Yaakov Ayalon (יעקב אילון) from Channel Ten and his correspondent described the interview as a “very bizarre” and “barbaric” one. Israeli Channel Two said that the interview was “not comfortable” or civilized. The Israeli TV stations asked Israelis to comment on the release of Shalit, they broadcast how individuals wished death to the Egyptian interviewer Amin. Another one of them said “I wish that I could spit her on face”. Yet others cursed her with obscene and immoral insults describing her as “more than brazen” and characterizing her with words which can not be repeated. Newspapers and people commenting on their online releases also allowed themselves to go far beyond what can be described as polite.
This collusion can have far worse consequences that a visa denial: if a Palestinian is “wanted” by the israelis, Egypt will throw them in jail where they are usually tortured. One person who was gratuitously tortured in Egypt was a lawyer from Gaza called Kawther Salameh. She was tortured because of a remark which I made in 1997 in Hebron to an Egyptian radio reporter and they thought that she was I.
Background of the appeal: I delivered my appeal to the Secretary General after Mr. Treq Salam, a former Consul and intelligence officer at the Embassy of Egypt in Austria who is now head of the Egyptian Public Intelligence Services (Mukhabarat) for “Austria and the Northern European countries”, denied me entry to Egyptian territory to participate in the UN Youth Forum. All visa applications of Palestinians go through the Egyptian intelligence services and are routinely denied due to the collusion between Egypt and Israel in the suppression of Palestinians.
Office of the Secretary-GeneralAll Arab countries infiltrate and spy on their expatriate communities in a rather heavy handed way, and depending on what is reported about a person, he or she can get into problems when they return to their origin countries, their families can be pressured or arrested, or they can be otherwise be pressured to conform to what their government thinks is appropriate. In the case of Consul General Salam, according to what was reported to me by several people in private conversations, he spied on the Egyptian community and also on people from other Arab countries in Austria, and infiltrated elements into many civic organizations to help him in his mission.
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Dear Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon,
Your Excellency,
My name is Kawther Salam. I am a Palestinian from Hebron, and a journalist. I live in Vienna, Austria as a political refugee according to the Geneva Conventions since 2002.
On October 1 2011 I was honored to receive an invitation from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA), the United Nations organization for women (UN-Women) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to participate in the forum of youth under the title “Young Women and Men in the Uprisings of Arab Intifada: Elements of Change”, held on 16 – 17 October 2011 in Cairo, Egypt.
My invitation was signed by Dr. Rima Khalaf, Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), who I understand reports directly to your office.
The organizers of the ESCWA Forum wrote to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry asking them to issue me a visa so that I could enter the country for the event. On October 3 2011, I met the Consul General of Egypt in Austria, Mr. Sharif Lutfi, and I filled the application for the visa in his office. I provided him with all the necessary documents. I was not issued a visa at that time. Consul Lutfi called me today Saturday 15 at midday to tell me that I would not receive a visa.
According to credible sources at UN organizations and elsewhere, I have been informed that the Egyptian authorities refuse to issue visas to enter their country to ALL persons who are from the occupied Palestine territories as a matter of policy, and that this state of affairs has gone on for many years. This policy derives from the fact that Egyptian authorities collude with Israel to generally suppress Palestinians, but especially those Palestinians who would speak out in favor of our peoples interests and inalienable rights.
Egypt is a signatory to several treaties adopted by the UN which should oblige that country to respect human rights, the freedom of movement of journalists, and the institutions of the UN. According to my knowledge, Egypt is accessory to the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and other relevant treaties statutes. Being a member of the UN, it is surprising that Egypt would interfere with an event organized by the UN out of a questionable motivation. The unjustified and deliberate refusal of the Egyptian authorities to allow the arrival of invited persons to the UN Forum and activities is a clear sign of disrespect of Egypt towards the UN its institutions and the values which this institution represents. This refusal can also be seen as a message to all people who think and speak politically and who express their political views in a peaceful manner, this message being “you are undesirables in Egypt even if the UN invited you”.
As a Palestinian, a woman, a human rights activist and a journalist, I know first-hand what it means to be discriminated against, punished and dehumanized because of who I am. That such discrimination and hindrance in the exercise of my political and journalistic work would come from Egypt is even more execrable because this is not a result of national on the side of Egypt, but the result of collusion of the Egyptian government with Israel and their unending campaign of crimes against us the Palestinians.
I am neither the first nor the last Palestinian who has been discriminated against by Egypt in a similar way, and all Palestinians know about the uncounted Palestinians who have disappeared into the vast gulag of torture facilities in Egypt simply because the Israelis wished that these people to vanish. The collusion of Egypt with Israel to violate basic human rights has not changed with the deposition of the Mubarak regime. While the words in public and before the media have become friendly and reassuring after the revolution, the practice of denying Palestinians travel permits and “disappearing” people who Israel wants to vanish seems to have become business as usual.
As a Palestinian, a human- and women rights activist who was invited by UN-ESCWA and denied entry due to the restrictions of questionable motivation by the Egyptian authorities, I would appreciate if your Excellency will recommend that UN-ESCWA forums such as the “Young Women and Men in the Uprisings of Arab Intifada: Elements of Change” Forum and other activities of the UN and its member bodies are held in another country in the future, were human rights, freedom of movement, freedom of political speech and UN treaties are appreciated and respected in good will, in word but also in deed.
Thank you very much for your consideration.
Most respectfully,
Kawther Salam
Vienna, 15 October 2011
CC: Dr. Rima Khalaf / UN-ESCWA
Mr. Salam was a well known figure of the Mubarak dictatorship and his corrupt party and regime in Egypt. His work in Vienna was to instill divisions and infighting within the Egyptian community and its various social venues like union, businesses etc. in Austria. He and his people intimidated, terrorized and frightened the Egyptians living here and spied upon them, reporting, for example, about people who were against Jamal Mubarak succeeding his father as president. The elements of Mr. Salam who came after him went so far as to establish a new Egyptian Union in Graz in order to support the “succession” idea and to impose this opinion on the Egyptians living there using his contacts within the Mubarak regime and by coercion.Mr. (M. N) another former consul was forcing the Egyptian journalists to report what he wanted and he threatened anyone who would cover the Coptic demos in Vienna which took place after the murders of the Egyptian Copts during Christmas in Naja Hamadi.
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), the so-called Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and the Minister of Prisoner Affairs continue lying to the local Palestinian and the International public opinion, falsifying the facts and the exploiting the issues of prisoners in order to achieve monetary and political gains for some elements of the “Palestinian National Authority”, individuals without decency or humanity who use the starving of thousands of Palestinians in Israeli jails whose hunger strike has now entered its second week.According a PCHR Human Rights Center press release of today Monday, October 10 2011, the PNA arrested Abdul Raziq Sa’id Khassib, 32 years old, from the Aaroura village north of Ramallah, three days after his release from an Israeli prison where he had spent 16 months under interrogation and harsh conditions in “administrative detention” (arbitrary jailing).WE demand that the international institutions intervene for the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners from the Israeli jails and also from the Palestinian prisons.
that the detention of freed Palestinian prisoners from the Israeli zionists prisons only to jail them again at its own prisons is a stain of shame on the its (PNA) forehead, on the forehead of the so-called Minister of Prisoners and on all those who claim their commitment to the liberation of prisoners from the prisons of Israeli zionism in order to achieve political gains for the benefit of some people at the PNA.The conduct of the PLO and the PA is so disgraceful that it should not remain without consequences. It is long past time that any and all representative power is taken away from these traitorous as criminal groups. In this vein, it would be more than desirable that Palestinians everywhere capable of doing so, people who are not associated with either the PA, the PLO or the zionist occupation, come together to form a national council able and willing to take charge of the interests of the Palestinian people in a way which best represents what we want, and without constantly selling out. It is long past time that the traitors get lost.The text below is the statement of human rights institution PCHR which shows the Palestinian Authority arrest of the prisoners freed from zionist jails and contradicts its demands for the release of prisoners from the Israeli jails.
The Palestinian Preventive Security Service (PSS) in Ramallah arrested ‘Abdul Raziq Sa’id Khassib, 32 years old, from ‘Aaroura village north of Ramallah, three day after his release from an Israeli prison where he spent 16 months under interrogation in administrative detention. Based on the testimony of Khassib’s brother, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) expresses concerns that Khassib may be subjected to torture, and calls for his immediate release.In his testimony Khassib’s brother, ‘Abdul Rahman Sa’id Khassib, 28, from Bitounia town, describes how at approximately 18:00 on Saturday 08 October 2011, he received a phone call from a person who introduced himself as Hikmat, chief of PSS in the Ramallah office, and asked him to bring in his brother, ‘Abdul Raziq, for a ten minute questioning. At approximately 08:00 on Sunday 09 October 2011 the two brothers, their sister, and ‘Abdul Raziq’s wife went to the PSS premises in al-Bireh.
- Calls upon the government in Ramallah to put an end to summons and arrests based on political grounds, and reminds of the verdict of the Palestinian High Court of Justice on 20 February 1999 considering political arrests illegal;
- Calls for immediately end to the practice of torture in prisons and detention centers of the Palestinian Authority, stressing that torture is a punishable crime for which the perpetrators are accountable; and
- Calls upon the Palestinian Security Services to respect international human rights standards, the Palestinian Basic Law and other relevant laws.
collective punishment measures being taken by the Israeli prison authorities against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails who have organized a hunger strike in protest to their deteriorating detention conditions. PCHR is also concerned over the health conditions of the prisoners who have now been in an open hunger strike for nine consecutive days, as the Israeli prison authorities have refrained from providing medical care to them.Palestinian and other Arab prisoners initiated a hunger strike, which hasThis move was expanded when prisoners declared an open hunger strike until their demands were met.progressively extended to all Israeli prisons and detention facilities. First, prisoners from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Rimon and Nafha prison in Israel declared a hunger strike on 27 September 2011, demanding an end to the solitary confinement of 20 prisoners, some of whom have served more than 10 years in solitary confinement. They also demand an end to the three-year incommunicado detention of PFLP Secretary General, Ahmed Sa’adat. Later, prisoners in other prisons and detention facilities joined and organized a three day hunger strike.
education; allowing family visitation – especially for Gazan prisoners who have been deprived of family visitation for more than five years; stopping the imposition of financial fines; stopping raids and humiliating checks of prisoners; refraining from tying the hands and feet of prisoners during family visitations or meetings with lawyers; and improving the health conditions of hundreds of sick prisoners and providing them with adequate medical care.
- Calls upon the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment to present reports on the situation to the Human Rights Council to exert pressure on Israel to stop its practices against Palestinian prisoners.
- Calls upon the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to intervene to stop collective penalties executed by the Israeli occupation authorities against Palestinian prisoners.
- Calls upon international human rights organizations to follow up the issue of Palestinian prisoners and to intervene with their governments to pressurize the Israel to stop arbitrary measures against Palestinian prisoners and to ensure their release.
that the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) boycott Tony Blair, the Quartet Representative and to classify him as a persona non grata (unwanted Person) in the Palestinian territories.It is worth mentioning that Tony Blair has established suspicious and dishonest relations with the Israeli zionist woman Ofra Strauss (עופרה שטראוס)while he supposedly represented the Quartet as an envoy in Palestine. Big and grave suspicion exists that all decisions of the Quartet were unfair against Palestinians because of the bias and favoritism of Blair towards the views to Israel, not only in connection with his “friendship” to Strauss, but also on account of his “friendship” to Rothschild criminal dynasty in his home England. According to the Hebrew newspapers, Blair has a sexual relationship with Strauss.Beside that, Blair continues to exploit his position as envoy of the Quartet to get “special” deals and projects that profit the Rothschild-linked Morgan Bank/ בנק מורגן, where Blair is reportedly employed as a consultant for two million pounds a year. According to reports, Blair carried out two deals, in the West Bank and Gaza, related to wireless communications and the exploration for natural gas, and the “Morgan” bank was the major beneficiary of these projects.
artist, stage actor, filmmaker and political activist Juliano Mer Khamis, 52, who was shot dead in his car on Monday April 4 2011 by masked gunmen in the West Bank city of Jenin, which is under control of the Palestinian Authority. Francois Gaspar did not have depressions under the Israeli occupation despite all the obstacles placed in front of his artistic work, so how and whyThe death and the assassination of two artists living in Palestine in less than half a year is not ONLY a loss for the Palestinian artistic and cultural scene. It is a national disaster, a catastrophe and a disgrace firmly stamped on the forehead of the Palestinian National Authority in every sense of the word.did the depression hit the artist under the Palestinian Authority?
What did the fat cats in power, the obscene people who are members of the “presidential” circle, do to Gaspar that the depression hit him so hard that it killed him?
Who is the criminal among the many “presidential” thieves behind the death of the artist Gaspar, and before, who was behind the assassination of artist Mer Khamis and who proceeded to loot the history and work of these artists, who foisted himself upon the cultural scene and the National Theater of Palestina only to proceed to divert millions of dollars into his own pockets under the scam of “development of the theater stage”, which he actually destroyed over the heads of those artists who had worked tirelessly to build it in first place?
related to the influential fat cats “working” at the presidential cycle around Mahmoud Abbas. These obscene criminals who are around President Abass and before him were around President Arafat, the ones who monopolize positions and use them to develop several “national” companies which they in turn use to loot funds belonging to the Palestinian people, these are the thieves behind the murder and death of the Palestinian artists. Simply said, they got rid of those artists who were seen as obstacles to their industrial-scale thievery.
and surgeon, Lorand Gaspar, and his mother was French sculptor Francine Gaspar. He was raised in east Jerusalem, Beirut and France. He returned to live in Jerusalem after an absence of several years during which he lived in Paris. He continued his career in the Palestinian Theater which he had started early in the seventies of the last century. During the seventies, Gaspar and others founded the “Blalin” music band. The band was a milestone in the advancement of the Palestinian theater. Abu Salem was also a co-founder of the El-Hakawati Theatre, which later grew into the Palestinian National Theatre in east Jerusalem.
Juliano Mer Khamis, who was assassinated about five months ago, was the head of Jenin’s Freedom Theater. The Theater receives support from a number of international institutions. Mer Khamis was born in the Israeli-Arab city of Nazareth to a Jewish-Israeli mother and a Christian Israeli-Arab father. He served in the Israeli army as a paratrooper and portrayed Israeli Jews in many of his roles, both in film and on stage.
today Monday Oct. 3 2011, and will then travel to Egypt in order to complete the deal of releasing the Israeli spy Ilan Chaim Grapel / Grappelli, “Gerabil” (אילן גרפל ), an American-Israeli Mossad agent, a war criminal who participated in the atrocities of the Lebanon “second war” in 2006, and a former paratrooper soldier who infiltrated the Egyptian revolutionaries and was spreading trouble, spying on the military and the revolutionaries, photographing people and reporting to the Mossad, distributing money to some Egyptians and recruiting them in order to cause chaos, to steal and to sabotage private and public infrastructure in the country.On the other hand, the Israeli authorities will release a number of Egyptian prisoners who were jailed in Israel as a part of the release of the Israeli-American Mossad agent Gerabil who was accused of spying for Israel in Egypt. The number of Egyptians who have long been languishing in Israeli prisons are 28 prisoners.Channel 10 added that the United States threatened to curtail military aid to Egypt if the Egyptian authorities do not the release the American-Israeli spy. The USA is using the aid as a stick against other countries, to stick their nose in there interior affairs of other countries and to force upon them decisions against their laws and interests. The United States Congress recently blocked nearly $200m in aid to the Palestinian Authority in response to the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN.
The Truth from a priest from his own writings: The Abomination of Desolation
See this – it says it all!
Why did Israel Steal Marys Gate Before Christmas?
"No word in condemnation of the desecration of this most holy place by Israel was found anywhere in the international media, neither from the Catholic churches in Europe and everywhere else, or any other Christian congregation. One must wonder about the continuing accusations of discrimination of Christians in Muslim lands, while these people would probably not dare to say a word even if the Israel Antiquities Authority destroyed the Church itself. We must suppose that the Pope would in such a case try to appease the Jews, probably even grovelling and kissing their hands in public. In any case it is clear that no politician will say one word against the criminality of Israel, even if it is against their own supposed interests.
The most painful spectacle was what Pope Benedict XVI spoke last Monday, Dec. 21 2009, after the theft of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and three days before the celebration of Christmas, in which the Pope declare his blessing for Israel, rather than to declare allegiance to God and to condemn of the desecration of this Christian Church. Just as if the hypocrisy of Israel and his loyalty to these criminals was more important than loyalty to God, or as if the hypocrisy of Israel was part of the Christian religion, which had already gone beyond this obscurantism long time ago."
From:
• An Unholy People In The Holy Land
The Actions Of The Jews (September, 1957)
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The long list of Jewish desecration and destruction of Catholic Church property in the Holy Land ought well to be supplemented by the considerable enumeration of Church buildings left intact by the Jews and converted by them into Jewish facilities. Chief among such would be Terra Sancta College, the former focal point of Franciscan education in Jerusalem’s New City. The college has been appropriated for Jewish university classes and does service as the seat of the National Library of Israel.
To accompany a nine page report on similar Jewish injustices, Archbishop George Hakim, most outspoken leader of the 25,000 Catholics who still remain within the borders of the Jewish State, wrote in April of this year: “Unless something is done to improve this situation ... we would be faced with the extinction of the Christian flock in the Holy Land.”
The civil strictures imposed upon those Catholics who have been allowed to continue their ancient residence in the land of Our Lord’s birth, leave them, along with the rest of the Arab population, second-class citizens, at best. A rigid curfew is imposed on non-Jews. Free movement is curtailed by interminable military “pass” requirements. Eighty-five per cent of the Arab populace is confined to specified non-Jewish residence areas — always the poorest and least desirable sections. Arab workers are paid consistently lower wages than Jews. All government and public business is conducted in Hebrew, which few Arabs know or understand. Government offices (which abound in every settlement) defer answering letters written in Arabic, and any ultimate reply is sent in Hebrew. No Catholic religious mission may be introduced into the Jewish State. Those which survived the terrorism of the “war of independence” are allowed to remain, subject to government regulation, with an iron rule that the personnel of any given convent or monastery is in no way to be increased. Most strictly limited is display of Christian symbols. So extreme is this prohibition that even the Judaeophile Red Cross organization is excluded. In its stead, the Jewish State maintains the Red Star of David (Magen David Adom), which is affiliated with Red Cross international headquarters, but operates free of that hated name and symbol, the Cross.
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Last year, when Jewish professor Melford Spiro prevailed upon Harvard University to publish his summary of life in the kibbutzim (the Jewish State’s communal farms), he made available to the public some very frank insights into present Palestine. On page 185, he summarizes: “The importance of the Soviet Union in the belief system of the kibbutz cannot be exaggerated. It is a combination of the Vatican and of heaven: from it come authoritative pronouncements on important social, political, and intellectual matters: toward it are directed the aspirations of all the downtrodden of the earth. Not only is the Soviet Union the center of peace, justice, and freedom, but everything in the Soviet Union is superior — its art, literature, science, technology are all superior to their counterparts in the rest of the world.”
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Loud rejoicing was heard in the kibbutzim after the 1954 Jewish elections, when it was announced that the bustling town of Nazareth, childhood home of both Our Lord and His Blessed Mother, had voted 38 per cent Communist — with six out of fifteen council seats going to local Communist Jews.
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… we have a suggestion for Our Sunday Visitor, the Sign, and any other Catholic papers that want to join in the chase. It is guaranteed to make their articles sky-rocket in effectiveness. Instead of attacking Zionists who are in the Holy Land only, why not open fire on the equally fervent and much more potent Zionists who are in the Dispersion — who whole-heartedly endorse every act of injustice, terror, and desecration that the Jewish State commits; who support it with their money, protect it with their propaganda, get favors for it with their pressuring of politicians; who were the midwives at its birth and have been its doting nursemaids ever since. In short, why not for a few months try attacking the Jews of America? We can promise some spectacular results.
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From this it is likely enough that given enough time we can see the “Abomination of Desolation sitting where it ought not.” That is the Antichrist sitting in a rebuilt temple in Jerusalem claiming he is god and supplanting the Catholic religion and Christian faith with a diabolic false imitation there and in the churches. Waiting to see this is not the answer. Just like Father Feeney we need to call for a Catholic revival of faith and real justice throughout the earth.
