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NGO Network Call for Postponing the PJS Elections

Feb. 4 2010 – A court belonging to the illegal Hamas government decided today, Thursday, Feb. 3 2010, to suspend the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) elections which were slated for Friday Feb. 5 2010. The Court claimed that the postponement is due lawsuits which were filed against the PJS. According to legal sources in Gaza Supreme Court of the Hamas government, they stated that the court decided to suspend the PJS elections after several groups of journalist filed complaints against the PJS, which had refused to register new journalists as members.

Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinian journalists in Gaza protested yesterday against the illegal procedures adopted by the PJS Council, which refused the inclusion of new members in the PJS on political grounds.
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Settlers Vandalism in Bethlehem (Video)

By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD – Human Rights Activist

Please see the video at end of the article.

Feb. 2 2010 – Monday started with the news that the Israeli military has decided to reoccupy part of Ush Al-Ghrab in Beit Sahour after having left it in 2006 and Tuesday saw the army begin clearing land of Ush Ghrab.  Ush Ghrab is part public (Palestinian) land but a major part of it is private lands that was put off limit to their owners for nearly four decades and used as a center for the occupation forces in Bethlehem district.  From this military camp, nearly 300 Palestinian homes were partially or completely destroyed in 2002 and 2003.

This camp was also where in 28 December 2000, Palestinians and Internationals walked into the military camp taking it over for a few hours (organized by the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between People). The participants felt empowered and moved on to form the International Solidarity movement at PCR (becoming independent movement in 2001 and moving to Ramallah in 2004).

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Fatah Imposing their Candidates at the PJS Congress

About 500 Palestinian journalists representing the Fatah movement in the Palestinian journalists Syndicate (PJS) went today to the city of Jericho in order to elect their representatives in the PJS congress which will be held on Friday Feb. 2 2010.
My sources from Fatah informed me that both of the Presidential Secretary General Al-Tayeb Abd Al-Rahim, and the former intelligence chief Tawfiq Al-Tirawi, next to PJS General Secretary Naim Al-Tobassi attended the meeting and gave speeches before opening the nomination and the vote for the journalists to choose their representatives of the Fatah movement at the PJS congress.

The sources stated that the Fatah leadership is exercising coercive pressure on General Secretary Naim Al-Toubassi to abstain from running for a new period in the coming PJS elections. They added that Fatah people had told Al-Tobassi that they would impose their own candidate for the PJS General Secretary and that they will not choose him for this duty. They offered him instead to take a job in one of the PA ministries.

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Meddling from Palestinian Intelligence Distorts PJS Congress

Update: Feb.1 2010 – Regarding the latest news of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) my sources notified me that there are 62 members of the (PJS) from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank who are running for the election of a “Mediator Council” comprised of 21 members, invented by people outside of the PJS, obviously based on election falsification techniques imported from the USA, and which are in contradiction to the  PJS by-laws. This “mediator council” will choose a PJS council without “undue interference” from the PJS members. This will make sure that a “Secretary General” of the PJS will be imposed by entities operating from outside of the Palestinian Journalists  Syndicate. (Read in Arabic).

Palestinian journalistic sources from Ramallah have stated that the central committee of Fatah wants to impose a Secretary General of their choice upon the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) by using force and guile. This is an illegal and illegitimate intervention, and a clear violation of the by-laws of the PJS.

According to these PJS by-laws, the Secretary General must be directly elected by the journalists, during the congress of the PJS and not by the central committee of Fatah which has no influence on the PJS members. The by-laws of the PJS did not mention that the candidate of the PJS general secretary must be a member of Fatah Revolutionary Council, or a member of the Palestinian National council. These “conditions” are invented by Fatah itself.

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Is the EU Helping Mossad to Commit International Terror?

Update Feb. 6 2010: Dublin, Ireland, Dubai – Press sources reported that the Mossad cell that assassinated Mohammed Al-Mabhouh on Jan. 20 2010 used Irish passports to enter and to get out of Dubai.
The spokesman of the Irish Foreign Ministry told the Evening Herald newspaper: “We are aware of what the press reported, and we are in contact with the local authorities to attempt and to verify the truthfulness and correctness of these reports.”

January 31 2010 – On past 20 January, Mohammad Al-Mabhouh was assassinated in a hotel in Dubai by Mossad people holding EU passports. According to the press, four to seven Israeli Mossad death squads assassinated Al-Mabhouh in his hotel room at the Al-Bostan, Rotana hotel in Dubai. The Mossad injected Al-Mabhouh with a drug which leads to a heart attack. They made copies of all documents he had, and then left his room after hanging

a sign on the door with the words “Please do not disturb.”

One day before the assassination of Al-Mabhouh, the Israeli infrastructure minister, an extremist squatter, and an organizer of the destruction of the Palestinian houses in Jerusalem and the West bank, Uzi Landau, left the neighboring Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Uzi Landau had been in Abu Dhabi from January 15 to 19, 2010.

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Der Mord an einer Arabischen Frau in Wien

[Dieser Artikel wird im Magazin des „International Network of Journalists with a Vision of Gender“ veröffentlicht. Das Magazin wird via IEMed in Barcelona durch due EU finanziert].

Auf Englisch

Donnerstag, 28. Jänner 2010, es gibt viele Leute, die die österreichischen Familiengesetze missbrauchen. Junge Männer aus arabischen Ländern kommen in Goldgräberstimmung nach Europa, und viele von ihnen halten in Bordellen Ausschau  nach einer „Ehefrau“, einer Frau die sie in Scheinehe heiratet, damit sie so die Staatsbürgerschaft erhalten können. Andere wiederum heiraten Frauen, die ihre Mütter oder Großmütter sein könnten. Nachdem sie die Staatsbürgerschaft erhalten, lassen sich viele dieser jungen arabischen Männer scheiden, und heiraten bald eine Frau aus ihrem Ursprungsland, die sie mit Hilfe der österreichischen Familiengesetze ins Land holen, die eine „Familienwiedervereinigung“ vorsehen. Die Behörden in Österreich sehen seit Jahren fast jede Ehe zwischen österreichischen Staatsbürgern und Ausländern als Suspekt an, was ein Hinweis auf das Ausmaß des Missbrauchs der Gastfreundschaft Österreichs durch diese „Goldgräber“ ist.

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The Murder of an Arab Woman in Vienna

[Note: This article will be published in the magazine of the International Network of Journalists which is financed by the EU through the IEMED in Barcelona].

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Thursday, 28. January 2010, there are many people who abuse the family laws in Austria. Young men from Arab countries come to Europe in a gold-rush mood, and many of them go to brothels looking for a “wife”, a woman who will engage with them, in a sham marriage in order to receive a European nationality. Others marry women who could be their mothers or grandmothers. After they receive the nationality, these young Arab men divorce their Austrian “wives”, and soon marry a woman from their country of origin, whom they bring into the country using the family laws, which allow for family “reunification”. In Austria, the authorities deem as suspicious almost any marriage between an Austrian national and a foreigner since years, what hints at the extent of the abuse of the hospitality of this country being perpetrated by these “gold diggers”.

This is a tragedy if we take into account that the majority of the youths who come here looking for a European nationality do not respecting the European society, and could not care less about the values and customs of the European people, and they have no sense of belonging into the European community and its culture. They live in Europe, but in ghettos which are copies of their origin countries. In these origin countries and societies, discrimination and violence against females are a fix part of the structure and customs.

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