The War Criminal Who Wants to Ethnically Cleanse Jerusalem « Kawther Salam

The War Criminal Who Wants to Ethnically Cleanse Jerusalem « Kawther Salam

The War Criminal Who Wants to Ethnically Cleanse Jerusalem

Nir Barakat (ניר ברקת) with other foreigners instigating the genocide of Palestine

According to the Wadi Helwa Information Centre, the “Mayor” of occupied Jerusalem has announced that the Palestinian population of Jerusalem is being reduced by 70,000 persons with the stroke of a pen. The disenfranchised population consists of Palestinian residents of Jerusalem who had earlier been isolated behind towering walls from the rest of Jerusalem, cutting them off from their work, education and other civic facilities.

Many of the affected had previously been forced to make enormous detours in order to maintain their normal commute activities on both sides of the wall. As a result, economic activity and social services became increasingly separated, which is what the wall was designed to accomplish. The disenfranchisement of the isolated population is therefore the final step in expelling persons whom Israel considers to be of the wrong ethnicity and religion (Christian or Muslim). Henceforth, they will need a special permit (“visa”) to visit areas of the city that were once only a short walk away. If history is any guide, that permit will become increasingly difficult to obtain.

Short Portrait of the Ethnic Cleanser Barakat

Nir Barakat, ניר ברקת (an ultra-orthodox, extremist jew) is a reserve sniper, a war criminal who served in the paratroopers six years in the occupation army. As a company commander he was involved in war crimes in Lebanon and Syria. He was injured by his own incompetence at handling a grenade in August 19 1980 in Lebanon in an incident where his friend, a company commander nicknamed “Muki” (Captain Meir Shlomo) was killed. (Click on the images to enlarge them).

Barakat is a murderer, the son of war criminal Zalman Barkat and brother of two war criminals Eli and Omri. Barakat was born October 19, 1959, raised at the zionist colony “Givat Hamivtar” which was established on the hills of Jerusalem in 1970 in the northern part of the occupied Jerusalem.

In 1983 he was discharged from the IDF. In the Reserve he reached the rank of major.
He holds a BS in computer science (related to anti-virus software) and studied at the Hebrew University for an MBA, but never completed the degree.

In 1988 he established along with three others (tech BRM) to develop anti-virus software. Barkat served as a member of the ultra-orthodox, extremist jew council in the occupied Jerusalem.

Barakat is a perpetrator ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity in occupied Jerusalem. In November 2008, he was elected “mayor” of Jerusalem

This is only the latest in the long history of the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem and Palestine, which includes the prohibition of building permits to Palestinians, the confiscation of land, the denial of public services, the demolition of living quarters, the separation of families and many other measures that are applied exclusively to Palestinians. In the meantime, Israel heavily subsidizes Jewish housing and services in order to encourage Jewish Israelis to replace expelled Palestinians wherever possible.

70,000 Palestinian Jerusalemites to be re-classified as West Bank citizens

Monday, 26 December, 2011 – Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) - Jerusalem mayor Nir Barakat has announced that the city Municipality will now classify 70,000 citizens of Jerusalem as non-residents, furthering the right wing Israeli campaign to achieve a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem. Seventy thousand Palestinian residents already cut off from the rest of Jerusalem by Israel’s Apartheid Wall will now be cast out on paper as well, with their affairs turned over from the Municipality to the Israeli military’s West Bank civil administration.

Palestinian Jerusalemites vehemently reject the segregation of their city, criticizing the “false justification of security that Israeli authorities peddle in order to take over our lands and separate us from our families – amidst a disgraceful silence from the international community.”

Please stop the ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem

On March 30, 2012, a massive Global March to Jerusalem will take place with people from around the world gathering in Palestine and neighboring countries for a nonviolent march to Jerusalem, to protest the “Judaization” (ethnic cleansing) of Jerusalem. Here is what you can do to help:

• Ask your organization to endorse the Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ). Send the endorsement to organize [at] gmj-na [dot] org. Endorsing organizations in North America are also welcome to become part of the North American organizing committee and participate in decision making and implementation through their representatives.

• Ask prominent individuals with whom you are in contact to also endorse and even to participate in the GMJ, if they are willing. Send the endorsements to organize [at] gmj-na [dot] org.
• Register at www.gmj-na.org/register to become part of the North American GMJ association of volunteer participants in the march.
• Help support the march with your donations, which will be used to send volunteers who cannot otherwise participate, to provide regional representation at planning meetings and to educate the public through events, print and electronic media.

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Kawther Salam » Europa & Palestine News - Christmas Memories From The Birthplace of Jesus

Kawther Salam » Europa & Palestine News - Christmas Memories From The Birthplace of Jesus

Christmas Memories From The Birthplace of Jesus

The wall of hatred around a Christian house in Bethlehem.

Nine years ago between 20 -27 December, as in several previous years, I moved from Hebron to Bethlehem to participate in the celebrations of the Christmas celebrations and to write about the event. I was staying at the residence of Bethlehem Bible College. Dr. Bishara Awad, Director of the college and his wife Salwa, Dr. Alex Awad, a professor at the College and his wife Brenda, welcomed me as in the previous years. They treated me with great courtesy and concern for my comfort, so much so that I felt as a member of the Awad family and as a welcome guest at the college.

I would leave the college every day and tour around Bethlehem. I would talk with Christians and Muslims, and everybody felt the happiness and joy of the holy Christmas. Muslims were waiting for Christmas exactly like Christians. In Palestine there is no difference between Muslims and Christians, everyone is equal and this tradition is celebrated by the adherents of both faiths. The ONLY obstacle during Christmas and other holidays was and is the zionist occupation, which assassinates the happiness, the joy, and the peaceful life of all Palestinians, Christians and Muslims equally.

Before 1993 and the signing of the so-called “Oslo peace agreement”, the Christmas celebrations were much nicer, much more comfortable than the celebrations I joined later and until 2002. It is sad to be forced to say that the Christmas celebrations under the horrible regime of the Israeli occupation were better than they are nowadays under the Palestinian Authority.

Since the signing of the Oslo agreement and its secret accessories, the demography of Palestine has changed. Everything was changed in TOP SILENCE and with full connivance of the “PNA”, not only in Bethlehem but in all Palestinian cities, towns and villages. The Octopus of the zionist occupation became more dangerous and worse than before with the criminal connivance of the PNA. The theft of Palestinian lands and the expansion of the colonies increased while the Palestinian themselves were happy to establish a useless administration, the “PNA” in return for a bunch of the miserable “VIP” cards for select functionaries and some thousands of para-military gangsters, riff-raff with different nationalities who were trained by several Arab dictatorships – US and UK colonies in all but name – who not-so-secretly befriend israel. (Click on the small images to make them bigger).

The theft of the Palestinian agricultural lands of Jabal Abu Ghnien in Bethlehem, the establishment of the zionist colony “Har Homa”, the division of the Bethlehem-Jerusalem-Hebron main street, the theft of the Islamic the Waqf building of Bethlehem, the ethnic cleansing and illegal appropriation of the northern district of Bethlehem (from the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque in Bethlehem, the so-called “Rachel’s Tomb”, until Jerusalem), the theft of the Bilal Bin Rabah Mosque, the closure of the Muslim cemetery near the mosque, the closure of the Aida refugee camp, the apartheid wall and the establishment of the Iron border, these were all result of the so-called “Oslo peace agreement”.

I remember how the Christmas celebrations changed after the establishment of the Palestinian Authority under the Israeli occupation. I remember how much the obstacles for the Christian pilgrims increased each year. The worst Christmas celebrations were those place between 1999 and 2002, when the Christian religious convoy from Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Sahour was halted in the middle of a military base of the Israeli occupation in front of the Bilal bin Rabah mosque which was stolen by the zionists and turned into a synagogue.
I saw the closure of the store of Mr. Michael Potros opposite of the Bilal bin Rabah mosque in Bethlehem. I sat several times at his store waiting for the Christians procession, for the clergymen coming from Jerusalem to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas. In 2000, this store of a Christian Palestinian was closed by a military decision. All the surrounding area was declared a “military zone” so that the violent colonial squatters could pray undisturbed at the stolen mosque of Bilal ben Rabah. Mr. Potros and his family were forced to go to hell.
I saw how “Israel” violates the sanctity of the Christmas and how the occupation humiliates the dignity of the Christian clergy. They were all stopped like detainees in front of a military base, established over the territory of the city of Bethlehem, by the depraved soldiers of Israel. They were all waiting for the convoy of Patriarch Michel Sabbah. The manifestations of depravity and hatred were clear to see on their faces, instead of the expressions of Christmas joy and happiness present in the faces of the Christians and Muslims despite all the hardships forced upon them by the occupation.

In all countries of the world religious celebrations are held in peace, not under the tension of colonial occupation. ONLY in Palestine and since over 64 years, Christmas and other religious ceremonies are held under the constant threat of the military occupier and its tight restrictions. If any other nation held the Christmas celebrations under the presence of a colonial occupation, then for sure they would expiate in the sanctity of the ceremonies and they will find their ways to the struggle in order to celebrate the Christmas in peace.

The last time I saw a procession of Patriarch Michel Sabbah, he was humiliated at his arrival to Bethlehem. He was surrounded by armed police with automatic weapons and machine guns riding horses, and accompanied by military jeeps. And I saw him get out of his car at the entrance of the Aida refugee camp in the middle of the colonial zionist soldiers, because he was not allowed to enter Bethlehem in his car. I saw the Patriarch shaking hands with the Christians, standing frightened like inmates of a concentration camp among the armed soldiers in the city of Bethlehem. When I did not hear one word of condemnation from the Patriarch, then or later, for the inhuman treatment of the Christians, for the insults by the jews to the Christian faith at his every entry to Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, then I knew what it means to be a hypocrite.
This year, Arte Channel showed a program about Christmas in Bethlehem. They filmed a Christian family from Bethlehem who have a workshop for carving Christmas gifts out of wood. The Camera filmed the lady of the house at home and her ways between the workshop and the church, all of which are far away from each other. The program neatly avoided the major problem, the Apartheid walls suffocating the city of Bethlehem, the hatred of the occupation checkpoints at the entrance of the city, the jewish colonies, the ubiquitous presence of israeli soldiers.
After watching this short film I understood how much the western media is managed and manipulated. I myself know what kind of journalistic work and what kind of questions the Austrian colleagues are asking. When the moderators at press conferences beg the Austrian journalists to ask their questions, they do not ask. I have witnessed such unreal scenes more than once, where none of the journalist present asks anything. Sadly, it is enough for them to use the press releases issued before the conference starts and publish them. I have wondered if they do this because they don’t care or because they fear losing their job if they upset anybody with a question.
Also, this year, like all previous years, the Austrian state TV, ORF, runs a program which shows how Austrian children “bring the light” from Bethlehem to Austria. The same like the Arte documentary described above, they completely avoid the issue of the occupation and that these days Bethlehem is more aptly described as a concentration camp than a city. It is very sad to see how the Catholic Church supports iniquity and grave crimes against humanity with their silence.

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Kawther Salam » Europa & Palestine News - Europäische Unterstützung für den palästinensischen Versöhnungsprozess nötig

Kawther Salam » Europa & Palestine News - Europäische Unterstützung für den palästinensischen Versöhnungsprozess nötig

Europäische Unterstützung für den palästinensischen Versöhnungsprozess nötig

Fritz Edlinger – Wien Dec. 26 2011 – Der Generalsekretär der Gesellschaft für Österreichisch-Arabische Beziehungen (GÖAB) Fritz Edlinger begrüßte in einer Stellungnahme die vor wenigen Tagen in Kairo abgeschlossene Vereinbarung zwischen den wichtigsten palästinensischen Fraktionen, eine umfassende Reform der Palästinensischen Befreiungsbewegung in Angriff zu nehmen und dadurch den Beginn einer dringend notwendigen politischen, personellen und organisatorischen Erneuerung der PLO ernsthaft zu beginnen.
Die Überwindung der Spaltung der politischen Führung des Palästinensischen Volkes stellt eine wesentliche Voraussetzung der entschiedenen und konsequenten Vertretung der legitimen Rechte der Palästinenser auf nationale Selbstbestimmung in Übereinstimmung mit den geltenden völkerrechtlichen Normen dar. Diese internen Konflikte wurden in den letzten Jahren von der israelischen Regierung geschürt und ohne Skrupel ausgenützt. Sie trug durch geschicktes Manövrieren wesentlich zur Spaltung des Palästinensischen Volkes bei und nützte diese Situation der Schwäche ohne Rücksicht zur intensivierten Fortsetzung ihrer illegalen Besatzungs- und Landraubpolitik aus.

Es kommt daher weiter nicht überraschend, dass die Stellungnahme der israelischen Regierung absolut negativ ausfiel. Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu, seit vielen Jahren ein entschiedener Gegner jeder fairen und völkerrechtlichen Grundsätzen entsprechenden Verhandlungslösung, kündigte an, keine wie immer geartete Verhandlungen mit einer palästinensischen Autonomieverwaltung, an der auch die Hamas beteiligt ist, zu führen. Diese starre israelische Haltung war zu erwarten, auch wenn die israelische Regierung durchaus Gespräche mit der Hamas führt, wie dies ja erst jüngst durch den vereinbarten Gefangenenaustausch dokumentiert worden ist.

Ob diese innerpalästinensische Aussöhnung tatsächlich auch eine Bewegung in den zum völligen Stillstand gekommenen „Friedensprozess“ bringen wird, hängt weitgehend von der Haltung der USA und Europa ab. In diesem Zusammenhang forderte Fritz Edlinger die EU auf, endlich die zweideutige Haltung zur Hamas aufzugeben und den Prozess der nationalen Einheit in Palästina tatkräftig zu unterstützen. Er erwarte sich von der EU eine klare Stellungnahme, in welcher diese Entwicklung begrüßt und auch die europäische Unterstützung für diesen zum Ausdruck gebracht wird. Die erste Bewährungsprobe einer geänderten europäischen Haltung, wie sie ja zuletzt anhand verschiedener Erklärungen im Rahmen der Vereinten Nationen aber auch der europäischen Vertreter in Jerusalem über die israelische Siedlungspolitik und die Diskriminierung der arabischen Minderheit in Israel zum Ausdruck gekommen ist, wird sich im Zusammenhang mit den im kommenden Mai geplanten Wahlen in Palästina ergeben. Er erwarte eine massive politische, organisatorische und finanzielle Unterstützung seitens der EU, damit diese Wahlen möglichst unbehindert durchgeführt werden können, schloss der GÖAB-Generalsekretär seine Stellungnahme.

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Jesus Is Behind The Apartheid Blockade

The Bethlehem Call: Here we stand – Stand with us

Preamble

How long, O God, will they steal our livelihood? Oppress, imprison and humiliate our people? Deprive our children of their childhood? Indeed how long, God, will the multitudes of Christians of the world ignore the anguish of our Palestinian sisters and brothers and all of the oppressed?

“Come and see,” said the Christians of Palestine. “Come and see the olive groves, the bulldozers, the ancient terraces, the segregated cities. The situation is worsening.”

More than 60 participants from 15 countries heeded an urgent call by Kairos Palestine. On 410 December 2011; they joined Palestinians in the Kairos for Global Justice Encounter/Conference in Bethlehem.

The aims and objectives of the encounter/conference were to:

• Bring awareness of and share a Kairos consciousness experienced by all groups attending the encounter;
• Strengthen and build ties among Kairos groups to form a committed global network for justice;
• Learn from the Palestinian experience the urgency of Kairos solidarity and to end injustice by implementing concrete actions at the national, regional and global level.

On the road to this encounter/conference, there was the Amman Call in 2007, which ended 60 years without a unified Christian voice speaking against the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The next milestone was the Berne Perspective in 2008, which is illustrated in the statement: “Enough is enough. No more words without deeds, it is time for action.” The cry for justice in Palestine reached a pivotal moment when, in December 2009, Palestinian Christians launched the Kairos Palestine document: “A word of faith, hope and love from the heart of Palestinian suffering.”

We now say: “Injustice no more. Here we stand. Stand with us”

The current context

Today, the illegal regime and illegal forms of the Israeli occupation of Palestine assumes dimensions of systemic injustice whereby the unthinkable and unimaginable becomes globally accepted, supported and normalized. This is an example of Empire (global domination) at work. It happens in Palestine as it happens in many other contexts around the world. At the same time, Palestine is clearly a global issue. The government of Israel claims to have and indeed enjoys an exceptional status within the international community. Israel regards itself to be above the law and is treated as exempt from international law. This status provides the Israeli government the freedom to occupy Palestine with impunity.

As witnessed with our own eyes, the treacherous conditions imposed by the Israeli occupation on Palestinians and their land have reached a level of almost unimaginable and sophisticated criminality. This includes the slow yet deliberate and systematic ethnic cleansing and the genocide of Palestinians and Palestine as well as the strangling of the Palestinian economy. The brutality in the “violence of silence” internationally provides an almost impenetrable shield for the Israeli government to implement its evil designs in blatant disregard for human rights and international law. Silence is an opinion. Inaction is an action. We witness decidedly spineless cowardice in failure to resist the Israeli government by the majority of governments, political parties, media outlets, businesses, most of organized religion including Christianity and the silence of prophets worldwide. This makes us accomplices in crimes against humanity, such as the crimes of apartheid and persecution as described in international law.1

We witness also the resolve and resilience of Palestinians to match the imbalance of political, economic and military power with unbending steadfastness for their freedom and just peace.

The deligitimization and criminalization of the Israeli government and its local and international support base is gaining unstoppable momentum. The existence of international boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns and other forms of nonviolent resistance is an established fact. The government and state of Israel is now regarded as an apartheid regime in terms of international law, with particular reference to the UN Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid and the Rome Statutes of the International Criminal Court. The severity of the Palestinian situation makes comparisons with apartheid in South Africa superfluous and almost irrelevant. The benchmark is international law and not South Africa.

Globally we observe a context of growing fluidity and volatility. In this context, we are deeply concerned to observe how governments and societies in the West, including churches and ecumenical bodies dominated by the West, are becoming more and more exclusive, supremacist and dictatorial in conserving an unjust status quo. Furthermore, the growing economic and political volatility of world powers in North America and Europe creates a context of uncertainty for precise timelines in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian situation. However this fluidity in addition to the Arab Awakening holds potential for hope.

(1) Relevant international laws include the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (adopted in 1973 and enacted in 1976); and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Article 7 (1)(h) & (j),and Article 2 (g) & (h) 0f 1998.

The global South, also complicit in regard to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, possesses the potential to be an untapped source of hope. This potential holds value not only for Palestinians but also for those societies in the global North where Empire crumbles.
We are also acutely aware of struggles for justice everywhere, including within Israel itself. We have come to ignite, nurture and strengthen a Kairos consciousness for each of these contexts as interconnected and interrelated. We draw inspiration and strength from each other and also from progressive peace activists and human rights groups in Israel.

In the deep pain of the Palestinian people in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, of
Palestinian refugees and of Israeli Arab citizens, we witnessed the tears of God. God keeps the flame of faith alive, as the darkness of despair closes in. God lives and breathes in the lament of those whose future has been stolen. In the cries of the dispossessed we have sensed the passion of God for right to prevail.

God takes sides for justice against injustice. God does not take kindly to injustice and the perpetrators of injustice. “He has shown the might with His arm. He has scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart. He has put down the mighty from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly (Luke 1:4655). A spirituality that recognizes the face of God in every human being is, therefore, inevitably marked by a bias towards justice for the poor and the oppressed. “One thing God requires of you is only this, to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with your God,” (Micah 6:8). This is the true essence of both Testaments. Christ still weeps over Jerusalem.

A Kairos is both the recognition of God’s will and the urgency of our response. It is in the awareness of a God of the Now, who is deeply involved in the human predicament. God keeps us steadfast in courage, hope and love as we continue to struggle and resist.

We pray and plead for a radical change of hearts, policies and practices of the Israeli government and those governments that support it. If this does not happen, we pray in trembling and hope if it is God’s will…. for these governments to fall.

Some non-negotiable: Occupation no more

In the light of the above and with our conviction that Palestine is in an ever deepening crisis, Kairos Palestine urgently calls us to move forward boldly and act radically by speaking out with courage, passion and determination. The time for words and diplomatic niceties, that obscure the reality, are over. We affirm the churches’ commitment to and contributions for decisive action since the Amman Call as well as in the creation and impact of the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum (PIEF). Nevertheless, we will strengthen and increase our advocacy initiatives.

Therefore, we:

• Reject the silence of the church, lest we be accomplices in crimes against humanity, such as those of apartheid and persecution. It is imperative to speak up and cry with the oppressed in demanding justice.

• Refuse to be coerced into accepting financial assistance from any church or organization that supports the Occupation.

• Challenge any church which, either directly or indirectly, invests in companies which support the occupation. As congregants of a church, we will be alert towards church policies and challenge unethical financial investment and spending practices.

• Call the Israeli occupation of Palestine a crime and sin. We reject any theological or political justification for the Occupation. We regard such theologies as defying the core of the Gospel.

• Reject any argument aimed at convincing Palestinians and the international community that the problems are caused by Muslims rather than the Occupation.

• Demand that churches take bold and courageous positions for justice against injustice. We are appalled at the spiritual and institutional cowardice that refuses to take an unequivocal stand for justice. Equally, victims and perpetrators cannot be put on equal footing in efforts to create illusions of balance.

• Confirm our obligation to resist the Occupation in faith, hope and love. We reject calls to cease advocating and practicing BDS or any other form of nonviolent civil resistance that will end the Occupation.

• Resist being party to any church or church-related organization offering tours to the Holy Lands that do not include an encounter with local Palestinians and express our opposition to such initiatives. Alternative tourism groups are now available that Christians and others can avail themselves of.

• Demand that the Right of Return for all Palestinian refugees be enforced.

• Steadfastly uphold the principle of compassion toward the oppressor. We acknowledge and understand their experiences of oppression, fears and insecurities. Our demands are in the best interests for a better future for all involved.

In love, we rage against injustice and yet refuse to be destroyed by our anger.

Our vision: Call to act now

A shared vision of peace with justice inspires us to respond with committed action, at this critical moment. This vision must include affirming voices from the Jewish, Muslim and other faith traditions that express hope for a pluralistic, democratic society here.

The tide is turning. The pain will pass soon if we act now. This calls for a collective willingness to take risks in the cause of justice.

Theology: One voice for justice

We commit ourselves to develop contextual biblical theologies and practices of resistance and liberation. We will unmask those theologies in our midst that are harbingers of death for Palestinians and the oppressed worldwide and we will challenge traditional ways of doing theology.

Dismantling Israeli apartheid

We support and commit ourselves to the dismantling of Israeli apartheid, insist on the enforcement of international law and ensuring the fulfillment of legitimate demands of Palestinians. These demands include:

• People living side by side in justice and peace within pre1967 borders;
• A shared Jerusalem including open access to all holy sites;
• The right of return for Palestinian refugees;
• An end to all settlement extensions and dismantling of the settlement system;
• Free access to water and sanitation;
• The breakdown of the apartheid wall.

We should not accept the argument that the fear of civil unrest between Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is a deterrent to achieving Palestinian freedom.

Prophetic communities that support Palestine

We commit to:

Acknowledge that people at the community level are empowered as the primary theologians of a Kairos Consciousness.
Develop effective south-north and south-south coalitions for prophetic action
Agree that Kairos Palestine create a core group to facilitate these coalitions

Boycott-Divestment-Sanction (BDS): Creative, non-violent now

• We commit to engage in creative, nonviolent resistance in response to the call from our Palestinian sisters and brothers to this end, including BDS.
• We will actively participate in and lend credibility to popular, nonviolent resistance in Palestine, Israel and internationally, including giving effect to BDS We will oppose with appropriate means the policies of our governments that support the occupation.

Holy Lands Tourism and Pilgrimage
We will:

• Promote and participate in alternative tourism and Kairos pilgrimages in the Holy Lands for the purposes of spiritual nurturing, awareness-raising and advocacy.
• Insist that such tours be organized by or in partnership with Palestinian tour operators
• Utilize those travel agencies that follow “Come and See: A Call from Palestinian Christians for Ethical Tourism”2. We will challenge and boycott those that do not.
• Actively seek to enable targeted groups to travel to Israel-Palestine.

Conclusion
The Bethlehem Call for a here-we-stand, stand-with-us journey provides each one of us a joyous blessing and honor, difficult though the journey may be. We seize this opportune, Kairos moment with conviction and hope.

Palestinians and a world community have gathered: here in, breaking barriers between regions and cultures and building bridges of friendship and solidarity because we have a common dream to see a Palestine and a world free of all forms of injustice. We believe that each one of us was called to Bethlehem for a purpose.

“We are the ones we have been waiting for.” (Alice Walker)

A Franciscan benediction:

May God bless us with discomfort at easy answers, at half truths and superficial relationships so that we may live deeply within our hearts. May God bless us with anger at injustice, oppression and exploitation. May God bless us with tears to share for those who suffer in pain, rejection, starvation and war, so that we may reach out our hands to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. And may God bless us with enough foolishness to believe that we can make a difference in this world so that we can do what others claim cannot be done. And may the blessing of the God of Abraham and Sarah, and Jesus born in Bethlehem of our sister Mary, and of the Holy Spirit, who broods over the world as a mother over her children, be upon us and remain with us always. Amen.

(2) Come and See: A Call from Palestinian Christians A journey for peace with Justice Guidelines for Christians Contemplating a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

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Dr. Khaled Shamaa

Dr. Morsy Abu Yosef

Dr. Morsy Abu Yosef, der Ägyptische Kulturattaché in Wien kündigte an, dass die Ägyptischen Filmtage in Wien zwischen 26-29 Januar 2012 im Votivkino stattfinden werden.
Die Veranstaltungen der Filmwoche finden unter dem Ehrenschutz von Botschafter Dr. Khaled Shamaa statt. Dr. Morsy fügte hinzu, dass diese Filme einen wichtigen Anteil am Ausbruch der Jänner-Revolution hatten, denn sie hätten viele zum aufbegehren bewegt: „Die ägyptische Botschaft und ihre Kulturabteilung veranstalten zum Jahrestag der ägyptischen Jänner-Revolution ein Filmfestival der besonderen Art.
Die Filmtage mit dem Titel Behind the Revolution – Tage des ägyptischen Films sollen das Schaffen jener Regisseure beleuchten, jener Regisseure, die mit ihren Werken maßgeblich zur gesellschaftlichen Vorbereitung der arabischen Revolutionen – insbesondere der ägyptischen – beigetragen haben. Gezeigt werden Filme von Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef und Samir Habchi. Zudem wird die Arbeit der Schauspieler Amro Saad und Khaled Nabawy, die treibende Kräfte des zivilen Aufstands in Ägypten waren, hervorgehoben.
Erstmalig findet in Wien ein Festival mit dem Fokus auf ägyptischen Film statt. Die im Frühjahr 2011 angebrochene und seither fortdauernde Revolution in Ägypten verleiht dem Thema zusätzliche Brisanz und Aktualität. Wir freuen uns sehr, mit dem VOTIV KINO einen prominenten Partner in der Wiener Kinoszene gefunden zu haben.


Behind the Revolution wird am 26. Januar mit dem Film Heya Fawda (Chaos) eröffnet. An den folgenden 3 Tagen werden die Spielfilme Doukhan bila nar – Beirut, Open City (27. Jänner), Heen Maysara – Till Better Days (28. Jänner), Dokkan Shehata – Shehata’s Shop (29. Jänner), sowie Al-mohager – Der Emigrant (29. Jänner) gespielt. Wir wollen auch auf unsere Filmtage in Graz hinweisen, die im Anschluss an das Programm in Wien stattfinden. Im Filmzentrum im Rechbauerkino werden alle Festivalfilme vom 28. bis 31. Jänner   2012 erneut zu sehen sein.
Nach dem Eröffnungsfilm am 26.Jänner stehen der Regisseur Khaled Youssef, sowie die weitere Gäste des Festivals für Fragen der Presse und des Publikums bereit. Am Freitag, den 27. Jänner (19.30 Uhr) laden wir Sie zu einer Podiumsdiskussion in der Diplomatischen Akademie Wien im Anschluss der Filmvorstellung ein. Anwesend sind der Regisseur Khaled Youssef, die Schauspieler Amro Saad und Khaled Nabawy, sowie die politischen Aktivisten Saly Touma und Hassan Nafaa.

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Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam

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Julius-Tandler-Medaille in Gold für Ernst Berger

Sonja Wehsely überreichte Julius-Tandler-Medaille an Kinder- und Jugendpsychiater Ernst Berger
“Berger widmete sein ganzes Schaffen der seelischen Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen”
Der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiater Ernst Berger erhielt heute, Mittwoch, die Professor-Dr. Julius-Tandler-Medaille der Stadt Wien in Gold. Berger feierte vor wenigen Tagen seinen 65. Geburtstag und war jahrzehntelang in zahlreichen Führungsaufgaben des Wiener Gesundheitswesens tätig. Bis 2007 wirkte Berger als Ärztlicher Abteilungsvorstand am Neurologischen Zentrum Rosenhügel.
Der Kinder-und Jugendpsychiater war 2002 einer der InitiatorInnen des Volksbegehrens “Sozialstaat Österreich” und hatte maßgeblich an der Aufarbeitung der nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen am Spiegelgrund teil. Seit 2007 führt Berger eine Facharzt- und Psychotherapie-Praxis in Wien.

“Die Professor-Dr.-Julius-Tandler-Medaille der Stadt Wien wird zur Anerkennung und Würdigung an Menschen verliehen, die sich durch ihre uneigennützige und aufopfernde Tätigkeit um das Wohl der WienerInnen besonders verdient gemacht haben. Ernst Berger widmete sein ganzes Schaffen der seelischen Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Im Zentrum steht sein gesamtgesellschaftliches Anliegen, für die Kinder das Beste herauszuholen”, unterstrich Gesundheits und Sozialstadträtin Sonja Wehsely am Mittwoch anlässlich der Verleihungszeremonie. (Michael Eipeldauer).

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The First Amendment: 龙信明 Blog - Foreign Affairs & Ecnomics - Israel and Palestine

The absurd and vile thing about the Diabolic entity "called" Israel is that it is a concoction of gentile Freemasons and Khazar pretend - fake - Jews and the impostor non-scripture known as the Talmud. They find themselves working for and yearning for their own damnation in trying to bring about the brief and diseased and damned reign of the Antichrist, ad-Dajjal, on earth planned for by the Illuminati who are predominately gentile.

The Palestinians are the real descendants of the Israelites who accepted Jesus Christ. 'Isa al-Maseeh, as their Messiah promised to Moses and the Messiah, in fact, promised to the Patriarchs and Prophets throughout the the entire Old Testament, which of course Jesus Christ is the one true Messiah and no one else could be.

Abbas – ‘The double agent’ « BellesHeures's Weblog

Abbas – ‘The double agent’ « BellesHeures's Weblog:

Abbas – ‘The double agent’
When Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) called Israeli President Shimon Peres to wish him ‘Happy Rosh Hashana’ – Peres pleaded with Abbas to trust Benji Netanyahu, calling him the best ‘negotiating partner’ the Palestinians living under Jewish boots ever had. ” Don’t abandon the talks before peace is achieved. There is no one more suited than you to achieve peace for your people, and for the entire region,” Peres told Abbas on the phone.

During his recent meeting with Benji Netanyhau at the White House, Ben Obama had asked Benji to extend the 10-month moratorium on building new Jewish settlements on the stolen Arab land – which expires on September 26, 2010. However, Benji told the Quartet envoy, ‘Islamophobe’ Tony Blair: “The Palestinians want that after the 26th of September there will be no building in Judea and Samara (the West Bank), and that will not happen”.

So, why the US, EU and even some Israeli leaders want the ‘two state” dead horse keep breathing? Well, the answer came from no other than prime minister of the Zionist entity, Ehud Olmert, who in an interview, published by Israel daily Ha’aretz on November 29, 2007, he said: “If the day comes when the two-state solution collapse, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (both foreign Jew settlers and the Native Palestinian Muslims and Christians), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished”.

The US-Israel-EU sham Middle East Peace Process has been going for more than two decades now. In the meantime, the Zionist entity has been building more and more new illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem on the Natives’ land in order to change the Arab-majority areas into demographically Jewish areas for merging it with the Zionist state of Israel.

The US and Canadian Jewish-owned mainstream media is in the habit of blaming the Palestinian and the Arab leaders for not showing the courage to recognize the Jewish occupation as a “reality” which they have no other choice but to live with – so why not recognize it, sooner the better. Recently, Washignton has warned the Arab governments that if they joined with Islamic Iran and the NAM countries to call for the inspection of Israel’s nuclear facilities by the international nuclear watchdog IAEA – Israel may change its willingness to carry-on its negotiation with the unelected Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.

The Zionist entity and its poodle rulers in the western countries refuse to talk to Palestinians’ elected government of Hamas, because they know that Hamas leadership, like the Hizbullah and the Islamic Republic is not for sale. Therefore, they prefer to project a sell-out leader like Mahmoud Abbas, whose term of office expired in January 2009 – as the “negotiating partner”. They’re hoping that since Abbas’ submission to Israeli terms would not be acceptable to the great majority of the Palestinians and Hamas – it could generate a civil war and thus will give the Zionazi thugs an excuse to re-occupy both Gaza and the West Bank.

A nation-state needs people, land, military and internationally guaranteed sovereignity and borders. Israel and its ‘helpers’ don’t want none of those four ingredients for the proposed new ‘state of Palestine’. What they wants is that Palestinian must elect a government acceptable to Israel; a country without even a conventional Armed Force (land, airforce and navy); its borders and airspace be controlled by Israel and US-puppet rulers of Egypt and Jordan; the Natives to share the land with the illegal Jew settlers who will be protected by Israeli army – and the five million Palestinians currently living in foreign lands would forfeit their rights to return to their ancestral homes under Zionist-rule from where they and their ancestors have been rooted out by the Zionist terrorists since 1948.

And please, save me from the Israel Hasbara crap such as Hamas fires rockets at Israeli civilians or Arabs want to drive Jews to the Sea or Hamas wants to ‘wipe Israel of the map’, etc. Let Hamas receive tanks and jet-fighters from Iran as Israel receives those and more from United State – so that Hamas doesn’t have to fire non-guided rockets on the ‘combatant Jewish civilians’ (every Israeli Jew over the age of 16 is a military-trained killer). It’s the Native Muslims and Christians who have been thrown out of their land to make space for the foreign Jews. The only country which has been ‘wiped off of the map’ in the modern times – is over 5,000-year-old Palestine.


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

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

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Violence At The Door Of President Abbas, Video

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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