Special Palestine Cry Blog articles: The Catholic Creed: The meaning of the Pasch of Christians.

JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY WAY AND TRUTH AND LIFE - NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT BY HIM.

For as it was not possible that the man who had once for all been conquered, and who had been destroyed through disobedience, could reform himself, and obtain the prize of victory; and as it was also impossible that he could attain to salvation who had fallen under the power of sin,-the Son effected both these things, being the Word of God, descending from the Father, becoming incarnate, stooping low, even to death, and consummating the arranged plan of our salvation, upon whom [Paul], exhorting us unhesitatingly to believe, again says, "Who shall ascend into heaven? that is, to bring down Christ; or who shall descend into the deep? that is, to liberate Christ again from the dead." Then he continues, "If thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shall be saved." And he renders the reason why the Son of God did these things, saying, "For to this end Christ both lived, and died, and revived, that He might rule over the living and the dead." And again, writing to the Corinthians, he declares, "But we preach Christ Jesus crucified; "and adds, "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? " - St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book III, Chapter XVIII, Section 2.

The Crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ, Mary and John and the women at the foot of the Cross

Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over all the earth, until the ninth hour.

Origen tell us this darkness was only in Palestine, and the neighbouring countries: for as to the words, over the whole earth, or over the whole land, we find one kingdom or empire, by a common way of speaking, called the whole earth, or the whole world. As to the cause of the obscuration of the sun; and secondly, as to the extent of its darkness. Origen tells us that the darkness was partial, and confined to Judea and the neighbouring countries, as the darkness of Egypt was only perceived in that country, and not in Gessen, where the children of Israel were. Saint Jerome tells us that the obscurity was caused by the rays of the sun being suddenly withdrawn by divine power, as was the case in Egypt. The darkness in Egypt during the Passover of Moses was due to God's protection withdrawn from that land at that time. The darkness when Christ was Crucified for us is the judgement of God upon His Son Jesus Christ, in our place. For Jesus Christ knew NO sin. He never sinned, nor could He ever.

The meaning of the Pasch of Christians.

The Book of Wisdom, Chapter 17, describes the devils and demons thrown back upon the Egyptians when the Israelites under Moses were brought out of Egypt by God for God’s purposes (to prepare a place for the Crucifixion of Our Lord for the Redemption of the whole world of those who are saved). In the same way the same false gods and goddesses that the Egyptians served and which in so doing were the reason the Egyptians sacrificed their sons and daughters to the devils and demons behind the false gods/goddesses were the spirits that killed the Egyptian children that perished when the Israelites were brought out of Egypt. God does not murder children, period. The angel of death which destroyed in Egypt was one of the fallen spirits. God did not cause any of the fallen spirits to hurt anyone. God allowed the fallen spirits to do what it is their nature do to when He brought the Israelites out of the gates of hell which was Egypt. The children below the age of reason that died went to be with God for eternity, they will be resurrected with the just at the Second Coming of Christ. This principle of God allowing the innocent to be afflicted along with guilty finds its ultimate fulfillment in Christ’s singular and only salvific Kenosis. Jesus Christ committed no sin, not ever nor could He, and was and is and only could be utterly and absolutely and completely innocent of any and all wrongdoing and sin by His very nature as the Holy and True God. The guiltless sacrificed by His own will for the guilty. Even when the innocent are afflicted by the actions and evils instigated by the fallen spirits in the world, the innocent are not possessed by those fallen spirits. The principle of all being afflicted by the evil set loose upon the world for its unrepentant sin will occur when the universal plagues are let loose upon the world. See Apocalypse 16 –

And see: The Plagues will be real - Three Looks at the 16th Chapter of the Book of the Revelation

The principle of our always, for our part, protecting children is given us by Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 18

1 At *that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who, thinkest thou, is the greater in the kingdom of heaven?

2 *And Jesus calling unto him a little child, set him in the midst of them,

3 And said: Amen I say unto you, *unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.

5 And he that shall receive one such little child in my name, receiveth me.

10 Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you, *that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

The principle of our ONLY worshipping the True God, the Father and the Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit is given first in the historical truth of the Garden of Eden when Christ, who is the Tree of Life commands the first man and his wife, Adam and Eve to not have anything to do with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which is Satan, the first fallen angel, nor with any of the fallen angels with Satan. Assisi of Babylon/Vatican/Rome is absolute and complete violation of that principle and is the Great Apostasy in full blown Satanic evil. Have nothing to do with the Vatican or suffer its eternal damnation in hell with it. The devil and demon worshipping pagans and the perfidious deicidal Jews are not ever any part of the Salvific action of Christ upon Golgotha/Calvary. Individual pagans and Jews if they repent of their not confessing Jesus Christ as the Immortal Son of God become flesh for our sake and sacrificed for our salvation and who confess publicly their sin of devil and demon worshipping and perfidy and deicide and who beg the Lord of all, the Lord God, the Father and the Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit for forgiveness of their horrid and abominable sins, can and will be forgiven if they do so now in this life and will enter into the only path of salvation there is as dictated by God Himself. The Church, all the faithful – there is no other meaning acceptable to God for the word Church, is commanded by God to not have anything to do with the Apostasy.

Book of Wisdom, Chapter 17

1 For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred.

2 For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.

3 And while they thought to lie hid in their obscure sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness, being horribly afraid and troubled with exceeding great astonishment.

4 For neither did the den that held them, keep them from fear: for noises coming down troubled them, and sad visions appearing to them, affrighted them.

5 And no power of fire could give them light, neither could the bright flames of the stars enlighten that horrible night.

6 But there appeared to them a sudden fire, very dreadful: and being struck with the fear of that face, which was not seen, they thought the things which they saw to be worse:

7 And the delusions of their magic art were put down, and their boasting of wisdom was reproachfully rebuked.

8 For they who promised to drive away fears and troubles from a sick soul, were sick themselves of a fear worthy to be laughed at.

9 For though no terrible thing disturbed them: yet being scared with the passing by of beasts, and hissing of serpents, they died for fear: and denying that they saw the air, which could by no means be avoided.

10 For whereas wickedness is fearful, it beareth witness of its condemnation: for a troubled conscience always forecasteth grievous things.

11 For fear is nothing else but a yielding up of the succours from thought.

12 And while there is less expectation from within, the greater doth it count the ignorance of that cause which bringeth the torment.

13 But they that during that night, in which nothing could be done, and which came upon them from the lowest and deepest hell, slept the same sleep.

14 Were sometimes molested with the fear of monsters, sometimes fainted away, their soul failing them: for a sudden and unlooked for fear was come upon them.

15 Moreover if any of them had fallen down, he was kept shut up in prison without irons.

16 For if any one were a husbandman, or a shepherd, or a labourer in the field, and was suddenly overtaken, he endured a necessity from which he could not fly.

17 For they were all bound together with one chain of darkness. Whether it were a whistling wind, or the melodious voice of birds, among the spreading branches of trees, or a fall of water running down with violence,

18 Or the mighty noise of stones tumbling down, or the running that could not be seen of beasts playing together, or the roaring voice of wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the highest mountains: these things made them to swoon for fear.

19 For the whole world was enlightened with a clear light, and none were hindered in their labours.

20 But over them only was spread a heavy night, an image of that darkness which was to come upon them. But they were to themselves more grievous than the darkness.

The Catholic Creed: The Final Trial: Traditional Catholic Prayers: Baptism

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Monday, July 29, 2013

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Will Palestinian President Face Treason Charges?

هل سيواجه الرئيس عباس تهمة الخيانة العظمى في المحاكم الدولية؟؟

According to Palestinian sources, a group of Palestinian intellectuals and academics have recently discussed following legal steps at international political organizations and courts of justice against Palestinian “president” Mahmoud Abbas, whose presidential term expired in 2009, and to take other serious steps in order to prevent him from selling out the Palestinian homeland to the zionist jews as he has been doing since 20 years and in the so-called Oslo agreement and “peace” negotiation.

The group accuses “president” Abbas of treason against the nation, the division of the Palestinian occupied territories to small, closed cantons in the Oslo Accords, of legitimizing the zionist occupation, of working and spying for the benefit of Israel, of complicity to genocide, of the misuse of the power against the Palestinian people, of establishing a dictatorial regime, undermining individual liberties, jailing politicians and opposition figures, endangering the lives of the Palestinian since 20 years and stealing aid and donations from international sources, of helping Israel to loot the Palestinian lands and of protecting the zionist colonial squatters in occupied Palestine, and of high treason against the Palestinian people.

The move comes in response of Abbas’ dealing with the Palestinian people as a herd of sheep and controlling all Palestinian personal destinies, financial, legislative, political institutions and of taking ill-advised and fateful decisions without first consulting with the nation.

The Palestinian activists state that “president” Abbas term has expired in 2009 and that he does not represent the Palestinian people, that he represent none of the political factions and neither the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. They state that Abbas is not trusted or reliable and that all political decisions which he has taken since 2009 and until today are considered null and void under the provisions of international laws. The academic group and politicians see the return of Abbas to negotiate with Israel without the assent of the Palestinian people as a betrayal against all Palestinians and against Palestine.

Friday, July 12, 2013

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Israeli Soldiers Detain Palestinian Five-year-old In Hebron, Videos - Friday, July 12, 2013 - kawther.salam

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Israeli Soldiers Detain Palestinian Five-year-old In Hebron, Videos

B’Tselem for Human Rights has written urgently to the Legal Adviser in the occupied Palestinian territories, demanding his response to a grave incident in which soldiers detained a five-year-old boy in Hebron for two hours, after he threw a stone. The soldiers threatened the child and his parents, handcuffed and blindfolded the father, and handed the boy over to the Palestinian Police. Detaining a child below the age of criminal responsibility, especially one so young, has no legal justification.

On Tuesday, 9 July 2013, at around 3:30 P.M., seven soldiers and an officer detained Wadi’ Maswadeh, who is five years and nine months old (his birthdate on his mother’s ID card: 24 September 2007) close to ‘Abed checkpoint, near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, after he threw a stone. B’Tselem field researcher Manal al-Ja’bari, who was present at the scene, recorded the entire event on video.

After local residents who had gathered at the spot tried to intervene, the soldiers put the crying child into a jeep with another Palestinian resident and took him home. When they reached the house, the officer informed Wadi’s mother that he intended to hand him over to the Palestinian Police. The mother refused to let them take the child before his father, Karam, came home. About half an hour after Wadi’ was detained, Karam Maswadeh came home.

The officer informed Maswadeh that he was arresting his son in order to hand him over to the Palestinian Police. Meanwhile, Wadi’a had spent the entire time hiding behind a pile of mattresses in the house and crying. The parents made it clear to the officer that the child is five years old, but the officer insisted on taking him to the DCO and threatened them, saying that the army would arrest the father if they did not comply. The soldiers then made Karam and his son leave the house and walk to the army camp on a-Shuhada street.

Videos of the first part of the incident, recorded by B’Tselem’s field researcher Manal al-Ja’bari

“When I got home, I saw several soldiers standing at the entrance to my house. An officer came up to me and ordered me to get my son, Wadi’a. Before I got home, the soldiers had tried to persuade my wife to hand Wadi’a over, but she had refused to do it until I came back. The officer told me that he was going to arrest Wadi’a and hand him over to the Palestinian Coordination. I asked him: “Why arrest a five-year-old boy?” A soldier standing next to the officer showed me a stone and claimed that my son had thrown it, and that it had hit the car of a settler who was driving north, near ‘Abed checkpoint. I tried to persuade the officer not to take Wadi’ to the DCO, but he said that if I didn’t bring him, I’d be arrested. […] I went inside the house and got Wadi’, who was hiding there. He was crying.”

Wadi’ and his father were taken to the army base, where they were detained for half an hour. Then, the soldiers handcuffed and blindfolded Karam and walked him, in full public view, together with his son, to the Policeman’s checkpoint (56), where the soldiers detained them for another thirty minutes. At that point, a lieutenant colonel arrived whom the father, who speaks Hebrew, understood to be an Israeli coordination officer from the DCO. The officer questioned Wadi’ and asked him why he had thrown stones. He also reprimanded the soldiers for arresting the father and son in the presence of video cameras, and complained that “you’re harming our public image”. The officer made it clear to the soldiers that, when detainees are held with cameras around, they must be “treated nicely”. Then, one of the soldiers untied the father’s hands, removed his blindfold and gave him water. A few minutes later, an officer from the Palestinian DCO and several Palestinian policemen arrived. The soldiers handed Karam and Wadi’ Maswadeh over to them, and the two were taken to a Palestinian police station, where they were briefly questioned and released.

Vudeos of the second part of the incident, documented by a B’Tselem volunteer ‘Imad abu-Shamsiyeh:

The father and the son were detained at checkpoint near there house in the occupied city of Hebron

IDF Officer arrives: Video

Transfer to Palestinian Police

In her letter to the Legal Adviser to Judea and Samaria, B’Tselem Director Jessica Montell stated: “The footage clearly shows that this was not a mistake made by an individual soldier, but rather conduct that, to our alarm, was considered reasonable by all the military personnel involved, including senior officers. It is particularly troubling that none of them apparently thought any part of the incident wad problematic: not the fact that they scared a five-year-old boy out of his wits, nor threatening him and his parents to “hand him over” to the Palestinian Police, nor threatening to arrest the father on no legal grounds, nor handcuffing and blindfolding the father in front of his son.”.

Based on B’Tselem’s ongoing experience, there appears to be a procedure in which soldiers detain Palestinian minors suspected of stone throwing and transfer them to the Palestinian Police, at the Palestinian DCO. In the case at hand, the soldiers apparently acted according to that procedure, which does not, and cannot, have any legal grounds when the minor is below the age of criminal responsibility.

In the military judicial system in the West Bank, the age of criminal responsibility is 12, as in Israel. The legal meaning is that the security forces are not allowed to arrest or detain children under that age, even when they are suspected of having committed criminal offenses, and the authorities must deal with the law breaking in other ways. Indeed, B’Tselem has documented many incidents in which Israel minors under the age of criminal responsibility threw stones at Palestinians, and no measures were taken against them. Under the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Israel signed, minors must be protected in criminal proceedings, especially when they are so young.

July 12th, 2013 | Tags: Arrest a Child, B'Tselem, DCO, Detain, Five-Year-Old, Hebron, Human Rights, IDF, israeli soldiers, Karam Maswadeh, Manal al-Ja'bari, Palestinian | Category: Convention, Hebron, IDF, Israel, Occupation, PA,Palestine, UN, Zionism

Saturday, July 6, 2013

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Meeting a Fellow Palestinian At a Government Event

علم فلسطيني في إحتفال وزير الصحة النمساوي حصل على أعلى وسام شرف تمنحه النمسا – يتبع غدا

Minister Alois Stöger speaks with Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Elmadfa

Austrian Health Minister Alois Stöger held yesterday 4 July a musical reception for the attendees of the “WHO European Ministerial Conference on Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseases in the Context of Health 2020 conference” at the beautiful Museum of the Natural History. Among the guests of the Minister Stöger were over 25 ministers, diplomats, experts, and representatives of international organizations, civil society and NGOs from around the world.

At the start of the ceremony, Minister Stöger and Ms. Zsuzsanna Jakab, Director of the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, delivered briefs in which they welcomed the guests and highlighted the importance of the conference at hand, which addresses nutrition and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the context of Health 2020 and focuses on how policy making can support implementation together with the commitments outlined in the Action Plan for the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable diseases.

Ms. Jakab called two professors to go to the platform speeches, Univ. Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Elmadfa and Prof. W. Philip James. She said without Dr. Elmadfa and Prof. James, there would have been no conference. She introduced them to the audience and gave them gifts in the presence of minister Stöger

During the event I met Prof. Dr. Elmadfa, director of the Institute of Nutrition in Vienna, Austria and President of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS).

A short discussion with him revealed him as a Palestinian and a genius personality who by his own work and intellectual merits managed became a recognized partner of international institutions, and now holds the position of University Professor and president of an institute. I felt deeply honoured and proud to meet this fellow Palestinian who has found his way and place in his new homeland.

Dr. Elmadfa is a Palestinian, he is originate from Jaffa, a city which the zionist forces captured and depopulated in 1948. His family was forced to move to Egypt when he was of age five. After all these years Dr. Elmadfa still remembers his departure from Jaffa to the camps in the Sinai desert. He relates: “they put us in a small truck on the top of each other and threw us out into a camps in the Egyptian desert, where we spent six months. Then they forced us to move again, this time they threw into the Gaza Strip and told us “Gaza is your new homeland”.

Sadly there was only short time to talk with Dr. Elmadfa, after a minute I had to release him to enjoy the party with his friends. During our short conversation, Dr. Elmadfa he told me that he holds two nationalities but that he is sad to be without a Palestinian nationality because there is no Palestinian State yet

In April 2013, Dr. Elmadfa was awarded the big Silver Medal For Merit For the Republic of Austria by the federal President for his academic achievements in area of nutrition sciences.

Who is Univ. Prof. Dr. Elmadfa?

Curriculum Vitae (short version)
Univ.-Prof. emer. Dr. Ibrahim Elmadfa

Department of Nutritional Sciences
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna
Althanstr. 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Tel +43 1 4277 54911 Email: ibrahim [dot] elmadfa [at] univie [dot] ac [dot] at

Personal data
Born 1943 in Jaffa, Palestine.
Austrian and German citizenship.
Married, one child.

Education
1950-1961         UNRWA Schools for the Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip
1961   Secondary School Leaving Certificate
1962-1968   Training in Food Science and Technology at the University of Assiut, Egypt (BSc. 1966)
and in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Giessen, Germany
(Dipl. oec. troph. 1968)
1970   PhD in Human Nutrition at the University of Giessen (Germany)
1975   Habilitation at the University of Giessen, Germany; Dozent for Human Nutrition

Career
1970 – 1990    Teaching Staff Member in different positions, Institute of Nutrition; University of
Giessen
1978 – 1979   Sabbatical, research programme at the Biochemistry Department, Guy´s Hospital
Medical School, London (UK)
1980 – 1990   Professor for Human Nutrition at the University of Giessen (Germany)
1981   Invited professor at the University of Assiut (Egypt)
1990 – 2011   Professor for Nutritional Sciences/Human Nutrition and director of the Institute of
Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna
Since Oct. 2011   Emeritus status

Awards
1967, Apr.   “Award of best student” 1962-1966 received at celebrations of the 12th Science Day   from the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Gamal Abd-el-Nasser
1978, Oct.          “German Book fair, Non-fiction prize”, Team of Authors, Silver Medal
2011, Oct.   “Nutra India 2011 International Award” for Outstanding Contribution in
Promoting advancement of Nutrition Science, Research and Development through International Cooperation at global level for Networking, Mysore University and the Nutrition Society of India
2012, Apr.         “Large silver medal for services to the Republik of Austria” (Grosses silbernes
Ehrenzeichen für seine Verdienste um die Republik Österreich)

Professional activities (non-exhaustive)
1990   FAO short time expert in Kuwait for development and co-ordination of nutritional programmes at the Sabah’s Hospital
1994   Consultant on clinical nutrition and lecturer invited by the Tunisian Ministry of Health
Since 1994   Curator, member of the editorial board and reviewer of several scientific journals

1995 / 1996   Member (representing Austria) of the Ad-hoc Committee on Safety Evaluation of
Novel Foods of the OECD
1995-2001   Scientific Advice of the European Commission as member (vice chair) of the Scientific
Committee for Food (SCF)
since 1996   Member of the Committee of the Codex Alimentarius Austriacus, Chairman of the
sub-committee Novel Foodand Novel Technologies
Since 1997   Member of the Steering Committee on Nutrition, Diet and Healthy Life Styles in
Europe of EU commission, DG SANCO, formerly DG V
Since Oct 1997   Member of the network “European Master Public Health and Nutrition”
Since Nov 1999   President of the Austrian Nutrition Society (ÖGE)
2000 to 2011   Editor of Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, and Editor of Forum Nutrition
2001 – 2005   Council member of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS)
2003 – 2006   President of the European Academy of Nutritional Sciences (EANS)
2004   Co-initiation and establishing of the Middle-East and North African Nutrition
Association (MENANA)
Oct 2004   Short time Expert for Capacity Development of UNDP in Yemen
2004   Invited lectures in Safety of Food Fortification in Asian Countries, as an IAEA Expert,
MOH, Hanoi (Vietnam)
2005 – 2006   Consultant for capacity development in Higher Education in Nutrition Science at
Medical Universities in Iran, a World Bank-funded project
2005 – 2009   President-Elect of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS)
2007 – 2010   Founding member and Vice-President of the Worldwide Public Health Nutrition
Association (WPHNA)
2008 – 2009   Member of Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Fats and Fatty Acids in Human
Nutrition
2008   Short time expert in planning the national nutrition survey, Kuwait
2009   Member of National Childhood Obesity Foundation NOCF, Marblehead, MA, USA
2009   Invited lectures: Launching the Draft Regional Strategy and Action Plan on Nutrition
of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO), Cairo, Egypt, and at the Ministry
of ealth, Ramallah, Palestine
2009 – 2013   IUNS-President
Since 2010   Member of the WHO Nutrition Guidance Expert Advisory Group (NUGAG)
Since 2010   Member of the International Advisory Council (IAC) of the WHO-Global Non
Communicable Disease Network (NCDnet)
Since 2010   Scientific cooperation with UNICEF, National Micronutirient Survey with focus on anemia causes in Palestine
Since 2010   Vice-president of the Iberoamerican NutritionFoundation (FINUT)
Since 2012   Member of Steering Group of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSO) on
Nano-Scale Particles

Interdisciplinary cooperation with
•   General Hospital of Vienna (Allgemeines Krankenhaus Wien), Department of gastroenterology, Department of diabetology, Department of nephrology and others
•   Pediatric Hospital of Vienna (Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde), Vienna, and different paediatric departments of other Austrian hospitals
•   Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Institute of Food Chemistry and Food Research (Institut für Lebensmitteluntersuchung und Forschung) and Competence Center for Nutrition and Health, Vienna, Austria
•   State Institute of Veterinary, Medical and Food Research and Control (Staatliches Veterinär-, Medizinal- und Lebensmitteluntersuchungsamt), Giessen, Germany
•   German Institute of Nutrition Research (Deutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschung), Department of Epidemiology, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany
•   Max Rubner Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany
•   Institute of Food Research, Norwich, United Kingdom
•   German Foundation for Health Education (Deutsche Stiftung für gesundheitliche Aufklärung)
•   Union for Consumer Information (Verein für Konsumenteninformation, Austria)
•   WHO–Project “Vienna – Healthy City”, Vienna municipality
•   International Life Sciences Institute Europe (ILSI)
•   Central Institute of Food Research, Budapest, Hungary
•   Scientific co-operation and exchange of expertise and personnel with institutes of nutrition and/or food research in Prague (Czech. Rep.); Budapest (Hungary); Warsaw and Bosnan (Poland); Helsinki (Finland); Karolinska Institutet (Sweden); Al Ain-University (United Arab Emirates); INRAN / Ministry of Health (Rome), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;University of Milano (Italy); Maastricht University, University Wageningen (Netherlands); University of Iceland (Reykjavik, Ice-land); Kuwait Institute of Scientific Research, Saft, Kuwait; National Nutrition Institute (NNI), Cairo; American University of Beirut; University of Southhampton, United Kingdom; University of Nebrasca, USA; Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts, USA; University of Granada, Spain

Honorary member of several national nutrition societies

Science management:
•   Establishment and coordination of the study of nutritional sciences at the University of Vienna, development of the curriculum for the study of nutritional sciences (under- and postgraduates: Diplom / Magister, BSc, MSc, Doctorate / PhD Studies)
•   Council member of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the University of Vienna
•   Member of the committee of budget at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Vienna
•   Chairman of the examination board and later Director the Study Programs of nutritional sciences (under- and post graduate including Doctorate study program)
•   Supervision and graduation of >100 PhD students in molecular nutrition, nutrition in health and disease at cellular-molecular and population level, food quality / methods of analysis; >1000 diploma and MSc students in nutrition in Giessen and Vienna
•   Acquisition and administration of research grants (1991-2011 > 18 million Euro)
•   Organisation and chairing of the 17th International Congress of Nutrition, Modern Aspects of Nutrition – Present Knowledge and Future Perspectives, in August 2001 in Vienna (3600 participants)

Research interests and projects (non-exhaustive)
(1)   Public Health Nutrition, Consumer Health, Nutrition Communication and Education
•   Since 1991 conduction of the Austrian Study on Nutritional Status – ASNS in various Austrian population groups:
•   Evaluation of the nutritional status of children and adolescents, pregnant women, elderly, adults, disabled, and others as basis for the Austrian Nutrition Report 1998
•   Cross sectional studies for the assessment of the nutritional situation in the Austrian population as basis for the Austrian Nutrition Report 2003
•   Representative cross sectional studies in all population groups for the evaluation and documentation of the nutrition situation in Austria as the basis for the Austrian Nutrition Report 2008
•   Representative study on the laboratory assessment of nutrition and health status in Austria as a basis for the Austrian Nutrition Report 2012
•   Assessment of the Physical Activity Level (PAL) in the Austrian population
•   Assessment of the impact of fortified foods and supplements on the micronutrient intake in Austria
•   Role of antioxidants in the prevention, progression and therapy of diseases; hospital nutrition
•   Bioavailability of nutrients in healthy adults and various patient groups including some intervention studies (cancer, diabetes, Crohn´s disease, cystic fibrosis, chronic cardiovascular diseases, nephrotic patients)
•   Nutrition Information Network – A Project of Vienna’s City Health Plan
•   Pro-Children: How to improve vegetable and fruit consumption in children (EU funded project) 2001-2004
•   The European Nutrition and Health Report (EU funded project), 2002-2004 and 2007-2009
•   NUTRISENEX (Improving the Quality of Life of Elderly People by Coordinating Research into Malnutrition of the Elderly)
•   HECTOR (Eating Out: Habits, Determinants and Recommendations for Consumers and the European Catering Sector)
•   CHANCE (Community Health Management to Enhance Behaviour)
•   Global Burden of Chronic Diseases, Partner in a Bill Gates Foundation funded research project, coordinated by Harvard School of Public Health (2008-2010)

(2)   Food Quality and Safety
DAFNE (Data Food Networking)
EUROFIR (European Food Information Resource Network)
EFSA DATEX 2008/01 Individual Food Consumption for Adult Population in EU Member States, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland (Project of the European Food Safety Authority
FOOD PROFIT December 2007-October 2010 (Aiming to improve the nutritional quality of prepared / processed food at regional / local levels in order to make the healthier choice for the consumers the easiest choice, development of the self-evaluation tool HANCP system including nutritional criteria into the value chain of food production, preparation and service processes)

(3) Risk assessment (food additives, contaminants), safety evaluation of nutrients used for food fortification
Risk assessment of exposure to food additives in the Austrian population
Risk assessment of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) from food and human milk
Safety evaluation of nutrients used for food fortification (workshop of ILSI Europe), September 1998, Lisbon
Expert report on food safety – nitrate (commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Health, http://www.bmsg.gv.at/bmsg/fvl/attachments/lk_publ_420_1.pdf)
Expert report on food safety – food irradiation (commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Health, http://www.bmsg.gv.at/bmsg/fvl/attachments/lk_publ_419_1.pdf)
Expert report on food safety – cadmium (commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Health)
Expert report on food safety – ochratoxin A (commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Health, http://www.bmsg.gv.at/bmsg/fvl/attachments/lk_publ_421_1.pdf)
Opinion on a request for the safety assessment of the use of Phytosterol Esters in Yellow Fat Spreads (as rapporteur to the SCF, April 2000)
Report on Effects of Beta-carotene Supplementation in Combination with Tocopherol and Ascorbate in Clinical and Chemopreventive Trials as rapporteur to the SCF, March 1998)
Draft Report on Composition and Specification of Food Intended to Meet the Expenditure of Intense Muscular Effort, Especially for Sportsmen (SCF WG report, as chair)
Draft reports “Upper Safe Level” (SCF Task Force): vitamin E (as rapporteur, with R. Walker), vitamin K (as rapporteur), vitamin B2 (as rapporteur)

Publications
Author or co-author of over 40 scientific (University level) and popular scientific books and book chapters i.a. for purposes of teaching and information of the general population.
Author and co-author of close to 500 original papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals in German or English, review articles, full papers and presentations at national and international scientific meetings and conferences

Of particular interest in the field of Public Health and Health Policy:
•   Nutrition Report for Vienna (Elmadfa et al., 376 pages, German, Austria 1994), commissioned by the City of Vienna, WHO-Project Vienna – Healthy City
•   Strategies for the Optimisation of Catering Programmes at Companies (Elmadfa et al., 66 pages, Austria 1995), commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Health and Consumer Protection
•   Nutrition of the Elderly, report in German (Elmadfa et al., 81 pages, Austria 1996), commissioned by the City of Vienna, WHO-Project Vienna – Healthy City
•   Nutrition and Disease Prevention in Vienna, report in German (Elmadfa et al., 83 pages, Austria 1996), commissioned by the City of Vienna, WHO-Project Vienna – Healthy City
•   Austrian Nutrition Report 1998, report in German with English summary (Elmadfa et al., 365 pages), commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Consumer Protection and the Federal Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs, Vienna, 1999
•   Reference Values of DGE, ÖGE, SGE, and SVE for Nutrient Intake (German, 1st edition). D-A-CH-Referenzwerte für die Nährstoffzufuhr (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Ernährung, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Ernährungsforschung, Schweizerische Vereinigung für Ernährung, 1. Auflage, 240 pages, Heidelberg, 2000, 4. Korrig. Nachdruck [4th corrected reprint], 2012)
•   Austrian Nutrition Report 2003, report in German (Elmadfa et al., 352 pages), commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Health and Women, Vienna, 2003, Summary in English
•   European Nutrition and Health Report 2004. Elmadfa, Weichselbaum (eds), Forum of Nutrition 58, 223 pages, Karger, Basel, 2004.
•   Elmadfa I (editor) (2009): European Nutrition and Health Report 2009. Karger AG, Basel, Forum of Nutrition, Vol. 62, 412 pages
•   Austrian Nutrition Report 2008, report in German (Elmadfa et al., 435 pages), commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Health, Vienna, 2009, Summary in English
Elmadfa I (editor) (2009): European Nutrition and Health Report 2009. Karger AG, Basel, Forum of Nutrition, Vol. 62, 412 pages
•   Austrian Nutriton Report 2012, report in German (Elmadfa et al., 412 pages), commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Health, Vienna 2013, Summary in English

Participation in as well as organisation and chairing of international and national conferences and symposia

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Monday, July 1, 2013

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Dr. Harb: From Ramallah To USA

I easily identified the American doctor of Palestinian origin, born in Ramallah in the center of the occupied West Bank, Dr. Shehadeh Shawki Harb, at the 27th International Medical Convention of NAAMA held on June 29 – July 4, 2013 at Hilton Hotel in Vienna. It was as if I had met him yesterday! Actually I met Dr. Harb about 25 years ago occupied Ramallah, where he was the head of the department for heart, chest and vascular medicine at the city hospital.

Currently, occupied Ramallah is shared by the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority, the Al-Moqata’a and the Israeli military “civil” Administration in Betin, called “Bet Ill” by the occupation. Betin is one of the Palestinian villages of the Ramallah and Al Bireh district which has been occupied since 1967 and until today, 2013.

25 years ago I reported several times about the Ramallah hospital under Israeli occupation, the miserable and harsh situation in which Dr. Harb and his colleagues were obliged to treat and save the life of Palestinians who were shot, tortured or massacred by the zionist colonial occupation.

At the end of 1987, I reported about the first open-heart surgery performed by Dr. Harb at the governmental hospital of Ramallah. The operation was successful. Only two nurses and a resident doctor helped Dr. Harb with his work at the department of heart, chest and vascular diseases at the hospital. There was no medical staff at the surgical department which Dr. Harb headed, he was forced by the prevailing conditions to work alone.

When the terrorist Baruch Goldstein, an American-born jewish physician perpetrated the 1994 massacre at the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron killing 29 Palestinian Muslim worshippers and wounding hundreds while they were kneeling, prostrated on the ground, Dr. Shawqi Harb was one of the doctors who attended to the wounded. He worked over 24 hours at the operations room of the Ramallah hospital. He conducted difficult and complicated operations, and all of them were successful. I published several interviews about the Palestinians operated by Dr. Harb at the Al-Quds newspaper and still have copies of those reports.

Dr. “Shawki” Harb studied at the American Friends School and pursued his medical studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he graduated Magna cum Laude in 1965 and met with a beautiful German woman who would become his wife.

Dr. Harb completed his training in general surgery at the University of Florida in 1972, and continued as a fellow in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery department at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. In 1975 Dr. Harb returned home to Ramallah where he worked at the governmental hospital and experienced the difficulties and horrors of working under the Israeli occupation.

At the Hilton Hotel in Vienna Dr. Harb told me a few of the horrors which he experienced under the Israeli occupation during the first and second Intifada.

According to Dr. Harb, the IDF soldier used him several times as a human shield while raiding the Ramallah hospital. The last time the IDF used him as a human shield was on March 31 2002, when the occupation raided the hospital to enter patient’s rooms.

Several soldiers put their rifles in his back and forced him to enter one room after another. The soldiers pushed him violently in his column. They beat the patients in their beds in front of his eyes. One of the patients, Rami Mohie Al-din was beaten severely, leading to change all the treatment which was planned for him. In the words of the doctor, the patients screamed loud while the occupation soldiers were beating them and saying “let them die”.

“The soldiers also raided the recovery and operation rooms and forced me to open the entrance of the operations room for them, without taking into account the special status of this room”, said doctor Harb. “When they entered the outer door of the room, they asked me to open the inner door where there was a red line that prevents everyone from passing whthout wearing special disinfected clothes, covered from head to the feet.

They spent hours searching and destroying the medical equipment in the hospital, threatening me, beating up people, yelling and investigating the patients, hitting them and breaking down some doors. They tied the hands of several patients and threw them to the ground with cuffed hands tied behind”. After hours of spreading horror in the hospital they left like thieves, said Dr. Harb

Corruption and Theft Forced Dr. Harb To Flee Ramallah to USA

The experience of Dr. Harb under the zionist occupation was not the only cruel one, but he also suffered of the corruption under the cover of the PA, and he choose to emigrate to the USA, were he had studied, instead to polluting his hands in the prevalent corruption in order to continue his humanitarian medical work.

He said: “the Palestinian Authority appointed me as the director of the Ramallah Hospital, I worked hard for the success of my work in the hospital. The work was very difficult in the hospital, which had been turned into a centre for receiving patients from all West Bank cities. The patients would arrive to us late in the course of their diseases, or after receiving treatment in other hospitals”.

He added that the biggest problem and the most difficult challenge which faced him at the hospital were not only the stress of the work and the big responsibility of being a director, but the discovery of corruption at the hospital. “There were continued thefts of medical treatment consumables, equipment and other supplies at the hospital. I would order certain supplies for the hospital but everything disappeared quickly, before we could use these supplies or even arriving at the hospital”.

He added: “I informed “Abu Ammar” (Arafat) about the thefts and corruption at the hospital and he responded positively to me. He said that if I knew who the thieves were, he’d immediately dismiss them. He asked me to help him, but the thieves never left evidence that could help to identify them, so I preferred to leave my post instead of being involved in covering corruption and theft. I returned to Detroit, Michigan”.

Dr. Harb is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the International College of Surgeons and of the American College of Cardiology. He is a practicing surgeon in Detroit, Michigan. He has four sons: Dr. Tariq, an invasive cardiologist, Omar, a Genetic Engineer, Firas, and Lara, a specialist in comparative literature. Dr. Harb soon will publish a book about his experience as a doctor under the Israeli occupation.

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