


Perhaps what is happening in Sudan today is a lesson for those who want to be considered among the rulers, before the incident takes place, and they lose not only their rule, but their countries as well.

OPINIONS

Thu 04 May 2023 11:04 am - Jerusalem Time

Bin Gvir.. a symbol of the racist Jewish mentality!!

Jerusalem Hadith

Jerusalem Hadith

Opinion Writer

The so-called Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, is a model of the racist Jewish mentality. He had started his activity in the “Kach” movement founded by Meir Kahane, which was outlawed as a terrorist movement. He was also convicted several times in Israeli courts as a supporter of terrorism.


This Ben Gvir had hung a picture of the perpetrator of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in 1994, Baruch Goldstein, who killed 33 martyrs inside the Ibrahimi Mosque and wounded about 130 others. Due to his arrogance and racism, he tried to say that he had become moderate in order to reduce hostility and condemnation of him.


But he remained as he was, and his moderation was just empty talk, because whoever describes a serial killer like Goldstein as a hero and a saint will not know a way or a means of moderation, as evidenced by the fact that he made statements in which he threatened the prisoners with a harsh response in the event that they insisted and refused to eat as a means of protest.


In line with Ben Gvir’s logic, we constantly see the acts and violations of the occupation, the latest but not the least of which is the deployment of thousands of cameras in the streets of Jerusalem and Hebron and the use of facial recognition technology known as the “Red Wolf” to track citizens and secure the harsh restrictions imposed on their freedom of movement.


Likewise, the Palestinians inside the Green Line also suffer from racist laws that do not give them their rights as they are for the Jews, in various fields and locations, and they express their rejection of this reality and demonstrate to demand their rights.


This racist mentality, which does not know the origins, rights and laws, continues its expansion and pressure on our people and their land. A few days ago, they approved plans to establish a settlement between Abu Dis and Ras al-Amud in Jerusalem, and expand the “Ramot” settlement by establishing two parks and building 180 settlement units.


It is clear from all this that Ben Gvir, the minister in the government steeped in extremism, certainly represents a Jewish mentality that knows nothing but the language of expansion and forceful action in all its military, economic and political forms, and the international political influence enjoyed by the Jews of the world and through which they serve Israel, of course.
In any case, we will remain steadfast on our land, no matter how big the challenges are, and the occupation will eventually come to an end.

SPORT

Thu 04 May 2023 10:56 am - Jerusalem Time

England Championship: City to the top again, led by the historic Haaland

Manchester City snatched the lead in the English Football League, led by its historic Norwegian striker Erling Haaland, who contributed to his team’s victory over its guest West Ham 3-0, Wednesday, in a postponed match from stage 28.


Haaland wrote his name in golden letters in the Premier League records alone with the absolute record for the number of goals scored in one season in the league, by scoring his 35th goal and the second for his team 2-0 in the 71st minute after a pass from Jack Grealish, breaking the previous record he scored in a season of 42 stages. Instead of the current formula (38), Andy Cole with Newcastle in the 1993-1994 season and Alan Shearer with Blackburn in the following season (34 goals each).
"I don't think about all these records, I'm going crazy," Haaland said.


"I will go home now, play some video games, eat and then go to sleep," he added.


Haaland only needed 31 matches to enter history from its widest gates, and lead his team to the top with 79 points, one point ahead of Arsenal, with another postponed match in his sleeve, which makes him the favorite to retain the title.


The 22-year-old striker raised the number of his goals in various competitions to 51 this season, becoming the first player to achieve this feat since 1931.


And we must go back to the 1966-1967 season in order to find the most prolific scorer in one season in the elite, which is Welshman Ron Davis with Southampton (37 goals).


And Haaland is still far from the historic record for the number of goals in the English Premier League of all time achieved by the legendary Everton striker Dixie Dean with 60 goals in the 1927-1928 season (42 stages).


And City confirmed the difficulty of overcoming it in its fortress, the “Al-Ittihad” stadium, as it won all 13 matches that it played this season in various competitions. He scored 47 goals and conceded only 6.


City, who reached the semi-finals of the Champions League competition, where it plays against Real Madrid, is living a golden period, as it won 14 of its last 15 matches on the local scene, whether in the league or in cup matches, and it also achieved 9 successive victories in the Premier League.


For its part, West Ham reached the quarter-finals of the Conference League competition against Dutch club AZ Alkmaar, knowing that it is struggling in the fifteenth place, with a difference of only 4 points from the first relegated, after suffering its third loss against City in a row after falling to Liverpool 1-2 and then to Crystal Palace 3 -4.


Spanish City coach Pep Guardiola made 3 changes compared to the 2-1 victory over Fulham in the last stage. He replaced German goalkeeper Stefan Ortega instead of Brazilian Ederson, Dutch defender Nathan Ake and Portuguese midfielder Bernardo Silva instead of Swiss Manuel Akanji and German Ilkay Gundogan. And the absence of Belgian Kevin De Bruyne continued due to injury.


City collided with the organized defense of West Ham, without being able to find solutions similar to the image of its striker Haaland, who remained silent without danger (he got only 9 balls) and without being in a dangerous position despite the defending champions owning the ball by 80 percent. percent.


Spaniard Rodri almost opened the scoring, but his ball hit the post of former Arsenal goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski (32), noting that the latter blocked a shot by Algerian Riyad Mahrez 9 minutes after the first whistle.


City did not wait long to make their fans happy, after the Dutch unobserver Ake, returning from injury in his first league goal this season, opened the scoring at the start of the second half with a header after a cross pass into the area from Mahrez (50).
And after Haaland's historic goal in the 71st minute, substitute Phil Foden concluded his team's review with a wonderful shot "on the fly" from outside the area, which hit the foot of Italian defender Emerson and hit the net (85).


With the final whistle, Guardiola asked all of his players to salute Haaland in front of his father, the former City player between 2000 and 2003 Alfie, who was in the stands.


"In football, when there is a special occasion, we have to show how special it is," the Spanish coach said.
And he added, "We are very happy for him because it is a pleasure to work with him and be with him, and everyone is happy to have him with us. The record will be broken in the future, perhaps through him."


At “Anfield”, Liverpool achieved its fifth successive victory, and came at the expense of Fulham 1-0, to consolidate its fifth position qualifying for the European League “Europa League” next season, while it seems difficult for it to compete for a seat in the Champions League competition, as it is 4 behind. Points from Manchester United, who finished fourth and last, qualifying for the main continental competition, and the latter played two fewer matches.


Liverpool missed many of its elements, most notably Brazilian Firmino, Guinean Naby Keita and Spaniard Thiago Alcantara.
And after he started the match pressing, Liverpool retreated in front of the attempts of the Brazilian striker Carlos Vinicius and the coherent defensive line of his guest Fulham, before the Egyptian Mohamed Salah opened the scoring before the break with his 18th goal this season in the league, after he successfully converted a penalty kick that the Uruguayan Darwin Nunes got after a mistake. French defender Issa Diop hit a deceptive ball that hit German goalkeeper Bernd Leno (39).

SPORT

Thu 04 May 2023 10:54 am - Jerusalem Time

Spain Championship: Atletico takes full advantage of Real's fall and removes it from the runner-up

Atletico Madrid took full advantage of the fall of its arch-rival Real Madrid against Real Sociedad 0-2 on Tuesday, to remove it from the runner-up by defeating its guest Cadiz 5-1 on Wednesday in the thirty-third stage of the Spanish Football League.


And in light of Barcelona's tweeting in the lead and obtaining the opportunity to clinch the title by defeating its neighbor Espanyol in the next stage, Sunday, Real and Atletico are competing for the honorary runner-up, since they guarantee their participation in the Champions League as a result of the big difference with Villarreal V.


The team of Argentine coach Diego Simeone took advantage of the fall of Real on Tuesday to pounce on the runner-up by a point difference after its third successive victory, which was achieved at the expense of Cadiz thanks to the double of the brilliant Frenchman Antoine Griezmann (2 and 27), who became the club’s fourth best scorer in the history of the league (110), and the goals of Alvaro Morata. (49) and the Belgian Yannick Carrasco (57 from a penalty kick) and the Argentine Nahuel Molina (73), while the Honduran Anthony Losano (72) scored the only goal for the guests.


And Valencia, threatened to play in the second division for the first time since the 1986-1987 season, saved a point at the expense of its guest Villarreal, who is trying to stay in the struggle to qualify for the Champions League, by drawing with it 1-1.


Under the leadership of coach Ruben Barajha, who assumed his position in mid-February to succeed the Italian Janoro Gattuso, Valencia scored its seventh point from the last four matches thanks to Brazilian Samuel Lino, who equalized in the 72nd minute, after Villarreal was the first to score 10 minutes ago through Senegalese Nicholas Jackson.


With this tie, the "bats" raised their score to 34 points in the seventeenth place, three points behind temporarily from each of the eighteenth Espanyol and the nineteenth Getafe, who play with Seville on Thursday and Celta Vigo later on Wednesday, respectively.


The match against Espanyol in the penultimate thirty-seventh stage may be fateful for Valencia, who is awaiting two difficult confrontations in the last five stages against Real Madrid, the defending champion, and Real Betis, who is fighting for continental participation, similar to Villarreal, whose task has become difficult to catch up with Real Sociedad, who is in fourth place. The latter qualifies for the Champions League, as it lags behind the Basque club by 7 points after the latter’s victory over Real Madrid.


Getafe became the same distance from Valencia, but behind it by goal difference only, after it achieved its eighth victory of the season and came at the expense of its guest Celta Vigo with a goal by Turkish Anis Onal (3 from a penalty kick) in a meeting that the guests completed with ten players in the last 13 minutes after the expulsion of Ghanaian Joseph Udo ( 77).

PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 10:52 am - Jerusalem Time

Receiving the body of the martyr Abd al-Karim al-Sheikh in Qalqilya

On Thursday morning, the Israeli occupation authorities handed over the body of the martyr Abd al-Karim al-Sheikh from the town of Siniriya in Qalqilya.


According to civil affairs, he will be transferred to Darwish Nazzal Governmental Hospital to bury his immaculate body, according to the arrangements of his family.

SPORT

Thu 04 May 2023 10:52 am - Jerusalem Time

Italian Championship: Lazio refuses to hand Napoli the title

Lazio refused that Napoli win the Italian Football League title before it played its match Thursday with its host Udinese, by defeating its guest Sassuolo 2-0 on Wednesday in the thirty-third stage of the Italian Football League.


After two losses in the past two stages against Turin (0-1) and Inter (1-3), Lazio opened the door to Napoli to win its first title since 1990 in the last stage, but it stumbled against Salernitana 1-1, and its coronation was postponed to this stage.


Napoli needed a draw or loss for Lazio, who is supervised by its former coach, Maurizio Sari, in order to settle matters before even playing his match with Udinese, but the capital club refused to hand him the title, which will be decided Thursday in the event of a draw or victory for the southern club.


And with its nineteenth victory for the season at the expense of a team without ambition, due to its departure from the danger zone and its loss of hope for continental participation, Lazio clung to second place, a point ahead of Juventus, who in turn beat Lecce 2-1 at home.


And after he finished the first half ahead with the goal of Brazilian Felipe Anderson after a through pass from his compatriot Marcos Antonio (14), the fans of the capital team lived through difficult times until relief came in stoppage time from the match through Croatian substitute Toma Pasic, who settled the three points after a pass from Mattia Zani ( 2+90).


In Turin, Juventus returned to the winning streak at the right time, thus enhancing its chances of participating in the Champions League, by defeating its guest Lecce 2-1.
Juventus entered the match against the backdrop of three defeats and a draw in the past four stages, in addition to its exit from the semi-finals of the cup competition at the hands of Inter, with a 1-1 draw with it in the first leg and a 0-1 return loss, which increased the resentment of its coach Massimiliano Allegri.


But the "Old Lady" team, which recovered the 15 points deducted from it for accusing it of financial manipulation and is still competing for one title for the season by qualifying for the "Europa League" semi-finals, regained its balance at the right time with its nineteenth victory for the season, raising its tally to 63 points.


Juventus remained alone in third place, three points behind Inter returning from the Hellas Verona stadium, with a sweeping victory with a clean six, scored by Argentine Adolfo Gaish (31 mistakes in his own net), Turkish Hakan Çalhan Oglu from a wonderful long shot (36), Bosnian Edin Dzeko (38 and 61) and Argentine Lautaro. Martinez (55 and 2 + 90).


Milan, the defending champion, and Roma were the biggest losers in this stage, as they fell to sixth and seventh positions with the same number of points (38) and Atlanta, rising to fifth place (38 points), by defeating its guest Spezia with three goals that came as a result of corner kicks through Dutchman Martin de Roon (32). And Davide Zappacosta (48) and Colombian Luis Muriel (54), compared to two goals for Ghanaian Emmanuel Giasi (18) and Moroccan Mahdi Bourbia (64).


In the “San Siro”, Milan was on its way to defeat against its guest Cremonese, after it fell behind in the 77th minute with the goal of Nigerian David Okereke, before Brazilian substitute Junior Messias saved him by equalizing from a free kick in the fatal time (3 + 90), while Roma advanced on the land of Monza. With the goal of Stephan El Shaarawy (24), before the host responded with the goal of Luca Caldirola (39).


In the “Allianz Stadium”, Juventus performed well against the sixteenth-placed team and opened the scoring from the 15th minute through Argentine Leandro Paredes from a long free kick, which goalkeeper Vladimiro Falcone was unable to block.


Juventus received a slap after the Brazilian Danilo caused a penalty kick for touching the ball with his hand in the forbidden area, which the Gambian Assan Sisay successfully addressed (37).


But the Turin giant quickly regained the lead through the Serbian Dusan Vlahovic, after the ball reached him from the left side with a cross by his compatriot Philip Kostic, so he caught it beautiful with his left to the right corner of the goal (40).


In doing so, Vlahović ended a 773-minute scoring fast in the league, notching his ninth goal of the season.


Allegri commented on the former Fiorentina striker's goal to Dazon, saying, "He scored a great goal and I think he improved as the game progressed... Unfortunately he had never experienced a situation like this (fasting for a long time). He came from Fiorentina where everything went well." For him, but every player goes through a similar period in his career."


"All he has to do is erase," he said

Brute on his calmness and skip it (stage). I hope it will be a starting point for him and Juventus."
And after the second half began with a header by Danilo that bounced off the left post, Juventus' performance declined despite the entry of Federico Chiesa and Frenchman Paul Pogba, who presented beautiful glimpses, and was unable to seriously threaten the goal amid obvious tension from Allegri, but in the end the result remained the same.


And from a hat-trick by Senegalese Boulay Dia (10, 59 and 81 from a penalty kick), with which he raised his tally to 15 goals this season, Salernitana imposed a 3-3 draw on its guest Fiorentina, in a meeting during which the latter fell behind three times.


Sampdoria appears on its way to the second division for the first time since 2011 after losing at home to Turin 0-2, which kept it languishing at the bottom of the standings, 10 points behind the safety zone.

SPORT

Thu 04 May 2023 10:50 am - Jerusalem Time

German Cup: Eintracht Frankfurt turns the tables on Stuttgart and qualifies for the final

Eintracht Frankfurt turned the tables on its host Stuttgart, and Leipzig joined the German Cup final in football by beating it 3-2 on Wednesday in the semi-finals.


Eintracht Frankfurt finished the first half, lagging behind with the goal of Portuguese Thiago Tomas after a pass from Joshua Vagnoman (19), but he responded in the second half and equalized through Frenchman Evan Ndica after a pass from his compatriot Randall Kolo Moanit (51).


Then the Japanese Daishi Kamada put the guests in front with a shot from outside the area after only four minutes (55), before Kolo Moanih added the third from a penalty kick that he snatched himself (77).


The evening was French par excellence, as Enzo Mio narrowed the difference to Stuttgart with a shot from outside the area (83), but that was not enough to satisfy the 47,500 spectators who gathered in the stadium to support their team, which is suffering greatly in the league, in order to try to qualify for the first final since 2013 and maintain its hopes for the title. The first since 1997.


And after the expulsion of the Croatian Borna Sosa from the ranks of Stuttgart in the last five minutes (85), the task of the guests became easier and in the end they decided their ticket to the ninth final in their history crowned with five titles, the last of which was in 2018.


The final will be held on June 3 at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, where Eintracht Frankfurt will meet last season's champion Leipzig, who won Tuesday over runners-up Freiburg 5-1, despite the numerical shortage in its ranks.


In their two matches in the league competitions this season, the two teams exchanged victories, as Eintracht Frankfurt settled the first confrontation with a clean four, before losing the return leg at its opponent 1-2.

PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 10:36 am - Jerusalem Time

Al-Qassam confirms: the martyrs of Nablus carried out the Jordan Valley operation

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, confirmed that the three martyrs of the city of Nablus, Hassan Qatnani, Moaz Al-Masry and Ibrahim Jabr, were among its members.


And the Brigades stated in a statement through its official account that the three martyrs were the ones who carried out the Jordan Valley operation, in response to the attack on the seclusion and the dragging of free women in Al-Aqsa Mosque during the blessed month of Ramadan.


The Jordan Valley operation, which was carried out at the beginning of last April, led to the killing of 3 settlers.

PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 10:18 am - Jerusalem Time

Wide Palestinian condemnations of the crime of occupation in Nablus

Today, Thursday, official and factional bodies condemned the crime of the Israeli occupation in the Old City of Nablus, which led to the death of 3 citizens and the wounding of another.


The presidential spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, warned of the continued Israeli escalation against our people, their land and their sanctities, which will explode the situation in the region and push it to a stage that is difficult to control.


He held the Israeli occupation government fully responsible for this escalatory policy that pushes matters towards violence and aggravates the atmosphere.


Abu Rudeineh called on the American administration to intervene immediately and put pressure on it to stop the escalating Israeli aggression against our people, our land and our sanctities, and not to be satisfied with the policy of denunciation, because the conditions on the ground have become very difficult and no one can predict its repercussions.


For his part, Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said, "The Israeli crimes against our people do not stop until they resume again against our people in Nablus, in a more terrifying and deadly manner, by targeting children, women, and the elderly."


Shtayyeh held Israel fully responsible for its crimes, calling on the international community to unify standards and hold Israel accountable for its horrific crimes and continuous violations against our people.


In turn, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said, "The occupation is completely delusional that by committing its crime in Nablus, it will stop the resistance in the West Bank, and this blood will be fuel for the escalation of commando action."


He stressed that the occupation will pay the price for its crimes against our people and will not succeed in being punished. According to him.


While the "Fatah" movement said, "The blood of our people will not be a lifeline for the beleaguered occupation government, which has nothing left but terrorism and killing in order to mend the rift of its internal crises."


She added, "Our people have not exhausted the source of their sacrifices, and they will continue their national struggle until their rights are taken away, foremost of which is the right to establish their independent, sovereign state with Jerusalem as its capital."


For its part, Tariq Selmi, spokesman for the "Islamic Jihad" movement, said, "The blood of the righteous martyrs of Nablus will remain a witness to our people's revolution and a motive for the continuation of the burning anger and the continuous fighting in defense of Palestine, Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem."


He added, "Today, the guns of the mujahideen are coalescing and their ranks are uniting in the face of the criminal enemy, and with God's permission, whoever bears the flag will come out and avenge this pure blood.


In turn, the Popular Front affirmed that the massacre of the occupation in Nablus will not weaken the will of the resistance, and the masses of the Palestinian people, with all its resistance formations, will pay the enemy the price for its crimes. According to her statement.


While the Democratic Front said, "The occupation's crime and organized terrorism will not undermine our people's resolve and resistance, but will increase their insistence on escalating resistance in all its forms and making the occupation pay the price for its crimes."


She emphasized that strengthening field unity, escalating resistance in all its forms, and implementing the decisions of the Central and National Councils is the most effective response to the cowardly assassination and all occupation crimes.


PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 9:58 am - Jerusalem Time

Dozens of settlers storm Al-Aqsa

On Thursday morning, dozens of settlers stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the strict protection of the occupation police.


The settlers made provocative tours inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and performed Talmudic rituals.


Settler groups storm Al-Aqsa on a daily basis, except for Friday and Saturday.

PALESTINE

Thu 04 May 2023 9:57 am - Jerusalem Time

The occupation issued 217 administrative detention orders during the past month

The Authority for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported that the Israeli occupation issued 217 new administrative detention orders against Palestinian prisoners during the past month.


The authority added, in a report published today, Thursday, that the number of new administrative orders reached 92, and 125 detention orders that were previously issued were renewed, noting that the period of administrative detention ranges from two to six months.


She said: "There are more than 1,000 administrative detainees inside the occupation prisons, most of them distributed among (Ofer, Negev, and Megiddo) prisons, including children, women, and the elderly."


The authority stated that the occupation authorities and prison administrations claim that the administrative detainees have secret files that cannot be disclosed at all, as the detainee does not know the length of his sentence or the charge against him.


The commission noted that the administrative detainee is often subject to renewal of the detention period more than once for a period of three months, six months or eight, and sometimes it may reach a full year or more.


It is worth mentioning that administrative detention is detention without charge or trial, and without consent to examine the evidence materials by lawyers, which is a complete violation of the provisions of international humanitarian law.