Either America or Al-Quds إما أميركا… وإما القدس!

Either America or Al-Quds

Ibrahim Al-Amin

What Donald Trump did yesterday might be the best opportunity to stabilize the situation originating from the settlement colonial project called “Israel”. Yesterday, dissolutely and rudely, America has told us – despite the will of some of its allies and partners in the colonial project – what it has been telling us throughout the ages and eras that it is the source of our oppression, misery and injustice.

This means, we will not recover an inch of Palestine unless we declared an all-out war against it and work to turn its life into hell, its banner into a slogan of shame, and its army into a mobile monster in the world. Isn’t it time for the Arabs to realize that America, in short, is the origin of scourge and evil? As for “Israel”, let us leave it aside. Whatever is said about its “power, superiority and preparation”, it is but an American-British colony that cannot live one day without the protection, care and blind support of the West.

This colonial West, and specifically the United States of America, is the reason for the existence of the usurper entity. All its efforts forcibly extend “Israel’s” artificial existence, which is contrary to truth and logic and the movement of history, as it waits for its definite end.

This is the lesson the arsonist at the White House is teaching the Arab people today. Some Arab rulers have not understood for seventy years that “Israel” is nothing without the protection of the West and will not exist without America’s cover and support. “Israel” is no longer the source of fear and anxiety, after the destruction of its military legend by the popular resistance in Lebanon and Palestine. Nothing that it does alone can keep it alive, not even for one hour.

Today, the moment when someone amongst us Arabs proclaims the full submission to America under the banner of “peace” is nothing more than subordination and surrender. At the moment when the free world stands helpless and idly in the face of the cowboy’s madness, we have nothing left but to stand up for our dignity. We have to address the root of the problem and not its symptoms. We have no choice but to raise the slogan, voice, and fists as one and shout: “Death to America!” We have to declare an all-out war on America and its interests everywhere.

This move was necessary, even though it was expected a short while ago. This symbolic move for the Arabs and Muslims which is extremely dangerous and terrible and which Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called “a new Balfour Declaration” was necessary for us to make sure that our real battle was with America before “Israel”; the America which was founded – like “Israel” – on the massacre and the destruction of an entire civilization, where the “Paradise of Freedom” was built on the ruins [of these civilizations]; America, which never flourished except through the exploitation of the world, the vulnerable people, and through colonial wars; America that covered up and covers up all of “Israel’s” crimes, massacres, and racist and settlement policies. It is useless to fight “Israel” and leave it [America]. Perhaps some Arabs need this extra lesson, rather this shock, this earthquake, giving Al-Quds to the invaders, so that they know that betting on America is a form of absurdity, suicide or conscious betrayal. Precisely today, all Arabs have to choose: either America or Al-Quds!

Whoever chooses Al-Quds must know that the battle requires an alliance with everyone who stands up to America. He has to understand that inciting people against America means inviting them to oppose and fight it by all means and reject all that comes from it, even if it comes wrapped in the delusions of the solution or the desired antidote.

Those who choose to belong to and defend Al-Quds must work unceasingly, with all their might, to kill every American soldier outside his country’s borders, to occupy, burn or destroy America’s embassies all over the world. Let us expel from our country every American employee, diplomat, politician or others, and everyone who receives a salary from the US government. Let us face their fake democracy, cut off all the projects of their mercenaries in our countries and the world that serve suspicious agendas that only serve “Israel”, behind false slogans about “human rights, development and progress”.

Those who choose Al-Quds must choose the time of total resistance, which obligates us to do something that is not simple, but possible, in order to abandon everything that is related to them. Those who choose Al-Quds must work to make the American people aware that their responsibility is great and that they will pay the price of the policies of the ones they chose to govern their country.

It is true that it is a long and arduous process, but it is a compulsory path for anyone who wants to get rid of “Israel’s” nightmare and its arrogant servants sitting on the throne of power in our country – the perpetrators of legitimacy, justice and freedom. What the rulers of the kingdoms of oppression did in the Arabian Gulf, and before them governments in the Mashriq [the region of the Arab world to the east of Egypt] and North Africa, would not have been possible if it hadn’t been for our silence to their conspiracy, the submission of some of us, accepting this and promoting the culture of surrender.

Today, Donald Trump opens the door to a new opportunity for the resistance movement in Palestine and the Arab world. “He is helping us” – with thanks – to redirect attention to the harsh truth, which is America’s direct influence or through “Israel” is the only purpose that is supposed to be confronted and to turn the table over the heads of its collaborators.

Source: Al-Akhbar Newspaper, Translated by website team

إما أميركا… وإما القدس! 

ابراهيم الأمين 

ما فعله دونالد ترامب، أمس، قد يكون الفرصة الأنسب لتثبيت الموقف من أصل المشروع الاستعماري الاستيطاني الذي يحمل اسم «إسرائيل». أميركا التي عادت فقالت لنا أمس، بفجور وفجاجة، وضد إرادة جزء من حلفائها وشركائها في المشروع الاستعماري، ما تقوله لنا على امتداد الحقبات والعهود، بأنّها مصدر قهرنا وبؤسنا وظلمنا.

أي أننا لن نسترجع شبراً من فلسطين إلا إذا أعلنّا حرباً شاملة عليها، وإذا عملنا على تحويل حياتها إلى جحيم، ورايتها إلى شعار العار، وجيشها إلى وحش متنقل في العالم. أما آنَ أن يعي العرب أن أميركا، باختصار، هي أصل البلاء وأصل الشر؟ أما إسرائيل، فلنتركها جانباً، إذ مهما قيل عن «قوّتها وتفوقها وتحضّرها»، فليست سوى مستعمرة أميركية – بريطانية، لا يمكن أن تعيش يوماً واحداً بلا حماية الغرب، ورعايته، ودعمه الأعمى.

هذا الغرب الاستعماري، وتحديداً الولايات المتحدة الأميركيّة، هو علّة وجود الكيان الغاصب، وكل ما يبذله من جهود، يمدّد قسراً وجود إسرائيل الاصطناعي، المخالف للحق وللمنطق، ولحركة التاريخ، في انتظار أن تنتهي إلى حتفها الأكيد.

لم يعد أمامنا سوى رفع الشعار
والقبضات والهتاف الواحد: الموت لأمريكا!

هذا هو الدرس الذي يلقنه اليوم للشعوب العربيّة، مشعل الحرائق المعتوه في البيت الأبيض. بعض الحكام العرب الذين لم يفهموا منذ سبعين عاماً، أن «إسرائيل» هذه، ليست شيئاً من دون حماية الغرب… ولن يكون لها وجود من دون غطاء أميركا ودعمها. «إسرائيل» هذه، لم تعد مصدر الخوف والقلق، بعد تحطّم أسطورتها العسكريّة على صخرة المقاومة الشعبيّة في لبنان وفلسطين… وكل ما يمكن أن تقوم به، وحدها، لا يستطيع أن يبقيها، ولو لساعة واحدة، على قيد الحياة.

اليوم، في اللحظة التي يطلع بيننا، نحن العرب، من يعلن الخضوع الكامل لأميركا، تحت راية «سلام» ليس إلا تبعيّة واستسلاماً… وفي اللحظة التي يقف فيها «العالم الحرّ»، عاجزاً ومكتوف اليدين، أمام جنون الكاوبوي، لم يعد أمامنا سوى أن ننتفض لكرامتنا، أن نذهب إلى معالجة جذر المشكلة لا عوارضها. لم يعد أمامنا من خيار، سوى أن نرفع الشعار والصوت والقبضات والهتاف الواحد: «الموت لأمريكا»! أن نعلن الحرب الشاملة على أميركا ومصالحها في كل مكان.

كان لا بد من هذه الخطوة، وإن كانت متوقّعة من زمن غير قصير، هذه الخطوة العالية الرمزيّة بالنسبة إلى العرب والمسلمين، البالغة الخطورة والفظاعة، التي نعتها الرئيس نبيه برّي بـ «وعد بلفور جديد»… كان لا بدّ منها لنتأكد من أن معركتنا الحقيقية هي مع أميركا قبل إسرائيل. أميركا التي تأسست مثل إسرائيل على المجزرة، وعلى إبادة حضارة كاملة لتبني على أنقاضها «جنّة الحريّة». أميركا التي لم تزدهر يوماً إلا عبر استغلال العالم، والشعوب المستضعفة، وعبر الحروب الاستعماريّة. أميركا التي غطّت وتغطّي على كل جرائم إسرائيل، ومجازرها، وسياساتها العنصريّة والاستيطانيّة… لا يجدي أن نحارب إسرائيل ونتركها. وربما كان بعض العرب يحتاج إلى هذا الدرس الإضافي، بل قل هذه الصدمة، هذا الزلزال، إهداء القدس إلى الغزاة، حتى يعرف أن الرهان على أميركا ضرب من ضروب العبث أو الانتحار أو الخيانة الواعية. اليوم تحديداً، بات على كل العرب أن يختاروا: فإما أميركا وإما القدس!

إنّ من يختار القدس، عليه أن يعلم أن المعركة تتطلب التحالف مع كل من يقف في مواجهة أميركا. وعليه أن يعي، أن تحريض الناس على أميركا، يعني دعوته إلى معارضتها ومقاتلتها والانتفاض عليها بكل الوسائل. ورفض كل ما يأتي منها، حتى ولو كان مغلفاً بأوهام الحل، أو الترياق المنشود.

إنّ من يختار الانتماء إلى القدس والدفاع عنها، عليه العمل من دون توقف، وبكل ما أوتي من قوة، لقتل كل جندي اميركي خارج حدود بلاده، ولاحتلال سفارات أميركا في كل العالم أو إحراقها وتدميرها. لنطرد من بلادنا كل موظف أميركي، دبلوماسي أو سياسي أو خلافه. وكل من يتقاضى راتباً من الحكومة الأميركية. لنواجه ديموقراطيتهم الزائفة، نقطع السبل أمام كل مشاريع مرتزقتهم المنتشرين في بلادنا والعالم، في خدمة أجندات مشبوهة لا تخدم إلا إسرائيل، خلف شعارات مزيّفة عن «حقوق الإنسان والتنمية والتقدم».

إنّ من يختار القدس، عليه أن يختار زمن المقاومة الشاملة، التي تلزمنا بعملية ليست بسيطة، لكنها ممكنة، من أجل التخلي عن كل ما له صلة بهم. ومن يختار القدس، عليه العمل على إشعار الشعب الأميركي بأن مسؤوليته باتت عظيمة، وأنه سيكون من يدفع ثمن سياسات من يختارهم لحكم بلاده.

صحيح أنها عملية شاقة وطويلة، لكنها مسار إلزامي لكل من يريد التخلص من كابوس إسرائيل، ومن خدمها الأذلاء المتربّعين على عروش السلطة في بلادنا، مغتصبي الشرعية والعدالة والحريّة. وما فعله حكام ممالك القهر في الخليج العربي، وقبلهم حكومات في المشرق وشمالي إفريقيا، لم يكن ممكناً لولا صمتنا عن تآمرهم، ولولا خنوع بعضنا، وقبول هذا البعض، بل الترويج، لثقافة الاستسلام.

اليوم، يفتح دونالد ترامب الباب أمام فرصة جديدة لتيار المقاومة في فلسطين والعالم العربي. «يساعدنا» مشكوراً على إعادة توجيه الأنظار صوب الحقيقة القاسية، وهي أن نفوذ أميركا المباشر أو من خلال إسرائيل، هو الهدف الوحيد المفترضة مواجهته، وقلب الطاولة على رؤوس المتعاونين معه.

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Bahrain …. toward the resistance البحرين… الى المقاومة

Bahrain …. toward the resistance

يناير 27, 2017

Written by Nasser Kandil,

Six years ago, the people of Bahrain were facing all the provocations of Al-Jazeera shield led by Saudi Arabia, but they remained sticking to the peaceful path. The people of Bahrain who are led today by Islamic movement have sacrificed a lot in all stages, under the banners of Liberalism in the forties, when they were demanding of elections, under the banner of Gamal Abdul Nasser in the fifties, when they were demanding of liberation, and under the banner of the Left, when they were leading the struggle of the trade union which is the most avant -grade in the Arab world. The people of Bahrain did not leave the arenas and no one can call their revolution as the sectarian awakening.

The people of Bahrain insist on the peaceful path despite the cascade of blood that is shed by the Saudi intervention and despite the semi-complete negligence of what is so-called the International Community, comparing with the allegations of the defense for the human rights where the West has interests, so the killers of Al-Qaeda organization become martyrs and its fighters become the heroes of freedom as described by Laurent Fabius the Former French Foreign Minister on the Turkish-Syrian borders. Here the insistence is more than a historic patience; it is a strategic choice and may be it reaches its final stages.

What has happened in Bahrain as a remorseless killing, a felony that did not get an investigation or a trial of youths who were arrested in the movement of the Bahraini street; they were accused of bombing a vehicle of Al-Jazeera Shield’s vehicles, and a summary execution  without an actual trial said that Saudi Arabia which has ordered of killing is drawing a red line for accepting the settlements in the region, it is the recognition of making the people of the Gulf countries slaves for the family of Saud as a precondition for settlements outside the Gulf, otherwise there is no objection by Saudi Arabia from keeping the agitating wars and spending all the money to bring the extremists and the mercenaries to wage them. This means the transformation of Saudi Arabia to a greater opportunity for the dominance of ISIS practically and gradually.

The dominance of ISIS on Saudi Arabia geographically, demographically and militarily as well as the rootedness of its project in it seems as a salvation of ISIS in the light of the defeats which affected it in Iraq, and the difficulty of resilience in the war of Syria, and in the light of the European Russian race to prevent ISIS from the stability in Libya as an expected substitute for ISIS after Iraq and Syria. So it is logical that ISIS will aspire to Saudi Arabia for the next two years. It seems that the rulers of Saudi Arabia do not mind that or they are not aware of it, on the contrary they say to the world; you have to choose between our dominance with our savagery on oil and ISIS’ dominance on it with its brutality.

Saudi Arabia puts the region and the world between the two options of the recognition of humiliated bondage for the people of the Gulf or giving the sources of oil to ISIS. The comparison between what has happened in Iraq and what might happen in Saudi Arabia makes the matter logical, since the background is ready popularly and the devotions to extremism, atonement, and the blood according to the sheikhs of Wahhabism are shown through their public fatawas.

Between the two parts of this duality, it is no longer possible for anyone to address the people of Bahrain by asking them to be patience and to endure. The resistance has become an option that no one can denounce it or considered it a haste or emotion. If the Saudis want to weaken the influence of Iran in the Gulf, they are succeeding because they make the people rebel against the advices of Iran to be calm and sticking to the peaceful path because they kill every call for wisdom.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,

البحرين… الى المقاومة

ناصر قنديل

– منذ ست سنوات يقف شعب البحرين في الشوارع يواجه كل استفزازات درع الجزيرة بقيادة السعودية، متمسكاً بالمسار السلمي. وشعب البحرين الذي تقوده اليوم حركة إسلامية لم يبخل على النضال العربي بالتضحيات في المراحل كلها. فكان تحت شعارات الليبرالية في الأربعينيات يطالب بالانتخابات، وتحت لواء جمال عبد الناصر في الخمسينيات يطالب بالتحرر، وتحت لواء اليسار يقود النضال النقابي الأشدّ طليعية في العالم العربي، فشعب البحرين لم يغادر الساحات ولا يمكن لأحد تسمية ثورته بالصحوة الطائفية.

– بقي إصرار شعب البحرين على المسار السلمي، رغم شلال الدم المسال بتدخّل سعودي، ورغم التجاهل شبه التام لما يُسمّى بالمجتمع الدولي قياساً بمزاعم الدفاع عن حقوق الإنسان حيث للغرب مصالح، فيصير قتلى تنظيم القاعدة شهداء ويصير مقاتلوها أبطال حرية، كما وصفهم لوران فابيوس وزير خارجية فرنسا الأسبق على الحدود التركية السورية. وهذا الإصرار أكثر من صبر تاريخي، بل هو خيار استراتيجي، ربما يكون قد بلغ مراحله النهائية.

– ما جرى في البحرين من قتل بدم بارد بجرم لم ينل تحقيقاً ولا محاكمة لشبان اعتقلوا من حراك الشارع البحراني، ووجّهت لهم الاتهامات بتفجير آلية من آليات درع الجزيرة، وتنفيذ حكم الإعدام بهم من دون محاكمة فعلية، يقول إن السعودية التي أمرت بالقتل ترسم خطاً أحمر لقبولها بالتسويات في المنطقة. وهو التسليم بجعل شعوب بلاد الخليج عبيدا لآل سعود كشرط مسبق لتسويات خارج الخليج، وإلا فلا مانع لدى السعودية من بقاء الحروب مشتعلة وإنفاق كل المال والمجيء بكل المتطرفين والمرتزقة لخوضها. وهذا يعني تحويل السعودية عملياً وتدريجياً إلى أكبر فرصة لسيطرة داعش.

– سيطرة داعش على السعودية جغرافياً وسكانياً وعسكرياً، وتجذُّر مشروعه فيها يبدو خشبة خلاص داعش في ضوء الهزائم التي يُمنَى بها التنظيم في العراق، وصعوبة الصمود عندما تدور آلة الحرب عليه في سورية، وفي ضوء التسابق الأوروبي الروسي على منع داعش من الاستقرار في ليبيا، كبديل متوقع لداعش بعد العراق وسورية، فيصير المنطقي أن يبني التنظيم خطته نحو السعودية للسنتين المقبلتين، ولا يبدو أن حكام السعودية يمانعون بذلك أو لا يدركونه، بل يقولون للعالم عليكم أن تختاروا بين سيطرتنا بهمجيتنا على النفط، أو تسليمه لداعش بوحشيته.

– السعودية تضع المنطقة والعالم بين خيارَيْ التسليم بعبودية ذليلة لشعوب الخليج أو تسليم منابع النفط لداعش. والمقارنة بين ما جرى في العراق، وما قد يجري في السعودية يصير الأمر منطقياً. فالبيئة جاهزة شعبياً والولاءات للتطرف والتكفير والدم لدى مشايخ الوهابية تُظهرها فتاوى علنية.

– بين حدَّيْ هذه الثنائية لم يعد ممكناً لأحد مخاطبة شعب البحرين بطلب الصبر والتحمّل. فالمقاومة صارت خياراً لا يمكن لأحد استهجانه واعتباره تسرّعاً أو انفعالاً، وإذا كان السعوديون يريدون إضعاف نفوذ إيران في الخليج فهم ينجحون، بأن يجعلوا الشعوب تتمرّد على نصائح إيران بالتهدئة والتمسك بالسلمية، لأنهم يغتالون كل نداء للحكمة.

 

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Palestinian Resistance Asks Security Forces in West Bank to Gun Zionist Soldiers

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The Palestinian resistance factions demanded on Monday the security troops in the West Bank to direct their weapons towards the Israeli occupation soldiers.

During a press conference, the factions expressed solidarity with the journalist prisoner Mohammad al-Qeiq who is on a hunger strike at the Israeli jails, warning against the consequences of harming him.

The Palestinian resistance factions also stressed the importance of lifting the strangulating blockade which has been imposed on Gaza strip for 10 years, noting that the siege has deteriorated the socio-economic situation of the locals.

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Sayyed Nasrallah: Obama-Netanyahu Focus on Hezbollah Threat “Source of Pride”

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Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah stressed that all victories achieved by the resistance are because of the blessed blood of martyrs.

Talking during Hezbollah Martyr’s Day ceremony in Beirut’s southern Suburb (Dahiyeh), Sayyed Nasrallah said that the blood of the martyrs revived the spirit of resistance in our nation.

Commenting about the latest meeting between the US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Sayyed Nasrallah emphasized that the meeting proves Washington’s commitment to the Zionist entity’s security.

His eminence said Obama-Netanyahu focus that Hezbollah poses threat is a source of pride to the resistance movement.

On the Syrian developments, Sayyed Nasrallah hailed as a major achievement the operation in Kuwayris in which the Syrian army broke the 3-year siege on the airbase.

Meanwhile, the resistance leader stressed that US is incapable to settle the crises in Syria and Yemen by military means.

On the Lebanese issue, Sayyed Nasrallah called for inclusive political settlement in order to solve many of stuck issues.

Our Victories Are Martyrs’ Blessings

Talking about the occasion, Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that all the victories achieved by the resistance are blessings of the martyrs’ blood.

Hezbollah marks every year the Martyrs Day in November eleven. The day is considered an opportunity to recall the great martyr, Ahmad Kassir, 19, who blew himself up in November 11, 1982, targeting the center of the Israeli military governor in the southern city of Tyre, and killing dozens of Zionist officers and soldiers.

Sayyed Nasrallah saluted the souls of Hezbollah martyrs as well as the martyrs of all resistance factions across the Arab world. His eminence also praised the families of the martyrs for their sacrifices.

“Ahmad Kassir’s operation in 1982 was the most major one in the Israeli-Arab struggle,” Sayyed Nasrallah addressed crowds in Sayyed Shuhada Complex.

“We thank our martyrs for all what they had done for our nation.”

Sayyed Nasrallah meanwhile, talked about the resistance spirit which has been stirred up by the martyrs. His eminence hailed the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli enemy.

“This spirit again arouses the resistance and the Palestinian cause,” Sayyed Nasrallah said.

“Israel can take measures against the resistance factions, but it cannot thwart the individual attacks,” the resistance leader said, referring to stabbing attacks staged by Palestinians against the Zionists.

“What we had seen in the previous days is a source of pride, when a courageous Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli soldiers as she knows well what a fate she would meet,” by the occupation forces.

Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that it is our duty and our responsibility to preserve this Jihadi spirit.

“We Are in the Right Place”

Commenting on the Obama-Netanyahu meeting, Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that the Israeli PM‘s visit to the White House proves Washington’s firm commitment to the Zionist entity’s security and interests.

Meanwhile Sayyed Nasrallah said that an Israeli war in Lebanon is possible. However, he ruled out that the Zionist entity will make such an adventure. He expected that the Zionist entity and its agent will go on with its “soft war” against Hezbollah in a bid to tarnish the image of the resistance.

On the other hand, Sayyed Nasrallah commented on the latest remarks by Netanyahu that he would discuss ‘Hezbollah as a threat’ during his meeting with Obama. His eminence considered that this remarks are source of pride for the resistance.

“We are proud that US and Israel consider Hezbollah a threat. When the Great Satan and its puppets say that Hezbollah poses a threat, then we are certain that we are in the right place.”

“Kuwayris Major Achievement”

Hezbollah S.G. hailed as a major achievement the operation in Kuwayris in Aleppo northern countryside in which the Syrian army broke the 3-year siege on the airbase.

He saluted the steadfastness of the Syrian soldiers and officers who had been besieged there for more than two years.

“Breaking Kuwayris siege indicates the firm will and the steadfastness of the Syrian army.”

Meanwhile, he said that the field developments in Syria and Yemen are in favor of the resistance and the army there, stressing that Washington cannot settle the crises in the two countries by military means.

Source: Al-Manar Website	11-11-2015 – 18:05 Last updated 11-11-2015 – 19:13

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The Pledge of the Ten

Zeinab Essa

Martyrs: Samir Matout, Ahmad Shamas, Mohammad Nehme Yousef, Hassan Shokr, Mohammad Hassouna, Asi Zeineddine, Mohammad Youssef, Asaad Berro, and Jaafar al-Mawla.

Military warships were patrolling the colored sea’s horizon to those crossing into shores of shelter… to sad people complaints, to the silence screams of confused people.

Only the deep sea is faithful to their secrets and embedding them within its waves. Whenever the waves drizzle on the sand, the water’s tale carries their words sinking them into new waves born from winds stroking with their young dreams.

As young children, they used to run on shore’s sand with bear feat. These waves that confronted their young fists, knew their strength in front of its craziness. Their strong will on their dark front’s towers with every sunrise, and whenever the sunset raises its red sword to strike it in the heart of the sea.
Ten of the sea’s sons they are: they were children when they sat on the boiling sand, planting their small palms and drawing a circle… a pledge of friendship born in the era of freedom.

When they grew up, their blood turned to fingerprints of loyalty.
They were always there.

Neither battleships nor military aircrafts and tanks spread at corners of the streets prevented them from touching their sea’s drizzles on daily basis.

This sea is their homeland, to it they belong.

The waves didn’t erase the small fingers, but rather went on immortalizing them. Maybe because the sea viewed that the fingers’ heads were part of its history: Its honorable history, written with textures on their wounded bodies that left after removing from the sea’s surface algae of hopelessness and defeat.

Long years passed.

The fascinating horizon is often penetrated by the wings of sea gulls.

The calm beach sleeps as a spring breeze between the light waves’ turns, narrating the story of the Pledge of the Ten.

Nine had passed away, and one was left alone near a circle of tiny fingers and a sea in front ripping the vest of his gloomy solitude, alone with a sea of secrets, and an era full of memories that bleed the heart.

Whenever he searched for his heart he would find it on a rock entrapping from the past, crumbs teaching him some meanings of life. They left him a huge legacy, and lips were murmuring.

All what happened is easy as long as it is in God’s Eye.

God’s Eye has lightened their hearts, in the eerie darkness, making them follow the track of freedom and neglecting if they choose to die, or death chooses them.

God’s Eye had once gathered them in Ouzai Mosque to vow moving in the Road of Jihad, and the pledge was: Martyrdom.

Ten they were, and as the spring of age longed between their palms, the riffle turned into grass, making days sleep on the mattresses of live rounds and struggle.

Their dreaming night turned into glitter in the working eyes monitoring the “Israeli” enemy’s waters and sniping them in between their armory.

The scary war octopus devoured the place, turning it into distorted spot.

The sea turned into drizzles empty of dreams. However, life remained in their fingers.

They caught the coal and pressed. How patient they were in pressing on the wound, on bearing pain. They smiled.

They rushed into resistance operations’ chances here, or ambushes there.

Some became leaders in the resistance and others were fighters, but the pledge remained.

Ten they were as a flower sprung in the crusty tank. A flower which petals disintegrated one after another, making the soil more fertile, and cracking softer from flames of flowing blood.

Nine martyred, and the remaining tenth touched the signs of victory with his fingers, drawing that circle on the beach.

The features of their young faces are still wandering in the corners of the place, touching the corridors of time, narrating the story of the Pledge of the Ten.

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Palestine: Day of Rage

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Palestinian occupied territories witness on Friday a day of rage with hundreds of Palestinians took to streets to protest against the Zionist occupation authorities’ violations.

Al-Manar correspondent in West Bank reported that fierce clashes in the city of Hebron after the occupation forces killed a Palestinian man, claiming he had carried out a stabbing attack.

Occupation forces said that an Israeli soldier was moderately wounded when a Palestinian stabbed him.

Israeli forces assaulted Palestinian journalists in the area attempting to cover the incident, threatening that they would open fire unless they left.

Locals said Israeli soldiers prevented the Red Crescent from reaching the area to treat the man.

Other confrontations were also reported in other cities across the West Bank including al-Quds (Jerusalem), our correspondent said, but noted that the fiercest clashes were in Hebron.

In Jabalia in Gaza, occupation police killed a Palestinian  and injured several others during crowded protest.

Earlier on Thursday, Palestinian resistance factions called for a “day of rage”, urging more confrontations with the occupation forces in Gaza and across the West Bank.

Source: Al Manar TV	16-10-2015 – 15:48 Last updated 16-10-2015 – 16:26

VIDEO: Another Palestinian Killed after Alleged Stab Attack on Soldier

 Friday October 16, 2015 19:38 by IMEMC News & Agencies 

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man near the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement in Hebron, Friday, after he allegedly stabbed a soldier in the area.

A Palestinian news crew from Al-Quds TV captured the incident while reporting live in the area, with footage showing Israeli forces surrounding a Palestinian man lying injured on the ground and appearing to open fire.

Israel’s army said a soldier was stabbed and moderately wounded by an assailant disguised as a “news photographer”.

A journalist who witnessed the incident told Ma’an News Agency that he saw a man wearing a yellow vest marked ‘PRESS’ stabbing an Israeli soldier.

Israeli forces then opened fire multiple times, with another soldier reportedly injured by friendly fire during the incident.

The attacker was identified asEyad Khalil Awawdeh, 26, from the Hebron district town of Dura.

The Foreign Press Association released a statement following the incident deploring the “violation of press privilege” and called on Palestinian media to verify all media credentials to prevent violations. Israeli forces assaulted Palestinian journalists in the area attempting to cover the incident, threatening that they would open fire unless they left.

Locals said Israeli soldiers prevented the Red Crescent from reaching the area to treat the man.

Hebron clashes

Shortly after Friday’s stabbing, clashes broke out at the northern entrance of Hebron, Ras al-Jura, between Palestinian youth and Israeli forces, leaving at least nine Palestinians injured by live Israeli fire, 11 with rubber-coated steel bullets, and 45 with tear gas.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that injured were also evacuated from Beit Einun area in northeastern Hebron, adding that a Palestinian ambulance was targeted during clashes, lightly injuring medics.

Witnesses said that hundreds of youths threw rocks at forces deployed at the Halhul bridge while soldiers responded with live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets, tear-gas bombs, and stun grenades.

The clashes broke out during a march called for by the political, national, and Islamic forces of the Hebron district that set off from a mosque in the area.

Protesters called slogans for resisting Israel and Israeli settlers, supporting the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem, and demanding national unity.

Clashes also erupted at the northern entrance of the nearby town of Beit Ummar where hundreds of Palestinian youths threw rocks at an Israeli military checkpoint set up at the town’s entrance. Eight Palestinians were injured, two with live fire during the clashes.

Yasin Adel Ahmad Mtallaq Za’aqeeq,11, was shot with a live bullet in the left ankle, and Amir Shawkat Abd al-Rahman Alqam, 20, was shot in the left elbow. They were taken to a hospital in Hebron via alternate routes after Israeli forces closed the village entrance, spokesman for the popular resistance committee in the village, Muhammad Ayyad Awad, said.

Six others were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets and were treated on the scene, while Basil Jamal Mohammad Breigheth,17, and Tariq Nasir Hilmi Abu Ayyash,16, were detained by Israeli forces.

Awad added that Israeli forces sprayed homes in the village with skunk water.

An Israeli army spokesperson did not have immediate comment on Hebron-area clashes. The Hebron area is one of several across the occupied West Bank that has seen increasing clashes and attacks in recent weeks.

Last Friday, Muhammad Fares Abdullah al-Jaabari, 19, was shot dead in the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement after stabbing an Israeli border policeman. Israeli settlers carried out attacks on Palestinians in the Hebron area following the incident.

Earlier this week Israeli forces raided homes in Hebron belonging to the families of three Palestinians killed after carrying out alleged attacks. The raids came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for punitive demolitions for the family homes of suspected attackers. As tensions rise across the occupied Palestinian territory, over a thousand have been injured by Israeli live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets in the past two weeks.

Rights group have called on the Israeli government to halt widespread use of excessive force and collective punishment of Palestinians across the area.

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Israelis Tighten Security Measures in East Jerusalem Following Heroic Operations

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The Zionist authorities began setting up checkpoints in Palestinian areas of east Jerusalem on Wednesday as they struggled to stop a wave of attacks that have raised fears of a full-scale uprising.

A police spokeswoman said checkpoints were being set up at “the exits of Palestinian villages and neighborhoods in east Jerusalem,” where most of the recent martyrs have come from.

A wave of mainly stabbing operations have spread fear in the occupied territories, while a gun-and-knife attack on a Jerusalem bus on Tuesday killed two Zionists and injured more than 20 others.

The move to install checkpoints followed a decision by Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet overnight authorizing police to seal off or impose a curfew on parts of Jerusalem.

Netanyahu has faced major pressure over the wave of Palestinians’ operations as well as violent Palestinian protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The upsurge in violence that began on October 1 when a group of settlers stormed the al-Aqsa complex under the protection of occupation police has led some to warn of the risk of a third Palestinian intifada.

The Zionist entity occupied Parts of Palestine in 1948 when it declared the self-proclaimed ‘state’, and later occupied east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community.

Source: AFP	14-10-2015 – 11:59 Last updated 14-10-2015 – 11:59

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Al-Manar Cameraman Injured by Israeli Fire in West Bank

 

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Al-Manar TV cameraman, Salah al-Zayyat, was shot by the Zionist soldiers at the Qalandiya checkpoint on Tuesday in the West Bank while he was shooting the occupation attacks against the Palestinian people.

According to Al-Manar TV correspondent, Zayyat was wounded by a bullet in the abdomen during the Zionist attacks, and he has undergone a surgery in Ramallah hospital to extract the metal pieces that infiltrated into his body.

“Three others were wounded by the Israeli attacks, and dozens of people suffered from asphyxia due to the use of toxic gases by the Israeli enemy were treated in the scene,” the reporter added.

Source: Al-Manar Website	06-10-2015 – 18:14 Last updated 06-10-2015 – 18:14

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Intereview on the anniversary of the martyrdom of George Hawi the Communist Freedom Fighter

مع الحدث | د رافي ماديان | المنار

George Hawi Tribute

George Hawi جورج حاوي

ابتسم يا جورج فحزبك على العهد باق

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Larijani Hails Hezbollah ’Positive’ Role in Region

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Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani, currently in Beirut, hailed what he described as the “positive” role played by the Hezbollah in the Middle East.

“There are groups that are even more effective than countries… like Hezbollah, which plays a positive role in the region,” Larijani said during a lecture delivered at the Lebanese University campus in Beirut.

“[Palestinian groups] Hamas and Islamic Jihad also serve as powerful symbols of resistance,” he added, while warning of the potential impact of “destructive terrorist groups like the ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).”

As for the situation in Syria, a strong ally of Tehran, Larijani said that political and social reform could not be imposed “through warplanes and tanks.”

“The key to solving the Syria crisis is political compromise,” he stressed.

Larijani came to the Lebanese capital earlier Monday from Damascus, where he had met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a day earlier.

He is now due to hold talks with several senior Lebanese government officials and political figures.

He is expected to visit Rawdat Al-Shahiden (Paradise of the two martyrs) cementry in Dahiyeh (southern suburb of Beirut) and recite Fatiha for martyr leader Haj Imad Moughnieh and other Hezbollah martyrs.

Source: Websites	22-12-2014 – 16:05 Last updated 22-12-2014 – 16:48

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Christians in the region have the right to armed resistance

Displaced Iraqi Christians, who fled the violence in the city of Mosul, gather outside the Saint Joseph church as they took refuge in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 20, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Ahmed al-Rubaye)

By: Nahed Hattar

Published Friday, August 22, 2014

For 14 centuries, Christians of the region – most of them of Arab origin or belonging to ancient Levantine ethnicities – have resisted systematic waves of genocide and displacement, by resorting to one of four options: converting to Islam, joining tribal alliances whenever and wherever possible, fortifying themselves in mountainous areas, or accepting an inferior status as dhimmi. Dhimmi are non-Muslim citizens of an Islamic state who pay al-jizyah (a tax collected from non- Muslims) and who submit to oppressive rules in the framework of political mediation between the religious, scholarly, professional and political authorities, and rich Christian elite.

In fact all the propaganda about a history of “tolerance” in the region, often circulated in official discourse, actually refers to the humiliating status of dhimmitude.

This includes the glorified Assurance of Umar (an assurance of safety given by the Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab to the people of Jerusalem), which was nothing more than a agreement of submission that the defeated had to accept to evade slaughter and displacement.

During this long history of persecution, Christians in the region were never once considered full citizens, not even as partial citizens, except under modern national states, which are now collapsing under the threat of a new wave of religious extremism that has fully revealed itself under the banner of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Between the 1850s and 1970s, Christians in the region have resorted to four main strategies. Most prominently, they heavily participated in launching nationalist and leftist ideas and organizations and making political, civil and cultural contributions. Second, they pursued education, professionalism and economic activities and third, they opted to immigrate whether as whole families or individually.

Meanwhile, the fourth strategy was practiced by the Maronite elite in Lebanon who entered an alliance with the French colonialists to establish an entity mainly ruled by Maronites, and later joined the pro-Western – anti-Arab – Israeli camp, as a desperate attempt to maintain power during the Lebanese civil war that ended with the defeat of the Maronite political hegemony, and with Maronites eventually losing their position in power.

The dishonorable and even tragic history of Maronite militias established a tendency for regional Christians to assimilate into whichever state they lived in and to reject aspects of political and armed expressions. Besides, Christians have constantly been peacefully submissive like dhimmi, hence rejecting organizations and arming themselves.

In fact all the propaganda about a history of “tolerance” in the region, often circulated in official discourse, actually refers to the humiliating status of dhimmitude.

Even after the collapse of the state in Iraq with both Sunni and Shia – and before them the Kurds – establishing armed groups, Iraqi Christians refrained from forming militias, not even to defend their own existence, their lives, their families and their interests, and chose to surrender and emigrate from the country.

Amazingly enough, groups of Yazidis – traditionally a peaceful people – have now started to train on using arms and to establish militias for self-defense, especially after ISIS has killed and displaced many of them. It has also been reported that Yazidi young men have actually started launching revenge attacks against ISIS. Iraqi Christians, however, are still far from being able to choose this option.

ISIS’ [caliphate] is not just a passing phase, it may actually become a recognized state within the borders of the Syrian Desert ( Badiyat al-Sham). This group, however, comes in many shapes and colors and is deeply rooted in the heart of [local] communities, and is being secretly and publicly supported by the Gulf, the United States, the West, and Israel.

[ISIS’] recent barbaric campaign, especially in Iraq and Syria, has brought back historic painful memories for Christians, now feeling that their assimilation and nationalist strategy has failed. They fear an unknown destiny, which further pushes them to withdraw and emigrate.

Today, there is nothing left to reassure those whose lives, honor, land and way of life are in danger. There are no real reassurances from certain nation-states, which are collapsing or weakening, nor from certain communities of which actual or future ISIS extremists have emerged, and not even from the flowery rhetoric of elites who have remained predominantly quiet toward the crimes committed against Christians and other “minorities” in a region witnessing some of the ugliest crimes in history that targets many different people.

Shia, Alawites, Druze and others are also facing the same threat. However, the Shia in Lebanon and Iraq for example have their geographic territory and are organized and well-armed. This also applies to Alawites and Druze, and soon enough, we shall see Yazidis holding arms. However, the tendency to assimilate has often dispersed Christians, while their peaceful submission and their general middle class position make them vulnerable in the face of the monstrosity that is ISIS and similar groups.

After decades of enjoying citizenship, Christians in the region cannot afford to return to the humiliating, dehumanizing status of dhimmitude and they can resist the painful emigration option only if they are reassured about their own personal strength. Today, for Christians to continue to reside in their land seems to depend on carrying arms! This, however, will be catastrophic for communities in the region, since this will antagonize all to arm and resort to violence.

The legitimacy of the armed Christian resistance emanates from the right to continue to exist on the land of their ancestors and to live freely with dignity. You cannot argue about the legitimacy of a Kalashnikov rifle when it is held by a man defending his home, his honor and his children.

Yet, Christians regionally also bear a historic responsibility toward their larger community. A responsibility linked to their enlightenment, secularism, national and liberal legacy, which commits them to resort to Christian resistance within boundaries that preserve that legacy.

This article is an edited translation from the Arabic Edition.

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PFLP loses funding after lambasting Abbas

Published Thursday, May 22, 2014

News of the Palestinian left’s objection to Fatah and Hamas sharing power in the government passed quickly and without much attention. But the new public rift between Mahmoud Abbas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) makes significant revelations about what politicians are up to.

Does Abbas think that cutting money allocated to the families of martyrs, political prisoners and activists inside the PFLP – which are their inherent right – is going to dissuade it from its principled and historical positions?

Al-Akhbar learned from informed Palestinian sources that the situation has secretly reached a boiling point and a level of unprecedented tension between the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas has decided to end his relationship once and for all with the PFLP.

He also halted the transfer of the money allocated to the PFLP and financial dues issued by the Palestinian National Fund, and prevented the organization from receiving invitations to attend any official meetings including the session of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) Executive Committee.

The sources reported that “the PFLP’s anger unleashed against Abbas” by leaders in and outside Palestine expresses their rejection of “the political direction adopted by the powerful leadership in the PLO and came after the PFLP’s demands to stop the corruption and unilateral approach adopted by Abbas.” Therefore, these unannounced decisions, in the sources’ opinion, are aimed at punishing the PFLP for its positions “but have no legitimacy and no value, rather they are illegal and strictly punitive in nature.”

The same sources told Al-Akhbar that Abbas’ reaction was not just the result of the PFLP’s rejection of negotiations. “What prompted him was the campaign that was recently launched by the front regarding political and financial corruption in the PLO’s institutions, the way Abbas monopolizes Palestinian decision-making and the limiting of consultations about government formation to Fatah and Hamas.”

Al-Akhbar also learned that a series of secret meetings were held in Ramallah between Abbas and the PFLP’s temporary representative at the the Executive Committee, Abdel Rahim Mallouh, in the presence of the committee’s secretary, Yasser Abed Rabbo, and Palestinian intelligence chief Major General Majed Faraj. Similar meetings were held in the Jordanian capital between the Palestinian National Council chairperson Salim al-Zaanoun and his deputy Taysir Qubaa from the PFLP.

In the last meeting, the front’s leadership was informed of Abbas’ decision to “stop dealing once and for all with the organization and consider it outside the PLO’s institutions because of its withdrawal from a Central Council meeting, statements it has issued, and for describing the Oslo Agreement as a betrayal of the Palestinian people.”

The sources said the PFLP informed Abbas, Zaanoun and other Palestinian leaders of its categorical rejection of Abbas’ decisions describing them as a “cheap attempt to blackmail the organization in order to provide support for the futile negotiations with Israel and to carry on with this unilateral approach in dealing with the PLO’s institutions.” It also affirmed that the front’s positions are steadfast in this context and will not change.

A PFLP leader, who preferred to remain anonymous, denounced the decisions saying at one of the meetings: “Would Abbas have taken such a step had the PFLP abandoned its position on negotiations for example or provided support inside the PLO or recognized Israel?” He wondered: “Does Abbas think that cutting money allocated to the families of martyrs, political prisoners and activists inside the PFLP – which are their inherent right – is going to dissuade it from its principled and historical positions? Does one person, regardless of his political status, have the right to expel a founding faction of the PLO without dialogue and an institutional decision?” He went on to say: “The PFLP is the second organization in the PLO and one of its main and founding factions… Abbas’ decision reflects exactly this unilateral, exclusionist approach that he represents and adopts inside the Palestinian Authority and Fatah.”

Does one person, regardless of his political status, have the right to expel a founding faction of the PLO without dialogue and an institutional decision?

Regarding the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation, official Palestinian sources revealed that Abbas has put together the final vision for a government of technocrats agreed to by Fatah and Hamas. These sources said that they will likely choose an interior minister from the Gaza Strip so he would be able to reach an understanding with Hamas and other factions freely while the finance minister will be from the West Bank so he could stay close to the president.

Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council and member of Hamas’ Change and Reform bloc, Ahmed Baher, said that the sacked government which has been led by his organization since 2007 is preparing to hand over its ministries to the national reconciliation government that will declared in the coming few days. Baher added in a speech at the launching of a novel in Gaza yesterday that “the government urges our brothers to hand over their ministries to their brothers in the unity government.”

Despite this progress in forming the government, Fatah’s spokesperson in Gaza Fayez Abu Aita denied that the Fatah official in charge of the reconciliation effort, Azzam al-Ahmed, is going to visit Gaza today. He explained in a press statement that Ahmed’s visit is still in the works “but it will take place after Abbas finishes studying the results of the previous consultations that Ahmed carried out with the Hamas leadership last week.” Ahmed had announced that the unity government was going to be formed probably in a week, confirming that contacts have been made with several countries to guarantee support for this government. “In addition, the United States and the international quartet will work to ensure that it will be recognized,” he added

Mohammed Dahlan, the Fatah MP who was dismissed from his organization, announced yesterday that he has decided to participate in the next parliamentary and presidential elections despite the two-year prison sentence issued by the magistrate’s court in Ramallah against him on charges of libel and slander. He said on his Facebook page that this latest decision issued against him is meant to impede his participation in the upcoming Fatah conference.

Hamas leader and former advisor to the sacked government’s prime minister, Ahmed Youssef, said the names of the candidates for the next government are now with Abbas. He said in a statement that the PA president is putting his final touches, choosing a name out of three candidates for every ministry. “The government,” he added “is going to be small, consisting of 15 to 16 ministers.”

(Al-Akhbar)

This article is an edited translation from the Arabic Edition.

• Palestinian reconciliation: A history of documents
• Reconciliation at the expense of the Palestinian cause

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No alternative to FULL LIBERATION

Promoting “one state” after the failure of the “two states” means in plain language:
1) Inviting the Zionist entity to ANNEX and OCCUPY what is left of Palestine.
2) Blessing the invaders with the “right” to keep their LOOT of whatever they have captured through wars of conquest and aggression.
3) Enabling the invaders to ENLARGE and EXPAND their entity, a small step towards a “greater israel”.
4) Embracing the finalization of the Zionist project.
5) Campaigning to upgrade the Palestinians’ status from “occupied” to “slaves”, living under the boot of Jewish supremacists who see Palestinians and other goyim as animals created only to serve Jews.
Are we so naive to engage promoting such insanity?
No alternative to the Algerian model of  FULL LIBERATION

Map of “greater Israel” engraved on 10 agorot coin

September 16: Time for a Review

Thousands joined the movement to prevent the Israelis from entering Beirut. Many paid a heavy price with their lives. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)

By: Ibrahim al-Amin

Published Monday, September 16, 2013

Thirty-one years ago today, young men emerged to stand in the face of the Israeli occupation, insisting that resistance was their duty and fate. On 16 September 1982, the day Israeli troops entered West Beirut, an alliance of nationalist and leftist parties formed the Lebanese National Resistance Front, referred to as “Jammoul” in Arabic.

Thousands joined the movement to prevent the Israelis from entering Beirut. Many paid a heavy price with their lives, others spent years of their youth in one of Israel’s many detention camps – not to mention those that to this day still live with the scars of that war.It is the occasion when we ask that annoying question: If Jammoul were around today, how would it have dealt with the situation we find ourselves in? And I am not talking to the left, but to all those who consider the Zionist state and its Western imperialist backers the greatest danger to the well-being of their land and people.

The same question could be posed in a far more provocative way by asking what have we done since our project stumbled and other forces came to take our place, or – as some suggest – pushed us forcibly aside. What have we done to persist in our struggle and solidarity with the Palestinian people?

Have we completely lost the initiative? Unfortunately, yes. That is what explains the demoralization that haunts a generation or more. It explains why we differ on just about everything today from theory, analysis, priorities, and even our collective interest. What was once a vibrant, broad left with deep popular roots has become little more than a collection of individuals with no one to represent but themselves.

Any kind of effort to revive the left takes us back to the necessity of some kind of review, otherwise there is no way to move forward. But any real revision means that a whole generation must submit its resignation and stand aside, giving a younger generation the opportunity to recast our project as it sees fit.

They should be free to start from scratch and dispense with whatever they deem necessary in order to breath life back into those old ideals, which would at least prompt people to take notice and believe again that they could lead to something better.

Those who are genuinely celebrating the birth of Jammoul today and have remained committed to the idea of resistance all these years are but a small indication that a review is past due and a new choice must be built.

Ibrahim al-Amin is editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar.
This article is an edited translation from the Arabic Edition.

Who is the tyrant in Syria?

Sunday, July 7th, 2013 | by Kevin Barrett

The real tyrant in Syria.

Who is responsible for the killing in Syria?

The neocons.
It was they who drafted Netanyahu’s  1996 “Clean Break” plan to use the US military to get rid of Israel’s enemies.

It was they who published the PNAC document “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” on September 11th, 2000, re-phrasing the Clean Break plan for America’s defense establishment, and calling for a “New Pearl Harbor” to make it possible.

It was they who murdered almost 3,000 Americans exactly one year later, to put the “Clean Break” into operation.

Immediately after 9/11, the neocon “Clean Break” plan went operational: “We’re going to take out seven countries in five years.’ And he named them, starting with Iraq and Syria and ending with Iran.”

The seven countries making trouble for Israel: Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia,  Sudan, Libya, Syria, and Iran.

Iraq was invaded and decimated. But the occupation bogged down, throwing off the “seven countries in five years” timetable.  Now it would have to be “seven countries in ten or fifteen years.”

In Lebanon, the neocons killed Hariri in a false-flag designed to end the Syrian protectorate. Somalia’s only stable government in modern history was destroyed by a neocon-orchestrated Ethiopian invasion and occupation. Sudan was smashed into two pieces, the south owned by Israel. Libya’s government was destroyed and its leader brutally murdered.

By 2011, only two of the “seven countries in five years” had not been destroyed by the neocons: Syria and Iran.

A massive, carefully-orchestrated intelligence operation brought protestors into the streets of Syria. Black ops snipers began firing on the crowds, hoping to convince them that it was Syrian government troops doing the shooting.

The same black ops snipers then fired on Syrian government troops, hoping to convince them that the demonstrators were shooting at them.

This intelligence operation was reported in the controlled media as: “Evil Syrian government troops and militias shoot down unarmed demonstrators!”

In reality, the neocon mercenaries and black ops snipers were doing most of the killing. And most of their victims were pro-Assad.

In the article below, Dr. Javed Jamil – a strong supporter of political Islam – marshals statistics from two anti-Assad sources, al-Jazeera and Wikipedia, to show that everything the mainstream media has been saying about Syria is just another Big Lie.
-KB

by Dr. Javed Jamil

Those who know me will surely wonder why I am writing this piece in defence of a universally despised tyrant who expressed happiness over the defeat of “Political Islam” in Egypt. Till about two months back, I too, like almost everybody else exposed to the international media, loved to hate Bashar Assad of Syria for his presiding over the killing of innocent people of his own country. I continued to read the casualty figures with deep dismay. It touched hundreds, then thousands and finally about one hundred thousand.

I too wanted him to go at the earliest opportunity. The media made me believe he was a tyrant and bloody killer who needed no sympathy.

A man responsible for massacres of his own countrymen must be removed immediately, and the whole world must unite in this noble aim. But then something happened, which I cannot elaborate here, that made me rethink the whole scenario. Over the years, I have been more and more skeptical of what appears in the international media. More often than not, it is almost all falsehood with a pinch of truth. I have also developed a habit of looking at the statistics, which give a more fair if not absolute idea of how things are happening.

To my surprise, I found a very different type of picture from that presented by the international media and institutions. They were giving the impression that the Syrian army of Assad is wholly responsible for the bloodshed and the rebels are the victims that need support from outside world. But when I studied the break-up of deaths, to my utter amazement, I found that Assad’s men have lost much greater number of lives than the rebels. I confirmed the figures from various sources. Here I am giving figures that have been reported by Wikipedia quoting the western and rebel sources:

“Al Jazeera journalist Nir Rosen reported that many of the deaths reported daily by activists are in fact armed insurgents falsely presented as civilian deaths, but confirmed that real civilian deaths do occur on a regular basis. A number of Middle East political analysts, including those from the Lebanese Al Akhbar newspaper, have also urged caution.

“This was later confirmed when in late May 2012, Rami Abdulrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is one of the opposition-affiliated groups counting the number of those killed in the uprising, stated that civilians who had taken up arms during the conflict were being counted under the category of ‘civilians.’”

“In May 2013, SOHR stated that at least 41,000 of those killed during the conflict were Alawites.

Combatant deaths

Syrian military and police: 25,407 killed
Shabiha and National Defense Force: 17,311 killed
Lebanese Hezbollah: 170 killed

“The pro-government militia fatalities figure also includes: 1,000 civilian government officials, 117 members of the Iranian Basij, 30 members of the Palestinian PLA, 19 Palestinian PFLP–GC members, 18 Iraqi Shia militiamen and one member of the Lebanese Amal Movement.”
The full report can be seen at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_civil_war
The reports make it clear that:

1.      Asad’s men has been the worst victims of violence, with at least 3 times as many casualties as the rebels;
2.      That the so called “civilian casualties” are mostly the civilians in combatant roles;
3.      If that is the situation, one can easily gauge who was more responsible for civilian deaths – army or rebels;
4.      The rebels are heavily armed with massive supply of arms from outside. The main suppliers have of course been Arab states, Turkey and Western countries that have formed a union of friends. Otherwise, the rebels could not have mounted such heavy casualties on government forces.
It is not difficult to analyse why Assad is being presented as the tyrant worthy of hatred. He is the only Arab leader who has never compromised on Israel-US designs in the Arab world. I will again quote from an article on Wikipedia regarding Assad:

“The United States, European Union, the March 14 Alliance, Israel, and France accuse Assad of providing practical support to militant groups active against Israel and against opposition political groups. The latter category would include most political parties other than Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. ….Assad opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq despite a long-standing animosity between the Syrian and Iraqi governments. Assad used Syria’s seat in one of rotating positions on the United Nations Security Council to try to prevent the invasion of Iraq.

Following the Iraq invasion by US and allied forces, Assad was accused of supporting the Shia insurgency in Iraq. A US general accused him of providing funding, logistics, and training to Iraqi and foreign Shia fundamentalists to launch attacks against U.S. and allied forces occupying Iraq. … The February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the accusation of Syrian involvement and support for anti-Israeli groups, helped precipitate a crisis in relations with the United States.

Assad was criticised for Syria’s presence in Lebanon which ended in 2005, and the U.S. placed sanctions upon Syria partly because of this…In the Arab world, Assad mended relations with the Palestine Liberation Organization but relations with many Arab states, in particular Saudi Arabia, have been deteriorating. This is in part due to Assad’s continued intervention in Lebanon and his alliance with Iran. Around the time of the 2008 South Ossetia war, Assad made an official visit to Russia. In an interview with the Russian TV channel Vesti, he asserted that one cannot separate the events in the Caucasus from the US presence in Iraq, which he condemned as a direct threat to [Syria’s] security.”[ In 2011, Assad told the Wall Street Journal that he considered himself “anti-Israel” and “anti-West”, and that because of these policies he was not in danger of being overthrown.….

In a speech about the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict in August 2006, Bashar al-Assad said that Hezbollah had “hoisted the banner of victory,” hailing its actions as a “successful resistance.” He claimed that Arab resistance was growing stronger, and warned Israel that “your warplanes, rockets, and your atomic bomb will not protect you in the future.” He called Israel an enemy with whom no peace could be achieved as long as they and their allies (especially the U.S.) support the practice of preemptive war. In the same speech, he also called Arab leaders that have criticized Hezbollah “half-men.”….

During the visit of Pope John Paul II to Syria in 2001, Bashar al-Assad requested an apology to Muslims for the medieval Crusades and criticised Israeli treatment of Palestinians. Comparing their suffering to that endured by Jesus Christ in Palestine, Assad claimed that followers of Judaism “tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.” Responding to claims that his comment was anti-Semitic, Assad said that whereas Judaism is a racially heterogeneous religion, the Syrian people are the core of the Semitic race and therefore are opposed to the term anti-Semitism.

When offered to retract his comment implying that the Jews were responsible for Jesus’ suffering, Assad replied, “As always, these are historical facts that we cannot deny,” and stressed that his remarks were not anti-Jewish.”

Assad is no cleric or Islamist; nor is he a tribal man like Ghaddafi. He has studied medicine and earned a Masters in ophthalmology from a UK medical college. He is not an Islamic enthusiast, which is perhaps the only point against him. He may have endorsed Morsi’s ouster. It was a reaction to Morsi’s open call for his removal.  But he has proved to be a bigger Muslim than many Arab heads who have been hobnobbing with the Israel-US nexus.

Till the Arab Spring, his regime was not involved in any major violence, and there was no evidence that he was unpopular with the people. The Arab Spring gave the Western powers an opportunity to foment trouble in Syria so that their avowed enemy can be removed. And any government faced with armed rebellion would not accept rebellion and would wage a full-fledged counterattack. With such a virulent international campaign against him, even despite the facts that stare at my eyes, I still find it hard to side with Assad but I am finding it hard, almost impossible, to side with the rebels. There are strong reasons to believe that these foreign backed rebels are the real tyrants of Syria.

Abu Mazen: I Will Not Utter The Words ‘Armed Resistance’

By: Jean Aziz for Al-Monitor Lebanon Pulse Posted on July 5.

إقرأ باللغة العربية

On July 4, the second day of his visit to Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority (PA)

Lebanon’s President Michel Suleiman (R) meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace in Baabda, near Beirut, July 3, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Dalati Nohra)Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met with a panel of journalists, including one from Al-Monitor, at the Beirut hotel he was staying in. He discussed the negotiations with Israel, Palestinian reconciliation, relations with Hamas, Palestinians in Lebanon, and their armed groups in the refugee camps. Abbas took noteworthy positions, on which he was asked whether and how they can be implemented.Abbas started his discussion with a quick introduction that focused on key issues. He said, “First, there is [US Secretary of State] John Kerry’s political mission. We hope that, in his upcoming visit 10 days from now, he will have something that will help us return to the negotiating table. There are vigorous US efforts that, if successful, will mark a new beginning. If we negotiate, that doesn’t mean that we will achieve everything. But we will strive to achieve our national goals, first and foremost Jerusalem, which concerns the Arab and Muslim worlds, and the whole world. We will not concede on our right to Jerusalem. We promise that if Jerusalem is not the capital of Palestine, then there will be no solution.”

“The second point is about the Palestinian reconciliation, which has been stumbling. But I assert that if Hamas agrees to hold elections, we are ready to hold them within three months. And they will be free and fair. So I ask God to guide them [Hamas] to end this shameful and divisive stage in our history.”

“The third point is about our relations with Lebanon, which are based on a sound foundation. We are temporary guests in this country and we are under the law, not above it. We are a positive element. We do not interfere in Lebanese affairs nor do we side with one Lebanese party against another. We want Lebanon to be stable, united and sovereign. The same thing goes for our relations with our Arab brothers. We don’t interfere in what is happening in any Arab country, especially with regard to the events that started in Tunisia, then moved to Egypt, Syria, Yemen and others.”
After that introduction, Abbas answered reporters’ questions.

One reporter asked Abbas about his view regarding the fact that some in the Jewish and Israeli lobby in the US have given up on the two-state solution and have advised the Palestinians to become Israeli citizens. Abbas answered, “We have adopted the two-state solution based on 1967 borders. In 1993, we recognized the state of Israel on that basis. We have negotiated with them and continue to do so. Until now, we see no substitute for the two-state solution. But some in the new Palestinian generation say that since Israel doesn’t want the two-state solution, then let us agree to a one-state solution but not on the basis of ‘apartheid’ and racist separation; but on the ‘one man, one vote’ basis. But Israel refuses that solution. So I say that this approach is not possible. Neither we nor Israel accept it.

“I admit that we have neglected the Jewish communities throughout the world, especially in the US. I used to think that they are a ‘bogeyman.’ But in reality they are not so. This doesn’t mean that I acquit them of extremism and intransigence, but they are not like some Israeli politicians. They [US Jews] can hold discussions and dialogue. I have done this with them. I collected all their questions to us. They had 14 questions on Jerusalem, the Jewish state, settlements, borders, etc. We wrote our official responses in a booklet, which we gave them.

“I ask Arab diplomats and journalists to sit with those Jews so that the latter can hear the other side’s opinion, because right now they only hear Netanyahu’s opinion. Some of them have started realizing that the Israeli government is responsible for the intransigence. I have held discussions with AIPAC. As a result of those discussions, AIPAC told me that they will tell Obama and Netanyahu: ‘We have found a Palestinian partner for peace. Is there an Israeli partner?'”

“Our cause is just but it is not being heard. We have to make the decision-making center in Washington hear it. We do not accept the one-state solution, but [we accept] the two-state solution. Regarding the settlements, we cannot accept them as a fait accompli. The same thing happened in Egypt. When Sadat began talking with the Israelis about peace, Moshe Dayan told him that peace without Sharm el-Sheikh is more important than Sharm el-Sheikh without peace. But the Egyptians insisted on their demands until they recovered every inch of Egypt’s land. We have to do the same thing. We shouldn’t be tricked into accepting the so-called settlements as a fait accompli. We say that all settlement activity since 1967 is illegal. And we will negotiate on that basis.”

Abbas was asked whether the so-called Arab Spring diverted attention from the Palestinian cause and whether Mohammed Morsi’s fall will help the reconciliation with Hamas. Abbas answered, “The so-called Arab Spring is an internal Arab dynamic. We cannot deny that it affected us significantly. The countries in which the Arab Spring took place have been busy with their own crises. But despite that, we were able to get 138 yes votes for our membership at the UN General Assembly, with 41 abstentions, and nine no votes. That happened at a time when [Arab Spring countries] were in the midst of their crises.

“So our cause is still alive and present despite all the crises in the region and the world. So I once again assert that we will not interfere in those countries’ affairs. We may be affected by what’s happening in them because we are humans and Arabs, but we have an interest in taking care of our matters only and to not go back to an earlier time when we got involved in Arab affairs.”

Regarding Hamas, Abbas said, “We know that their relations with Syria and other Arab countries have been affected. That may have been caused by some unclear [Hamas] policies. But Hamas is still part of the Palestinian people and we want to reconcile with them today. We don’t want to exclude anyone. Recent developments may help in achieving reconciliation.”

Abbas was asked about his term expiring, about the absence of the word “resistance” in his speeches and whether he was ashamed of that word.

He was also asked why the PA has not signed regional agreements with Arab countries regarding Palestinian gas reserves. He replied, “Yes, my mandate as president has expired, and I demanded the holding of legislative and presidential elections before my mandate expired three years ago. It is not true that I am the one disrupting the formation of the neutral government stipulated in the Palestinian reconciliation agreement. As Hamas requested at the time, there should be a technocrat government, headed by me, for three months, and that [government] would hold the elections. I am ready to form that government. So let Hamas declare that it accepts holding the elections and I will form the government immediately.”

“Regarding the Palestinian gas issue, we have many problems with Israel in that regard. But we have an agreement with BP [British Petroleum], which represents us. And we will get our rights in the oil and gas as well. We also have potash in the Dead Sea. But because we are under occupation, we cannot implement agreements with any country.”

“Regarding the word ‘resistance,’ yes, I tell you that I will not utter the words ‘armed resistance.’ We have tried it, most recently in the second intifada, which destroyed everything for us. Then we had the 2007 war and the 2009 war, [NOTE: Here it seems Abbas has meant to say the 2008-2009 and the 2012 (Pillar of Defense) Israeli-Gaza Wars, since the 2007 was an internal conflict — J.A.] when Egypt for the first time sponsored a truce agreement between Hamas and Israel. According to that agreement, armed action is considered a hostile act.”

“So I’m not ready to futilely launch a missile that will destroy my country. We are with peaceful, popular, political, and diplomatic resistance. An example of that is the Bab al-Shams resistance that is facing the Israeli authorities with peaceful protests and with peaceful mobile tents.

This kind of peaceful resistance has been agreed upon between us and the Hamas movement. We have [put down that agreement] in writing with brother Khaled Meshaal and he announced it. We have agreed on four points:
(1) the 1967 borders,
(2) peaceful resistance,
(3) elections, and
(4) that I am the representative of the Palestinians in the negotiations.

I’m not ready to enter into futile adventures. But we will practice all sorts of political and diplomatic forms of resistance. There are other opinions. We accept and respect them because there is freedom of opinion and expression, which include insults.”

Asked about his concession on the right of return for Palestinian refugees, he said, “Since 1988, we have made no concessions. In the last 20 years, we only negotiated for a few months with Ehud Olmert. We were very close to a solution. Then Olmert’s [government] fell and his successor rejected what was agreed upon. The rest is nothing. As for moving the refugees to Gaza, the Israelis conditioned such a move on the refugees waiving their right of return, so I refused.”

In response to a question about the talks with John Kerry, which would precede the negotiations, Abbas said, “We are not putting preconditions on the negotiations. But we are asking [to clarify] the foundation and basis for the negotiations. When we talk about the two-state solution, if is not a precondition. It is one of the international law’s principles and approach to resolving our issue. And when we talk about the 1967 borders, this is also the outcome the previous negotiations. We said that any land exchange must be equally balanced. When we say that building settlements is a unilateral action that we reject, that too is not a precondition. Rather, [that position] is supported by 13 UN Security Council resolutions rejecting settlements, and Obama has repeated that in his speeches. He rejected settlement activity even if it came in the ‘natural growth’ context. There is also the prisoner issue. So this is the foundation and basis of negotiations. So if you [Israelis] are willing, we are ready.”

Abbas was asked, “Is it true that the former emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa, warned you about going to the UN to request UN membership for Palestine and threatened you with punishment in case you did?” Abbas answered, “No, this is not so. Hamad advised me not to go to the Security Council because our request will be met with an American veto. But I wanted to directly ‘hear’ that American veto. Then when we went to the UN General Assembly, we went with the support from all Arab countries with no exception.”

Finally, Abbas was asked why he didn’t meet with Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. Abbas said, “Simply because I wasn’t told that Sayyed Nasrallah wished to meet with me. As far as I’m concerned, I have no problem going anywhere or meeting with anyone.”

Jean Aziz is a contributing writer for Al-Monitor’s Lebanon Pulse. He is a columnist at Al-Akhbar, the Lebanese newspaper, and the host of a weekly political talk show on OTV, a Lebanese TV station. He also teaches communications at the American University of Technology and the Université Saint-Esprit De Kaslik in Lebanon.

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قطيعة أم أزمة عابرة؟

فلسطينيون يتظاهرون في نابلس رفضاً للعدوان على سوريا (أ ف ب)

تفرض الأزمة السورية نفسها بقوة على العلاقة بين حركة حماس وبين حزب الله. الحركة تريد حياداً لا يفهمه الآخرون، وحزب الله يرى في الحياد تخلياً عن سوريا. لم يصل الطرفان الى مرحلة اتخاذ قرار نهائي في شأن العلاقة الثنائية، لكن الاتصالات القائمة اليوم لا تلغي فتوراً وبرودة حقيقية في العلاقة

مالك سمارة

رام الله | كانت سوريا الصخرة التي انقسمت عليها تحالفات كثيرة، ظلت لفترة طويلة على قدر من المتانة. أمور كثيرة تغيّرت الآن. ثمّة محاور جديدة تشكّلت، وأخرى آخذة بالتشكّل. لكن حتى يوم أمس، كان الجميع تقريباً قد حسم موقفه؛ حزب الله الذي نأى بنفسه عن القتال إلى جانب النظام منذ اندلاع الأزمة السورية، بات الآن يقاتل بشكل مباشر وعلني في المدن السورية. ومصر التي ظلت تقيم علاقات رمزية مع سوريا وتسعى الى مخرج سياسي، قطعت العلاقات مع من كانت سابقاً جزءاً من «جمهوريّتها العربية المتحدة»، ودعت حزب الله إلى عدم التدخل في الشأن السوري.

 

وحدها «حماس» تترنّح بين المحورين، وتحاول المواءمة بين تحالفها مع من دعمها عسكرياً ومالياً، وبين ولائها لمرجعية «الاخوان المسلمين»، التي اضطرتها إلى اصدار البيان الذي طالب حزب الله بسحب مقاتليه من سوريا وإبقاء سلاحه موجهاً فقط ضد الاحتلال. وهو البيان الذي اثار علامات استفهام حول مستقبل علاقة الحركتين المقاومتين، والتي ظلّت متماسكةً على مدار العامين الماضيين، رغم كل تداعيات الأزمة السورية.

توقيت البيان جاء بعد أيام قليلة من مؤتمر «موقف علماء الأمة من القضية السورية»، الذي عُقد في القاهرة، والذي اعلن خلاله الداعية الإسلامي يوسف القرضاوي نيته إرسال قافلة علماء لتوجيه المجاهدين في سوريا، ثم أعقبه مؤتمر آخر «لنصرة سوريا»، اعلن خلاله الرئيس محمد مرسي قطع العلاقات المصرية ــــ السورية. بينما كانت قيادات حماس وأعضاء مكتبها السياسي يجتمعون في القاهرة وسط تكتم إعلامي شديد، في حين قال مصدرٌ مطلع لـ«الأخبار»، إن «هذه الاجتماعات تأتي لرسم سياسات الحركة المستقبلية في ظل التغيرات التي تشهدها المنطقة، وستشهد أيضاً مناقشة موقف الحركة في ما بتعلق بالموضوع السوري بعد التطورات الأخيرة».دلالة التوقيت دفعت البعض إلى القول إن الحركة حسمت أمرها، واختارت بلا مواربة الميل نحو المعسكر الإخواني، والخروج من محورها القديم نهائيّاً. لكن القيادي في حماس، صلاح البردويل، نفى لـ«الأخبار» أن يكون لتوقيت وجود قيادات الحركة في القاهرة علاقة بإصدار البيان، قائلاً: «يبدو أن الناس فهمت أن البيان جديد. في الواقع، هو موقفٌ قديم للحركة عبّرت عنه بشكل واضح من خلاله. نحن رفضنا أي تدخل أجنبي أو عربي في الصراع الدائر في سوريا، والأمر ينطبق على حزب الله أيضاً، ودعونا وما زلنا ندعو إلى حل سياسي».

وعن الرسالة من خلال هذا البيان، قال البردويل: «أردنا توجيه نصيحة إلى حزب الله، بصفته حزباً يمثّل الخط المقاوم الذي نتبنّاه نحن أيضاً، وهي أن قتال الحزب في سوريا يحرفه عن هدفه الرئيس وهو المقاومة، ويزيد من حدة الاستقطاب الطائفي، وبالتالي يعمّق الأزمة السورية». لكنه استدرك: «هذا لا يعني القطيعة مع حزب الله، علاقتنا بالحزب لا تزال قائمة، وهي جيدة، رغم الاختلاف في وجهات النظر تجاه سوريا، ومن مصلحة المقاومة أن تظل العلاقة كذلك».

لكن ماذا عن علاقة الحركة مع إيران على مدار العامين الماضيين، وكيف تراها حماس بعد فوز المرشح المقرّب من الإصلاحيين حسن روحاني، يجيب: «العلاقة مع إيران قائمة حتى قبل الانتخابات الإيرانية. روحاني هو خيار الشعب الإيراني، وكذلك كان (محمود أحمدي) نجاد، ونحن نحترم خيارات الشعوب، ونتعامل معها، وعلى هذا الأساس، علاقتنا مع إيران ستبقى قائمة كما كانت عليه سابقاً، لأن العدو الصهيوني ينتظر منا أن نقطع علاقتنا مع إيران».

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وقد شهدت العلاقة بين حماس وحزب الله، في العامين الماضيين، فترات مدّ وجزر كثيرة، بدءاً بالأزمة السورية، ومروراً باستقبال قادة حماس في غزة لوفد من 14 آذار عقب العدوان الاسرائيلي الأخير، وليس انتهاءً بالأزمة الأخيرة التي تفجّرت بعد تدخل الحزب في القصير. لكن رغم ذلك، لم يصدر موقف رسميّ واحد من كلتا الحركتين، فيما كان حزب الله قد أصدر تعميماً عقب زيارة وفد 14 آذار إلى غزة يمنع فيه مسؤوليه من توجيه أي انتقاد إلى حماس.بالتوازي مع هذه التطمينات، كانت مواقف الحركتين من الموضوع السوري تزداد حدةً وتناقضاً مع اشتداد الأزمة؛ حزب الله بات يحارب علناً في سوريا، أما حماس فقد سحبت قياداتها من هناك، قبل أن يغلق النظام مكاتبها معلناً القطيعة الكاملة معها. حتى مواقف قيادات الحركة أصبحت أكثر حدّةً، حيث دعا مسؤول حمساوي في حديث إلى «الأخبار» الدولَ العربية إلى دعم «الثورة السورية»، قائلاً: «نحن كنا على موقفنا منذ البداية، دعونا إلى حل سياسي لا يتضمن تدخل الأطراف الدولية، لكن أعتقد أن الظروف الآن أصبحت معقدة بدرجة كبيرة جداً، بعد حمام الدم هذا، والعدد الكبير من القتلى، أعتقد أن من المهم أن يكون هناك دعم قوي للثورة السورية. يجب ألا تقف الدول العربية متفرجة على مذابح الشعب السوري، وعلى استخدام القوة المباشرة، لأن الشعب السوري شعب أصيل، يستحق من الدول العربية رسمياً وشعبياً أن تقف إلى جانبه»، لكنّه عاد وأكد على أن «العلاقة مع حزب الله ما زالت قائمة رغم ارتدادات الأزمة السورية».

ازداد الخلاف حدّة بعد تدخل حزب الله في القصير تحديداً. حدثت إشكاليّات كثيرة، قُصفت الضاحية الجنوبية، ووجهت بعض وسائل الإعلام أصابع الاتهام إلى المخيمات الفلسطينية، الأمر الذي سارعت حماس إلى نفيه على لسان ممثلها في لبنان، علي بركة، قبل أن يتواصل تدفق الأخبار عبر وسائل الإعلام مصحوباً بحملات النفي: الحديث عن طرد قيادات الحركة من الضاحية الجنوبية، وتشديد الرقابة على من تبقى منهم، إضافة إلى منع إعطاء تأشيرات مرور لقيادات «حماس»، الأمر الذي عدّته الحركة إجراءً فنياً، فيما كانت التطمينات كانت من الجانبين.

لكن خطبة القرضاوي التي دعا فيها إلى الجهاد ضدّ حزب الله في سوريا، على مرأى ومسمع رئيس المكتب السياسي لحماس، خالد مشعل، أثارت الكثير من علامات الاستفهام حول موقف الحركة من هذه التصريحات. وهذا ما دفع البعض إلى القول إن هناك تياراً داخل الحركة يرغب في العودة إلى محور حزب الله وسوريا وإيران، في حين تحدثت وسائل الإعلام عن رسائل احتجاج وجهتها قيادات في الحركة إلى مشعل مطالبةً إياه بتفسير الموقف، وتعدّى الأمر ذلك إلى الحديث عن رسالة وجهتها قيادة كتائب القسام إلى هنية تحمل المضمون ذاته، وجاء النفي بعد ساعات قليلة على لسان الناطق الرسمي باسم كتائب القسام «أبو عبيدة».

ونفى قيادي حمساوي بارز في حديث لـ«الأخبار» وجود أجنحة داخل الحركة، قائلاً :«لا وجود لتيارات داخل الحركة. هناك قرارات يتخذها مجلس شورى الحركة وهي ملزمة للجميع».مع ذلك، لا تزال تصريحات القرضاوي تستوجب السؤال حول موقف حماس منها، خصوصاً أن الرجل يعدّ مرجعيّة دينية معتبرة لدى الحركة الإسلامية. يجيب القيادي على ذلك بالقول: «وسط المجتمع الإسلامي، نسمع تصريحات متناقضة، ولو دخلنا فيها لانصرفنا عن مواجهة الاحتلال الإسرائيلي، واستنزفنا قوّتنا في ما لا يجدي، ولا نحمّل أياً كان مسؤولية مواقف شخص آخر، مسؤولية ما يقوله أي إنسان، وخاصة بحجم القرضاوي، مبنية على موقفه ورأيه، يوافق عليها كثيرون، ويختلف عليها كثيرون، ونحن موقفنا الرسمي واضح».

القيادي نفسه وصف علاقة حماس بحزب الله بـ«العادية». وبخصوص إيران، أوضح أن العلاقة مع إيران «متوازنة والكل أجمع على ضرورة استمرار هذه العلاقة وتطويرها، وتطوير العلاقات أيضاً مع كل مكونات العالم العربي والإسلامي على اختلافاتها المذهبية والعرقية بما أنها تخدم القضية الفلسطينية».

وذهب مستشار هنية للشؤون الخارجية، باسم نعيم، إلى ما ذهب إليه القيادي الحمساوي، قائلاً لـ«الأخبار»، إن العلاقة مع إيران ما زالت قائمة رغم «الاختلاف في وجهات النظر في بعض القضايا الإقليمية»، مضيفاً أن الحركة تتعامل مع كل من يخدم المقاومة. وتابع: «علاقتنا مع إيران تنسحب على علاقتنا مع حزب الله، وهي علاقة جيدة، ولن نسمح بإحداث ثغرة ينفذ العدو من خلالها لضرب وحدة المقاومة، وتشتيت الأنظار عن القضية الفلسطينية».

وبخصوص اتهام الحركة بالمشاركة في القتال في سوريا، وتسليح المخيمات السورية ضدّ النظام، كان ردّ القيادي الحمساوي لـ«الأخبار»: «هناك كثير من الاتهامات منصبّة علينا، لكن موقفنا واضح، وأي شخص فلسطيني من داخل فلسطين أو خارجها، يأخذ أي موقف داخل سوريا بعيداً عن الحياد فهو يتحمل مسؤولية قراره». وبيّن أن موقف الحركة من سوريا لم يتغيّر، قائلاً: «نحن نقف على الحياد، مع تفهمنا للكثير من القضايا الإقليمية، وقلنا إن حل الإشكالية يأتي من خلال إعطاء الشعب السوري الحقوق التي يطالب بها، وفي الوقت ذاته قلنا إننا لسنا مع أي نظام بديل يأتي ويكون متعاوناً مع إسرائيل، أو لعبة بيد أميركا، وهذا موقف يُناقش على عدة مستويات، وهو الموقف المعلن

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Syrian newspaper berates Hamas for fallout with Assad

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Published Wednesday, April 3, 2013

 

A pro-government Syrian newspaper on Wednesday slammed Palestinian movement Hamas and its leader Khaled Meshaal for breaking ties with Damascus, accusing them of giving up on resistance against Israel.

The report comes two days after Meshaal’s re-election as head of Hamas for another four-year term.
Hamas has shifted “the gun from the shoulder of resistance (against Israel) to the shoulder of compromise,” al-Thawra daily said.

“Today, as Meshaal becomes the head of Hamas for the fifth time… the West Bank, Gaza and the whole of occupied Pal
estine have no reason to celebrate.”

Meshaal “cannot believe his luck. After an acclaimed history of struggle, he has returned to the safe Qatari embrace, wealthy and fattened in the age of the Arab Spring’s storms,” the newspaper added.
After years of alignment with Damascus, during which he used Damascus as a base, Meshaal relocated in 2012 to Doha, severing ties with President Bashar al-Assad and declaring his support for the Syrian rebellion.

This is not the first time state media has condemned Hamas’ change of alliance. In October, Syrian state TV called Meshaal “ungrateful and traitorous” for turning his back on Assad.

The Syrian government maintains that it is the last Arab bastion of anti-Israeli resistance.
It has fiercely criticized Meshaal’s decision to break with the regime, recalling Damascus’s willingness to host the Hamas leader when other regional capitals refused to do so.

Throughout the two-year conflict in Syria, which the UN says has cost more than 70,000 lives, the government has also accused Turkey, the West and several Arab states of conspiring to topple Assad because of its opposition to Israel.

(AFP, Al-Akhbar)

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How Is Syria Resisting ?

Daniel Mabsout,

Syria is the place where the New World will take shape .The secret of the Syrian Resistance to foreign assault lies in many things . This foreign assault has started in year 2009- in Iran – after the presidential elections, but was defeated by the solidarity of the Iranian society , it was more successful in Arab countries in destabilizing Tunisia, Egypt , Yemen and Libya in what is called the Arab Spring and now is falling from achieving its goals in Syria .This assault on Syria was undertaken by three major countries : KSA , Qatar and Turkey and behind them their masters of the world order and has used fully the jurisdiction of the Arab League . The conspiracy- relied – in the first place- on the success of demonstrations which – transmitted and organized by al Jazeera channel – were supposed to rally millions . But these demonstrations did not gather enough protesters . Witnesses on the ground said that the protesters in these demonstrations never exceeded 2000. This is how the world order decided to adopt another strategy that consists in sending hired mercenaries and working on creating an army of defector soldiers under pay.

Up to three months ago, the numbers of thugs fighting in Syria was up to 135000, more than half of them from outside Syria coming from almost 29 countries, and 70000 among them had received training and the rest was poorly trained . The recent statistics say that 600 fighters belonging to 14 European countries are now fighting in Syria. Around 2500 thugs were trained by US officers in Jordan but those were not of great use and many among them defected and left. The Syrians among fighters are not in the front lines , it is the foreigners who occupy the front lines and the Syrians are being spared maybe to justify the civil aspect of the war .

On the other hand , the Syrian authorities refrained from mobilizing the full Syrian Arab army -which amounts to little bit less than half a million- and to call for it all on the battle ground, it dispatched- instead- half of it to fight chosen battles that aimed at preventing the thugs from creating isolated spots over which they will have full control and authority . The authorities did not – thus- try to dislodge all thugs from all spots at one time, but opted for choosing its own battles where thugs were at their disadvantage and where they were easily targetable .

On the other hand , and in order to support the Syrian army, the Syrian government created the Army of Defense that counts 70000 thousands soldiers and the Popular Committees who are civilians and have for mission to protect the different areas from the attacks on behalf of different armed groups .

Thus the Syrian Authority has kept more than half the army ready in case attacks escalate or Israel interferes . This wise policy is the secret of the military success of the army not to forget the differences between the factions of the opposition that belongs to 1300 groups most of them with little training and a poor ideology and who end up fighting over the loot and over the supplies. It is the failure of the hired armed mercenaries – in achieving anything on the ground- that caused Obama to come to the region and try other tactics that will expose and weaken Syria more, and this by working with the neighboring countries to cooperate more in the efforts that tend to destabilize Syria. This is how Jordan accepted to reopen the borders with Dar’aa which have been closed lately, and this is why the Prime minister of Lebanon has resigned at a very odd time and this how the fighters were permitted to fight at the Syrian borders with occupied Palestine and to receive medical care there.

The Syrian authorities are still achieving many successes, killing hundreds of thugs, and the thugs -who have been receiving lately an increase in supplies and equipment- are not able to achieve anything material on the ground , their main achievement is restricted to more destruction . For this reason the coalition of the opposition – which represents very little on the ground- has been unable to replace the government and has been denied the chair of Syria at the UN.

**The numbers and the information related to them are from Lebanese Officer :Amin Hoteit

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