Jewish settler throws chemical material on Palestinian youth

NABLUS, (PIC)– A Jewish settlers threw an unknown chemical material on the face of a Palestinian youth in Hawara village, south of Nablus, on Wednesday, his family said.

They said that Omad Dumaidi, 20, was walking in the main street in the village when a group of settlers in a speeding car passed by him and one of them threw the chemical material on his face.

They said that the next day Dumaidi’s face reddened and he started to nauseate and they took him to Rafidia hospital in Nablus where the doctors could not determine the type of this material.

Jewish settlers ran over two brothers on the same street earlier this month while on their way to college.

With joy and tears Jerusalem received the freed captives

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, With the Palestinian flag and the green flags of Hamas Palestinians living in Jerusalem received the captives who were freed from occupation jails on Tuesday, in the prisoner exchange deal between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation.

As soon as the news of the release of the captives were made, the minarets of the Aqsa Mosque and other mosques in the holy city sounded with chants of Allahu Akbar to rejoice at the captives’ freedom.

The families of the two female captives Sana’ Shehada and Ibtisam al-Isawi held a reception party which lasted till the morning. The mother of Shehada said it was the happiest day in her life.

Forty six Jerusalem residents were freed from occupation captivity according to the deal, 17 of them were exiled to Gaza, and 13 abroad, while 16 of them returned to Jerusalem.

Families of the freed captives expressed their delight at their release. Amongst those families is the family of blind captive Ala’ al-bazian, who insisted in praying at the al-Aqsa Mosque before going home. He expressed delight at his release and hoped that the rest of the captives will be freed soon.

Settlers earmark $100,000 “bounty” for anyone who kills two liberated prisoners

NABLUS, A Jewish family in Yitzhar settlement near Nablus earmarked the sum of 100,000 dollars for anyone killing the two liberated Palestinian prisoners Khuweiled and Nizar Ramadan who have been released in the exchange deal between Israel and Hamas.

Hebrew daily Maariv published the ad in which the family claimed that the prisoners, who were deported one to the Gaza Strip and the other to Turkey, killed two of their relatives 13 years ago.

The ad was published on a website for one of the Jewish fanatic settlers in Hebrew, Arabic, English, and Turkish languages along with a recent photo for the prisoners.

Thank you, Hamas

A Palestinian mother embraces her daughters in Ramallah, West Bank
after being released in exchange of Gilad Shalit as a part of a deal with
Israel. Photograph: Nasser Ishtayeh/AP

The prisoner swap deal with Israel, which Hamas has concluded through Egyptian and German intermediaries, is undoubtedly a perfect gift to the entire Palestinian people, given the deal's auspicious timing, having taken place three weeks before the occurrence of Eidul Adha holiday.

The imminent release of some 1030 Palestinians from Israeli Bastille's, dungeons and concentration camps is a definitive victory for Palestine and its struggling people by all conceivable standards.

Israel, the country, which has been oppressing and tormenting our people nonstop for generations, has been forced to treat us with some respect, with a semblance of parity despite the enormous gap in the balance of powers between the two sides.

Israel, after all, is effectively a superpower which also tightly controls the politics and policies of the world's sole superpower, its guardian-ally, the United States.
This is whereas Hamas is a small, besieged and blockaded resistance group, with a few thousand militiamen, struggling to resist a Nazi-like militaristic state that is hell-bent on murdering more Palestinians and stealing still more of their land.

Hence, the success of Hamas and other resistance groups to deal with Israel from a position of near parity is a great moral, psychological and political victory for the Palestinian Islamist movement.

We should all remember that only a few months ago, Israel was demanding rather vociferously the destruction of all Hamas's human and resistance infrastructure.
Indeed, in addition to the overwhelming joy which will hover over more than a thousand Palestinian households, the deal will encompass the entire Palestinian people because in the final analysis the prisoners' cause is the national cause par excellance.

For many decades, Israel instilled in our minds the idea that Palestinian freedom fighters are "hopeless cases" that would only leave jail on their way to their graves!!

This deal is proving that for Palestinian political and resistance prisoners, spending one's life and dying in an Israeli jail is not and doesn't have to be an ineluctable fate.

This should be viewed as a strategic gain for the resistance as well as a huge morale booster for the estimated 4000 prisoners, still languishing in Israeli jails, and their families and beloved ones.

This means that the Israeli theory of deterrence will never be the same from now on. Yes, Israel is likely to seek and find ways and means to reaffirm and renew its psychological deterrence. However, the Palestinians, too, will never stop being more creative and more innovative, and, yes, more daring, in their unrelenting efforts to force Israel to meet their just grievances.

Because, ultimately, those fighting a foreign occupation are akin to those resisting rape and murder. One really exaggerates little by saying that the Israeli occupation of Palestine is an ultimate act of rape.

Hence, calling these Palestinian heroes "terrorists" and other evil epithets is the ultimate form of "fornication with language."

Another point, which must be featured prominently, is that protracted negotiations between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and successive arrogant Israeli governments produced virtually nothing, apart from the accumulating frustration and despair among our people.

Hence the imminent swap deal shows that resistance to Israeli aggression, terror and criminality, should never ever be abandoned because then there would be no pressure on Israel to meet Palestinian demands, however just and legitimate these demands may be.

Yes, Israel might occasionally resort to offering Palestinians some "overtures" and "gestures of good will." But this is very much like receiving handouts and charity whereby the giver decides everything while the receiver, or more correctly the beggar, has no choice but to accept whatever is thrown unto him.

Beggars can't be choosers

I felt I had to employ this analogy because since the conclusion of the hapless Oslo Accords in 1993, Israeli rejectionism, insolence, and arrogance of power effectively reduced the pathetic PA into a vanquished supplicant, begging Israel and the United States, for everything, from obtaining a travel permit to reach Jerusalem to releasing Palestinian inmates from Israeli jails.

Now, the resistance is demonstrating that its way pays off, because Israel knows only the language of real politik, in other word the language of force.

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There is no doubt the imminent prisoner exchange deal will boost the status and stature of Hamas, not only among Palestinians but among Muslims worldwide. Hamas deserves this enhanced standing; it has earned it the hard way.

The deal is also expected to further cement relations between Egypt and Hamas. The deal asserted Egypt's Arab and regional status as a central state which will always be a huge asset for all Arabs and Muslims and their various causes.

We hope and pray that Cairo will keep moving away from the Zionist axis and keep getting nearer and closer to the masses' axis.

The masses, long humiliated by nefarious Israeli policies and murderous Israeli practices, hate and loathe Israel, the criminal state that doesn't stop trying to obliterate the Arab-Islamic identity of Palestine, even by burning mosques and unearthing ancient cemeteries.

A final salute must go to those who kept Shalit's whereabouts an absolute secret for more than five years.

Those unknown soldiers proved to friend and foe alike that there are still honorable men in Palestine who won't be intimidated by sticks or induced by carrots.

Their exemplary determination, discipline, resilience and integrity thwarted Israeli efforts to rescue or liberate Shalit, who was being detained all these months and years, not in Tehran or Cairo, or Beirut, but under Israel's nose, in her very backyard, only a few kilometers from Israel's centers of power.

Finally, a word or two to Israel and its leaders

I know you are in no mood to receive advice from Gentiles, let alone from your enemy, or more correctly, your victims, the Palestinians. Your phenomenal arrogance and insolence don't allow you to be reasonable, just and wise.

But let me tell you this, don't you ever force the Palestinians to kidnap your soldiers; treat them with some Justice and respect, don't detain their children for prolonged periods for political reasons, treat them as you would want to be treated.

Remember the pornographic oppression you are meting out to us, such as dumping our young men, including intellectuals, in your jails and dungeons is likely to boomerang on you.

* Khalid Amayreh a journalist based in the Occupied Palestinian town of Dura. He obtained his MA in journalism from the University of Southern Illinois in 1983.

http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2011/10/19/thank-you-hamas/

Israeli Settlers Invade Neighborhoods in I'rtas Village

by Mais Azza

Hundreds of Israeli settlers invaded Sha’ab Salman and al-Nahleh neighborhoods in the village of I’rtas just south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, to establish a base, the Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) reported on Friday.

Awad Swai, an official in the Ministry of Agriculture, reported that hundreds of settlers invaded the neighborhoods through the nearby village of Wadi Rahhal and accesses in the Annexation wall built at the village. He added that they arrived under cover of the Israeli army.

Swai stated that this is not the first invasion of the village. The settlers keep coming, in attempts to take over Abu Zaid Mountain with the intention of expanding the illegal settlement of “E’frat”.

According to the settlers' website, Swai said, the building of a new settlement in the al-Nahleh neighborhood is in the air.

http://www.imemc.org/article/62282

Palestinian graves 'vandalized' in Jaffa

JAFFA, Israel (Ma'an) -- Christian and Muslim graves in Jaffa were vandalized overnight Friday, by assailants suspected to be Jewish extremists, local media reports and a religious official said.

The Islamic cemetery al-Kazakhana and nearby Christian Orthodox cemetery in the town were broken into at night, locals told reporters. A website called Yaffa48 posted photos of what it identified as the graves.

"Death to Arabs" and other racist slogans were daubed on graves, they said, and gravestones were smashed.

The president of the Islamic Movement in Jaffa, Sheikh Ahmad Abu Ajwa, slammed the attack which he called an attempt to blackmail Palestinian residents of Jaffa.

Arab Knesset member Ibrahim Sarsour accused Israeli authorities of failing to stop extremist attacks, the official Palestinian Authority news agency WAFA reported.

"The Israeli government was not making any effort to stop these racist attacks against Palestinians, rather it provides extremists protection," he told the site.

Abu Awja called for local officials to hold an emergency meeting to discuss recent attacks on Palestinians in Israel.

Police and Jewish Israeli officials were not available for comment during the Yom Kippur fast day.

On Sunday, a mosque in Bedouin village Tuba Zangaria in northern Israel was torched by a group of assailants, and Israeli police detained an 18-year-old in connection with the attack.

Police said they had set up a special task force to deal with the "price taggers," Reuters reported, a reference to attacks on Palestinians by Israelis, usually settlers in the West Bank, in revenge for policies they oppose.

In 2005 a Jewish couple was charged for throwing a pig's head into a Tel Aviv mosque in an attempt to derail Israel's then pullout from the Gaza Strip which went ahead in August of that year.

In January this year, the Al-Aqsa Foundation said 20 graves in the historic Mamilla cemetery in West Jerusalem were damaged by Jewish extremists.

Around 20 percent, or 1.3 million people, of Israel's population are of Palestinian origin.

They are largely the descendants of Palestinians that managed to remain during the 1948 war, when an estimated 700,000 were expelled from or fled their homes during fighting that would see the establishment of the state of Israel.

Rights groups say that Israelis of Palestinian origin face discrimination in employment, education and public funding within Israel.

 

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=427151

The Palestinian Statehood Sham: A Donkey Heads To The Den Of Vipers

by Jonathan Azaziah

From the bantustan goes the donkey into the den of vipers...
              
While purchasing weapons from the occupier to murder our friends with snipers...

Collaborating with the beast on a rabid basis but you expect us to believe that you will end the crisis...

The two-state solution was born dead...

Palestine is bleeding and fleeting is more red...

You can’t resuscitate, reinvigorate, manipulate or bend the lifeless...

You and your clowns are stammering in defense of it...

Clamoring while the tyrannical attach strings, hammered to your appendages...

You are not Palestinian, you are from the house of treason...

You are from a gaping hole where spies and traitors flow from, worth less than the phlegm spit from the mouth of demons...

The same demons you welcome into Bethlehem and Nablus...

And you do it so effortlessly, you’re the most treacherous of maggots...

You let them stain and dishonor where the prophets walked...

You are a shame to the martyrs, nobody wants to listen to your obnoxious talk...

Your presidency is illegitimate, the other puppets are unelected...

You’re making speeches while our people are murdered by IOF in cold blood, unprotected...

Settler extremists invade our villages, churches and mosques undetected...

Desecrate what is holy to us, burn it to the ground with children aside...

And what is so monstrous is that they kill us with pride...

Amalekites expiring, goyim on fire and it thrills them inside...

They want us demilitarized....

Dead Resistance, a dead existence, what they want is us in hell degraded...

That’s why they built the wall, 709 kilometers, thinking they could demolish us and drown us in a well of hatred...

How can you make peace with a people that think a sadistic murderer like Baruch Goldstein should be celebrated...

Drunk on the notion that they’re ‘chosen,’ the racist rage of the invaders is strong...

94% of this sick society wanted the Strip completely destroyed, 71% wants to see the same for Iran...

So nobody cares about your empty speech, nobody cares about your pretty words...

Because you didn’t do a damn thing as illegally besieged Gaza’s cities burned...

Because you watch as the Zionist entity expels us and imprisons our kids...

8,000 in dungeons, 8 million refugees, none of that changes with your sickening, impotent and ridiculous bid...

Because you offer rhetoric as our homes are blown up along with our olive groves...

Our strawberries and our chickens, our bees and our flowers that glisten, now nothing but sorrow flows...

This is a joke, a sham, a scam and an insult to our people...

We know you will not defend us when the vultures will creep through...

Carry the weight o’ donkey, for the occupier whose very culture is evil...

Oslo all over again, we’ve seen and heard this game before...

We have too much dignity to be tricked by this game of yours...
                      
You’ve already admitted that when the sham is done, you’ll go back to negotiations as the animosity grows in our chest...

The peace process makes us sick, it’s nothing but a comedy show of the West...

The United Nations makes us ill and we will say it loud, we are not gonna run today...

The United Nations recognized the Zionist entity as the Nakba was underway...

750,000 of us ethnically cleansed, the UN did not care, not scream...

Did nothing as the horror unfolded at Deir Yassin...

You have no right to call us pessimistic, crazy or cynical...

Because the UN doesn’t enforce any resolution against Zionism, never called for the capture of any ‘Israeli’ war criminal...

The UN has never defended us from massacres, in fact, it has prevented us from bettering our lives...

By enslaving us with UNRWA aid, a charade is what you’re offering, a jettison from fighting, a shard of malevolence, a crime...

The UN did nothing to protect the Freedom Flotillas...

Instead, it insulted its victims by giving freedom to killers...

You are stealing away our Right of Return so you can hold power...

Well this is a wake up call donkey, enjoy the cold shower...

For 63 years, we have been murdered and ethnically cleansed, colonized, occupied and tortured by these morbid racists who are nihilists...

We have fought and survived, we have been more than patient in defying it...

So we refuse to be ruled in a bantustan by a donkey who enjoys security coordination with the Zionists...

We refuse to recognize apartheid, we refuse to recognize land theft...

Zionism is Jewish supremacism, there is no right wing, no damn left...

Every degree of this vicious ideology is annihilation of us...

Anyone who recognizes this entity just know, you have violated our trust...

We refuse to bow down to the colonizer, we refuse to accept this disgraceful plight...

So keep your rhetoric, keep your fake state while we take our rights...

We bleed for this land, so give us death and prison...

Eternal ‘no’ to the Zionist entity and eternal ‘no’ to its recognition...

We have blazed spit and a raised fist for those House Arabs who say the Zionist regime will not lose...

How dare you brainwashed fools...

Acknowledge this supremacist enterprise, that has over 30 laws in its system that discriminates and oppresses us, just because we’re not Jews...

All oppressors fall, Zionism is in this category too...

We recognize the sacrifice of our martyrs in the afterlife, basking in a splash of light, every battle story’s true...

So donkey heed the words, we will not follow you to the concert hall where oblivion sings...

Where there will only be another hellish Palestinian winter, not a Palestinian spring...

We choose Resistance, we choose life, we don’t choose your dumb fate...

We choose Palestine, tahya Falasteen, we choose one state...

We choose Right of Return, we choose equal rights...

We choose an end to this miserable 63-year occupation, we choose leaders who will see the light...

And if they will not lead then we will...

We will not be silent, we will not be still...

Do we really need to name them all, the whole lot of atrocities...

In addition to the home demolitions, our friends in prison, sexual abuse, the inability to move and the aquifer robbery...

From Jenin to Al-Aqsa, Sabra and Shatilah to Qibya, there are grave wounds...

Khan Younis to Kafr Qasim, Qana to Abbasieh to Zaytoun...

Al-Jaulan to Bint Jbeil, al-Khisas to Beit Nabala...

Al-Khalil to Marwaheen, Rafah to Ramallah...

The Nakba and the Naksa, Lebanon repeatedly and Cast Lead...

It is only by the grace of Above that we are not half past dead...

O’ donkey, the decision that you’re making is lethal...

But we don’t expect you to understand your mistake, a donkey cannot relate to an eagle...

Mighty Palestinian, we scream defiantly as the status of the king flips...

Free Palestine engraved on our wing tips...

Don’t you dare define our borders, do you hear us donkey? Don’t you even bother...

Tell your Zionist masters sorry, you shouldn’t have been their deceitful starter...

Because Palestine isn’t just the West Bank, Al-Quds and bleeding Gaza...

Palestine is everything from the river to the sea...

All holy Arab land, no Zionism in between...

Palestine is Yaffa, Nasira, Akka, Safad...

Haifa, Lifta, al-Ludd, Isdud and Naqab...

We will not mince our words, we don’t care if they aren’t televised...

The usurping Zionist entity is something that we will never recognize...

We bleed for this land, so we repeat, go ahead and give us death or prison...

Eternal ‘no’ to the Zionist entity and eternal ‘no’ to its recognition...

This land is for our children, and for it we will struggle in this forever mission...

Infinite rejection of the Zionist entity and infinite ‘no’ to its recognition...

Liberation is our collective name, and we will forever fight for this gift...

We will never give up, we will one day regain our light and its bliss...

Only holy Palestine, our beautiful, has the right to exist...

~ The End ~

 

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