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Israel Persecutes Israeli Arab MK

By Kawther Salam • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

The Israeli Public Prosecution in the Magistrate's Court of Tel Aviv – Jaffa imposed a serious indictment against the Israeli MK (member of the Knesset), Mohammad Barakeh, a Hadash representative. The court accused Barakeh of assaulting police and soldiers on four different occasions over a period of two years since 2005. The indictment was signed [...]



EU and The Israeli War Crimes in Gaza

By Kawther Salam • Nov 4th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

The 25th annual conference of the Arab medical doctors in Europe and the 21st annual conference of the Union of the Austro-Arab medical doctors and pharmacists, held at the Modul Hotel in Vienna, was turned to a political demonstration against the Israeli occupation and its criminal policies against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on [...]



Palestinian Protester to Blair: You are a Terrorist

By Kawther Salam • Oct 23rd, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

“You are a terrorist, you are not welcome in the land of Palestine”. A Palestinian from the Hamdan family shouted these words in the face of Tony Blair, Quartet Representative for “Peace” in the Middle East, when he arrived at the Iron Cage at the entrance of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. A bodyguard of [...]



UNRWA in the Focus of Accusations

By Kawther Salam • Oct 11th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

On Friday October 9 2009, the Palestinian daily newspaper Al-Quds published a statement of the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA), Karen Koning AbuZayed in which she announced the discontinuation of some important activities of the UNRWA, such as scholarships for Palestinian students.
According to Al-Quds, the statement of Koning [...]



Israeli Army Terrorizes Teenagers inside a School

By Kawther Salam • Oct 1st, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

Austria/ Palestine/ Occupied Territories:
At around 11AM, Fuad Mahmoud Nayef Turkman, aged 17, was killed before the eyes of his brother, relatives and colleagues inside the schoolyard of the “Izz al-Din al-Qassam” school in Yabad, after an Israeli military jeep broke into the school shooting tear gas and then proceeded to deliberately run over one of [...]



Two Hundred Soldiers to Snatch a Boy and 30 Dollars

By Kawther Salam • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

Without preconditions, the Israeli central command Gadi Shamni is demanded to return the stolen 30 dollar which one of the coward thieves under his command stole from the wallet of Ru'a Osama Al-Ayasa, the daughter of my colleague Osama Al-Ayasa.
On August 15 2008, Gadi Shamni sent a heavily armed military contingent consisting of an [...]



The Execution of a Palestinian Journalist

By Kawther Salam • Sep 19th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

Last Wednsday, August 26 2009, the criminal Israeli occupation forces shot the Palestinian journalist Ubayda Maher  Al-Qudsi, aged 25, while he was walking on Al-Shuhada Street in the heart of the occupied city of Hebron.
To justify the murder, the IDF murderers claimed that Al-Dweik had attempted to attack an IDF soldier with a knife. [...]



From War Criminal in Israel to Coffee Salesman

By Kawther Salam • Sep 13th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Kawther's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism

If the past is associated with war crimes and crimes against humanity and injustice, then the history of the perpetrators is the history of criminals and their crimes, and the victims must never forget, never forgive, lest the perpetrators continue on their path of crimes. Nobody can ask from perpetrators to take responsibility for their crimes, because if they were responsible, or even capable of responsibility, to begin with, they would not engage in acts understood as reprehensible by the vast majority of humanity. The victims, on the other hand, have the responsibility not only to take care of ourselves, but to do everything in our power to stop the perpetrators, and to warn others about them.



Kawther Salam – Palestinian Organs for Sale and Experiments

By Kawther Salam • Sep 6th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

Many Palestinian bodies which had their organs removed are still in the refrigerators of the Israeli jails and hospitals, and many Palestinian bodies (about 300) which had their organs removed are still in secret and cemeteries with numbered graves. Israel is the only State in the world which continues holding the bodies of Palestinian victims [...]