(AFP) - Manchester City's Norwegian striker Erling Haaland returned after missing his team's last two matches, scoring the winning goal 2-1 for his team in the last breath against Fulham, to give him three valuable points in his struggle with Arsenal for the title in the fifteenth stage of the England Football Championship . foot saturday.
City rose to the lead temporarily with 32 points, one point ahead of Arsenal, who are facing a difficult test on Sunday against their neighbor Chelsea.
Haaland started the match on the benches of the reserve players, so the brilliant Argentine Julian Alvares replaced him in the continent's last match for City, by scoring a goal and passing two decisive balls in the victory over Seville, Spain, 3-1, in the last sixth round of the Champions League.
Overall, the City coach made eight substitutions compared to the match against Sevilla.
After two unsuccessful attempts by Portuguese Bernardo Silva (3) and Belgian playmaker Kevin De Bruyne (9), Alvares opened the scoring after a front ball from German Ilkay Gundogan hit it from a narrow angle at the top of the net (17). Then the referee ruled out a goal by defender John Stones for offside.
But things got complicated for City after the expulsion of his Portuguese international, Joao Cancelo, after a joint ball with Fulham striker Harry Wilson alone in the goal, so that the referee awarded a penalty kick also to the guests, which Brazilian Andreas Pereira successfully set out against his compatriot Ederson (26).
City completed the match with ten players and found it difficult to penetrate the defenses of Fulham, who returned this season to the ranks of elite clubs, and who was absent in this match, its Serbian scorer Alexander Mitrovic, who scored 9 goals, due to injury.
Halland entered in the 64th minute instead of Alvares and succeeded in scoring a goal with a header after a perfect pass from De Bruyne, one of the stars of the match, but the referee did not count him for offside (74).
And in stoppage time, De Bruyne penetrated into the area, where he was obstructed by a Fulham defender, and the referee did not hesitate to award a penalty kick that Haaland set out to the right of the goalkeeper (90 + 5), to give his team a difficult and expensive victory.
Haaland raised his tally to the top of the scorer standings to 18 goals this season. It is also Haaland's 23rd goal in 16 games in various competitions since his move to City from Borussia Dortmund.
"I was a bit nervous before taking the penalty kick, but in the end I succeeded in translating it into a goal," Haaland said.
He added, "Playing with ten players against 11 over 70 minutes is not easy. The way we played with the numerical shortage, I don't think any team can do that."
He concluded, "I was absent for a week and now I'm back and I'm happy to give my team three very important points."
It is noteworthy that Haaland will be one of the most prominent absentees from the World Cup in Qatar this month, due to his country's failure to qualify.
Leeds United turned 3-1 behind to beat Bournemouth 4-3 in a crazy match.
Wolverhampton, who officially announced today its contract with Spanish coach Julen Lopetegui to supervise him, fell at home to Brighton 2-3.
On the other hand, last-placed Nottingham Forest snatched a 2-2 draw at home against Brentford in the last gasp.
Everton fell at home to Leicester City with two clean goals scored by Belgian playmaker Yuri Tielemans in the first minute of stoppage time in the first half with a pass from James Madison, before Harvey Barnes added the second four minutes before the end of the match with a new pass from Madison.
Madison, in particular, scored points in his quest to be in the England national team participating in the World Cup in Qatar later this month.
Leicester City, the league champion in 2016, moved out of the relegation zone thanks to this victory, to advance to the thirteenth place with 14 points.
Leicester had made a bad start at the start of the season, but its coach, Brandon Rogers, succeeded in rebalancing it in recent times.
Sunday highlights Tottenham's match with Liverpool.

LOS ANGELES - (AFP) - It was announced Wednesday, in Los Angeles, that part of the private collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen will be sold at an auction organized by Christie's, which estimated the value of these holdings at one billion dollars, a record.

The auction entitled "Vignery" is organized in New York on the ninth and tenth of November and includes more than 150 works, including paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, and the French Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin.

The entire proceeds from the auction will be allocated to support a number of charitable causes, in fulfillment of Paul Allen's wish before his death in 2018.

"This collection has the highest value ever at auction," Johanna Flom, Christie's deputy director of 20th and 21st century art, told AFP.

This is a once-in-a-century event."

The art collection of the American couple, Harry and Linda McCullough, currently holds the record for the value of private collections, as their total works were sold last spring for $ 922 million in multiple auctions held by Sotheby's.

Christie's indicated that the two most expensive paintings in Paul Allen's collection are "Mount Saint Victoire" by French painter Paul Cézanne, which was estimated at more than $120 million, and "Garden of Cypresses" by Vincent Van Gogh, with an estimated value of $100 million.

"The collection includes works from several artistic eras, which makes Paul Allen a unique collector," said Joanna Flom.

Prior to the auction, part of the collection will be made available to the public in Los Angeles, London, Paris, Shanghai and New York.

Paul Allen, who died at the age of 65 after a struggle with cancer, participated in the innovation of the personal computer operating system that was behind the success of Microsoft after its founding in 1975.

Allen left Microsoft in 1983 due to health problems, as well as due to the deterioration of his relationship with Bill Gates, who remained at the head of the group until the year 2000.

Written by: Dr. Dalal Saeb Erekat

Since the decision to designate six Palestinian civil society organizations as "terrorists", the countries of the world have called on the occupying state to provide evidence of that, and until this moment, the countries of the world are still awaiting evidence and evidence of the involvement of these organizations in terrorism, according to the claim of the occupying state. The truth is that Israel did not provide sufficient evidence against the 6 civil organizations in the West Bank, which are accused of carrying out activities in favor of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and it is not expected that the European Commission Investigation Office (OLAF) will open a European investigation, as a group of countries found The evidence presented did not reach the standard required to prove involvement in terrorism! ‏
On October 19, 2021, the Minister of Defense, Benny Gantz, signed a military order marking 6 Palestinian civil society institutions and human rights organizations as "terrorist organizations." The damage to the organizations has already been done. It is necessary to note that these are institutions that are recognized for their professionalism, credibility, merit and respect. They document the practices of the occupation against the basic rights of the Palestinian people. These six institutions are:
1- Defense for Children International / Palestine DCI
2- Al-Haq Foundation
3- Addameer Association for Prisoner Support and Human Rights
4- Bisan Center for Research and Development
5- Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC).
6- Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC).

These organizations deny this claim, and European countries obtained evidence and did not find it strong enough to implicate the organizations in transferring money! More than 6 months after Gantz's decision, most representatives of EU member states have refrained from making public statements denouncing the decision under the pretext of waiting for the EU's position on this issue to be published. In early May, I met with the Belgian Minister of Development Cooperation, Myriam Keither, who confirmed to the media that the department's inspection found no information confirming the allegations regarding the organizations supported by Belgium, and that there was no reason to take action against them. No single European country has reached the same conclusions as Israel, meaning there is no evidence of the organizations' involvement. ‏
However, in May 2021, the European Commission suspended its support for Al-Haq prior to Gantz's statement, after Israel made allegations about the relationship between the organization and the PFLP, and following Gantz's statement, the Commission also froze funding provided to Agricultural Committees by Oxfam. ‏
It is very strange to see the commissioner take a different position from the member states. Oliver Varhali is the commissioner of the European Union of Hungarian origin and he is behind the delay in European support for the Palestinian Authority under the pretext of allegations of anti-Semitism in the Palestinian textbooks and curriculum as an irrational argument by Varhali. The behavior of the European Commission regarding the suspension of funds was characterized by a lack of transparency and non-responsiveness, which is a violation of the standards of good governance in the European Union. ‏
The marking decision was issued in the form of military orders, and this in itself is new evidence proving that the State of Israel is an apartheid state. Through these military orders, Gantz is trying to ban or stop the work of these organizations that document and announce the reality of the daily Israeli crimes of persecution, discrimination and apartheid against the Palestinians, as they document the occupation's violations of human rights in the occupied territories. Under military orders, these organizations now face the possibility of mass arrests and closure by the Israeli government, and anyone associated with these institutions is liable to imprisonment or prosecution, according to Israel's 2016 "Anti-Terrorism" Law.
The Israeli response to the messages of the countries of the world came to indicate that the Israelis have evidence of the involvement of these institutions. It is strange that the international community is still waiting for the occupying power to present its evidence, and in the meantime the Union is involved in stopping support, while Israel was not given a period of time for that and these countries did not provide any conditions or options to practice some form of coercive diplomacy. This is a weak position on the part of the international community, which suffices with denunciations and statements, while Israel enjoys unlimited immunity. Gantz knows with certainty that none of these countries will hold him accountable, and therefore he continues his racist, arbitrary and authoritarian policies. ‏
European funding for civil society human rights organizations in Palestine is an important component of the Union's support for the two-state solution, international law, human rights and democratic values. While Israel is trying to discredit human rights activists and brand them as terrorists, this comes as part of the escalation of the permanent Israeli attack on the Palestinians. The occupation state's grave and repeated violations of human rights

- Dalal Erekat: Professor of Diplomacy and Strategic Planning, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Arab American University. ‏

WASHINGTON - (Xinhua) -- World Bank President David Malpass said Thursday that the global economy is "perilously close" to recession, as inflation continues to soar, interest rates rise and a growing debt burden hits the developing world.

"We have lowered our growth forecast for 2023 from 3 percent to 1.9 percent for global growth, and this is an indication that we are dangerously close to recording a global recession," Malpass said in a press conference during the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

He pointed out that "all the problems that people know about, the problem of inflation, the increase in interest rates, and stopping the flow of capital to the developing world dealt a heavy blow to the poor," highlighting the accumulation of debts of developing countries.

"This is a global recession that can happen under certain circumstances," Malpass added.

In a study published in mid-September, the World Bank warned that with central banks around the world simultaneously raising interest rates in response to inflation, the world could be heading for a global recession in 2023, with growth projections of just 0.5 percent.

In response to a question from Xinhua, Malpass said that the World Bank president indicated at the press conference that the world's population growth rate is estimated at 1.1 percent annually. "So if you're recording global growth at a much slower pace, that means people are getting worse."

Citing a recent report by the World Bank, Malpass said that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the biggest setback to global efforts to reduce poverty since 1990, pushing about 70 million people into extreme poverty in 2020, and that the war in Ukraine threatens to exacerbate matters.

According to the Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report, the global median income fell by 4 percent in 2020, the first decline since median incomes began to be measured in 1990.

"So if we have a global recession now, that would also put pressure on middle-income people, which means the number of people who are in the bottom half of the income scale is declining," Malpass said.

The World Bank chief also indicated that he was concerned about the concentration of capital in the world at the upper end of the advanced economies.

"I think this is one of the issues that the world has to deal with to allow capital to flow into new businesses and into developing countries, something that will require a change in the direction of fiscal and monetary policies in advanced economies," Malpass said.

He said that the world is facing a very difficult environment emanating from advanced economies, and this has serious repercussions and risks for developing countries, adding, "My deep concern is that these conditions and trends may continue in 2023 and 2024."

Written by: Hani Al-Masry
Today marks the twenty-ninth anniversary of the Oslo Accord, which was, regardless of intentions, a second catastrophe for the Palestinians, and the evidence is that the challenges that threaten the Palestinian cause, and the tool for its embodiment the national movement with its various components, are grave, and threaten the first with marginalization, and the second with the completion of the collapse, which began since the arrival of The adopted strategies led to a dead end, which converged on the two-state solution program, which fell because its ceiling became the Oslo agreement, which does not provide for the state, and its means are negotiations, proving merit and making concessions, and its focus on building the state and its institutions, and neglecting the most important issue, which is self-determination and ending the occupation, As a condition for the embodiment of the state and the achievement of national independence, the rights that are now being adopted as the appropriate alternative to the two-state solution have been ignored.

On this occasion, the following facts must be taken into account.



Oslo died Israeli

If we do not consider that Oslo was stillborn, then it has died in Israel since the failure of the Camp David summit in the year 2000, and instead of abandoning it and adopting a new approach, new parties were brought under its roof through the involvement of the factions that boycotted the 1996 elections and participated in the 2006 elections, without linking Its participation in the agreement means abandoning it and adopting a national project. Rather, it is now required to agree through the government in which it participates to the terms of the international Quartet. The worst thing is the continuation of the Palestinian, Arab and international attempts to revive Oslo, and it is natural that these attempts fail, to the extent that no one calls for its revival and the resumption of negotiations other than the Palestinian side, and some Arabs and friends compliment him despite their realization that Oslo is behind us, and it cannot be revived while it is in ruins. And they did this to ensure that the status quo, which they see constantly changing for the worse, remains.

And when the US administration talks about its adherence to the two-state solution without doing anything to achieve it, it is thus drugging the Palestinians and pushing them to continue clinging to the tails of the political process, so that they do not adopt another approach that the Palestinian leadership has been threatening and adopting for 12 years, and has issued decisions to translate this in the Central and National Councils. It repeated its approval several times without implementation. Because it does not have the necessary will to change the course, and because it fears confrontation and the reaction of the beneficiaries of the so-called “peace process”, and they have become a great force, and rely on a complete and integrated structure that cannot be underestimated at all, and the opposition remained demanding, and awaiting the implementation of the official leadership of the decisions taken.

Which increases the concern that the Palestinian opposition, or the so-called "Palestinian resistance axis", despite its steadfastness and resistance, does not have an alternative to what is on the table, and deals with reality as well, and the priority at its backbone is the continuation of its control over the Gaza Strip, and thereby contributing to the deepening of Division, and he also deals with economic peace because of his clinging to power, betting on the Arab-Islamic Spring at times, and on Iran and Hezbollah at other times, and on the demise of Israel soon this year or the next, or on the end of the occupation, the demise of settlements, and the lifting of the siege soon at a third time, as a result of Israel's internal contradictions, which are great, but they are not enough for the demise of Israel or the occupation, and fluctuate between treachery of the leadership and willingness to quota it and renew its legitimacy.

National salvation and victory over the Zionist colonial project and its occupation, expansionist and racist tools is not near, and there are many evidences and indicators of that, and it needs to provide its requirements that are not available, and we must prepare and act on this basis.

The fall of the solution theory and the adoption of apartheid alone is not a solution

The fall of the two-state solution through negotiations and concessions does not open the way to one state by adopting the discourse of rights and law, as some imagine. A movement that was unable to end the occupation of part of Palestine will not be able to remove Israel, or defeat the Zionist project, dismantle the system of racist privileges, and establish a single state in Palestine. If you use the same means that brought us to where we are, or if you use the means that form the other side of the coin to Oslo and economic peace.

Talking about a one-state solution without linking it to the defeat of the Zionist project is another aspect of Oslo. Because it replaces the discourse of national liberation and the political struggle with a legal and human rights struggle only, claiming that the world will sympathize with Palestinian individual and civil rights just as it did not sympathize with national rights, and even if it sympathizes, this is dealing with one of the manifestations of settler colonialism represented by Israel, and not with its roots and essence, and it descends with a roof. The Palestinian struggle by making it include the improvement of life within the existing one Jewish state, which is racist par excellence, and is smart trying to separate from the Palestinians while maintaining control over them through different systems and laws for each Palestinian community, in order to evade its responsibilities for the Palestinians and their rights as citizens, despite the illusion The owners of the state and one and the discourse of rights that they push it into a corner.

If the discourse of rights, equality and justice is not linked to the struggle to end the occupation and self-determination, or against settler colonialism to defeat it and dismantle the racist system of privileges; Or her words are just laughing at the chins consciously or without it.

Course change fears

What frightens the official leadership about confrontation and the consequences of changing course, and what worries the opposition and makes it reluctant to articulate a practical alternative to the Oslo authority, is the fear for their interests, the gains and positions they obtained, and the dominance and consolidation of the Israeli right, and its sweeping control over Israel, contrary to the expectations of many, who They bet on the decline of Israel, and that it is about to disappear, or they bet on the historic reconciliation with the Zionist movement.

While it is necessary to realize the impossibility of changing this right-wing Israeli reality in the immediate term, and for several years to come at least; Because he rules without a competitor from the left, or what is called the "peace camp".

The greatest competition in Israel has become between the right and the most extreme right. As for the remnants of the left and the center, they are a small minority that do not have an alternative to the right, but identify with it, and cannot rule alone without the participation of right-wing parties in the government, as happened after the fall of the Netanyahu government, and it will be It has the veto in any government in which it participates, and it is the decision-maker, as we saw in the government of Naftali Bennett, and the subsequent government of Yair Lapid, who, as evidenced by his incursion into Palestinian blood and the Judaization of Jerusalem, especially Al-Aqsa, competes with the fiercest right in his hostility to the Palestinians.

Resolve the conflict, not reduce it

The ruling right in Israel does not continue to manage the conflict, as did the Israeli governments since Oslo and until Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power in Israel in 2009. Rather, it began to resolve the conflict and escalate it, and not to reduce the conflict as the ruling circles in Israel claim, and Palestinian circles believed it. It is Arab and international. Rather, what is taking place is frantic Israeli attempts to resolve the conflict and liquidate the Palestinian cause from its various dimensions, as evidenced by what is happening in Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa and the entire West Bank in terms of Judaization, displacement, colonization, settlement and racism, as well as repeated military aggression and continuous siege of the Gaza Strip, and the application of the racist national law in Israel, intensified efforts to liquidate UNRWA, change the definition of a refugee, settle refugees, write off the right of return, and displace refugees to new areas of refuge.

What is happening leaves no room for doubt that what is happening before us is the establishment of the one Jewish Israeli state, through an increasing effort to annex and Judaize the West Bank, or large areas of it to Israel, and not the establishment of a state or a semblance of a Palestinian state, neither in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, nor in the West Bank alone. Not only in the Gaza Strip, the political content of the occupying state’s relationship with the Palestinians has been set aside, and it now deals with them as individuals and not as a people, and that what is required is to use all means to push them to accept, or at least, to coexist and deal with the reality imposed by Israel on the ground, which makes the Israeli solution the The only feasible solution.

What is happening is an implementation of the Trump deal without Trump, with the legal annexation of the areas specified for annexation being postponed until the appropriate circumstance becomes available.

Will the settler-colonial project succeed in settling the issue?

The answer is absolutely not, as evidenced by all forms of steadfastness and resistance, past and present, that the Palestinian people control, but it succeeds in liquidating the national movement that dominated the Palestinian scene during the past decades. To what I call the collapse of the national movement, which explains the failure to change course despite the catastrophe that led us to it, and the failure of the authority to protect its people from daily killings, raids, arrests and home demolitions, and the inability of the factions to deter the occupation and its aggression and its failure to lead the resistance in the West Bank; What created a vacuum that began to be filled by individual elements and groups responding spontaneously to the daily assassinations, raids and arrests.

What distinguishes this resistance is that it is mostly defensive and local. It writes heroics, but without capabilities, awareness, experience, organization, leadership or strategy. This makes it at best to keep the cause alive, but it does not have the ability to continue and escalate, and most importantly Accumulation and achievement of political achievements and victory; What makes heroics and valiant resistance mere sacrifices and heroics.

There is no alternative to changing the path and discourse, liberating it from the theory of ready-made solutions, and adopting the path of national liberation from settler colonialism that rules through military occupation, apartheid and aggression in all its forms, and aims to confiscate and Judaize the largest area of land and the least number of the indigenous people of the country with separation from them, and complete control over them.

This is the required path that stops the collapse of the national movement and rebuilds it jointly, or builds a new national movement that can unite the entire people by combining the discourse of interim and final solutions and the various forms of resistance, the common perception, the special circumstances and priorities of each gathering, and between ending the occupation and rights. Civil, patriotism, apartheid, equality, the right of return, self-determination, and a radical historical and democratic solution, but in conjunction with the challenge of the racist colonial project, and the struggle to defeat it, not to improve the conditions of life in it, with the importance of extracting any gain, no matter how small, but on the condition that it be linked to a broad horizon.

Written by: Hamada Pharaoh
The right-wing and far-right opposition parties in the Israeli colony, led by Netanyahu, achieved a tangible victory in the 25 parliamentary elections on November 1, 2022.
The four parties won 64 seats, a significant increase from what they had in the previous parliament, 24, while the coalition of right-wing parties that led the government headed by Yair Lapid retreated, and did not achieve the ability to continue its position and seats. As for the center-left party camp, the Labor Party retreated, and the Meretz movement lost. its location.
The camp of the Palestinian parties maintained its total seats from ten seats in the previous session to ten seats in the new 25th session.
The results of what the four electoral camps achieved were as follows:
First, the camp of the right-wing coalition with the extreme right achieved the following:
1- The Likud is headed by Netanyahu and has 32 seats, out of 30.
2- Religious Zionism, headed by the duo Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, with 14 seats, and it had only 6 seats in the previous parliament.
3- Shas, headed by Aryeh Deri, won 11 seats, up from the previous 9 seats.
4- "Torah Jews" headed by Moshe Gafni, won 8 seats, and had 7 seats.
Thus, the representation of this camp increased from 52 seats to 64, which qualifies Netanyahu to assign him to form the government without the need for any alliance with any of the other three camps' parties.
Secondly, the coalition of right-wing parties decreased its representation from 45 seats to 42.
According to the following results:
1 - "There is a Future" headed by Yair Lapid won 24 seats, he had 17 seats.
2- The National Camp, headed by Benny Gantz, won 11 seats, Blue and White had 8 seats, and New Hope 6 seats.
3- "Israel Our Home", headed by Avigdor Lieberman, won 5 seats, down from 7 seats previously.
4- The Yamina party, which had 7 seats, faded away and merged with other parties: Naftali Bennett resigned and did not run for any party, Adit Silman and Amichai Shikli joined the Likud, Matan Kahane joined the National Camp list, and Ayelet Shaked joined the party. She joined the Jewish Home and headed its list, but she did not succeed, and she did not pass the threshold.
Thirdly, the center-left camp got: 1- The Labor Party won 4 seats out of the 7 seats it had in the previous parliamentary session, 2- The Meretz movement had 6 seats, failed and did not exceed the threshold, and is now outside Parliament.
Fourth, the Palestinian camp, which consists of three lists:
1- The Joint Parliamentary List, consisting of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality coalition headed by Ayman Odeh, and the Arab Movement for Change headed by Ahmed Tibi, had 6 seats, then fell to 5 seats.
2- The Unified Arab List, headed by Mansour Abbas, advanced and won 5 seats, instead of the previous 4 seats.
3- The list of the National Democratic Gathering Party, led by Sami Abu Shehadeh, ran in the elections in the previous round with the Joint Alliance. It had representation with one seat. It ran in this round alone, so it could not pass the threshold and failed to reach Parliament.
The features of the Israeli political scene, through the results of the ballot boxes, are clear that the Israeli society is becoming more right-wing and extremist, equivalent to 80 percent of the Israelis, and the center-left camp has declined to the point of vanishing with the success of the "Labour" party with four seats, and the defeat of the "Meretz" movement.
The rotation between the right-wing parties, and it is clear that it fluctuates between supporting this party or that, but the extreme religious right-wing current is increasing in strength and influence, which will be reflected in the behavior and performance of the entire colony’s policies of cruelty and ferocity against both sides of the Palestinian people in areas 48 and 67, and the Palestinians will pay the price of success and victory The right and the extreme right in the administration of the colony, after the Palestinians did not learn from the severity of their divisions, and from the importance of their alliance with each other and the unity of their work and struggle in confronting the colony, its occupation and its racism.

Al-Obaidiya youth topped the standings, after its deserved victory over its guest, Tulkarm Center 3/1, in the match that took place at Al-Khader Stadium, within the last round of the first-leg first-leg stage, bringing Al-Obaidiya with this victory to 28 points, while Tulkarem Center 13 points in seventh place .

The meeting started with an early goal for the Tulkarem center, which came through the player Tariq Anbar, but Al-Obaidiya responded with the equalizing goal in the 20th minute, through striker Iyad Abu Sarhan. Al-Obaidiya started the first minute of the second half with the goal of advancing, and Muhannad Zawahra fell on him, and Iyad Abu Sarhan came back again and secured the result after he scored the third goal for his second team, his 74.

And at Al-Khader Stadium, the Sawahra youth team outperformed its Islamic counterpart Surbaher by four goals to one, bringing the Swahra with this victory to 26 points and coming in second place, with a goal difference from Askar, while Surbaher settled in ninth place with 10 points.

Al-Sawahra owes this victory to his brilliant striker Omar Shabana, who opened the scoring 35, and Shabana returned in the second half and added the goal to consolidate the score for Sawahra 46, and Obaid Abu Kaf reduced the score by 56, so that Omar Shabana came back again and signed his name on the hat-trick, while Zuhair Shaaban added the fourth goal for Sawahra.

In the second meeting, which took place at Faisal Al-Husseini Stadium, the Askar Center team achieved a victory over Hilal Jericho with two goals to one, and with this victory the center raised its score to 26 points and came third on the ranking ladder, while Al-Hilal’s balance froze at 19 points and came in fifth place.

The match began with a high physical rush, especially from Askar, who opened the scoring with Ahmed Musaed’s header 11, and the most dangerous opportunity for Al Hilal was Khaled Aziz.

In the half, Askar returned and strengthened his lead through Youssef Abu Warda from a ball he received inside the penalty area and placed it on the floor in the 63rd net. In the 83rd minute, Sameh Shatara added the third goal to Askar, and Muhammad Adel answered it with the aim of reducing the difference for Al Hilal.

Silwan's team defeated its guest, Carmel Yatta, with eight goals to one, in the match that was held at Faisal Al-Husseini Stadium, so that Silwan occupied fourth place with 19 points, with a difference of goals from Hilal Jericho, while Al-Carmel settled in last place with one point.

And with the 24th minute, Silwan opened the scoring with Thaer Qaraeen's foot with a shot from inside the penalty area, and after two minutes, Muhammad Hamo reinforced the score for Silwan with the second goal, and in the extra time of the half, Al-Karmel managed to reduce the difference through Shadi Rabei with a rebound ball that faced the goal.

Silwan started the second half with a third goal, which came through Muhammad Hamo, scoring his second personal goal, 62, so that Issa Al-Sweiti returned two minutes later and added the fourth goal, and Silwan expanded the score with the fifth goal through Amir Al-Khatib 77, and after three minutes, Thaer Qarareen added Silwan’s sixth goal, followed by Al-Sweiti With the seventh goal, Khalil Bairat concluded the meeting with the eighth goal.

Jenin - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ali Samoudi - The prisoner, Iyad Ahmed Harbiat (41 years), embodies a model of what freedom fighters are subjected to, from a programmed execution by the Israeli prison administration, as he suffered from serious complications that reached the point of real death after he was subjected to memory loss and coma. Because of a syringe with an unknown needle and the wrong treatment, and after a journey of bitter suffering and patience over 21 years, and the support and uprising of the prisoners , he overcame the tragedies and woes, and returned to practicing his life like all the prisoners, but he still needs care, treatment and follow-up that the prison administration refuses to provide, leaving him permanently vulnerable to complications.

Iyad is considered the first child of his family consisting of 11 members. He was born, raised, and lived in the city of Dura, Hebron Governorate. He learned in its schools, then finished high school at Al-Arroub Agricultural School. He joined An-Najah National University, majoring in agricultural engineering, but the occupation cut him off and prevented him from completing his university career and graduating.

His brother Youssef told Al-Quds.com, "Because of his activity and his active role in resisting the occupation, his name was included in the wanted list. Despite being targeted, he completed his university and was keen to hide. He was subjected to an assassination attempt by the occupation planes in Tulkarm camp, and he miraculously escaped death."

He added: "After a year-long chase, the Special Undercover Units kidnapped him on 9/21/2002, from the campus of An-Najah National University, without anyone noticing what happened with him, and there was no news of him and the family was unable to know his fate."

And he continues: "We lived through nightmares and a terrible spiral of terror, and we did not know if he was alive or dead, and after two years we received news from the Red Cross that he was detained in the investigation cellars."

Youssef narrates: "The occupation prevented the family from seeing Iyad even in court sessions, and he was subjected to a closed military court and sentenced at that time to life imprisonment in addition to 20 years."

And he adds: "Through the stations of his captivity, my brother moved between all Israeli prisons, and he was punished by isolation in solitary cells more than living in prisons with his fellow prisoners. Isolating him from the outside world was the most difficult thing for him, as he was subjected to penalties of deprivation of visits, clothes and two canteens."

Youssef continues: "Nevertheless, before he fell ill, he was able to complete his undergraduate studies in political science at the Hebrew Open University and obtained his bachelor's degree. He aspires to complete a master's degree in the same major, but the occupation punishes him and prevents him from continuing his studies."

Before and at the beginning of his arrest, Iyad did not suffer from any health problems or diseases, but the major catastrophe befell his life in 2013, and Youssef reports: “The prison clinic doctor injected him with an unknown needle that destroyed his health, structure and life, and led to the loss of his memory so that he did not recognize his mother during the visit ".

And he says, "That stage was very painful and difficult for my mother, who was eagerly awaiting that visit of her son, and discovered that he had lost his memory and did not recognize her. Despite that, the administration did not care about his condition and neglected his treatment, and even targeted him again."

Youssef explained that the forces of repression, during their storming of the section where Iyad is being held in Raymond prison in 2017, deliberately sprayed his brother with a toxic substance that caused burns throughout his body and complete paralysis of the limbs, and the burn marks are still on his body.

He says: "After this crime, he did not receive any treatment and was isolated from the prisoners, and as soon as the news reached them, his comrades rose up and carried out protest activities, demanding his treatment, but the administration deceived them, and instead of transferring him to the hospital, they moved him to the Ramla cemetery for the living."

He adds: "The prisoners donated treatment to him, but in return the only treatment from the administration was olive oil as a massage for Iyad, but the prisoners took care of him, treated him, and supported him to protect him from body stiffness and paralysis, and with patience and perseverance he was able to move his right and left hands and his right foot, but he needs treatments and massages." intense and continuous.

And he continues: "Thanks to the prisoners standing with him, Iyad underwent treatment, and he took 14 pills a day, but it caused him sediment, and in 2021 he began to suffer from urinary incontinence."

Youssef recalls: “The prison administration tried to kill my brother again through deliberate negligence. After terrible pain, during which he lost the ability to sleep, and after suffering 10 continuous days of pain, he was transferred to the clinic in Raymond Prison, and a “Perpeg” was put in place for urine incorrectly. The discharge of urine is external and has become internal to the body.

He added, "Four days after the implant was placed, the tube exploded, causing bleeding that lasted for many hours. The prisoners began asking the administration to place Iyad from 3:00 am until 8:00 am in the clinic, but to no avail."

And he continues: "At that time, Iyad lost consciousness, and the prisoners burned Raymond prison, to pressure the administration to transfer him to the hospital for treatment, and after the protest, they transferred him to Siruka Hospital in Al-Bosta."

And he continues: "When my brother arrived at the hospital, he had bled a lot, lost all fluids from his body, and his heart had stopped and was resuscitated, after which he underwent more than 20 operations, including: removing all the membranes surrounding the intestines and organs, and the lung stopped working by 80%, As a result of the presence of mold and bacteria, caused by a medical error."

After 75 days of coma, the scene changed and he returned to life, and his brother says: "By a miracle from God Almighty, Iyad woke up, and my mother was summoned in order to find out whether he knew her or not.

The prisoner Iyad is currently in the Ramla clinic, and his brother says: "His pain continues and the medical neglect has not ended, but praise be to God after all that suffering and diseases, for he defied all the difficulties, the occupation, the jailer, his oppression and his punishments with his great faith in the Lord of the Worlds."

Youssef says: "We are all waiting for the date of his visit and seeing him, but the occupation always makes us uncomfortable, as I am now forbidden to visit him except once every 3 months, while my sick and elderly father is now rejected by the security forces."

He added: "Every day, my mother sits in front of our house, waiting to see him free and return to her arms, to wipe away the sorrows of life and the pain of absence, and replace the tears of separation with songs of joy, instead of a wedding, and songs of freedom and victory over the occupation and its prisons."

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Twitter's chief attorney Vigya Kad, seen as a leading advocate for censorship of conservatives, is among the high-paid executives who could lose their jobs if the US billionaire completes Elon. Musk's takeover of the company.

And the legal director of Twitter, who received $ 17 million last year, lives in a state of extreme panic, as the Tesla CEO is said to be planning to cut jobs and reduce executive salaries as he looks to secure financing to buy Twitter, according to the New York report. Post » American.

After revealing plans to take over the company earlier this month, Musk expressed his "distrust" of Twitter's current management, which does not bode well for their future, which will become evident once he takes over later this year.

However, Kadad would also win a nice consolation price if she was fired: a $12.5 million severance package.

The 48-year-old, who reportedly burst into tears when addressing her colleagues about the future of Twitter, has become a controversial source in recent days because of Musk himself, who tweeted her picture and painted her as oblivious to "liberal bias" on the Bluebird platform. According to "Al-Arabiya Net".

This came after Led and its then-Chairman, former CEO Jack Dorsey, appeared on a podcast titled “The Joe Rogan Experience” in 2019. During that appearance, conservative journalist Tim Paul confronted both Dorsey and Led about instances in which right-wing voices had been banned from Twitter. .

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Friday, settlers attacked citizens' vehicles with stones, on Hawwara Street, south of Nablus.

Local sources reported that a number of settlers stormed Hawara Street in a provocative manner, and attacked citizens' vehicles with stones, without any damages or injuries reported.

RABAT - (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday inscribed " Traditional Tea Processing Techniques and Associated Social Practices in China " on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The decision was announced during the 17th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO, which was held in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, from November 28 to December 3.

After the decision to include this intangible cultural heritage in the list, the head of the Chinese delegation participating in the session, Wang Yongjian, said that it is an important achievement for international exchanges and cooperation in the field of culture, and will help enhance the visibility of intangible cultural heritage, as well as awareness and respect for cultural diversity and human creativity.

He added that China will continue to earnestly implement the Convention on the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage and introduce more intangible cultural heritage projects with Chinese characteristics that embody the Chinese spirit and contain Chinese wisdom.

Traditional tea processing techniques and associated social practices in China consist of knowledge, skills, and practices related to managing tea plantations, tea leaf picking, manual processing, and tea drinking and sharing.

And tea is ubiquitous in the daily life of the Chinese people. Steeped or boiled tea is served in family homes, workplaces, teahouses, restaurants and temples. It is an important means of communication in socialization and celebrations.

Based on natural conditions and local customs, tea producers in China have developed six categories of green, yellow, dark, white, oolong and black teas, as well as re-processed teas such as flower-scented teas.

It is noteworthy that China has 43 intangible cultural heritage items on the list after the new listing, ranking first in the world.

And in December 2019, the United Nations General Assembly agreed in a resolution to designate May 21 as International Tea Day.

On October 17, 2003, the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was adopted to protect the world's intangible cultural heritage.

The agreement aims to protect the knowledge and expertise necessary for traditional crafts, as well as cultural practices passed down from generation to generation, such as oral traditions, performance arts, social practices, as well as knowledge and practices related to nature.

Tulkarm - "Jerusalem" dot com - This morning, the anti- drug police seized more than one and a half kilograms of cannabis and hashish, and 3 pieces of firearms, and arrested 4 people in the city from different regions.

The Public Relations and Media Department of the police stated that, with close follow-up of drug dealers, and based on information received from the Anti-Narcotics Branch, a person possessed suspected narcotics, weapons and ammunition from the residents of Tulkarm camp, which is one of the largest drug and arms dealers in the city. Immediately, the Anti-Narcotics Branch, with the support of the Branch The General Investigation, the Special Police, and the joint patrols issued a search warrant and duly searched the house. The wanted man was arrested, and he was in possession of 854.6 g of narcotic hybrid cannabis and 430.8 g of narcotic hashish. In addition, 3 pieces of weapons, a pistol, cartridges, and a factory carlo were seized.

In a related context to a second case that was seized this morning, after information was received by the Anti-Narcotics Branch stating that a drug dealer had possessed narcotic substances. Immediately, the anti-narcotic force moved to the place, and two persons were arrested, one of whom was a resident of the governorate, and he had two arrest warrants, and the second person was a resident of Nablus, and they were seized. 259.6 grams of hybrid cannabis.

In a third case, and after a follow-up and monitoring operation, a drug user from Qalqilya governorate, who is in the city of Tulkarm, and who has previous criminal records, was arrested and seized in possession of manufactured cannabis.

The police confirmed that the suspects were kept with the seized items, in order to refer them to the competent authority to complete the legal procedures against them.

Ankara - (dpa) - The Turkish "NTV" channel quoted a pricing list issued by the country's Energy Regulatory Authority that it was decided to raise electricity prices by 25% for industries and commercial companies.

The Energy Market Regulatory Authority also raised electricity prices by 15 percent for homes.

The authorities also raised natural gas prices for households and industries, according to Bloomberg News on Wednesday.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Thursday, Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh called on a delegation from churches in the United States of America to send a message and a clear position to all officials in the American administration and the Senate and House of Representatives, to reject the injustice and suffering that our people face as a result of the occupation, and to call for pressure Israel to end its occupation of Palestine.

Shtayyeh briefed the delegation, during their reception in his office in Ramallah, on the developments in the situation and the reality of living in Palestine, especially in Jerusalem, and the suffering that our people, Muslims and Christians, face due to the occupation, its violations and measures.

He also informed them of the occupation's attack on the Islamic and Christian sanctities in Jerusalem, and the attempts to impose deteriorating realities on the ground, in addition to the challenges imposed by the Israeli government and the racist practices towards our people.

Hebron - "Jerusalem" dot com -Large Palestinian masses in the city of Hebron, this evening, Friday, mourned the body of the martyr Maha Kazem Al-Zaatari (24 years old), to his final resting place.

The funeral ceremony took place in a military funeral from Al-Ahly Hospital in Hebron, towards the home of her family, who took a farewell look at her body, before praying for him in Al-Safa Mosque, and his burial in the martyrs’ cemetery in the municipality suburb.

The Israeli occupation authorities handed over the body of the martyr Zaatari this afternoon, through the Tarqumiya military checkpoint.

The martyr Al-Zaatari succumbed to her critical injury by the Israeli occupation bullets on April 10, near the Ibrahimi Mosque, and was left bleeding on the ground until she was martyred.

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - The child Yahya Muhammad Abu Ghazal (9 years old) was killed today, Saturday, as a result of being run over by a vehicle near the industrial intersection in the northern Gaza Strip .

According to the Gaza Traffic Department, the child was run over by a tractor-type vehicle driven by the driver (N, S), 20 years old, and he was taken to the hospital as a lifeless body.

She indicated that the driver was arrested and the vehicle seized. To complete the legal procedures in the case.

Tunisia - (AFP) - Employees of the government transport sector in the capital, Tunis, abruptly suspended a strike Thursday, which they carried out on Thursday, to protest the delay in the payment of salaries to the company's employees, according to the Ministry of Transport.

Transportation resumed normally Thursday, after the capital witnessed turmoil throughout Wednesday, as many citizens were unable to join their work since the morning, according to an AFP correspondent.

And the Ministry of Transport announced, in a statement on Wednesday night-Thursday, "the resumption of travel on the bus and metro network, and thus the suspension of the sudden strike carried out by the company's employees, following a negotiating session that brought together company officials and the trade union party."

The Ministry confirmed that it will enable employees to pay their dues within the specified deadlines.

And on Wednesday, Wajih al-Zaidi, general clerk of the University of Transportation (union), said in press statements that "more than 8,300 employees and to date have not received their salaries... This has caused tension within the institution and among the employees."

The Tunis Transport Company operates 250 buses and 15 train cars linking the capital with the Greater Tunis region, which includes four governorates with a population of more than two million.

The syndicate official denounced "the failure of any official from the ministry regarding the date of salary disbursement" and the "deterioration" of the company's fleet of buses.

Tunisia has been witnessing a continuous economic crisis for years, exacerbated by the repercussions of the Russian-Ukrainian war and the Covid-19 crisis.

The International Monetary Fund announced two weeks ago that it had reached an expert-level agreement with the Tunisian authorities to grant it a loan of $1.9 billion over 48 months, pending final approval to be approved next December.

In return for the loan, the Tunisian government undertakes to implement a package of reforms, the most important of which is reviewing the subsidy policy and granting it to those who deserve it, as well as restructuring and reforming government companies.

Ramallah "Jerusalem" - dot com - The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs revealed in a report it issued this afternoon, quoting its lawyer, Ms. Sherine Nasser, that the health conditions of the two prisoners, A. Ahmed Salah and Fayez Baara , who are in "Raymond Prison", are facing difficult health conditions, as a result of the continued Prison administration in practicing the policy of deliberate medical negligence against them.

The authority stated that the prisoner Ahmed Salah (45 years) from the city of Bethlehem suffers from inflammation of the right colon, and this was shown as a result of the CT scan provided to him by the administration, and he was told by the prison doctor that he would be transferred to a specialist in a civilian hospital. This was last March, but the prison administration did not fulfill its promises and is still deliberately neglecting his health condition, noting that he was shot in the intestine and right foot during the siege of the Church of the Nativity and is serving a 21-year sentence to life and ten years.

As for the prisoner Fayez Baara (51 years), from the city of Nablus, who was arrested in 2004, he had cancer in the lymph nodes, and he underwent an operation immediately, and from that time until now he suffers from several problems, including a crisis in the soul, and now he needs to perform a new surgery to remove what What remained of the tumor, bearing in mind that the doctors told him that the success rate of the operation is 35%, which is very dangerous because it is close to the nerve and there is a possibility that it will cause him paralysis, but the prisoner is ready to perform the operation, because of the severe pains he suffers from, and the opinion of the prison administration and doctors was not based on medical examinations Serious medical conditions, and this is what makes the prisoner determined to undergo the operation.

The Commission held the occupation authorities fully responsible for continuing the policy of deliberate medical negligence against Palestinian prisoners, and called on international institutions, human rights institutions and the International Red Cross to play their necessary role towards the issue of prisoners, especially the sick among them.

Beirut - (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron stressed, in an interview with three media outlets, including the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar, published Friday, the need to "change the leadership" in Lebanon and "remove" the political leaders who obstruct reforms.

The French president, who has been trying in vain since September 2020 to urge the Lebanese political class to adopt the necessary reforms to get the country out of the political and economic crisis, considered that "Lebanon's problem is to solve people's problems and remove those who do not know how to do that."

And he believed that what is required after that is "restructuring the financial system and developing a plan with an honest president, an honest prime minister, and a work team that implements it and has the support of the street."

"The leadership of this country must be changed," he added.

Lebanon is still without a president since the term of former President Michel Aoun ended on October 31.

The representatives, who are deeply divided between the pro-Iranian Hezbollah camp and the anti-Hezbollah camp, did not manage to elect a new president, despite holding ten sessions for this purpose so far.

A resigned government with limited powers, headed by Najib Mikati, is running the country, which is suffering from a severe economic collapse.

Macron stressed the need to "help" Prime Minister Najib Mikati, who "is trying, despite everything, to do the best he can."

In response to a question about the commander of the Lebanese army, General Joseph Aoun, who is considered one of the most prominent candidates for the presidency, but he is not an official candidate for it.

"What I care about are the Lebanese women and men, not those who live at their expense," added the French president, who regretted the massive emigration of young men.

He stressed that he wanted to "help the emergence of an alternative political solution (...) without any leniency with the political forces," calling for "not to concede anything to those who have influenced in recent years and want to stay and practice extortion."

Macron, who returned from Amman, where he participated in the "Baghdad 2" regional conference on Iraq, revealed that he would work "in the coming weeks on a similar framework with Lebanon."

He stressed that he is "convinced" that "the Lebanese, Syrian and other issues can only be resolved by creating a framework for discussion that includes Iran, given its regional influence."

Jerusalem - "Jerusalem" dot com - Human Rights Watch said that the new Israeli measures regarding the entry of foreigners into the West Bank threaten to exacerbate the separation of Palestinians from global civil society.

Today, Monday, Human Rights Watch issued its report entitled "The West Bank: New Entry Procedures Exacerbate the Isolation of Palestinians," referring to the difficulties that 13 people faced for years in entering the West Bank, and their concerns about the impact of the new instructions on them.

The report indicated that these procedures, which entered into force in October 2022 and were amended in December 2022, specify detailed procedures for the entry and residence of foreigners into the West Bank, a process that differs from the procedures for entering Israel.

"Israel is making it more difficult to spend time in the West Bank, and in so doing it is taking more steps to make the West Bank like Gaza, where two million Palestinians have lived virtually cut off from the outside world for more than a year," said Eric Goldstein, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. 15 years.

Goldstein added that this policy was designed to weaken the social, cultural, and intellectual ties that the Palestinians are trying to maintain with the outside world.

In July 2022, the Israeli authorities refused to grant Omar Shaker, Director of Israel and Palestine Affairs at Human Rights Watch, a permit to enter the West Bank for a week, in order to conduct research and advocacy meetings.

The organization referred to the broad authority possessed by the occupation army to enter.

Istanbul - "Al Quds" dot com - A source in the " Hamas " movement said today, Friday, that a delegation from the movement will visit Syria during the month of October.

The Turkish Anadolu Agency quoted the source as saying that the delegation's visit comes within the framework of developing relations with Damascus.

He pointed out that the visit will take place after the end of the Palestinian reconciliation talks hosted by Algeria on October 10, without further details.

According to other sources, the delegation will be headed by Khalil al-Haya, responsible for the file of Arab and Islamic relations in Hamas.

Hamas had recently confirmed that there are contacts with the Syrian regime in order to restore relations with it, which sparked a great controversy among journalists, writers, religious and public figures inside and outside Palestine regarding this decision.

Relations between Hamas and Damascus were severed in 2012, following the outbreak of the Syrian revolution.

Written by: Dr. Salah's mind

Many factors and events have affected the Palestinian cause, which led to a decline in interest in it, and it has become a secondary issue. The outbreak of the so-called Arab revolutions led to a direct and substantial impact on the Palestinian cause, and it became a marginal issue because the Arab countries and the world were preoccupied with the wars and destruction that befell the region of the Arab world, and attention began to focus on change in the region, and every country became preoccupied and searching for salvation from its crisis. Or the catastrophe that befell it as a result of the fighting and destruction, and the biggest beneficiary of that was Israel, which took advantage of that to pounce on what was left of the Palestinian cause. Israel has monopolized the Palestinian people and waged many wars against Gaza, taking advantage of the situation in the region and the state of indifference to the Palestinian cause on the part of the Arabs, to turn the Palestinian cause from the first issue to the forgotten issue, and this is considered the first factor. ‏
The second factor is neglecting and targeting the Palestinian cause after the election of the Zionist American President Donald Trump on January 20, 2017 - January 20, 2021, who took many decisions regarding the Palestinian cause, including the announcement on December 6, 2017, that The city of Jerusalem is the capital of the occupying state, and on May 14, 2018, the US embassy was transferred to occupied Jerusalem, and on August 2, 2018, US aid to the Palestinian Authority was stopped, and on August 3, 2018, all aid to UNRWA was cut off, and on September 10 September 2018, the PLO office in Washington was closed, and on November 18, 2019, the existing settlements on the lands of the West Bank were legalized, and the US administration announced its agreement to annex and impose Israel’s sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea and to expand settlements in the West Bank, to annex 33% of the West Bank, which leads to the liquidation of the Palestinian cause, the end of the right of return, and the dream of establishing a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders; This is what former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced with the slogan “Peace in exchange for peace.” This is what happened after the UAE and many Arab countries brazenly normalized relations with Israel in light of the targeting of the Palestinian cause. This step must be defined as a step to open the Arab gate. For more free normalization with Israel, without a radical solution to the Palestinian issue and repudiation of the Arab Peace Initiative that was launched at the Beirut Summit in 2002, which ends the Palestinian issue as the central Arab issue to become the issue of the besieged and divided Palestinians. ‏
The third factor is the world’s preoccupation with the epidemic, which affected all levels and levels, as countries were preoccupied with how to confront the epidemic threat and economic collapse, and then the Russian-Ukrainian war, unlimited global support for Ukraine, and double standards towards the Ukrainian issue and the Palestinian issue that has been suffering for seven years. decades of continued occupation brutality; In light of Israel's preoccupation with settlement expansion, killings, wars, arrests, and demolitions without drawing even the world's attention to Israel's policies, this culminated in the announcement of the annexation of the West Bank, and the refusal of former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, elected on June 13, 2021, to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority, and refused to sit with The Palestinian President, and this was announced by Bennett on September 14, 2021, and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, on October 3, 2021, refused President Abbas's invitation to sit with her. ‏
The Palestinian cause has been and continues to be neglected by the international community, the bias and endless support of the American and British administrations for Israel, the weakness of international bodies, organizations and institutions and their inability to implement international resolutions, until the level of weakness has reached their inability to condemn settlements in the West Bank and all This is a result of the dominance of the United States of America through its veto over these human rights institutions, and the preoccupation of the countries of the world with the deteriorating economic situation and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, in addition to the Arabs’ distancing from the Palestinian cause and the search for the interests of the Arab rulers by remaining in power by appeasing the Americans and implementing what they demand. Especially the rapprochement with Israel until the limit reached the stage of strategic alliance and security cooperation in all its details.
As for the subjective factors, they are many, varied, interrelated and interdependent with each other, such as division, administrative and financial corruption, security coordination, lack of freedoms, extreme poverty, high unemployment, lack of hope for change, political arrest, the killing of the popular activist Nizar Banat, the worsening level of crime in the shadow of the absence of a deterrent law, loss of hope and lack of confidence. Political leadership, the failure to hold general elections, the clinging of the influential political leadership to the chairs until all Palestinian institutions are led by the youngest generation of 70 years, and the lack of possession or development of programs and plans aimed at supporting the steadfastness of citizens.
In addition to the weakness of the position and the inability of the Palestinian leadership, which still does not believe in anything other than negotiations to end the occupation and fights the resistance and bets on the American position and sponsor of the stalled Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, and what remains of them and the Oslo agreement is only sacred security coordination, which increased the marginalization and absence of the Palestinian cause internationally and in the Arab world. In addition to the American, Israeli, and British targeting of the Palestinian cause, perhaps the recent British decision to consider Hamas a terrorist organization and an outlaw serves to punish the Palestinian people and shamelessly support the occupation and Arab normalization. And most importantly, the Palestinian policies that could not get out of the negotiation circle, and not to inspect and put forward plans that force the world to pay attention to the Palestinian cause, as martyr President Yasser Arafat did when he returned from Camp David in 2000 to announce the outbreak of a second intifada that was able to restore political life. And others for the Palestinian cause, and to turn the tables on everyone, and from here he was able to restore respect for the Palestinian cause and restore the Palestinian file to occupy the position and the Arab and international public opinion, and everyone is looking for solutions in order to put an end to the burning intifada.
As for the level of Palestinian internal politics within the framework of national relations; The Palestinian organizations' position does not rise to the size of the plan to liquidate the issue. The internal Palestinian politics go from one setback to the next, and the internal political disputes are exacerbated, which in turn affects the level of Arab and international sympathy and solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Division, siege, wars, and Gazan life are devastated at all levels. In the West Bank, the state of chaos, security chaos, unemployment, poverty, and corruption strikes with all the might of the people. ‏
The Palestinian case is unique, as the Palestinian elections took place in 1996 and then did not take place until after the martyrdom of President Yasser Arafat, as President Mahmoud Abbas was elected in 2005, and presidential elections can only be held after the death of President Abbas, may God extend his life, and then The radical change is taking place in the Palestinian case. But that does not mean stillness, as the Palestinian cause is governed by a rule that states that "the momentary variable is the only constant." ‏
The current official Palestinian leadership bears all responsibility for what the Palestinian cause has reached. Therefore, it and the factions and the national whole are required to take the following steps:
1. Implementing the decisions of the National and Central Councils regarding defining the relationship with Israel, withdrawing its recognition, and ending security coordination from the Palestinian dictionary. ,
2. Starting from the agreement that took place between the Palestinian organizations in Cairo in February 2021, with Egyptian mediation, which provided for the holding of the third general elections, as Presidential Decree No. 3 was issued on January 15, 2021, to hold presidential and legislative elections. And the National Council, which is to hold legislative elections on May 22, 2021, and according to the decree, presidential elections will be held at the end of July 2021, given that the results of the Legislative Council elections are the first stage in the formation of the Palestinian National Council, provided that the election of members of the Council is completed The National Assembly at the end of August 2021, in accordance with the basic system of the Liberation Organization and national understandings, so that the elections for the National Council will be held wherever possible, and the general elections will be reconsidered on the basis of this agreement, from the stopping point that began when the legislative elections were postponed on April 30, 2021.
3. Formation of a national unity government whose main task is to prepare for the legislative and presidential elections to renew the legitimacy of all the bodies of the Palestinian people, including the National Council, the Central Council, and the Executive Committee.
4. Immediately lifting the blockade imposed on the Strip, announcing the end of all decisions taken by the President regarding the Strip and Hamas, and treating Gaza employees as employees of the West Bank.
5. Rehabilitation of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the consideration of the Palestinian Authority and its government as one of the bodies of the Liberation Organization, leading to the termination of the Authority in its current form, so that the Liberation Organization is the one with sovereignty over power, and not the other way around.
6. Reforming the Palestine Liberation Organization, by taking an urgent step represented by the joining of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements to the organization, leading to the reconfiguration of the organization’s committees based on the elections.
7. Dealing positively with the vision paper that Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of Hamas, presented to the Egyptian leadership at the end of November 2021, and the document of leader Nasser Al-Qudwa, which he presented at the end of July 2022, to get out of the Palestinian crisis, which is a programmatic paper. A mission that can be built on, and open a serious dialogue towards implementing its provisions. ‏
8. Opening the way for the masses to take the initiative, and for the security services not to interfere with the popular action. Rather, the security services must be a supportive factor supporting the movements and protecting the people from the danger of occupation. ,
9. Releasing political prisoners in both parts of the country, stopping media harassment, and preparing the atmosphere for initiatives of unity and cohesion in confronting the occupation.
10. Moving away from the policy of leadership succession by stirring up rumors, feeling the pulse and preparing the ground for succession from the gate of history and revolutionary legitimacy and other names that are outside the democratic understanding and the foundations of assuming power. The process of circumventing the general elections will not succeed due to popular rejection. In addition to the sharp division within the political elites, specifically within Fatah centralism, and most importantly, the increase in the number of elites who are bossy in the Palestinian case, and most of them find electoral and even revolutionary eligibility for themselves. ‏
11. Fighting rampant corruption in the Palestinian Authority, giving freedom of expression, placing the right man in the right place, and reviewing all the promotions and appointments approved for the children of officials at the expense of the citizen.
* Palestinian writer and researcher specializing in ideological movements. ‏

Jenin - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ali Samoudi - Large crowds mourned, Monday evening, the body of the child martyr Mahmoud Muhammad Khaled Samoudi (12 years old) in the town of Al-Yamoun, west of the governorate.

Dozens of armed men from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades participated in the funeral, which set off from Ramallah towards the town of Al-Yamoun, the birthplace of the martyr, amid chants of patriotism condemning the occupation and calling for the continuation of resistance against the occupation.

The family of the martyr took a last farewell look at his body amidst tears and sadness, and the mourners headed to Al-Yamoun cemetery, then a memorial festival was held in which many words were delivered that held the occupation responsible for the crime of killing the child Al-Samoudi.

The child Smoudi was martyred after he was hit by a live bullet fired by the occupation soldiers during the aggression on the city and camp of Jenin last Wednesday.

Moscow - (AFP) - Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov said Thursday that the naval maneuvers planned for this week between the Russian and Chinese navies in the East China Sea are a "response" to the "aggressive" position of the United States in Asia.

"This cooperation is a natural reaction to the aggressive accumulation of US military capabilities in the region," Gerasimov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying.

He added, "The Russian-Chinese naval and air patrols in the Asia-Pacific region, exercises and exercises have become a practical implementation of the strategic partnership with China."

Russia announced Monday that many of its warships will participate between December 21 and 27 in exercises with the Chinese navy, while Moscow and Beijing are their relations against the West at the height of the conflict in Ukraine.

The Russian Defense Ministry said at the time that joint missile, artillery and anti-submarine warfare exercises were also included in the programme.

Valery Gerasimov confirmed Thursday that "the aim of these exercises is to increase the combat harmony of the soldiers and forces of the two countries and their ability to resist new challenges and threats."

The Russian chief of staff said that Moscow and Beijing do not intend, however, to "create alliances" or create "new divisions in the region, as Washington does."

Russia has been seeking for months to strengthen its relations with Asian countries, especially China, in the face of Western sanctions imposed on it in the wake of its attack on Ukraine.

Written by: Ibrahim Ibrash

The final indecisiveness of the Palestinian leadership regarding the transition from a status of a limited self-governing authority to a state under occupation, even though President Abu Mazen, in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly, left the door open to all possibilities, requires a rational and objective approach to the future of the authority and its obligations according to the Oslo Accords, especially since Voices are rising calling for its overthrow, and some are working to weaken it. This coincides with: the escalation of commando operations against the occupation, the increasing state of anger against the authority, continuous Israeli efforts to weaken the authority, the suspension of the political settlement process, the consolidation of division, and the absence of a horizon for the electoral process.

We wrote dozens of articles on the national authority and talked about the subject in dozens of conferences, seminars, interviews and through audio-visual media, in which we said that the self-rule authority restricted by the requirements of the Oslo Accord is not a final or fixed given of our national rewards, but rather it is a temporary condition that can be overcome if there is the national will to change its function. Or by moving to the state or by returning to the state of national liberation, as we distinguished between the principle of the existence of a national authority on the one hand and the mistakes and abuses of the ruling political class on the other hand. However, for some to demand the dissolution of the authority without preparing a national alternative, this will lead to a state of chaos from which only the enemy will benefit. Today, after the passage of lean years, there has been no transition towards the state, nor a return to the state of national liberation, nor the rebuilding and revival of the PLO, nor an end to the division, but rather the authority has become even weaker. The weakness and exposure of its opponents has increased. Some are still calling for the abolition of the authority or working to weaken it!

The effects and repercussions of overthrowing or dissolving the Palestinian National Authority will not be limited to the collapse of the government and its institutions and the consequent cessation of the payment of salaries and the provision of basic services to the majority of citizens, or the end of the Fatah movement’s control over power. The Zionist entity and those with a non-national agenda, and with the state of weakness that the PLO is in, the Hamas movement and its authority in the Gaza Strip remain the main address for the Palestinians, and Israel is ready to deal with this address.

It is not a questioning of the intentions of all opponents of the authority, nor of the intentions of all the armed youth expelled from Israel and sometimes from the authority in the West Bank; The latter accumulated mistakes, which angered many, even those who belong to the PLO and the Fatah movement and defend the principle of the existence of a national authority. However, it is not guaranteed that weakening or overthrowing the authority serves the national interest in the absence of a national alternative to replace it.

There are three active political parties in the political scene: Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and the opposition forces - without ignoring other forces, including Arab and regional countries, that work in secret and without official addresses. Israel has well-known goals, and it is hostile to the Authority as well as its opponents, even if it coordinates tactically with some of them, because it considers every Palestinian an enemy to it, just as it views the West Bank as part of (the Land of Israel) and will not give it up to anyone. As previously mentioned, although it sees itself as a national achievement and gain and is supported by a large segment of the people, but what about the opposition parties?

The word or term “opposition” in the Palestinian case is ambiguous and ambiguous. If most of the opposition forces declare their hostility to Israel and stand against the authority, they do not agree on everything else, nor do they have any vision or strategy for the post-collapse period.

Under the heading of the opposition, the ropes are mixed with bombs, in which:

1- Activists and civil actors who oppose the authority because of its violations of freedom of opinion and expression, or the existence of corruption in it, or against some of its political positions, but they are not against the principle of the existence of a national authority, and among them are those who belong to the Fatah movement and the organization's factions.

2- Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and they say that they are part of the Fatah movement, and the latter is the one that leads the authority!

3- Hamas and Islamic Jihad, with their hidden differences and disagreements. They are also committed to a truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip and binding on them even in the West Bank and the 48 areas.

4- The Islamic Liberation Party, which tweets alone and disagrees not only with the authorities, but with all other opposition parties.

5- Young men from the security services decided to rebel against the Dayton Doctrine, which deluded them that security coordination and suppression of activists and opponents of the authority achieve security and safety and bring the desired Palestinian state closer, but they discovered that what they are doing serves the occupying state more than it serves the Palestinian people.

6- Some families, clans and class of beneficiaries of the occupation who feel that the authority threatens their influence and interests.

7- And there are those who were formed by Israel to form the village associations again.

8- There are those who owe loyalty to Jordan and their loyalty to Jordan is stronger than their loyalty to Palestine.

9- And do not forget the criminals, thieves and bandits concerned with chaos, because it facilitates their criminal work.

10- In addition to spies and agents of Israel working in secret or under various names, we may find some of them in civil society institutions and within the authority itself.

If Israel is reducing the powers of the PA and its areas of influence and is trying to weaken it by various means and does not trust it despite all the political flexibility and security coordination provided by the PA leadership... Will it trust the opponents of the PA and this is their situation? Is it possible to grant them powers and the possibility of working that serve the national interest more than it granted the Liberation Organization and the national authority emanating from it?

There are those who compare, in the context of defending the national authority, between what was happening in Gaza before the Hamas coup and what is happening in the West Bank these days, and we believe that the comparison is relatively correct in one aspect, which is the weakening of the national authority. Israel is ready to leave the Strip, and Hamas was ready to take it. As for the West Bank, Israel will not allow any Palestinian national party to control the West Bank, because in its eyes, the West Bank is an essential part of their alleged state.

This does not mean sticking to power and defending it in its current situation, whether it is unjust or oppressed. Rather, we call for rational thinking for the sake of the national interest, away from the calculations of Arab and regional countries and those with foreign agendas, especially since the Palestinians’ experience with these countries and agendas throughout the decades of the history of the Palestinian cause was painful, and nothing will change it. Something about the slogans and ideologies raised by these parties, and we should also take advantage of what happened to the first uprisings in 1987 and the second in 2000, and how the absence of a vision and a unified national strategy led to the lack of practical political achievements.

On the other hand, the Palestinian leadership is required to work hard for the transition from the authority to the state, while we are aware of the legal and practical challenges and difficulties of this transition. All the Palestinian people, and in order for it to be so, it must be in the context of a national consensus, or the matter must be done through a popular referendum. We believe that the issue deserves discussion in the (reconciliation) meetings in Algeria, which, although we are not optimistic about achieving important breakthroughs, we hope that it will go beyond the frivolous dialogues that took place over the years in Cairo and other Arab and foreign capitals.

MADRID (Xinhua) -- Spain's health ministry said Wednesday that 679 people died in the first eight days (July 10-17) of the second heat wave that hit the country this summer.

The Carlos III Health Institute said 169 deaths occurred on July 17 alone.

According to the institute, 430 of the 679 victims were people aged 85 and over, 159 were between 75 and 84 years old, and 58 were between 65 and 74 years old.

The second heat wave of the summer ended with slightly lower temperatures on Tuesday, but temperatures are expected to top 40 degrees Celsius again in most parts of the country before the weekend.

The institute said that the first heat wave in 2022 occurred from June 11 to 17 and caused 829 deaths. As a result, 1,508 people have died in the country this summer due to the extreme heat.

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid spoke this evening, Wednesday, with US President Joe Biden , and they discussed at length the negotiations related to the Iranian nuclear agreement.

According to Lapid's office - as reported by the Arabic-speaking Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority - Lapid and Biden discussed the various efforts being made to stop Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons.

They also discussed the latest developments and activities described as "terrorist" by Iran in the Middle East and beyond.

In this context, Lapid congratulated Biden on the recent raids launched by the United States in Syria.

Biden affirmed his deep commitment to Israel's security and to preserving its military capabilities in the face of any threat, whether near or far.

Montreal - (AFP) - Canada announced the imposition of more sanctions on Iran, on the grounds of human rights violations during the demonstrations taking place in the country.

The sanctions affect three Iranian entities and 17 individuals, including the prosecutor in the Iranian Revolutionary Court, Saeed Mortazavi, former Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif, senior officials in state media, and a former defense minister.

Canadian sanctions prohibit dealing with targeted persons and entities, freeze any assets they have in Canada, and prevent the 17 people from entering the country.

Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie said, "The Iranian regime's actions speak for themselves. The world has watched for years (the regime) as it implements an agenda of violence, fear and propaganda."

Since September 16, Iran has been witnessing protests sparked by the death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, three days after she was arrested by the morality police for not adhering to the strict dress code.

Canada announced last week that it would permanently deny entry to more than ten thousand members of the "criminal" Iranian regime, including members of the Revolutionary Guards, which Ottawa accuses of committing "heinous" acts against the Iranian people.

In total, Canada imposed sanctions on 83 Iranians and 173 entities, in line with other countries such as the United States.

Bamako - (AFP) - A worker of the humanitarian organization "Doctors Without Borders" has been released after being kidnapped in Mali by jihadists, according to police and organizations.

And sources in the financial police told AFP that gunmen kidnapped the worker, who holds the nationality of Burkina Faso, in the northeastern city of Gao, the largest city in the region.

Another Gao police source added, "At 08:00 GMT, the Médecins Sans Frontières worker, who had been kidnapped on December 19, was released."

A source from a foreign humanitarian organization in the city confirmed the news.

"He was released while he is in good health, and he went to Bamako (the capital of Mali) on a plane belonging to a humanitarian organization," he told AFP.

A Doctors Without Borders official confirmed the worker's release, without giving further details.

Mali, one of the poorest countries in the world, has been witnessing a jihadist insurgency for nearly a decade, which has expanded to include neighboring Niger and Burkina Faso.
Thousands of civilians and security personnel in the three Sahel countries have been killed in the conflict, and more than two million people have been displaced from their homes.

There are many reasons for the kidnappings in Mali, some of which may be motivated by ideology sometimes, but the kidnapped are often released after paying a ransom.

Written by: Sri Al Qudwa

In front of the facts of the Israeli aggression and the usurpation of Palestinian rights, it is necessary to ensure the success of the Algerian meetings and its call to achieve Palestinian national unity and to take advantage of this important historical opportunity to end the division and face the current challenges. We must work to put an end to this division and those thorny relations between the Palestinian factions, as some are trying to take advantage of the existing contradictions Which has become outside the scope of any description and does not serve the higher interests of the Palestinian people and has become a threat to the Palestinian future as a whole. Therefore, work must be done to arrange the internal Palestinian conditions and put an end to attempts to sow discord and division within the Palestinian society under various masks with the aim of spreading frustration and despair to liquidate the Palestinian cause and prevent the achievement of the goals and aspirations of the Palestinian people. In the embodiment of freedom and national independence and self-determination.


Immediate action must be taken in order to implement the decisions of the National and Central Councils, to activate the departments and institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization and rebuild its institutions to serve the establishment of the Palestinian state and strengthen its position as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and achieve more political, legal, moral and material gains in all its forms to confront the schemes and ambitions that the existing authority seeks to achieve. By occupation through the colonial settlement policy in all occupied Palestinian lands, especially in East Jerusalem, preventing the displacement of its people, protecting Islamic and Christian holy sites, foremost of which is the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, and strengthening the unity of our people, which was manifested in its best form in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and within the Green Line and the diaspora around Jerusalem, the capital of the state Palestinian.

Urgent action and action must be taken at all Arab, regional and international levels, including international organizations, the United Nations, the Security Council and the Human Rights Council, and mobilizing the support and assistance of the international community to confront the consequences of the continuous aggression and put an end to it, and the continuation of diplomatic action in order to implement the resolutions of international legitimacy related to the Palestinian cause, especially the resolution Security Council No. 2334, and continue to work towards obtaining full membership in the United Nations and affirm support for the peace option, especially the two-state solution, in light of what can be achieved internationally.

The Israeli occupation continues its plans to displace citizens in occupied Jerusalem through the policy of demolition and settlement expansion, and commits brutal crimes in light of the displacement of tens of thousands of citizens from their homes as a result of their destruction, in addition to the destruction of the entire infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, including health, educational, social and economic institutions, and the continuation of its continuous aggression against neighborhoods Jerusalem and the lands of the occupied West Bank, in implementation of the policy of colonial settlement, plundering of lands, destruction of farms and homes of citizens, and granting it protection and cover for settlers who carry out orgies in all neighborhoods of the city and planting settlement outposts in all neighborhoods with the aim of emptying the city and displacing citizens in light of a clear disregard for all international laws and legislation that consider Jerusalem occupied lands and all The crimes that are taking place are considered a flagrant violation of international laws and laws.

In light of the conspiracies taking place and the imam of this Israeli extremism and international denial, the Palestinian people have no choice but to uphold their rights, legendary steadfastness, strengthen the bonds of trust, adhere to national constants, and defend the Palestinian lands. Resistance and defense of Palestinian rights in order for Jerusalem to remain the capital of the Palestinian state and to preserve the struggle constants and the path of the Palestinian national struggle.