Website under Attack

Website under Attack

Jul 31st, 2009 by kawther.salam

Some people have written to say that my website and blog are often unavailable. That is true.

Since about the Gaza massacre last January, the technical problems have increased. My provider has told me in a recent Email that the Website is often under “Denial of Service” attack, what in some cases has forced them to take the whole domain off-line for hours.

These interruptions are a problem, yes. But they also show that some of the things which I have written about these criminals has them worried.

Whatever they do, I will continue writing about the crimes of Israel, sometimes about small things, sometimes big. I hope that one day I will see many of these coward, genocidal criminals jailed for many years, just like their friends and relatives from New Jersey.

I am a victim of these criminals, as are all Palestinians and all the neighboring countries who must put up with these insane people. They must go to jail and they must pay me and others reparations, and they must leave my country, all of it. I will not give up. Period.

A Strange Islamic Fatwa Against Building Churches

A Strange Islamic Fatwa Against Building Churches

Jul 31st, 2009 by kawther.salam

Cairo University: a professor in the faculty of law, lecturing his students, stated: “a will, if devoted to building hospitals for Muslims as well as non-Muslims, as a work of goodness and charity, brings that man closer to God. This is a principle agreed on by all the interpreters of Foqaha. BUT, if the will is devoted to building churches, it is forbidden and sinful, as agreed by all the Islamic Foqaha”.

Dr. Naguib Gibraeel, President of the Egyptian Union Organization for Human Rights wrote to Al-Azhar University and the Eygption State asking if this fatwa is their plan and position concerning building churches in Egypt. Gibraeel said that the state teaches and assigns hatred to building churches, as announced in both “Dar el-Eftta”, the council for Islamic interpretations of laws in Islam, and in the University of Cairo.

According to Mohammed Naguib Awadein el-Maghrabbi, deputy chief of the Faculty of Law, at Cairo University, the book is a subject to be studied by third year students. Muslims and Copts mention that a will, if devoted by a Christian for building a Church, is forbidden and sinful and is considered in Islam as separation from God. So it is also illegal if a non-Muslim wills his inheritance towards building a Church or a synagogue.
The interpretation of the council of Islamic Fatwa of Egypt also stated in its latest fatwa, that the will of a Muslim towards building a Church is a sin against God, just as if he left his inheritance towards building a Casino for gambling, or building a shed for pigs, cats or dogs. This Fatwa is documented by number 1809/ year 2008. The original text is written and sealed by the authority of the higher Fatwa Council in Cairo.

The UN: Giving Shit to Palestinians for over Sixty Years

The UN: Giving Shit to Palestinians for over Sixty Years

Jul 27th, 2009 by kawther.salam

Sorry to everybody for these impolite words about the UNRWA, I could not find other words to describe the situation, and things should be called by their name. Sorry also for showing these photos of dirty toilets unfit for human use, of urine, dirt and the polluted environment and unhealthy situation which is experienced by all Palestinians who reside in the refugee camps run by the UNRWA in Palestine and in the Diaspora, as well as by all those who have received and still receive their education and medical services at the UN schools and clinics during the last 62 years under the Zionist occupation and the 60 years of UNRWA establishment. (click on pictures to see them bigger).

Many thanks to Al-Nahar News Agency from Gaza, who provided me with the photos used in this article, and which were taken by their correspondent Nisrin Mousa at the UN health and medical center of Khan Younis, a center which is supposed to provide medical and health services to the 59.524 Palestinian refugees who live in the camp.

According to Nisrin Mousa, everybody who visits the UNRWA health and medical center is obliged to hold his nose closed because of the foul stench which spreads everywhere. The patients are obliged to give urine for medical tests in the toilets depicted here, which are not fit for animals and certainly not for a place delivering medical services. A child was seen urinating in a container for medical tests on the floor outside of a toilet stall, her mother said that she was scared that her daughter would become infected if she entered the stall. Another patient (Shaima’a) was giving urine for a test outside of the clinic after she hid herself in a narrow ally. According to Shaima “it’s shame to do that, but it’s shame on the UN medical center to treat us like insects in their contaminated and unhealthy medical clinic”.

Naem Asa’ad, the director of the UN clinic in Khan Younis, refused to say anything about the unhealthy situation of the clinic. His only comment was “I will fall in problems and I will be punished if I open my mouth commenting on this situation with even one word”.

Majdy Al-Amour, a general doctor at the UN clinic, said that the any contaminated place can affect the health of the people, whether children, young women, men or old. He added that the toilets contaminated with bacteria caused problems: first they infect the digestive system of the human beings, and then they move of the respiratory system and impact the health of the patient unfavorably. We hope that the UN administration will not cause trouble for Dr. Al-Amour, because the rules which the UN imposes on their employees are used to cover up their crimes and negligence which cause misery for Palestinians, and force the UN employees of accept the inhuman situation and threats them to loss their work if they open their mouth in criticism words, or even clarifications.

The disgusting photos from the UN clinic in Khan Younis are nothing new in my knowledge, or in the knowledge of any Palestinian refugee under the “care” of the UN. Everybody who receives medical treatment or educational services at the UNRWA schools and medical centers knows how filthy and unhealthy these places are. And even these minimal and unsuitable services are being reduced to nothing in many cases, for a population who is dependent on them because our economy has been wholly destroyed by the Israelis.

The UNRWA Commissioner-General in Vienna

At the end of June 2009, the UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen Koning AbuZayed was in Vienna celebrating the 60 anniversary of the UNRWA, she celebrated that the UNRWA had survived for 60 years giving shit and misery to the Palestinians. This is what was actually celebrated in the courtyard (Arkadenhof) of the municipality in Vienna under the auspices of Saar, OFID, and other organizations. The well known Lebanese musician Marcel Khalife was invited to play at the luxurious AbuZayed celebration, which cost over 130.000 Euros, a sum out of proportion with anything the UNRWA does, and which was lavished upon a few yes-men.

On that occasion Miss AbuZayed held a press conference at OFID offices in Vienna, about which I wrote. She did not say one word about the inhuman situation, the dirt, the brutal stench at the miserable UN schools and medical centers throughout Palestine and the Palestinian refugee camps, and the poverty and abject misery of most Palestinians. Instead, those who bothered to attend this self-celebratory event, received a bag with about ten kilos of UN propaganda showing how nice and helpful the UNRWA is in occupied Palestine. If I was not Palestinian and had not experienced the misery at the UN schools and medical centers myself, I would have wanted to immigrate to one of the UNRWA refugee camps!

DDT at UNRWA Schools

What I remember from my time at the UNRWA school in Hebron (and the UN schools were considered better than the other schools in the refugee camps) where I received my elementary and preparatory education, is much less than flattering. I remember cold and misery, constant beatings, insults and abuses by the teachers, I remember how the personnel at the UNRWA school in Hebron once spread DDT on my hair and on the hair of all the other students.

On that occasion the UN sent some men with big bags filled with a pale yellow powder fine as flour, DDT. The teacher told us to stand in two long rows; she told us that we would receive a health service, which consisted in a handful of DDT spread in our hair. The teacher said that the DDT would kill the lice which had spread in our school. My hair was without lice but the man spread it on me anyway. He spread the powder on everyone except the niece of my teacher, Moyassar Al-Tayeh, and Lamia Bali, a girl whose father was also a teacher working for the UN.

I arrived home that day tired and with strong headache caused by the yellow powder which the UN people had spread in my hair, in addition, my skin was red with an itchy rash caused by the DDT. My mother was very angry, she showered me two, three times, but the strong smell was not going away. On the second day my father went to the now deceased UN education director for Hebron, Abd Allah Hamdan, to file a complaint against the DDT “health service”. My mother went to complain to the school headmistress of the time, Lamia’a Bader, whose sister Randa Bader is the current director of the UNRWA office in Hebron. As in most cases, these well-payed slots are inherited within families.

I also still remember the toilets of the UN school in Hebron. The situation was worse than in these photos from the Khan Younis clinic. The toilets were dark, without lights, water or doors, the stench was horrible, they were dirty and full of rats and cockroaches. There was no running water in the school, we were forced to beg the neighbors for water if we wanted to drink.

UNRWA Contaminated Vaccinations

I also remember the vaccinations which we received at the UNRWA elementary school, they were said to be against smallpox but I think that they were contaminated. The results of these vaccinations were very clear, all the children in the school became infected with smallpox after these vaccinations, which somehow was renamed “water-pox” and other names by the UN personnel. I still have marks of this disease on places of my body where I scratched open the water-filled pustules. Since these vaccinations started, there have been yearly outbreaks of smallpox in Palestine – a disease which was unknown until the UN brought it. A doctor told me that the disease will be in Palestine for hundreds of years to come. I have seen young children and old men covered with these pustules.

The other thing I remember from the UNRWA elementary schools is that the teacher and the headmistress, apart from daily abuses and mistreatments, were sending the students to clean their houses during the mooring, during the time when they were supposedly attending class, and sometimes after the school hours. At school we were beaten all the time and for any reason or no reason at all, but what for sure would make the teachers beat any of us was the mention of the word “Palestine”.

I was one of those sent to do chores to the house of my teacher in this way. I once received 10 cents from the headmistress after I washed a mountain of dishes, glasses, and pots … in her kitchen. I was then in the fourth class, 9 years old. I bought ten pieces of the cheap ice cream, I ate some of them and I threw the rest. I was scared of being late and that my mother would discover the story, each time I came home late I had to lie to my mother and invent that I had attended an extra lesson at school.

Ten Million Euro OFID Fund to UNRWA

The UN educational services for Palestinians are reduced and confined to the provision of basic services in some schools, at the refugee camps and in some villages. In Hebron, the URWA schools were closed some years ago. The medical and the health services and social relief were reduced, but the poverty of the people has meanwhile increased in Palestine. Over 75 percent of the Palestinian refugees who live in Hebron are jobless.

According to people from Hebron, the UN medical center refuses to pay the necessary medical treatment and tests for Palestinian refugees who nominally have the right to receive these services. A jobless person who depends on these UNRWA services recently told me that the UN health center of Hebron refuses to pay a necessary examination for his wife at Al-Ahli hospital. He said that the examination is necessary and urgent, but that the UN would not pay the examination. Why?
According to my sources, many poor people who have no other source of food or who cannot afford even minimal medical services, are routinely denied even the most basic medical treatment; the medical center invents any reasons to deny the people necessary treatments. But, the same treatments and services which the poor people are routinely denied at the UN medical center in Hebron, a few people more equal people receive, namely some few employees of the UN, their families and friends. This is a clear case of corruption.

The UN clinic in Hebron is located in area H2 under the Israeli, at Talat al-Karantina, it is surrounded by many illegal checkpoints of the Israeli military, who routinely deny the Palestinian refugees, pregnant women to reach the clinic. In many cases the soldiers have attacked the UN workers at the clinic and obliged them to close, but never to my knowledge the UN has protested against these Israeli criminal actions. I know the UN clinic well, I also know the medical stuff. The medical staff at this center should treat two hundred patient daily. But the whole treatment for all the patients consists in a Paracetamol tablet and some injections.

The miserable treatment of the UN towards Palestinians is not limited to their medical and education disservices. Most Palestinians have been impoverished by the wholesale and genocidal destruction of our economy by the israelis, but the UNRWA only helps “refugees”. Instead of helping in this situation, the UNRWA has reduced their supplies of flour, lentils, sugar, rice given to the refugees. The supplies are given only twice a year, but actually at irregular intervals, sometimes after 10 months, and in most cases only after the people beg for them. And, the UN relief supplies are often over their date of expiry. This is all what the UN luxury organization gives to the Palestinians under the occupation and now under the boot of the useless spongers which are the PA officials. What a contrast between the miserable treatment of the needy in Palestine, and the lavishing of money on undeserving corruptionists in Vienna.

Finally, the OFID and the Commissioner-General of the UNRWA signed a grant agreement in which OFID will give an additional contribution of US$3 million of the OFID Micro Enterprises for Palestine Fund (PALFUND), which will be administrated by the UNRWA. Through the OFID, the contribution to the PALFUND account will reach US$10 million in 2009.

MY Questions:

• - Will the extended contribution of OFID to the PALFUND of US$10 million be able to repair the insalubrious situation of the UN medical centers and schools at the Palestinian refugee camps?
• - Will the Commissioner-General Karen Koning AbuZayed make public the names of the Palestinian beneficiaries of the OFID Fund? I challenge Karen Koning AbuZayed to disclose the names of the beneficiaries if she has not done so already, because I suspect that, as usual, the beneficiaries are people chosen from among the relatives and friends of UNRWA employees and PA employees, the usual group of massively privileged people who are still registered as refugees, taking food from the mouth of the poor.
• - Why are the Palestinian refugees not receiving the food, medical services, education which they need, when they need them, and without being forced to resort to begging in order to receive them?
• - Has the UNRWA stopped poisoning the Palestinian school children with DDT And other substances?
• - How many Palestinian children have died due to the contaminated vaccines distributed by the UNRWA at their medical centers? (Some years ago, and before I live in the exile I received a complaint from the family of Abu Haieh who claimed that a lady (Inshirah) died after she received an injection for cows at the health center of UNRWA).
• - Which were/are the intentions of the UNRWA in using contaminated vaccines on Palestinian children?
• - Who was/is responsible for the vaccination programs of Palestinians which have taken place under the supervision of the UNRWA, since the inception of UNRWA?

Read more about the UNRWA

Israel Escalates Racism in Occupied Palestine

Israel Escalates Racism in Occupied Palestine

Jul 16th, 2009 by kawther.salam

Press Release

The Palestine Return Centre (PRC) expressed deep anxiety because of the Israeli practices in occupied Palestinian territories. International laws, UN resolutions, the International court of justice, the 4th Geneva conventions and many other charters are being repeatedly and clearly violated by Israel, what is being met with lamentable silence by the International community as well as the Arab and the Muslim world. With the coming into office of the recent Israeli government, more racist outrages are committed against Palestinians. Judaising Jerusalem by ethnic cleansing, the forceful expulsion of Palestinians is unremitting. In an effort to deny the culture and history of Palestinians, a shameful decision was made yesterday by the Israeli government to change names of Arabic cities into Hebrew.

As the Netanyahu government took office, more than 1600 demolition orders were issued in Jerusalem. Hundreds of these were put into practise, resulting in the displacement of thousands of Palestinians. Sickeningly, some Israeli contractors offer housing services in the demolished estates with reduced prices for only Jewish people.
Palestinian sources in Jerusalem said that over 80 houses received demolition notifications in Al Bustan neighbourhood, an area which is planned to be to be turned into gardens for Israelis. Yesterday decisions issued by rightist Israeli transportation Minister, Yitsrael katz, was a clear-cut evidence of the Israeli intension regarding a Jewish Israeli state. The decision aims at changing the long-lasting names of Arabic cities known for thousands of years into Hebrew language. PRC considers this as a move towards other dangerous steps to eradicate Palestinian Identity.

On the West Bank, the illegal settlement building is never-ending as well as confiscating lands and building the ‘apartheid’ Wall.
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in Occupied Territories, “B’Tselem,” reported that the number of settlers in the West Bank increased to 289600, since Israel agreed to the roadmap peace plan, which demands the freezing of all forms of settlements. An Increase in the number of settlers is estimated to be 37% in 6 years. According to International law, those ettlements are illegal since they are established on 1967 occupied lands. In contrast to the American and European official positions, the Israeli overnment didn’t clarify its positions and went more on building settlements under the pretext of natural growth for the Jewish settlements.

Furthermore, the ‘apartheid’ Wall continuous to encroach and steal more Palestinian lands across the West Bank, despite the fact that it is illegal according to the international court of Justice. The fact that successive Israeli governments have continued to build this wall against world opinion demonstrates that it’s not a matter of internal party politics between extremists and moderates but a fundamental policy demonstrating the zealotry of the Knesset.

Given the routine oppression and suffering inflicted on the occupied
Palestinians it is clearly evident that there is an apartheid policy that is being practiced by Israel. PRC requests there is real international pressure to end the routine practices of violence and intimidation and force Israel back from a rogue state to one that upholds basic international law.

Zionists Looking for Collaborators?

Zionists Looking for Collaborators?

Jul 15th, 2009 by kawther.salam

It didn’t surprise me that Zionists would send me an Email looking for collaborators. I know that Israel is a Zionist criminal and terrorist organization with all what this means, because of it’s invasion, it’s laws, crimes, behavior, etc … I also strongly believe that Israel is not a State, and that the establishment of Israel in Palestine by the UN was illegal and immoral. I also believe that every single Israeli soldier who crosses the borders of 1967 is enforcing an illegal occupation, is perpetrator or accomplice of ethnic cleansing and genocide against my people. They are without exception war criminals and terrorists, but until now we are jailed for their crimes. The Email asks me for missing soldiers.

I would appreciate if all Israeli soldiers disappear in one way or other from my homeland Palestine, now and for ever. This the only answer which I want to give the Zionists who sent me their Email fishing for collaborators, and I give it openly. The Email follows, in translation and in the original Arabic. I redacted the originating Email, a Website and a contact number in the UK.

Has anybody else received such an Email?

Subject: Are You Happy?

You can get 10 million dollars!

10 million dollars for reliable information which will lead to finding missing Israeli soldiers.

We guarantee your personal security, and ensure fully your personal confidentiality each time you contact us.

If you have information, and if you are interested in the cash prize, Contact Us!
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Palestine Between US-Israel Dictate and Fatah Conflict

Palestine Between US-Israel Dictate and Fatah Conflict

Jul 15th, 2009 by kawther.salam

Politics is a filthy and immoral game, and all politicians are liars and blood suckers. In the Middle East, these immoral politicians have turned Palestine into a field of political experiments, into a cheap collective political bargaining tool, the so-called “peace process”. Between the criminals of US-Israel, the corrupt Arab regimes, the European countries, the foreign intelligence systems, even the Palestinian-Palestinian conflict of Fatah-Fatah and Fatah-Hamas, Palestine and the legitimate rights of Palestinians are lost. I do not see any difference between all the politicians, from whatever side, who are activate in one way or another in Palestine. They are all accomplice of genocide, of endless violations of human rights, and of crimes against humanity committed against the Palestinian people.

The conflicts of the Palestinians themselves, Fatah vs. Fatah and Fatah vs. Hamas, parties who both consider themselves the biggest political parties in Palestine, Jihad, Popular Committee, and other Palestinian parties and factions are guilty of grave crimes against the Palestinian people, since they have turned their resistance against the Israeli occupation into criminal fights between themselves in order to reach illusory power under the occupation. There is no difference between Muhammad Dahlan, Mahmoud Abbas, Salam Fayyad, Musa abu Marzoq, Ismael Haniyeh, Khalid Mishal, etc. They all are political criminals assisted by different criminals working for the regimes of various corrupt countries. Whatever these “leaders” do or call themselves, they all are still under the Israeli occupation, and their actions make them accomplices to genocide against their population, just like the criminal Israeli occupation.

On the political map of today, the Fatah as well Hamas are divided and in conflict with themselves and with the other parties. The statements made by Hamas leaders in the Gaza are not those statements made by Hamas leaders abroad. There is a gap between Hamas political leaders in Palestine and Hamas political leadership abroad, and there is another gap between Hamas leaders and members in Palestine. Anyone who sees and observes the Palestinian situation in the Gaza concentration camp understands that the power of Hamas is based on the destruction of Gaza, the poverty and the starvation of the Palestinians who live there, it rests on the skulls of the innocent civilian children who were murdered by Israel and who died of shortage of the medical treatment.

There is a clear disaster in Gaza and a clear political adultery under the Hamas leadership. The crimes of Hamas could be seen now to be equivalent to the crimes the Zionist occupation. The experience of suffering and corruption which the Palestinians lived under the PA (Palestinian Authority) in the Gaza, did not change with the ascension to power of the Hamas and its politics. To say something else is hypocritical.

In the West Bank there is another political disaster, and other political conflicts between factions of the Fatah party, and Fatah-PA leaders like Mahmoud Abbas, Tayyeb Abed Al-Rahim, … (the puppets lead by Keith Dayton and Jake Wells from the US, and the “civil administration” of Israel) and their criminal allies like Mohammad Dahlan, the former head leader of death squads and the alternative security system, who was forced to flee from his native Gaza. There is yet another conflict between Fatah inside Palestine and Fatah abroad, and another conflict between the Palestinian Authority leaders and politicians, and the Fatah leaders and politicians abroad, like the conflict between the old man Farouq Qaddumi, known as “Abu Al-Lotof”, the President of the Political Department of the PLO and Palestinian Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Diaspora, and the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Fatah Movement, and the President of PA Mahmoud Abbas.

Farouq Qaddumi turned his personal conflict with Mahmoud Abbas into a public one in the media. The title of the Qaddumi conflict is “fighting for the Palestinian National Rights”. Both of these fighters of Fatah are filthy and dishonest. The daily fight of these conflicted leaders from the same party expose the real, ugly faces of these leaders, and their conspiracies against the Palestinian population and their national rights of return and the building of a really independent state.

The recent conflict between Farouq Qaddumi, the leader of Fatah in exile, and Mahmoud Abbas, came to be as a result of the preparations for holding the so-called Sixth Fatah Conference, and the final decision of President Abbas for Bethlehem as a the place where to hold this conference, without prior consultation with the base of the Fatah movement inside and outside of Palestine.

President Abbas made his decision in coordination and consultation with his American “friends”, who, despite their opposition against holding the sixth Fatah conference, are even more strongly opposed to holding the conference outside the occupied territories, in order to ensure that the results of the conference are supportive to the PA and the outcome of the US-Israeli policy in Palestine, as holding the conference outside of their control would ensure results very unfavourable to them and Abbas. Using this chance, Abbas and his thugs from Fatah started falsifying the names and the list of the members of the Fatah who will attend the conference. They also enumerated the names of the Palestinian Authority supporters, and they drastically reduced the names of Fatah politicians members from abroad who are known to oppose the Palestinian Authority. All of these illegal preparations blew up the anger of thousands of members of the Fatah movement. The angry members of Fatah decided to expose the scandal by highlighting the crimes of the PA, which they themselves had been aiding and abetting with their long silence, hiding facts from the Palestinian people.

On July 12, 2009, the old man Farouq Qaddumi exposed a dead-fresh-old-new farce and conspiracy, during a press conference which he held in Jordan. “Abu Al-Lotof” exposed a recording of a conspirative conversation between Ariel Sharon for Israel, William Burns for the US, Mahmoud Abbas, and Mohammad Dahlan, during which they are plotting and planning to murder Arafat and other Palestinian political leaders. The time of this Al-Qaddumi Press conference and its purpose are also a clear farce, a splat in the face of all the Palestinians and Fatah. Farouq Qaddumi himself, who styles himself as “opposition” to the Abbas clique, has betrayed us Palestinians by hiding these crimes for some years, and exposing them only some months before the coming Sixth Fatah Conference, when it best suited him.

However, what Farouq Qaddumi said on July 12, 2009 in his press conference in Jordan reflects the level of filth of both the leaders of Fatah-PA, and the Fatah supporters in the “opposition” who have used our suffering to eliminate our national right to end the Israeli occupation. A brief of the Qaddumi farce follows.

Farouq Qaddumi stated in his press conference that “Abbas must resign, he is involved together with Muhammad Dahlan, Ariel Sharon, former Israeli PM, and William Burns, U.S. Under-secretary for Political Affairs for the Middle East, in a conspiracy against Palestine and the Palestinians. The conspiracy included the poisoning of President Yasser Arafat, and the murder of the leaders of Hamas, Jihad, Fatah Brigades, and ending the Palestinian militant resistance”.

Al-Qaddumi also accused President Abbas, the Israeli authorities, and the Americans of complicity in the assassination of the late President Arafat and various leaders of the Palestinian resistance. The accused crimes constitute complicity in genocide against the Palestinian people, because they eliminate viable political leadership.

Qaddumi also accused the Palestinian President of “tyranny” in the “unilateral actions” and “usurping the titles” Arafat. He showed before his press conference a document which the deceased President Arafat had given him. The documents is about a secret recording of a meeting which was held between Abbas, Mohammed Dahlan, former Israeli PM Sharon, William Burns and US intelligence officers, which was a planning to poison Arafat and to assassinate other leaders of the Palestinian resistance factions.

According to a summary of the recording which was read by Al-Qaddumi during his press conference, “Sharon told Abbas and Dahlan that it was imperative to kill every military and political leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Palestine Liberation and the Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades of Fatah”. Sharon further says in the recording to Abbas, Dahlan and the Americans, that the first step is that Arafat must must be killed by poisoning. “I don’t want to expel him, unless I receive guarantees that he will be under house arrest in any country. Otherwise, Arafat will turn to living on an airplane”. Sharon meant that expelling Arafat without putting him under house arrest meant that he would continue traveling around the world and making troubles for Israel.

The copy of the record attributes to Abbas saying in response to Sharon, “If Arafat dies before we are able control the land, all organizations, the Fatah and the Al-Aqsa brigades, then we may face great difficulties”.
Abbas proposed, according to the copy of the recording which read before the journalists “to attribute the Israeli schemes to Arafat himself and to continue pushing him to approve the assassination of the Palestinian leaders and resistance in order to burden the consequences of those acts on him”.

The copy of the record mentioned Dahlan as saying to Sharon: “We now have established a mixture of police, Preventive Security unit of more than 1800 members. We can also accommodate those who you recommend us to be in the position in this unit”. Dahlan added “We will now put all the officers of our military in front of difficult choices, and we will continue pressuring them until they follow us, and we will isolate all the officers who cause us problems or stand as an obstacle before us”.
According to the published version of the recording, Dahlan confirmed to Sharon by saying that “we have put the most serious leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa brigades under observation, if you asked me now about the first five most dangerous persons among them, I can tell you the exact places were they are”, adding that he was working to infiltrate the ranks of the Palestinian resistance.

Dahlan also told Sharon that “the factors of success are now in our hands”, and that “Arafat is losing his grip and authority to control the affairs, and we are controlling all the organizations now, we already sent you all the necessary documents with full details about that”.

Huge Anger and many Question:

Since the declarations in Qaddumi conference, I have received many Emails from people directly involved in the conflict. By reading these messages, I understood that Fatah is divided among themselves for in four factions:
Fatah: the opposition against Qaddumi and support for Abbas.
Fatah: the support for Qaddumi and opposition against Abbas.
Fatah: the oppositions to both Abbas and Qaddumi.
Fatah: the neutrals who try to understand the conflicted affairs of their party.
As a result of the conflict in Fatah, some questions need answers, far away from Qaddumi and his declarations at the press conference:

• When will Fatah investigate the crime of the poisoning and murder of president Arafat?
• Will the Fatah investigate Al-Tayyeb Abed Al-Rahem, who was the general secretary of presidential office of Yasser Arafat and the closest person to him?
• Will Fatah prosecute the murderers of President Arafat both from Israel and the PA ?
• Will Fatah force the PA to kick Keith Dayton out of Palestine?
• When Fatah will end the conflict with Hamas?

If Fatah is able to answer these questions in a practical way, then Fatah will again be considered Fatah, if not, then Fatah can be considered as politically dead, merely a den of corrupt traitors and criminals

Keith Dayton Get out of Palestine

Keith Dayton Get out of Palestine

Jul 12th, 2009 by kawther.salam

On Tuesday, June 30 2009, I met Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and his foreign Minister Riyad Al-Malki in the courtyard (Arkadenhof) of the municipality in Vienna during the concert of Lebanese composer Marcile Khalife. Although the presence of Fayyad and Al-Malki surprised me just like the rest of the audience, I was not able to hide my longing feelings while approaching and talking to them. I forgot my criticism of the Prime Minister and his government, and I felt very happy to see them.

During the concert I stopped photographing for a while and sat next to Prime Minister Fayyad. I told him that I had criticized his government several times because I love my homeland and I want the best for my people. Fayyad answered: “God bless you”, and he wrote his Email address on my hand.
On Saturday, July 4 2009, I sent Prime Minister Fayyad and his foreign Minster Riyad Al-Malki some of their photos, and wrote them an E-mail, but until now I have not received an answer. For sure they did not like my words when I expressed my sincere love to them and to Palestine, and my strong opposition for the presence of their friend the American General, the war criminal Keith Dayton.

In Palestine, the so-called government never answers you. This is also normal, since they are implementing the American-Israeli project in my homeland. It is very clear that there is a big distance between the nation and this official government. Never was there a bridge connecting the government and nation. The nation should always be with government, and if not, the doors of the jails are open for the nation. I am sure that if I was in Palestine, the Prime Minister would have sent the Dayton thug militia to arrest me. This is also normal. A new jail is under construction in Palestine. The American war criminal Keith Dayton, who now leads the Palestinian militias called “presidential military forces”, decided that we need a new jail in Palestine, and the crazy German Prime Minister Angela Merkel decided to finance the construction of a jail for women in Palestine. The jail will be ready for its political guests by the year 2011.

In Vienna, the Austrian officials, like the State President, the president of the Parliament, the Major of the city, etc. always answer the letters sent them by the people. They never ignore a letter, even if it is not of their liking. Last week I wrote some of them, and after three days I received the first answer. This what is what this so-called and self-appointed Palestinian government should understand and learn.
Anyway, below is my Email to the Palestinian Prime Minster and his Foreign Minister, which they did not answer.

Dear Palestinian Prime Minster Salam Fayyad,
Dear Dr. Riyad al-Malki,

Here are some of your photos.
I just want to clarify that I have criticized your government. Perhaps several times or perhaps many times, I also criticized our President Mahmoud Abbass. But I love you all.
I wish that I could return to Palestine, but until your Jewish friends allow that, please tell them to get out of my homeland. I don’t want to see them in Palestine, all of Palestine. I also don’t want to see the war criminal Keith Dayton in Palestine. I am not satisfied of all of what he is doing in my homeland. I feel disgust of him and his government. I hate him the same like I hate the Jewish squatters. Please tell him to get out of my country. I told him that in several ways. But he and his government are deaf.

I love my homeland, and I love you too. I was very happy to see you among us in Vienna, I also was happy to see you smiling and repeating Khalife’s songs. I forgot myself, and all of my criticism, and I felt that you are the dearest and closest people to my heart and my feelings. I can’t explain you that. This was my hidden and real feeling.
Behind my journalistic criticism there is a huge love for all the Palestinians.

I wish you all the best.

The Males Who Represents all the Women

The Males Who Represents all the Women

Jul 12th, 2009 by kawther.salam

Why were the male attendants who were nominated to represent the Arab community during Marcel Khalife reception at Vienna Rathaus on June 30 2009 not able to identify the name of the Rathaus Landtagspräsidentin representative five minutes after her speech ? Would our male representatives have forgotten the name of the Rathaus Landtagspräsident if had been a male?
Why did the Austrian organizers not invite Arab women to represent themselves at the Khalife reception in the Rathaus? Is there shortage of academic and intellectuals among the Arab women in Vienna?

Simply, I was provoked and shocked when all these men, who were invited to the reception by the Austrian organizers, were not able to identify the name of Landtagspräsidentin who gave a speech to welcome the attendants.

I wonder, what kind of man were nominated to represent us women and our community at the Rathaus reception, while they were not able even to remember the name of the speaker who welcomed them?

Before the reception started at the Rathaus, I asked some men who were invited to the reception to count how many Arab women would attend the reception. The second day I called them “No Arab woman attended the reception, there was a problem at the entrance, because the wife of the OFID director, who financed the concert, was not named in the personal invitation of her husband, but the organizers of the concert solved the problem”, said these persons. They added: “there were many Austrian and other women at the reception, but no Arab women”.

Due to this shameful discrimination against women in the Austria, where women are supposedly equal to men before laws and in society, I wrote to some Austrian officials the letter below in English and German.

Notification of Protest to Austrian Officials

Protestnote Deutsch PDF

To President Dr. Heinz Fischer
Major of Vienna Dr. Michael Häupl
President of the Austrian Parliament Barbara Prammer
Minister for Women Issues Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

I write to bring to your attention the deliberate and continued ignorance and discrimination against Arab women who are political activists, peace activists, intellectuals and journalists, or just private persons, in Vienna.

On June 30, 2009, after the concert of Marcel Khalife, a meeting was held between Austrian and Arab men in the Rathaus, from which Arab women, even the wives of those present, were excluded. This was to my knowledge not the first meeting or reception from which Arab women have been excluded, a clear case of gender discrimination. The reception of June 30 2009 was attended, according to my knowledge, among others by the president of the Austrian Parliament, Dr. Barbara Prammer, who has built her political career and reputation on the ticket and issue of women rights.

Correction: it came out afterwards that in fact the person who had been present and held the welcoming speech was the second vice-president of the province parliament of Vienna. My error is because the people who were present at the event were unable to identify this person correctly.

As woman, journalist and registered member of the SPÖ, I see this as a clear case of gender discrimination. I had opportunity to speak with several Arab women, political activists but also private persons, who complained to me expressing their deep concern about the deterioration of political representation of women and gender issues, and the continuous discrimination against the Arab and Muslim women in Austria in ways which border on violation of Austrian laws and customs.

I think that the individuals who have been trusted to nominate the names of the Arab persons invited to take part together with your excellencies in some meetings and receptions in the past, have deliberately ignored us women and our rights because of their interpretation of religious beliefs about gender which violate Austrian laws and customs, according to which the rights of women are protected by Austrian laws. These individuals who you have trusted, have nominated their friends and wives, and some other beneficiaries with whom they have personal relations, to represent us Arab women. I wonder how you explain the absence of Arab women from all your official meetings with the community of Arabs in Vienna and other cities of Austria. Has it never called your attention that women were not present, or if present, in a decorative role?

I write to call your attention, as the representatives of the State of Austria, to the gender issue of the Arab women who live in Austria. While we live here and should be a part of the Austrian society in one way or other, or at least aspire to do so, I notice that Arab women are systematically silenced and excluded from social, political, cultural activities concerning them in exactly the same ways as this happens in Arab countries, and an Arab woman living in Vienna must fear to be killed for “honor” just as this is the case for women living in any Arab country. This is in my opinion so, because these developments are supported by failed policies of integration on part of the Austrian political establishment. How are woman of Arab descent and culture supposed to become a part of the Austrian society when, even in symbolic occasions such as a reception after a concert, we they excluded, in fact even the wives of some Arab diplomats are excluded from these events, because these Arab men are scared of their presence of women who they see as a clear threat for their power as men, and who prefer to appear with weak women who cover their head in certain social occasions, especially meetings held for Ramadan at the Rathaus in Vienna.

How can a part of the Austrian political establishment complain against women covering themselves, while another part of the same political establishment supports the discrimination of women even in symbolic ways, such being excluded from receptions for fear of offending their chauvinist men?

I also would like to clarify that the Arab men who you have met at the Rathaus as representative of the Arab and Muslim communities in Austria do not represent those Arab women in Austria who attempt to break away from our assigned role of barely more than cattle, and that those Muslim women who always appear with them wearing cover in Ramadan do not represent us Arab and Muslim women and our aspirations. They all represent themselves, and in some cases the interests of those behind them, who are seldom in the best interest of all those of Arab culture.

Thank you for your consideration.

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The German Letter is Below:

An Bundespräsident Dr. Heinz Fischer
Bürgermeister der Stadt Wien Dr. Michael Häupl
Präsidentin des Nationalrates Mag. Barbara Prammer
Bundesministerin für Frauenangelegeheiten Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek

Protestnote an Österreichische Regierungsbeamte und Politiker

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

Ich schreibe, um Sie auf die absichtliche und andauernde Diskriminierung und Marginalisierung der in Wien lebenden Arabischen Frauen seitens des politischen Establishments aufmerksam zu machen. Bei diesen Frauen handelt es sich um politische Aktivistinnen, Friedensaktivistinnen, Intellektuelle, Akademikerinnen, Journalistinnen, oder einfach um private Personen.

Am 30. Juni 2009, nach einem Konzert von Marcel Khalife im Wiener Rathaus, wurden Arabische und Österreichische Männer zu einem Empfang eingeladen. Frauen, sogar die Ehefrauen von geladenen und anwesenden Gästen waren meines Wissens ausgeschlossen, was sehr klar Diskriminierung gegen Frauen ist. Dieser Fall ist bemerkenswert, weil laut meiner Information Frau Dr. Prammer, die Ihre politische Karriere und Ruf auf dem Thema der Frauenrechte aufgebaut hat, an diesem Treffen teilgenommen hat. Dies ist nicht der einzige Fall von dem ich weiß, dass Arabische Frauen ausgeschlossen wurden.

Als Frau, als Journalistin und als registriertes Mitglied der SPÖ sehe ich, dass es sich um einen klaren Fall von Frauendiskriminierung handelt. Ich konnte mit verschiedenen Arabischen Frauen sprechen, politische Aktivistinnen aber auch private Personen, die mir gegenüber ihre tiefe Sorge über die Verschlechterung des Klimas betreffend die politische Vertretung von Frauenangelegenheiten im Allgemeinen beklagten, und auch über die kontinuierliche Marginalisierung von Arabische und Moslemischen Frauen auf eine Art, die an die Grenzen der Österreichischen Gesetze und Gebräuche stößt.

Ich denke, daß jene Individuen, die mit der Zusammenstellung einer Namensliste aus dem Kreis der Arabischen Gemeinde in Wien betraut wurden, damit diese im genannten Anlaßfall, aber auch in der Vergangenheit, zu Gesellschaftlichen Anlässen mit Euren Exzellenzen eingeladen werden konnten, uns Frauen und unsere Rechte absichtlich marginalisieren, und zwar aus einer Interpretation von Religiösen Bräuchen heraus, die klar im Gegensatz zu den Bräuchen und Gesetzten von Österreich steht, laut denen Frauen als Männern gleichgestellte Personen vor Gesetz und Gesellschaft gelten. Diese Individuen, denen Sie Ihr Vertrauen geschenkt haben, haben für Einladungen zu offiziellen Gesellschaftlichen Anlässen ihre Freunde und gelegentlich auch deren Frauen, und andere ihnen nahe stehende Günstlinge genannt, um uns Arabische Frauen zu vertreten. Ich muss fragen, ob Ihnen die weitgehende Abwesenheit von Arabischen Frauen bei den offiziellen Anlässen mit der ansässigen Arabischen Gemeinde nie aufgefallen ist. Ist Ihnen bisher nie die weitgehende Abwesenheit von Arabischen Frauen bei Anlässen die für sie selber von Interessen sein sollten aufgefallen, außer etwa in einer dekorativen Rolle?

Ich schreibe Ihnen als Vertreter des Staates Österreich, um Sie auf das Thema der Diskriminierung und Ausgrenzung der Arabischen Frauen, die in Österreich leben, aufmerksam zu machen. Während wir hier leben, sollten wir nach persönlichem Vermögen an der Österreichischen Gesellschaft teilnehmen, oder mindestens danach trachten können. Mir fällt aber auf, dass Arabische Frauen systematisch ausgegrenzt und zum schweigen gebracht werden, und sie werden aus gesellschaftlichen, politischen und kulturellen Aktivitäten die sie selbst belangen ausgegrenzt, genau wie das in Arabischen Ländern praktiziert wird. Bis heute werden in Wien lebende Arabische Frauen von ihren Ehemännern eingesperrt, und wenn sie sich nicht bestimmten gesellschaftlichen Vorstellungen beugen, müssen sie damit rechnen, von ihren engsten Verwandten aus „Ehrengründen“ ermordet zu werden, genau wie in jedem Dorf in Arabischen Ländern. Der erschwerende Unterschied ist der, dass diese Frauenschicksale sich hier meistens im Dunkeln abspielen, weil sie keine Verwandte oder Bekannte haben, bei denen sie sich aussprechen könnten.

Dies ist meiner Meinung so, weil diese Entwicklungen durch eine gescheiterte Politik der Integration seitens des offiziellen Österreich unterstützt wird. Wie sollen Frauen aus Arabischer Kultur und Abstammung zu einem integrierten Teil der Österreichischen Gesellschaft werden, wenn sie sogar bei symbolischen Anlässen wie einem Empfang nach einem Konzert ausgegrenzt werden, wenn sogar die Ehefrauen mancher Arabischer Diplomaten ausgeschlossen werden nur weil diese Männer sich vor der Anwesenheit von Frauen fürchten, die sie als Bedrohung ihrer Vormachtstellung sehen? Wie sollen Arabische Frauen zu einer „normalen“ Rolle in Österreich finden, wenn die einzigen Frauen die vom politischen Establishment als Vertreterinnen Arabischer Frauen akzeptiert werden, bestimmte Frauen sind, die bei Ramadan und sonst jeder Gelegenheit streng Religiös und Kopftuchbedeckt auftreten? Es gibt unter den Araberinnen in Österreich auch andere Erwartungen und andere Ansprüche als diese.

Wie kann ein Teil des politischen Establishments (und der Bevölkerung) beklagen, dass Arabische Frauen sich in der Öffentlichkeit bedecken, wenn ein anderer Teil des Establishments die Diskriminierung und Ausgrenzung von Frauen sogar bei symbolischen Anlässen wie einem Empfang unterstützt, nur aus Furcht, ihre Chauvinisten von Ehemännern zu beleidigen? Wie sollen wir Arabische Frauen über ein Österreich denken, dessen höchste Vertreterinnen ihre eigenen Usancen verschweigen, um sich so bei von ihnen selbst in der Öffentlichkeit angeprangerten Chauvinisten gefällig zu machen?

Ich möchte mit diesem Schreiben auch klar stellen, dass jene Männer, die Sie im Rathaus als Vertreter der Arabischen und Moslemischen Gemeinden in Österreich getroffen haben, keinesfalls jene Arabischen Frauen vertreten, die versuchen, aus der ihnen auferlegten Rolle auszubrechen laut der ihre Gesellschaftliche Stellung nur gering besser ist als Marktvieh. Ebenfalls vertreten uns und unsere Ansprüche jene Moslemischen Frauen nicht, die bei Ramadan und allen möglichen Anlässen demonstrativ mit Kopftuch und streng religiös auftreten, denn die Art des Auftretens lässt auf ein begrenzte Verständnis der Islamischen Religion und Bräuche seitens dieser Frauen schiessen. All diese Personen stehen nur für sich selbst, und in manchen Fällen für die Organisationen die sie unterstützen. In den seltensten Fällen arbeiten sie im besten Interesse all jener die dem Arabischen Kulturkreis zugehören.

Herzlichen Dank für Ihre Interesse,

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Hier sind die Antworten von den Regierungsbeamten:

Sehr geehrte Frau Kawther Salam!

Vielen Dank für Ihr Mail an die Präsidentin des Nationalrates Mag.a Barbara Prammer vom 5. Juli 2009.

In diesem Mail schildern Sie, dass Frauen im Zuge eines Empfangs im Wiener Rathaus diskriminiert wurden.

Ich darf Sie eingangs hinweisen, dass Präsidentin Prammer vor Ihrem Mail keinerlei Kenntnis von dieser Veranstaltung hatte und Sie auch nicht anwesend war, weder beim Konzert noch beim Empfang der Ehrengäste.

Nach Rücksprache mit der dort zuständigen Präsidialabteilung wurde uns mitgeteilt, dass es nach dem Konzert von Marcel Khalife noch einen Empfang für Ehrengäste gegeben habe. Dieser Empfang sei nicht für alle Besucher/innen des Konzertes gedacht gewesen, es wurde separat schriftlich eingeladen. Die Einladungsliste sei vom Veranstalter und nicht durch das Rathaus selbst zusammengestellt worden.
Zum Empfang zugelassen worden seien daher nur Personen mit einer schriftlichen Einladung. Uns wurde ebenso von Seiten der Präsidialabteilung versichert, dass Begleitpersonen von Eingeladenen eingelassen worden sind.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen und herzlichem Dank für Ihre Bemühungen,

Susanne Üblackner

Büro der Präsidentin des Nationalrates

der Republik Österreich

Mag.a Barbara Prammer

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Sehr geehrte Frau Salam!

Wir bedanken uns für Ihre Engagement für arabische Frauen in Österreich. Wir versichern Ihnen, dass wir für alle Frauen da sind, besonders aber für die Frauen, die aus patriarchalen Gesellschaften kommen und hier in ihrer Lebensgestaltung zwischen traditionellen und modernen Welten ihren eigenen selbstbestimmten Weg gehen wollen.

Daher ist es uns ein großes Anliegen all die Frauen, wo es möglich ist, zu unterstützen. Natürlich ist es sehr wichtig dass die arabischen Frauen ihren Platz in der österreichischen Gesellschaft finden und sichtbar werden. Ihre Wortmeldung ist auch ein Zeichen dafür, dass es auch arabischen Frauen ein großes Anliegen ist und sie sich dafür gegebenenfalls auch gegen gängige männliche Dominanz in ihren eigenen Communities zur Wehr setzen.

Frau Bundesministerin Heinisch Hosek wird als Interessensvertreterin für alle Frauen alles in ihrer Macht Stehende dazu beitragen.

Gerne werden wir Sie, wenn Sie es möchten, über unserer Veranstaltungen informieren.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Sibel Akgün

Bundeskanzleramt-Frauen
AbteilungII/5
Frauenservice,Migrantinnen,Butget
Minoritenplatz 3
1014 Wien

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