Burying Nuclear Waste in the Palestinian Territories

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Yatta village south of Hebron in the West Bank where the Israeli military continues to bury nuclear waste.

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Palestinian farmers from Yatta village south of Hebron in the West Bank have revealed that the Israeli military continues to bury nuclear waste in their farmlands at Al-Masafer near the armistice line in the West Bank. The farmers said that the military forces “IDF” brings trucks loaded with waste suspected to be radioactive waste and is burying it in their lands after they force them to evacuate the area.

The farmers said that they were able to hide themselves in some caves and watch the military operation. They stated that the Israeli soldiers who declared the area as a military zone were wearing white overalls over their military uniforms during the burial. The farmers said that they live in Al-Masafer with their animals.

Devices to Detect Radiation Pollution Under Embargo

Two days ago Dr. Zuheir Al-Wazeer, the Palestinian Ambassador in Vienna, exposed another scandal at the 54 General Conference of the IAEA. He said: “I would like to point out that Israel did not deliver to us the equipment of the agency in the field of technical cooperation. The IAEA sent us this equipment as part of a technical exchange program, but Israel still holds this equipment and has not released them since over two years”.

After the conference I was informed by Dr. Al-Wazeer that IAEA equipment which was sent to Palestine two years ago is still under the Israeli embargo. The equipment consists of devices used to detect radiation pollution. According to my information, the IAEA did not work enough or ask the general assembly members to impose pressure on Israel to release this equipment under the Israeli hold and which will help the Palestinian ministry of health in identifying areas of radioactive contamination in Palestine.

Ambassador Dr. Alwazer said in his speech delivered at the IAEA: I assure you that we are facing the danger of the Israeli nuclear weapon. Palestine suffers a significant risk of radiation because of Israel’s possession of nuclear reactors including the Dimona reactor, which has ended its useful life, which will expose Palestine and the Palestinian people and neighboring countries to the serious dangers of radiation. We look forward in this regard to the functions of the IAEA in order to study this matter and take the necessary means in order to avoid a health disaster.

That the Palestinian issue is the core conflict in the Middle East and remains without a just and comprehensive solution based on international security council resolutions, particularly resolution 194 and the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with its eternal capital in Jerusalem, and without the implementation of right the of return, there will be no peace, security or stability in the Middle East region.

Comment: That israel would not hand over the IAEA equipment to measure radiation has its grounds. Israel buries nuclear waste near Palestinian towns across the West Bank as a part of its program of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians, what has caused a sharp increase in cases of cancer and other ailments resulting from radiation exposure. Sites where it is known for sure that the israelis bury nuclear waste are Masafer near Yatta, and Daharieh, but there are also other places.

Below is a summary of the other statements which were delivered by several representatives of European, Western and Arab countries at the 54th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) held in Vienna 20-24 September 2010. In these statements the double standards of application of the NPT safeguards for nuclear weapons in the Middle East, Korea and Iran are clearly displayed.

Ireland: Ambassador Frank Cogan, Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna, head of the delegation of Ireland said:

Regarding the Middle East, the NPT parties accepted the importance of a process leading to full implementation of the 1995 Resolution, reinforced by concrete and substantive practical steps, including the convening of a conference in 2012. We believe that discussion of the Middle East issues at this General Conference should aim to contribute to advancing implementation of the 1995 resolution, and that we must avoid actions that can damage the atmosphere created by the agreement in New York, and undermine work toward the conference in 2012. (Click on the pictures to see them bigger).

Regarding DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), The DPRK must comply unconditionally and without delay with its international obligations under United Nations Security Council resolutions and its Safeguards Agreement, and resume full cooperation with the IAEA. We call upon the DPRK to return to the Six-Party Talk immediately and without preconditions. We urge the DPRK to abandon and completely dismantle any nuclear weapons-related programme in a transparent and irreversible manner.

Regarding Iran, the Agency remains unable to confirm that all nuclear material is in peaceful activities because Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation remains a matter of ongoing serious concern to my government. Iran should take steps towards the full implementation of its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and subsidiary arrangement, as well as relevant Resolutions of the Board of Governors and the UN Security Council, and proactively work to clarify activities with a possible military dimension.
We call of Iran to cooperate fully with the Agency and to implement the Additional Protocol without delay.

New Zealand Statement:

NPT: As a strong supporter of NPT, New Zealand endorses the principle that nuclear technology should be available for peaceful uses in conformity with Article II and III of the treaty.

Terrorists: New Zealand shares the assessment that the possibility of terrorists obtaining nuclear or other radioactive material remains a grave threat. Fir this reason it is of paramount importance to maintain stringent standers of physical protection for nuclear material and nuclear facilities.

DPRK: New Zealand condemns the nuclear tests conducted by the DPRK as well as its refusal to comply with the UN Security Council resolutions and cooperate with IAEA inspectors. We urge North Korea to refrain from further destabilizing acts and to refocus its efforts towards peace and dialogue, including its Six Party Talk commitment to abandon its existing nuclear programme.

Middle East: An important outcome of the review conference was the reaffirmation of the 1995 Resolution on the Middle East and the agreement to convene a conference in 1012 on the establishment of a zone free of nuclear weapons and all other mass destruction in the region. New Zealand calls on Syria to be more cooperative and transparent in its provision to the Agency of information about, and access to the Dair Alzour site and other related locations. We also encourage Syria to cooperate fully with the Agency on the outstanding issues at the Miniature Neutron Source Reactor in Damascus.

An important outcome of the review conference was the reaffirmation of the 1995 Resolution on the Middle East and the agreement to convene a conference in 1012 on the establishment of a zone free of nuclear weapons and all other mass destruction in the region.

China:

• The Chinese delegation holds the view that focus should be given to the following aspects:
• Continue to strengthen cooperation for sustainable development of the nuclear energy.
• Continue to foster nuclear safty and nuclear security capability building of member states, and to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of nuclear safeguards.
• Play an active role in addressing sensitive and hot-spot nuclear issues.

DPRK & Iran: As the intergovernmental international organization responsible for nuclear safeguards, the Agency attracted lots of attention from the International community for its efforts in addressing hot-spot nuclear issues. China always holds that the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue and Iranian issue should be peacefully resolved through dialogues and negotiation, and supports the Agency and the director General to continue to play due roles to push forward diplomatic settlement of the issues.

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

It should be noted that Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were elected by acclamation as members of the IAEA’s board of governors for the coming two years.

The statement of Jordan was delivered by Makram Queisi, ambassador of Jordan to Austria, He said that the Jordanian Kingdom stresses the need for Israel to join the Treaty on the NPT and to subject all its nuclear facilities to IAEA safeguards to achieve universality of the treaty in the region and a zone free of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, which will lead to peace and security and to turn the incentive of the countries in the region to focus on economic and social development of peoples instead of the nuclear arms race, which exacerbate tensions and threats to the security in the region.

The Republic of Yemen: The statement of the republic of Yemen was delivered by Ambassador Abdul El-Hakim Abed al- Rahman al-Iryani, Permanent Representative of the republic of Yemen to the IAEA.

He said: At the time while all Arab states joined the NPT treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Israel continues to defy the international community by refusing to permanently join the NPT and to subject its nuclear facilities under comprehensive safeguards agreements to the IAEA, and continues its refusal to all international initiatives aimed achieving universal NPT adherence in the Middle East. The Israeli refusal has led the region into a nuclear arms race.

Austria: The Austrian statement was delivered by Johaness Kyrle, Secretary General, and Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.

Terrorists: IN recent years, the security of nuclear and other radioactive material has become a priority concern. There is International consensus about the need to strengthen the security of nuclear and other radioactive material in use, storage and transport, and to protect them and associated facilities against terrorist and other malevolent. Because radiation knows no frontiers, States need to recognize that the security of nuclear material and facilities is a legitimate concern of all States.

Countries must continue to demonstrate, not only to their populations, but to their neighbors and the world that strong security systems are in place. Therefore, it is important to repeat that call on all States parties to the Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material to also ratify the amendment, which substantially strengthens this convention.

Israel:
Regrettably, the agenda of the General Conference is occupied by the anti-Israeli Items submitted with a clear purpose, to avoid discussion of serious violations of the NPT and safeguards obligations by states in the Middle East. I am therefore obliged to focus my address on these severe and most urgent topics.

Recently the conference witnessed continuous ill-motivated effort to single out and to condemn the state of israel. Not surprisingly, there is much similarity between those countries that are in the forefront of attacking the state of israel, and the Middle Eastern violators of the NPT and the IAEA safeguards agreements.

I wish to remind all delegates that four Middle Eastern member States, parties to the NPT, namely, Iran, Syria, Libya, and Iraq under Saddam Hussien, have grossly violated their tries obligations.

Comment No. 6, posted yesterday by a reader (Rob):
What is an Iraeli delegation doing at an IAEA meeting anyway? They repeatedly refuse to participate in the treaty, and express contempt for all who think they should. Israel should have its UN membership revoked, and any “diplomats” sent back to Tel Aviv, since Israel never complies with UN resolutions anyway.

This reader has it right. Israel has shown without exception in all its dealings that it does not have the ability to contract, so it is sensible to ask why everybody wants to make Israel join into one of the most important international treaties, the NPT, when everybody concerned should know for certain that Israel will turn around to violate and insult the letter and spirit of the NPT, and boast about it, as soon as they accede to it, whenever that happens. The IAEA and the NPT are very important forums of all nations, central to world peace, and allowing Israel into the NPT would only increase the dangers to world peace.

Denmark: The statement of Denmark was delivered by John Bernhard, Permanent Representative to the IAEA

Iran: with regard to Iran, we share the serious concern expressed in a succession of reports by the IAEA director general regarding the failure of Iran to extend the cooperation to the Agency that would be necessary to allow it to confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities and to dispel doubts about possible military dimensions of its nuclear programme. We urge Iran to comply fully with all resolutions of the Security Council, the Board of Governors and with its safeguards agreement.

Middle East: Denmark also shares the IAEA’s concern about Syria’s failure to cooperate with the Agency to an extent that would allow the agency to make progress toward resolving outstanding issues surrounding the peaceful nature of Syria’s nuclear programme. We join the director general in urging Syria to bring into force an additional protocol in order to facilitate the work of the Agency to verify the completeness and correctness of Syria’s declaration.

Australia: The statement of Australia was delivered by Ambassador Michael Potts, head of the Australian delegation to the IAEA.

Iran continues to act in violation of binding UN council resolutions and the IAEA Board requirements. We remain deeply concerned that Iran is not providing the IAEA with full cooperation on it’s on its investigations especially with respect to the possible military dimensions of its nuclear program.

North Korea continues to be in non-compliance with its safeguards obligations and to act in defiance of the UN Security Council resolutions, Australia continues to urge North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons in a complete, Verifiable and irreversible manner, and to comply with its NPT and IAEA safeguards obligations.

Middle East: Australia has long supported the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. Full compliance with their non-proliferation obligations by all states in the Middle East is critical to building mutual confidence and security in the region.

We continue support the Agency’s effort to engage Syria to clarify a number of unresolved issues about it’s nuclear activities, including the construction of a nuclear reactor with north Korean assistance.

Comment: In view of this, it must be noted that various delegations mentioned “terrorism”, generally smearing Arab countries, and also the israeli delegation said that the voting down of the Arab draft proposal helped “prevent terrorism” or something along those lines. The resistance against the illegal jewish invasion, genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine is wholly legal under UN laws and the Geneva Conventions. The terrorists are clearly and in every case of violence since the 1880s, the European jewish invaders. I equally find it astonishing that an israeli among the delegation insulted ALL Arab countries of being “Khudspan” (impudent and shameless) while giving a comment. “Khudspan” is a hebrew word which ONLY use to describe impudent and shameless. The word was turned to another meaning during the translation. Regarding terrorism experimented daily by the world starts with the reckless insults and threats proffered by Israelis. And facts make it clear that the actual terrorists are Israel and its allies. We Palestinians know this better than anyone.

Palestine: The statement of Palestine was delivered by Ambassador Zuheir Alwazer.
He said: I assure you that we are facing the danger of the Israeli nuclear weapon. Palestine suffers a significant risk of radiation because of Israel’s possession of nuclear reactors including the Dimona reactor, which has ended its useful life, which will expose Palestine and the Palestinian people and neighboring countries to the serious dangers of radiation. We look forward in this regard to the functions of the IAEA in order to study this matter and take the necessary means in order to avoid a health disaster.

I would like to point out that Israel did not deliver to us the equipment of the agency in the field of technical cooperation. The IAEA sent us this equipment as part of a technical exchange program, but Israel still holds this equipment and has not released them since over two years.
That the Palestinian issue is the core conflict in the Middle East and remains without a just and comprehensive solution based on international security council resolutions, particularly resolution 194 and the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with its eternal capital in Jerusalem, and without the implementation of right the of return, there will be no peace, security or stability in the Middle East region.

Comment: That israel would not hand over the IAEA equipment to measure radiation has its grounds. Israel buries nuclear waste near Palestinian towns across the West Bank as a part of its program of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians, what has caused a sharp increase in cases of cancer and other ailments resulting from radiation exposure. Sites where it is known for sure that the israelis bury nuclear waste are Masafer near Yatta, and Daharieh, but there are also other places.

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Harsh Controversy Around Israel At the IAEA

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In this report I review a summary of the statements about the NPT safeguards agreement and nuclear weapons in Korea, Iran and the Middle East by several delegates and representatives of European, Western and Arab countries delivered at the 54th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) held in Vienna 20-24 September 2010.

Ireland: Ambassador Frank Cogan, Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna, head of the delegation of Ireland said:

Regarding the Middle East, the NPT parties accepted the importance of a process leading to full implementation of the 1995 Resolution, reinforced by concrete and substantive practical steps, including the convening of a conference in 2012. We believe that discussion of the Middle East issues at this General Conference should aim to contribute to advancing implementation of the 1995 resolution, and that we must avoid actions that can damage the atmosphere created by the agreement in New York, and undermine work toward the conference in 2012. (Click on the pictures to see them bigger).

Regarding DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), The DPRK must comply unconditionally and without delay with its international obligations under United Nations Security Council resolutions and its Safeguards Agreement, and resume full cooperation with the IAEA. We call upon the DPRK to return to the Six-Party Talk immediately and without preconditions. We urge the DPRK to abandon and completely dismantle any nuclear weapons-related programme in a transparent and irreversible manner.

Regarding Iran, the Agency remains unable to confirm that all nuclear material is in peaceful activities because Iran is not providing the necessary cooperation remains a matter of ongoing serious concern to my government. Iran should take steps towards the full implementation of its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement and subsidiary arrangement, as well as relevant Resolutions of the Board of Governors and the UN Security Council, and proactively work to clarify activities with a possible military dimension.
We call of Iran to cooperate fully with the Agency and to implement the Additional Protocol without delay.

New Zealand Statement:

NPT: As a strong supporter of NPT, New Zealand endorses the principle that nuclear technology should be available for peaceful uses in conformity with Article II and III of the treaty.

Terrorists: New Zealand shares the assessment that the possibility of terrorists obtaining nuclear or other radioactive material remains a grave threat. Fir this reason it is of paramount importance to maintain stringent standers of physical protection for nuclear material and nuclear facilities.

DPRK: New Zealand condemns the nuclear tests conducted by the DPRK as well as its refusal to comply with the UN Security Council resolutions and cooperate with IAEA inspectors. We urge North Korea to refrain from further destabilizing acts and to refocus its efforts towards peace and dialogue, including its Six Party Talk commitment to abandon its existing nuclear programme.

Middle East: An important outcome of the review conference was the reaffirmation of the 1995 Resolution on the Middle East and the agreement to convene a conference in 1012 on the establishment of a zone free of nuclear weapons and all other mass destruction in the region. New Zealand calls on Syria to be more cooperative and transparent in its provision to the Agency of information about, and access to the Dair Alzour site and other related locations. We also encourage Syria to cooperate fully with the Agency on the outstanding issues at the Miniature Neutron Source Reactor in Damascus.

An important outcome of the review conference was the reaffirmation of the 1995 Resolution on the Middle East and the agreement to convene a conference in 1012 on the establishment of a zone free of nuclear weapons and all other mass destruction in the region.

China:

• The Chinese delegation holds the view that focus should be given to the following aspects:
• Continue to strengthen cooperation for sustainable development of the nuclear energy.
• Continue to foster nuclear safty and nuclear security capability building of member states, and to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of nuclear safeguards.
• Play an active role in addressing sensitive and hot-spot nuclear issues.

DPRK & Iran: As the intergovernmental international organization responsible for nuclear safeguards, the Agency attracted lots of attention from the International community for its efforts in addressing hot-spot nuclear issues. China always holds that the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue and Iranian issue should be peacefully resolved through dialogues and negotiation, and supports the Agency and the director General to continue to play due roles to push forward diplomatic settlement of the issues.

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

It should be noted that Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were elected by acclamation as members of the IAEA’s board of governors for the coming two years.

The statement of Jordan was delivered by Makram Queisi, ambassador of Jordan to Austria, He said that the Jordanian Kingdom stresses the need for Israel to join the Treaty on the NPT and to subject all its nuclear facilities to IAEA safeguards to achieve universality of the treaty in the region and a zone free of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, which will lead to peace and security and to turn the incentive of the countries in the region to focus on economic and social development of peoples instead of the nuclear arms race, which exacerbate tensions and threats to the security in the region.

The Republic of Yemen: The statement of the republic of Yemen was delivered by Ambassador Abdul El-Hakim Abed al- Rahman al-Iryani, Permanent Representative of the republic of Yemen to the IAEA.

He said: At the time while all Arab states joined the NPT treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Israel continues to defy the international community by refusing to permanently join the NPT and to subject its nuclear facilities under comprehensive safeguards agreements to the IAEA, and continues its refusal to all international initiatives aimed achieving universal NPT adherence in the Middle East. The Israeli refusal has led the region into a nuclear arms race.

Austria: The Austrian statement was delivered by Johaness Kyrle, Secretary General, and Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.

Terrorists: IN recent years, the security of nuclear and other radioactive material has become a priority concern. There is International consensus about the need to strengthen the security of nuclear and other radioactive material in use, storage and transport, and to protect them and associated facilities against terrorist and other malevolent. Because radiation knows no frontiers, States need to recognize that the security of nuclear material and facilities is a legitimate concern of all States.

Countries must continue to demonstrate, not only to their populations, but to their neighbors and the world that strong security systems are in place. Therefore, it is important to repeat that call on all States parties to the Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material to also ratify the amendment, which substantially strengthens this convention.

Israel:
Regrettably, the agenda of the General Conference is occupied by the anti-Israeli Items submitted with a clear purpose, to avoid discussion of serious violations of the NPT and safeguards obligations by states in the Middle East. I am therefore obliged to focus my address on these severe and most urgent topics.

Recently the conference witnessed continuous ill-motivated effort to single out and to condemn the state of israel. Not surprisingly, there is much similarity between those countries that are in the forefront of attacking the state of israel, and the Middle Eastern violators of the NPT and the IAEA safeguards agreements.

I wish to remind all delegates that four Middle Eastern member States, parties to the NPT, namely, Iran, Syria, Libya, and Iraq under Saddam Hussien, have grossly violated their tries obligations.

Comment No. 6, posted yesterday by a reader (Rob):
What is an Iraeli delegation doing at an IAEA meeting anyway? They repeatedly refuse to participate in the treaty, and express contempt for all who think they should. Israel should have its UN membership revoked, and any “diplomats” sent back to Tel Aviv, since Israel never complies with UN resolutions anyway.

This reader has it right. Israel has shown without exception in all its dealings that it does not have the ability to contract, so it is sensible to ask why everybody wants to make Israel join into one of the most important international treaties, the NPT, when everybody concerned should know for certain that Israel will turn around to violate and insult the letter and spirit of the NPT, and boast about it, as soon as they accede to it, whenever that happens. The IAEA and the NPT are very important forums of all nations, central to world peace, and allowing Israel into the NPT would only increase the dangers to world peace.

Denmark: The statement of Denmark was delivered by John Bernhard, Permanent Representative to the IAEA

Iran: with regard to Iran, we share the serious concern expressed in a succession of reports by the IAEA director general regarding the failure of Iran to extend the cooperation to the Agency that would be necessary to allow it to confirm that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities and to dispel doubts about possible military dimensions of its nuclear programme. We urge Iran to comply fully with all resolutions of the Security Council, the Board of Governors and with its safeguards agreement.

Middle East: Denmark also shares the IAEA’s concern about Syria’s failure to cooperate with the Agency to an extent that would allow the agency to make progress toward resolving outstanding issues surrounding the peaceful nature of Syria’s nuclear programme. We join the director general in urging Syria to bring into force an additional protocol in order to facilitate the work of the Agency to verify the completeness and correctness of Syria’s declaration.

Palestine: The statement of Palestine was delivered by Ambassador Zuheir Alwazer.
He said: I assure you that we are facing the danger of the Israeli nuclear weapon. Palestine suffers a significant risk of radiation because of Israel’s possession of nuclear reactors including the Dimona reactor, which has ended its useful life, which will expose Palestine and the Palestinian people and neighboring countries to the serious dangers of radiation. We look forward in this regard to the functions of the IAEA in order to study this matter and take the necessary means in order to avoid a health disaster.

I would like to point out that Israel did not deliver to us the equipment of the agency in the field of technical cooperation. The IAEA sent us this equipment as part of a technical exchange program, but Israel still holds this equipment and has not released them since over two years.
That the Palestinian issue is the core conflict in the Middle East and remains without a just and comprehensive solution based on international security council resolutions, particularly resolution 194 and the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with its eternal capital in Jerusalem, and without the implementation of right the of return, there will be no peace, security or stability in the Middle East region.

Comment: That israel would not hand over the IAEA equipment to measure radiation has its grounds. Israel buries nuclear waste near Palestinian towns across the West Bank as a part of its program of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians, what has caused a sharp increase in cases of cancer and other ailments resulting from radiation exposure. Sites where it is known for sure that the israelis bury nuclear waste are Masafer near Yatta, and Daharieh, but there are also other places.

Australia: The statement of Australia was delivered by Ambassador Michael Potts, head of the Australian delegation to the IAEA.

Iran continues to act in violation of binding UN council resolutions and the IAEA Board requirements. We remain deeply concerned that Iran is not providing the IAEA with full cooperation on it’s on its investigations especially with respect to the possible military dimensions of its nuclear program.

North Korea continues to be in non-compliance with its safeguards obligations and to act in defiance of the UN Security Council resolutions, Australia continues to urge North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons in a complete, Verifiable and irreversible manner, and to comply with its NPT and IAEA safeguards obligations.

Middle East: Australia has long supported the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. Full compliance with their non-proliferation obligations by all states in the Middle East is critical to building mutual confidence and security in the region.

We continue support the Agency’s effort to engage Syria to clarify a number of unresolved issues about it’s nuclear activities, including the construction of a nuclear reactor with north Korean assistance.

Comment: In view of this, it must be noted that various delegations mentioned “terrorism”, generally smearing Arab countries, and also the israeli delegation said that the voting down of the Arab draft proposal helped “prevent terrorism” or something along those lines. The resistance against the illegal jewish invasion, genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine is wholly legal under UN laws and the Geneva Conventions. The terrorists are clearly and in every case of violence since the 1880s, the European jewish invaders. I equally find it astonishing that an israeli among the delegation insulted ALL Arab countries of being “Khudspan” (impudent and shameless) while giving a comment. “Khudspan” is a hebrew word which ONLY use to describe impudent and shameless. The word was turned to another meaning during the translation. Regarding terrorism experimented daily by the world starts with the reckless insults and threats proffered by Israelis. And facts make it clear that the actual terrorists are Israel and its allies. We Palestinians know this better than anyone.

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IAEA Adopts Atomic Weapons in the Middle East

IAEA Adopts Atomic Weapons in the Middle East

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA’s) 54th General Conference of Member States concluded yesterday, Friday September 24 2010, in Vienna. The member states of the (IAEA) voted on a draft resolution introduced by the Arab States calling for Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The United States and its major allies, the European States and some small western countries, who called for a Middle East free from “weapons of mass destruction”, allied themselves over the past three days by holding continuous meetings and gatherings outside the hall where the 54 IAEA General Conference was held at the UN headquarters in Vienna, in order to thwart the resolution introduced by the Arab States. Forty-six delegations voted in favor of the resolution, 51 against it and 23 others abstained from voting in the 151-member General Assembly of the IAEA. Click on the picture to see it bigger.

Last year 2009 the IAEA General Conference approved a similar resolution expressing concern at Israel’s nuclear capabilities. This year, many small countries, some in Latin America such as Costa Rica, Panama, Haiti, and others from the northern Europe, like Latvia, which had been absent from the meeting of 2009, also voted. Russia and China supported the resolution, which refers to the differences between the major powers on this issue.

The Arab representatives and ambassadors all said that Israel’s presumed nuclear arsenal threatens regional peace and stability. The Jewish state is the region’s only country outside the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The scene of the political gatherings held by the Europeans and their allies outside of the main conferenced in order to support Israel and thwart the Arab draft resolution confirms that there is a deep chasm between the West and the Middle East and it also showed the double standards implicit in the decisions of the block of Western countries when dealing with the issue of nuclear weapons in Israel, North Korea and Iran. Israel, which possesses a nuclear arsenal, pursues a policy of “nuclear ambiguity” and refuses to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty which could force them to renounce nuclear weapons.

The United States urged other states members of the IAEA to vote down the Arab-sponsored draft resolution. “Symbolically it is important to vote down this non-binding resolution” said the US representative to the IAEA, claiming that the vote in favor of the resolution “could disrupt a broader effort to ban such weapons in the Middle East” and sends a negative message to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, which recently resumed. This “peace process” is merely one more show in the theater which legitimizes the israeli genocide and war crimes in Palestine and lengthens the occupation under sham “peace negotiations”.

The countries which voted in favor of the draft resolution introduced by Arab countries were: Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

The countries which voted against the draft were: Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palau, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Macedonia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States.

The abstaining countries were: Angola, Argentina, Bosnia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, Holy See, India, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, Singapore, Thailand, Tanzania, Uruguay.

According to my sources, several smaller countries which are effectively colonies of the USA, were pressured by the USA “with monetary incentives” to vote against the adoption of the resolution introduced by the Arab countries.

After the draft introduced by the Arab countries was voted down, I asked a lady from one of the European delegations to comment on the the contradictory behavior of these countries which at once wanted “a middle-east free of nuclear weapons”, but at the same time rejected a resolution which would have had exactly that effect. This lady was obviously shocked that anybody could ask such a thing and she did not answer. More even, the IAEA press office spoke to me later, telling me that “my question had made its way around” and that the Europeans did not like my questions. He asked me which were my questions. I told him that I had just asked one question “the lady there” (pointing at her) about her comment on vote.

The more serious question which arises after the vote on this resolution is if Israel will at some time in the future use its nuclear weapons to attack the same European states which rejected the Arab-sponsored draft resolution calling on Israel to join the NPT last Friday. Asking this question, even thinking about it, is taboo for the regimes of the European Union and the western world, which are all led by pro-zionist politicians who often have double nationality and who obviously always adopt decisions of foreign policy concerning Israel which are favorable to israel but are gravely detrimental to the obvious interests of the countries which these politicians represent.

Israel, which in public speaks sweet and honey words to its European “allies”, at the same time teaches israeli children in kindergarten, primaries and later to hate and and seek revenge from Europe, where the “descendants of the Nazis” live, according to the language used school texts in Israel. Children are taught in one way or another to seek revenge from the European countries, and revenge this is only matter of time for Israel. Anybody who denies this should spend some days at the Israeli schools and watch the movies which the kids see in their childhood, which teach them that the whole world should “kneel before the feet of the Jews”, and generally speak with the people on the streets, letting them speak freely about their views about Europe.

Not only do children in israel learn to seek revenge against European nations since childhood, but there have already been open threats of nuclear attacks against “European Capitals” by a renowned israeli professor. In 2003, Martin van Creveld, a military theorist from israel, said during an interview with a hollandese journal: “… We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force.”

On the other hand, the General Conference ended by adopting resolutions to guide the Agency´s work in the coming year.

• Programme and Budget for 2011.
• Measures to Strengthen International Cooperation in Nuclear, Radiation, Transportation and Waste Safety.
• Nuclear Security, including Measures to Protect Against Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism.
• Strengthening the Agency´s Technical Cooperation Activities.
• Strengthening the Agency´s Activities Related to Nuclear Science, Technology and Applications.
• Strengthening the Effectiveness and Improving the Efficiency of the Safeguards System and Application of the Model Additional Protocol.
• Implementation of the NPT safeguards Agreement Between the Agency and the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea; and Application of IAEA Safeguards in the Middle East.

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A Policeman And a Terrorist

David “Dudi” Cohen “דודי (דוד) כהן”. Current, as of 2010, he is police Inspector-General.

“Dudi” was accused in Israel of “damaging the rule of Israeli State laws”.

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David “Dudi” Cohen is the son of a terrorist from the Palmach “underground militia”. He is a war criminal complicit in genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians. He was born in 1955, from extremist parents who belonged to the genocidal Chabad cult. His father was Bulgarian, his mother from Greece. His now deceased father was a Palmach terrorist and later IDF navy “marine” war criminal who resided on stolen Palestinian land. He served as police patrolman for 35 years until his retirement.

Dudi grew up in a poor family living in two small rooms, where he shared one room with a sister and a brother according to his own account published in Hebrew.

Cohen grew up in Haifa. His family moved from Haifa city to live in the neighborhood of “Batei Goldstein”, another jewish occupation name for the area also called “Harlem” at the edge of Pardes Katz. It is a jewish neighborhood were many fanatics from the Chabad cult live. The neighborhood was built on the ruins of the Palestinian villages, and the jews who now reside in the neighborhood continue spreading hate and incitement against the original Arab owners and Arab-Israel citizens, calling to end their residence in their homeland. A statement was issued by the zionist rabbis Aharon Leib Steinman, Shmuel Halevi Wosner, Michael Yehuda Lefkovich and Moshe Yehuda Landau in which they call for not renting apartments to Arabs in Pardes Katz and stated that this is “entirely forbidden”.

The Police car which drove over Mohammed al-Kunbar (14 years) from Jerusalem

Under the command of Cohen, criminals and murderers have become heroes of the Israeli police. Police officer Shahar Mizrahi killed in cold blood Palestinian civilian Mahmoud Ganaim “a person suspected of stealing car”. Ganaim was not threatening the officer’s life. The criminal officer received full support from Cohen.

On Wednesday 18 August 2010 police personnel under command of Cohen presented themselves as a TV news crew in order to arrest Nadim Inzaj.

Inzaj is a Palestinian collaborator, had broken into the garden of the British Embassy in Tel Aviv seeking asylum after police staff had infiltrated him to spy on Palestinians, and then involved him in drug issues in order to get rid of him after he had ceased to be useful.

On March 13 2010, staff under the command of Cohen drove their car over a child, Mohammed al-Kunbar (14 years) from Jerusalem; they drove twice over his body and left him one hour bleeding in the street, then they arrested him. At the Police station, Cohen’s interrogators threatened to retaliate against the family of the the child if he told them about the car that ran over him. Cohen’s staff then denied the incident until a photographer released the photos of this horrible crime.

The victim of Cohen's staff, Mohammed al-Kunbar (14 years) from Jerusalem

David Cohen is an IDF also an officer of the IDF paratrooper, where as a captain he became complicit to genocide and war crime in the occupied Palestine until 1977.

He has served in the Israel police since 1977 and has held various positions.

Beginning in 1977 he served in the “Yarkon” police station, later and he served in Herzliya and Tel Aviv as a police station commander.

He served as chief police commander of Al-Naqab (Negev).

He was a deputy head of military intelligence and chief of execution “operations”. This means that he was involved in murdering Palestinian civilians in “extra-judicial executions”.

In 2005 Cohen was appointed commander of the so-called “Southern District” at the office of the Central District commander, the war criminal and zionist Gen. Ilan Biran, and also under command of Gen. Uzi Dayan. There he served as head of the investigations intelligence. This means that he was involved directly and as a commanding officer in all the IDF operations of theft, murder, executions, jailing of Palestinians after that date.

He was also in command of the intelligence interrogation units were all Palestinian prisoners are tortured, beaten, sexually abused and often murdered. In this capacity he was directly involved in violations of the international laws and treaties related to prisoners treatments and rights. He invented a new method of interrogated called “secret jails” were the prisoners were interrogated for days and nights while blinded, cuffed and torture by people calling themselves “Abu Allah” what means “father of god”.

Cohen was appointed commander of the Central District in the West Bank, where all kind of crimes and horrors were committed against Palestinians.

On April 11 2007 and under former Israeli Minister of Internal Security Avi Dichter, (head of the Shin Bet, intelligence), Cohen was appointed as the 16th police commissioner of the Israel Police. The Israel Police Insp. Gen. serves a four-year term. His appointment was approved by the advisory committee on senior civil service appointments chaired by retired israeli judge Yaakov Terkel. (Avi Dichter and David (Dudi) Cohen worked together in intelligence).

Under his command, several Palestinians neighborhoods in Jerusalem were ethnically cleansed from Palestinians and replaced with jewish families from the USA and Europe. Theft of Palestinian property, demolitions, confiscation of IDs increased massively. Four Palestinian Parliamentarians from the Jerusalem district lost their ID and thus their “right” to enter the city.

Staff under Cohen was and is involved in spreading drugs like Heroine, marijuana, Cocaine and others among Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem as one more method to further genocide of Palestinians. Also, hundreds of children were jailed and interrogated at the Al-Moscobiyyah police detention center in Jerusalem under his command.

Several criminal complaints have been lodged against Cohen with the courts in Israel. These complaints were filed by human rights organizations, Palestinians from Jerusalem, Arab Israelis, jews and the former Southern Police District head Uri Bar-Lev, (another war criminal). Uri Bar-Lev filed a complaint against Cohen after he fired him for “unjustified reasons” according to Bar-Lev. (Both Cohen and Bar-Lev are war criminal).

Cohen established a new covert death squad unit of the border police in order to capture or kill children in Jerusalem. In the languge of Cohen: “I diverted Border Police companies and high-quality units (meaning death squad gangs) from dealing with terrorism”.

On Monday August 23 2010, Cohen recommended that the Tel Aviv state prosecutors indict corrupt former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for receiving bribes to promote real estate complexes in the occupied Jerusalem, as it announced the conclusion of its bribery investigation Monday.

Cohen, his wife and two children live in Givatayim east of Tel Aviv.

On December 6 2008, a criminal complaint for participation in genocide was lodged against David (Dudi) Cohen with the German authorities. The text follows.

AN Den Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof

Brauerstraße 30
76135 Karlsruhe
Telefon: (0721) 81 91 0
Telefax: (0721) 81 91 59 0

BETRIFFT: Azeige gegen DUDI COHEN / DAVID COHEN im Sinne des Völkerstrafgesetzbuchs

GEFAHR IM VERZUG – FLUCHTGEFAHR – VERABREDUNGSGEFAHR

DUDI COHEN, auch bekannt als DAVID COHEN, ist seit 1. Mai 2007 Generalinspektor der Polizei des Staates Israel. Er befindet sich, wie ich aus den Medien erfahren habe, im Rahmen von Amtsgeschäften als Gast der Deutschen Regierung IN DEUTSCHLAND auf, um eine Kooperation zwischen der Israelischen und der Deutschen Polizei in Leben zu rufen.
Bezugnehmend auf die in den Medien bekanntgewordenen Pogrome von Jüdischen Kolonisten in der Westbank gegen die Palästinensische Bevölkerung, werfe ich COHEN vor:

a) Seine Aufsichtspflicht gegenüber ihm Befehlsmäßig unterstellten Einheiten grob vernachlässigt haben.

b) Angehörige von ihm Befehlsmäßig unterstellten Einheiten der Israelischen Polizei ausdrücklich befohlen zu haben, NICHT zum Schutz der Palästinensischen Bevölkerung einzugreifen, und die Jüdischen Kolonisten NICHT an ihrer Terroristischen Tätigkeit und ihren Pogromen zu hindern, sondern im Gegenteil, die Kolonisten bei ihren Verbrechen zu schützen und unterstützen
Sofern sich COHEN noch in Deutschland aufhält, treffen die Voraussetzungen zu, die der Deutschen Generalbundesanwalts nennt um Tätig zu werden:

• 1. Der Beschuldigte hält sich auf Deutschem gebiet auf
• 2. Das Land wo die Verbrechen des Beschuldigten, von Israel besetzte Territorien in diesem Fall, ist nicht in der Lage, die ihm vorgeworfenen Verbrechen zu verfolgen. Es besteht seitens des Staates Israel einerseits unwilligkeit seinen Pflichten nach IV Genfer Konvention nachzukommen, es besteht andrerseits ebenso die materielle Unfähigkeit des Staates Israel, diesen Verpflichtungen nachzukommen – was Deutschland im Rahmen einer subsidiären Zuständigkeit zur Strafverfolgung des COHEN verpflichtet, weil das Erfordernis der anderweitigen Verfolgung (§ 153 f Absatz 2 Satz 1 Nr. 4 StPO) nicht erfüllt ist.
• 3. Deutschland ist ein geeigneter Strafverfolgungsstandort, weil es eine enge wirtschaftliche, kulturelle und historische Beziehung zwischen Deutschland und Israel gibt.

Ein Video, auf dem klar zu sehen ist, wie einerseits Jüdische Kolonisten Palästinensische Zivilisten erschiessen, andrerseits die Polizei nicht eingreift, kann auf der Webseite:

http://tinyurl.com/65spcb

gesehen werden. Wie gesagt, führe ich das fehlende Eingreifen der Israelischen Polizei auf entsprechende Befehle.

Diese Aussage mache ich nach bestem Wissen und Gewissen, und habe allen Grund, die mir bekannte Information betreffend sowohl der Pogrome in der West Bank wie auch der Position des Beschuldigten als Wahr zu betrachten.

Ich Ersuche die Generalbundesanwaltschaft, meine persönliche Daten NICHT an den Beschuldigten oder ihm nahestehende Personenkreise weiterzugeben. Dies ist meines Wissens laut Deutscher Strafprozessordnung vorgesehen, und ich befürchte wegen dieser Anzeige Repressalien seitens Israel-nahen Kreisen.

Weiter ersuche die Generalbundesanwaltschaft, mich im Rahmen des gesetzlich möglichen von Ihren weiteren Schritten in dieser Angelegenheit informiert zu halten und mich zu benachrichtigen, ob und wann es mir gestattet ist, diese Anzeige öffentlich zu machen.

Im übrigen beziehe ich mich auf ein Telefongespräch mit Ihrem Herrn Schüssler, und stehe Ihnen gerne telefonisch zur Verfügung.

Hochachtungsvoll,

Wien, am 6. Dezember 2008

CC: Internationaler Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag

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Voices Against Poverty

The Palestinians under blockade in Gaza are calling upon the international community to intervene to end the blockade and collective punishment which is imposed on one million and a half persons since 2006 by israel. The Blockade is against international laws, treaties and accords. The Palestinians in Gaza are reminding the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations anti-poverty campaign that they must act to end the inhuman blockade of Gaza, and this not only in order to open the borders for humanitarian aid deliveries, but also to allow all Palestinians to live their life as human beings, what is being denied them by the criminal Israeli occupation and siege, and the silent complicity in this abject crime against humanity by the international community.

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Citizens’ Voices Against Poverty will be Heard Around the World

From 17 to 19 September, people across the globe will turn up the volume on their call for Heads of State gathering at the United Nations on 20-22 September to demonstrate leadership in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) .The United Nation information service in Vienna (UNISV) released that citizens will gather at events across continents to amplify their support for the eight MDGs, a set of targets to eradicate extreme poverty and its root causes by 2015 that marks its tenth anniversary this week. They will be singing, chanting, blowing whistles, playing drums, blowing vuvuzelas, banging pots and pans and setting off alarm clocks. The sounds of these noises emanating from villages, towns and cities around the world as part of the three day mobilization “Stand Up, Take Action, Make Noise for the MDGs” will make citizens’ commitments to track and support their countries’ achievement of the Goals visible, vocal and impossible to ignore.

At a Teachers Forum hosted by UNIS Vienna in cooperation with the Vienna School Board and the Bratislava Region earlier this week, close to 60 teachers from Austria and Slovakia came together to prepare Stand Up events at their schools. The events that are being planned at schools in Vienna and the Bratislava region range from a primary school action art project, essays, graphic design and posters, to synchronized mobile phone ringing as well as an MDG march by the students. Providing for a learning experience on the MDGs for the participating school children and an exchange between them were important considerations besides contributing to the larger event.

“Stand Up” events being organized across the globe include the following:

• The Austrian non-governmental organization and platform for development and humanitarian aid “Global Responsibility” will organize a concert and jam session at the Vienna Museumsquartier on 17 September, featuring SambAttac and Oficina Art Vienna.
• Slovenia will have an International Model United Nations conference (SIMUN), where university students simulate the discussions on the MDGs in the United Nations. The programme includes a cultural and musical evening on 15 September, a bazaar on 16 September and a charity concert on 18 September as well as presentations by NGOs working in the fields of the MDGs. A round table on “Realization of the Millennium Development Goals: Between Fairy Tale And Reality”, organized by NGOs at the University of Ljubljana on 17 September will also be held as a Stand Up Against Poverty event.
• In Budapest/Hungary an event at the central plaza (Erzsébet tér) on 17 September at 5 pm will feature a reggae concert as well as a joint standing up and release of balloons.
• Manifold events are planned in the Bratislava region in Slovakia, among them an MDG march, awareness campaign by the graphic design school including posters and banners, T-shirt and sticker designs, flash mobs using the simultaneous ringing of cell phones, jingling of keys and screaming of the campaign claim will be in the city of Bratislava.
• Concerts across Bangladesh, Cambodia, Colombia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Rwanda, Senegal and Zimbabwe, where local artists will sing their support of the MDGs.
• In Jordan, 40,000 children are expected to simultaneously blow whistles in support of the MDGs, in an attempt to set a new world record.
• In India, “Stand Up” will kick off with a film festival on 17 September.
• In New York City, Lincoln Plaza will be the hub of Stand Up activity on 19 September, with exhibitions on promises and progress to end poverty as well as speakers and performers.
• In Paris, French citizens and civil society organizations are organizing a flash mob and Stand Up moment in front of the Eiffel Tower on 18 September.
• In Washington, DC, citizens will come together with local musicians, drummers and bands just two blocks from the White House, to amplify their voices in support of the MDGs.
• “The Secretary General’s recent report on the Millennium Development Goals has made it clear that with only five years until the deadline by which world leaders have promised to eradicate extreme poverty and its root causes, the active partnership of citizens and governments is more important than ever,” said Corinne Woods, Director of the UN Millennium Campaign.

Last year, more than 173 million people participated in “Stand Up,” setting a new Guinness World Record. “Stand Up and Take Action” is organized globally by the United Nations Millennium Campaign, in collaboration with a wide range of partners, including the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP).

“The Secretary General’s recent report on the Millennium Development Goals has made it clear that with only five years until the deadline by which world leaders have promised to eradicate extreme poverty and its root causes, the active partnership of citizens and governments is more important than ever,” said Corinne Woods, Director of the UN Millennium Campaign. Last year, more than 173 million people participated in “Stand Up,” setting a new Guinness World Record. “Stand Up and Take Action” is organized globally by the United Nations Millennium Campaign, in collaboration with a wide range of partners, including the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP

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Israel Prevents Journalist Mission From Entering Gaza

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IFJ Congress

In clear defiance of international press organizations, journalists and media, and the right to freedom of movement, and while the Israeli propaganda and the censored media continue misleading the international public opinion, especially the Europeans officials, by claiming that Israel removed it’s restriction on freedom of movement and access to the Gaza Strip, the occupation authorities prohibited a high level journalist mission headed by Mr. Jim Baumila, the President of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and IFJ Executive members accompanying him, Franco Siddi, General Secretary of the Italian Federazione Nazionale della Prensa Italiana, Eva Stabell, Norwegian Norsk Journalistlag, Androula Georgiadou, European Federation of Journalists Steering Committee member, a representative of the Union of Cyprus Journalists and Monir Zaarour, co-coordinator of IFJ Middle East and Arab World, from entering the Gaza Strip and meeting with the Palestinian Journalists and discussing their safety and the action needed to improve their freedom of movement under the strict closure imposed on Gaza since 2006.

Israel also prohibited the Vice President of the IFJ Younes Mujahid, Chairman of the National Assembly of the Moroccan Press Union, to enter the Palestinian territories together with a European delegation of the IFJ.

The prohibition of Mr. Mujahid from entering the Palestinian territories is another chapter of racism, discrimination, repression and terror against journalists and journalism which Israel has imposed on the Palestinian people since over 62 years. Under this Israeli apartheid regime which the zionists of Israel continue to apply to the Arab world, they have the shamelessness to want to start a full “normalization” of relations by using the US power to impose that by force on the Arab readers. The fact is that the relations of the Arab world with israel ARE normal and need not be changed.

The prohibition of Mr. Jim Baumila and his delegation from entering Gaza and the prohibition of Mr. Younes Mujahid from entering the West Bank reveals the bad faith and intentions of Israel as the an occupying zionist entity, which misleads the whole world by claiming a “new start” of political negotiations with the Palestinians while in fact it uses those “negotiations” to legitimize and extend the duration of the zionist occupation of Palestine. The Palestinian Journalists Union (PJS) and the IFJ released a joint statement in which they condemn the Israeli decision of preventing them from entering Gaza and denying Mr. Younes M’Jahed, IFJ senior vice president and president of the Moroccan Press Union, from entering the occupied West Bank to participate in the work of the IFJ mission.

Following the failure of the Israeli occupation authorities to allow the European IFJ Journalists mission to enter Gaza, the security forces of Hamas prevented the Palestinian journalists from participating in a video conference held in Ramallah with the President of IFJ Jim Boumelha and the delegation with him.

According to the IFJ report published on their website, the IFJ mission to Palestine started a four-day visit to the occupied West Bank at the invitation of its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS). The aim of the mission was to meet the newly elected leadership of the PJS and to investigate the continuing consequences of the Israeli occupation and the blockade of Gaza and East Jerusalem on the work of all journalists and media workers, and its impact on their safety, and to identify actions to ameliorate the problems of freedom of movement of the journalists in the region.

IFJ President Mr. Boumelha said: “It is unacceptable to the world community of journalists that Israeli soldiers continue to attack Palestinian journalists in total impunity”. He added: “The PJS has monitored 60 cases of attacks in the last three months. This is getting out of control and must stop immediately. As the occupying power, Israeli civilian and military authorities must discipline and prosecute soldiers who are guilty of violence against journalists”.

It should be noted that Israel did not win the last elections of IFJ World Congress in Cadiz, Spain and Athens which was held on 25-28 May 2010 in which the Palestinian Journalists Union won a membership of IFJ. There are signs that the troubles caused by the occupation to this IFJ delegation are in revenge for israel losing in these elections against the Palestinian delegation.

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