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Issue No : 107 4th November , 2014

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Hamas: Shooting of extremist Israeli rabbi “natural response”Fanatic rabbi shot, seriously wounded in Occupied Jerusalem

Dividing Al Aqsa Mosque Can Cause New Conflict – NGOs

Hamdan: Egypt›s buffer zone would strengthen Israel›s blockade on Gaza

Hamas calls on Palestinians to rise up in defence of Al-Aqsa

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Rafah is gone with the wind

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Egyptian army to raze homes of citizens near Gaza border for buffer zone

Mass rallies in Gaza and West Bank against closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque

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Tension running high across Jerusa-lem as IOF steps up assaults

Sweden officially recognizes state of Palestine

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CONTENTS

News of Palestine :

Fanatic rabbi shot, seriously wounded in Occupied Jerusalem 4

Israeli special forces assassinate liberated prisoner 5

Israeli police allow MK Feiglin, Jewish settlers to defile Aqsa Mosque 6

Tension running high across Jerusalem as IOF steps up assaults 7

Mass rallies in Gaza and West Bank against closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque 8

Egyptian army to raze homes of citizens near Gaza border for buffer zone 9

Rafah crossing with Egypt still closed: Gaza ministry 10

Sweden officially recognizes state of Palestine 11

In memory of the Balfour Declaration: an ongoing Palestinian catastrophe 12

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Israeli interior minister resigns 13

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Dividing Al Aqsa Mosque Can Cause New Conflict – NGOs 14

Islamic NGOs want special Parliament sitting to save Al-Aqsa Mosque 15

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Rafah is gone with the wind 16

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News of Palestine

Yehuda Glick, the fanatic rabbi organizing semi-daily break-ins into al-Aqsa Mosque, has been shot and seriously wounded on Wednesday night in occupied Jerusalem.

The Israeli TV Channel 10 reported that the rabbi, a right-wing activist, was shot at from close range in his upper body outside the Menachem Begin Heritage Center after attending ‘Israel Returns to the Temple Mount’ conference.

The broadcast said that a motorcyclist fired at Glick, 50, at point blank, and quoted medical sources as saying that he was hit with three bullets and his condition was serious.

It said that a Palestinian man was suspected of carrying out the attempt, adding that police forces were deployed in various suburbs in the holy city looking for the suspect.

The TV said that Nir Barakat, the Israeli mayor of Jerusalem, arrived to the scene along with MK Moshe Feiglin amidst tight security measures.

Glick is the leader of the extremist temple mount faithful movement and he is notorious for his active attempts to rally support for the construction of the alleged temple mount on the ruins of the Aqsa Mosque.

Meanwhile, Hamas said the shooting of a far-right Jewish rabbi in Occupied Jerusalem was a natural response to his constant desecration of the holy Aqsa Mosque.

Barhoum said in a press release that the rabbi’s shooting was a “natural reaction” to what he de-scribed as Israeli crimes and violations of the sanctity of the Aqsa Mosque and holy sites.

30/10/2014 Source: Agencies

Fanatic rabbi shot, seriously wounded in Occupied Jerusalem

Hamas: Shooting of extremist Israeli rabbi “natural response”

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Israeli special police forces killed Mutaz Hijazi, a liberated prisoner, in Silwan south of the Aqsa Mosque at dawn Thursday, after breaking into his home.

Jerusalemite sources said that special forces and disguised security elements raid-ed Thawri neighborhood in Silwan at dawn and broke into Hijazi’s home and killed him on the roof of his house at point blank.

According to a police source, Hijazi was killed in a shootout with an elite Border Guard counter-terrorism unit (Yamam).

The Israeli police accused Hijazi with the attempted assassination of extremist rabbi Yehuda Glick on Wednesday night.

Eyewitnesses reported that Hijazi was fatally shot and succumbed to his wounds a short while later. They said that three other inhabitants in the suburb were injured in the incident.

Hijazi served 11 and half years in Israeli jails including ten years in solitary confine-ment. He was arrested in 2000 and jailed for six years for joining intifada activities. He received four additional years sentence in 2004 after he assaulted one of his guards. He was released in June 2012.

30/10/2014 Source: PIC

Israeli special forces assassinate liberated prisoner

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Restrictions on Muslims’ access to the Aqsa Mosque compound to perform Friday prayers will not be lifted despite Israel’s decision to reopen it after it was closed on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation police allowed right-wing Knesset member Moshe Feiglin and several Jewish settlers to desecrate the Aqsa Mosque and perform rituals.

According to Israeli media sources, the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) are expected to reopen the Aqsa Mosque to Muslims on Friday to perform their religious prayers.

However, usual entry restrictions will be imposed on Muslims at the Mosque, and a large number of Israeli troops and checkpoints have already been deployed throughout the city.

The Israeli occupation police closed down the Aqsa Mosque on Thursday to all Muslims and visitors in the aftermath of the shooting of extremist rabbi Yehuda Glick on Wednesday.

During the presence of MK Feiglin inside the Aqsa Mosque compound, the police prevented Palestin-ian citizens of all ages from going in, local sources said.

Feiglin on Saturday had declared his intention to enter the Aqsa Mosque in order to perform rituals and pray for the recovery of rabbi Yehuda Glick, who survived an assassination attempt in Jerusalem, but is still in critical condition.

Meanwhile, a large number of Jewish settlers, including extremist temple mount activists, rabbis and intelligence officers, have rallied at Al-Maghariba Gate of the Aqsa Mosque in order to defile the Is-lamic holy place in groups and pray for Glick.


Israeli police allow MK Feiglin, Jewish settlers to defile Aqsa Mosque

Israel imposes restrictions on Muslims› access to Aqsa Mosque

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Tension running high across Jerusalem as IOF steps up assaults

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A round of renewed clashes between the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and a group of Palestinian civil-ian youths burst out across Occupied Jerusalem on Saturday.

Eye-witnesses said the confrontations spread out to Jerusalem’s neighborhoods of al-Issawiya, Jabal al-Makbar and the Old City.

By-standers at the scene said the IOF targeted the civilian youngsters with heavy barrages of tear gas grenades and sound bombs.

The IOF attack culminated in the abduction of a Palestinian boy in Bab al-Amoud, one of the main en-tryways of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Large troops of the Israeli occupation police have been cordoning off the Palestinian neighborhoods in Occupied Jerusalem under pretext of searching for suspected stone-hurlers.

The Israeli occupation apparatuses claimed responsibility for the abduction of a 17-year-old Palestinian child allegedly for having been possibly involved in throwing firecrackers.

Meanwhile, the Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, urged all Israeli MKs to soothe tension around al-Aqsa Mosque.

The appeal came at a time when extremist MK Moshe Feiglin threatened to storm Muslims’ holy al-Aqsa Mosque in retaliation for Wednesday’s shooting of Israeli fanatic rabbi Yehuda Glick.


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Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets after Friday prayer in the occupied West Bank condemn-ing the Israeli decision to close the Al-Aqsa Mosque to Palestinian worshipers.

The rallies moved between the main streets in the Palestinians cities, raised posters and chanted slo-gans condemning Israeli aggression on the Pales-tinians in Jerusalem and the worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

In Gaza the marches were led by leaders of the Is-lamic Movement Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Resistance Movement and members of the Pales-tinian Legislative Council. Leaders from the three parties delivered speeches.

A day earlier, Hamas called on the Palestinian people to support the resistance and to rise up in defence of Al-Aqsa Mosque against the Israeli “vio-lations and crimes” which are committed every day.

In a press statement, Hamas warned Israel against

Mass rallies in Gaza and West Bank against closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque

Hamas calls on Palestinians to rise up in defence of Al-Aqsa

the repercussions of closing Al-Aqsa Mosque. The movement also called on the international commu-nity to put an immediate end to the Israeli attacks on Muslim sanctities.

Hamas urged the Palestinian Authority and recon-ciliation government to take responsibility towards Al-Aqsa and to take practical measures to save it. The movement also demanded Palestinian Presi-dent Mahmoud Abbas stop “security coordination” with the Israeli occupation and urged him to enable the Palestinian people to rise up in the face of the Israeli “attack” on Jerusalem and the holy sites.

Hamas also urged Jordan to uphold its responsibili-ties towards Al-Aqsa Mosque and urged all regional and international parties to defend the Islamic sanc-tities in Jerusalem.

It stressed the need to sever all Arab-Israeli ties, re-call Arab ambassadors from Israel, and expel Israeli ambassadors from the Arab capitals.


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The Egyptian army on Tuesday evening demanded the residents of the northern neighborhoods in the Egyptian border city of Rafah to evacuate their areas in order to demolish their homes and establish a 500-meter buffer zone along the borderline with the Gaza Strip.

The Egyptian army, which started recently a widespread military campaign in Sinai following the killing and injury of many of its soldiers, said that the buffer zone, which will include water-filled trenches and an iron wall to thwart tunnel diggers, will be 500 meters wide and extend along the 13-kilometer border.

The Egyptian step would lead to the displacement of Egyptian families in this restive area in the north-eastern corner of the Sinai Peninsula.

The Palestinian ministry of interior and national security, in its turn, affirmed that the southern Gaza border with Egypt is always under its control and subject to strict security measures, and denied any Palestinian involvement in Egypt’s internal events.

In this regard, different political analysts expressed their beliefs in televised remarks that If Egypt cre-ated its buffer zone and secured its border with Gaza, the security problems in Sinai would continue to take place because the dangers threatening Egypt’s security are internal and have nothing to do with the impoverished Palestinian Strip.

For his part, director of Hamas’s international relations Osama Hamdan said that the buffer zone would support Israel’s blockade on the Gaza Strip and contribute to the incitement campaign in Egypt against the Palestinian people.

In televised remarks on Sunday, Hamdan stated that Gaza and its people have nothing to do with any events happening in North Sinai governorate, affirming that the Palestinian side in Gaza is always keen on maintaining good relations with Egypt. He expressed his belief that Israel could be involved in the violent incidents that had happened in Sinai. 29/10/2014 Source: Agencies

Egyptian army to raze homes of citizens near Gaza border for buffer zone

Hamdan: Egypt›s buffer zone would strengthen Israel›s blockade

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Egyptian authorities have kept the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip closed for the 8th day in a row, the Gaza In-terior Ministry said Saturday.

The ministry said in a state-ment that the terminal remains shut to Palestinians seeking to leave the Gaza Strip.

The ministry warned that the Egyptian closure of the termi-nal will “aggravate the suffer-ing of thousands of patients and students”.

Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah crossing last week following a deadly attack on a military checkpoint in the northern Sinai Peninsula that killed at least 31 soldiers and injured scores.

Egypt has tightened its grip on the border with the blockaded Gaza Strip since last year’s ouster of Mohamed Morsi – the country’s first freely elect-ed president – by the army.

The crossing closure has made life even more difficult for Gaza’s roughly 1.9 resi-dents, who have groaned un-der an airtight Israeli blockade since 2007.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian

Rafah crossing with Egypt still closed: Gaza ministry

Health Ministry, Hamas urge Cairo to re-open Rafah crossing

Health Ministry and the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas on Mon-day called on the Egyptian authorities to open the Rafah crossing for the humanitarian cases and critically-ill patients.

Spokesman for the Health Ministry, Ashraf al-Qudra, said in a press release: “Hundreds of patients in Gaza have been paying a heavy price and couldn’t pursue their urgent medical check-ups due to the siege and the frequent closure of the Rafah crossing.”

He further urged Egypt to unblock the crossing before the sick persons and all emergency cases.

For his part, Mohamed Faraj al-Ghul, Hamas representative at the Pal-estinian Legislative Council, on Monday afternoon called on the Egyp-tian authorities to make the most of the Gaza-Egypt border-area to boost up both the Egypt-Palestine economic ties and lift the Gaza siege.

“Palestinians in Gaza long for opening the Rafah crossing permanently in order to smooth the entry of passengers and goods,” he declared.


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Sweden has officially recognized the state of Palestine on Thursday. While Palestinians welcomed “the historical move,” Israel expressed disappoint-ment.

Swedish foreign minister Margot Wall-strom confirmed that the government took the decision to recognize Palestine as a state in a meeting held Thursday, becoming the first EU member state to do so.

In Thursday’s announcement, Wallstrom said that the legal requirements for rec-ognizing Palestine are fulfilled, describ-ing his country’s step as important and supportive of the Palestinians’ right to self-determination.

“There is a territory, albeit with non-de-fined borders. There is also a popula-tion. And there is a government with the

capacity for internal and external control,” she stated.

The minister’s announcement came less than two weeks after the center-left government announced its intention to take the unprecedented move.

The United States have earlier warned Sweden against such recognition, calling it “premature” and saying the Palestinian state could only come through negotiation between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Following the symbolic vote in Britain’s parliament to give dip-lomatic recognition to a Palestinian state, France’s foreign min-ister said that his country would recognize Palestine in a timely manner.

Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman denounced the move, saying “relations in the Middle East are a lot more complex than the self-assembly furniture of IKEA”.

Just hours after the Swedish announcement, Israel said it was recalling its ambassador to Stockholm for “consultations.”

The European union had earlier issued a statement denouncing Israel’s new settlement plans in the West Bank and Jerusalem.


Sweden officially recognizes state of Palestine

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97 years ago today, 2 November 1917,Arthur James Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary of the time, wrote to the American Lord Rothschild, promisning British support for the Zionist programme of establishing a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. This pledge of support was made without consulting the indigenous Muslim, Christian and Jewish inhabitants of Palestine, the Palestinian people. And it was made before British troops had even conquered the land.

Balfour declared his support for the establishment of a Jewish home-land in Palestine, and British imperialism in Palestine began.

Balfour illegally and with no right whatsoever, promised Palestine to the Jews, to prevent the Jewish emigration to Britain.

Ironically, in the British Cabinet, Lord Montagu, the only Jewish mem-ber opposed the declaration.

In May 1946, Truman announced his approval of a recommendation to admit 100,000 displaced persons into Palestine and in October publicly declared his support for the creation of a Zionist Jewish state.

Throughout 1947, the United Nations Special Commission on Pales-tine examined the Palestinian question and recommended the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state.

On November 29, 1947 the United Nations adopted Resolution 181 (also known as the Partition Resolution) that would divide Great Brit-ain’s former Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states in May 1948 when the British mandate was scheduled to end. Under the reso-lution, the area of religious significance surrounding Jerusalem would remain a corpus separatum under international control administered by the United Nations.

In memory of the Balfour Declaration: an ongoing Palestinian catastrophe

On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the estab-lishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President at the time, Har-ry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day.

The same day of the Israel es-tablishment makes the same day to the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe), when 700,000 Palestinians fleed their homes to seek refuge from Israeli mili-tary, in foreign countries.

Since the establishment of “Is-rael”, and the beginning of the Israeli occupation, about 7 mil-lion Palestinians were recorded refugees in the UNRWA.

2 million Palestinians were killed since 1936, 0.1 million from violence, 1.9 million from war-, expulsion- and occupa-tion-derived deprivation; 7 mil-lion refugees; 4.1 million Oc-cupied Palestinians deprived of ALL the human rights listed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ; 6 million Pales-tinians forbidden to even live in the homeland continuously in-habited by their forbears to the very dawn of agrarian civiliza-tion; 0.9 million Palestinian chil-dren confined without charge or trial.

A “Jewish state” under the pre-text of religious sympathy, stole the Palestinian lands, and still do so today, each single mo-ment.

2/11/2014 Source: PNN

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Israeli interior minister resigns

Israeli Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar has submitted a resignation letter to Prime Min-ister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Channel 1 reported Sunday.

According to local media reports, Sa’ar might join former welfare and social ser-vices minister Moshe Kahlon who is in the middle of the process of establishing a new party. The speculation came two months af-ter Sa’ar announced that he intends to re-sign and temporarily retire from politics to focus on his family.

Gideon Sa’ar is a member of the Likud party, serving as a Knesset member since 2003. It is still unclear who will replace Sa’ar as the interior minister. 2/11/2014 Source: MEMO

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Dividing Al Aqsa Mosque Can Cause New Conflict – NGOs

Israel’s intention to divide the Al Aqsa Mosque temporally and spatially between Muslims and Jews may cause a new conflict in Palestine and uproar in the Muslim world, Malaysia’s non-gov-ernmental associations (NGOs) warned.Al-Quds Foundation Malaysia Managing Direc-tor, Dr Mohammad Makram said Israel’s Parlia-ment (Knesset) is currently in the midst of intro-ducing a new bill that if approved, would allow Jews to pray inside the Muslims’ third holiest mosque, and set specific places and dates for their prayers.“For the last 1,300 years Al Aqsa has been a Muslim place of worship and it will stay as such, not because we want to monopolise it. Jerusa-lem is open to all cultures and religions, but we do not allow anybody to take over our holy place (Al Aqsa Mosque),” he told a press conference to brief the media on the latest situation regard-ing the Al Aqsa Mosque at Wisma Bernama here today.“For the last three months, there are continuous clashes with the Israeli authorities and almost ev-eryday Palestinians are killed,” he said.Mohammad claimed 400 Jewish settlers stormed into Al Aqsa Mosque recently and performed Jew-ish dancing and Talmudic prayers while guarded by Israeli soldiers.According to him, Israel’s Deputy Speaker of Parliament Moshe Feiglin and others among the ruling elites of Israel also had previously called for the demolition of the Al Aqsa Mosque in order to build a Jewish temple in its place.Dr Mohammad warned that tensions in the area might escalate into a third Intifada (uprising) if Is-rael continued to invade the Al Aqsa Mosque and its compound.The second Intifada occurred in September 2000 after the then Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited the site.“People need to understand that when we talk about the holiness of the Al Aqsa Mosque, we are talking about the whole area, not just the mosque itself. Just like when we talk about Ka’aba, the

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area surrounding the Grand Mosque (in Makkah) is sacred to us,” he said.Also present at the press conference were representatives from 16 other NGOs including Humanitarian Care Malaysia Berhad (MyCARE), Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM), Majlis Perundingan Pertubuhan Islam Malaysia (MAPIM) and Palestinian Cultural Organisation Malaysia(PCOM).MyCARE (previously Aqsa Syarif) chairman Dr Hafidzi Mohd Noor said Muslims’ exclusive rights to the mosque was recog-nised by the League of Nations, the first international organisa-tion to maintain world peace before the existence of the United Nations (UN), and this should be respected by all.Dr Hafidzi explained that before the interference of the Zionists; Muslims, Christians and Jews were living in peace in Jerusa-lem as all three religions regarded it as a shared holy city.However, this situation changed after Jerusalem was occupied by Israel in 1967, whereby it continuously tried to monopolise the city, affecting not only Muslims but Christians living in the city as well.This he pointed out was a gross violations of human rights and not just on Muslims.Dr Hafidzi also noted that in 1980, Israel declared Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, despite a United Nations (UN) that it was illegal to do so.“But yet, this has been endorsed by the United States (Jerusa-lem as the Israeli capital), he said.Meanwhile, PCOM Director of Political Relations, Abdullah Aqrabawi said as a Palestinian, he hoped Malaysia would con-tinue to voice its support on the issue during Malaysia’s term in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) from 2015-2016 to defend the Al-Aqsa mosque.

30/10/2014 Source: BERNAMA

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Islamic NGOs want special Parliament sitting to save Al-Aqsa Mosque

A group of Islamic NGOs on Wednesday urged the government to con-vene a special Parliament sitting to condemn the Israel government for attempting to divide the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the third holiest mosque for Muslims.

The NGOs include Majlis Perundingan Pertubuhan Islam Malaysia (Mapim), Aqsa Syarif, Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM), Viva Pal-estina Malaysia, Palestinian Cultural Organisation (PCOM), Yayasan Al-Quds Malaysia and Persatuan Kebangsaan Pelajar Islam Malaysia (PK-PIM).

Mapim president Mohd Azmi Abd Hamid said the sitting was necessary because Israel’s parliament (the Knesset) was trying to pass a bill to en-able Jews to perform prayers at the mosque.

“We must send a signal to the world that there needs to be an uprising in the name of justice, human and religious rights because this is an alarm-ing development,” he told a press conference in speaking on their behalf here.

30/10/2014 Source: Astro Awani

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Rafah is gone with the windBy: Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh The degree of madness and criminality attained by the coup regime is growing faster and more intense than we imagined. The people of Rafah living in the Egyptian city of Sinai have been displaced after their homes were bombed and the olive trees were uprooted in preparation for the establishment of the buffer zone. This same buffer zone was de-manded by Israel and the US dur-ing Mubarak’s rule, specifically in 2007 after the Israeli attack on Gaza, which the Islamic resis-tance bravely withstood.The former regime did not dare to carry out such a measure and in-stead remained content with the separation wall (wall of shame) between Sinai and Gaza. All the while, the regime continued to besiege Gaza and destroy the tunnels, which are the only life-line for the brave people of Gaza who have been besieged from all directions.However, Al-Sisi has been in-stalled into power to execute all of Israel’s demands and imple-ment its project. The current project pursued in the region is the complete elimination of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which the Zionist wars failed to get rid of and erase the word resistance from the minds of the Arabs.It will also give Israel the free-dom to deal with the region in any way it wants, after first fragment-ing it into ethnic and sectarian mini-states that fight and dispute amongst each other, which is ex-actly the case in Syria, Iraq, and Libya.These wars also failed to destroy

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the culture of resistance in the re-gion and completely eradicate it so that Israel could enjoy security and safety.Now Al-Sisi is playing the role as-signed to him by considering the residents of Sinai enemies that must be fought and displaced from their land, which they inher-ited from their ancestors thou-sands of years ago. He created an enemy out of nowhere, but this will eventually result in real hostility because the people of Sinai now have a blood feud with Al-Sisi’s regime after their chil-dren were killed for no reason and they were unjustly driven out of their homes.Merely saying that there is no God but Allah has given Al-Sisi the right to kill them under the pretext of fighting terrorism and the global war on Islam. He is re-ally pushing the people of Sinai towards having their revenge on his regime which made them feel alienated from the Egyptian state and exiled them.It makes me feel very sad when I hear the people of Sinai say that they were safe under the Israeli

occupation of Sinai after 1967 and that they were not subject to such heinous human rights viola-tions by the Zionists. It is strange that when Al-Sisi was the defence minister, he said in December 2012 that if the Rafah area was evacuated, it would create a ven-detta between the government and the people of Sinai and that it would pose a great danger to Egypt’ national security.What happened in 2014 that made the evacuation of Rafah so necessary to preserve Egypt’s na-tional security? How many crimes were committed by Al-Sisi in the name of Egypt’s national security while our national security has nothing to do with them? Al-Sisi did not mention Egypt’s national security when talking about the borders with Israel; are they safe from treachery as long as Al-Si-si implements Israel’s strategic agenda in the region? Most im-portantly, if he thinks so, then he is like all the tyrants who do not care about their countries or their people. All they care about are their thrones. The country and the people can burn as long as their thrones are safe.

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