This article was published in a Dutch newspaper in 1996.

I found it in my archives and decided to publish it here on my website. This is the English translation of the original article.


Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians about a follow-up autonomy treaty have broken down on the question-Hebron. Israel refuses to evacuate the several hundreds of settlers who live in the old Jewish district. “Here the Jews are always right.”

HEBRON, 18 SEPT. “Piece of shit, get lost. You dog, go away, go, go…” screams a jewish woman at Beit Hadassah, a house where some tens of Israeli settlers live in the old Jewish center of Hebron, to the Palestinian journalist Kawther Salam. The journalist herself comes from this city on the still occupied West bank of the Jordan, where Israeli and Palestinians are after each other’s blood. For this outburst and its aftermath was not any reason. To probe the feelings of the settlers on the day that the Israeli minister of foreign affairs, Shimon Peres, and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Taba should have broken the deadlock in the negotiations on autonomy for Hebron, I and my Palestinian companion had a conversation with a settler at an Israeli military post near Beit Hadassah. Before the man was able to explain why he doesn’t see anything in the Israeli-Palestinian conversations in Taba, women came screaming to the military post which is made of concrete blocks. “Don’t speak with that journalist!” After that the anger directs itself to the Palestinian woman. “Move on”, says a soldier at the post. “This becomes a riot. You actually should not be here”. Later it turned out that the area had been declared closed territory by the military authorities. Diagonally opposite Beit Hadassah is the Kurtuba school, an elementary school for Palestinian girls where last week occurred rather serious incidents, when women from Beit Hadassah tried there to pull down the Palestinian flag and intruded violently the school building. Shortly after we entered the room of the manager of the school, the substitute military governor of Hebron let us know by phone that we had to get out immediately. If we did not obey this order, then we would be arrested. Kawther Salam, it was said, intended to pull up the Palestinian flag on the school again. The substitute governor was aiming obviously at this Palestinian journalist, after she had complained by him by phone about the insults she had to deal with at Beit Hadassah. She had no Palestinian flag hidden in her small white bag.
On suggestion of the Israeli occupation authorities the Palestinian flag doesn’t blow anymore at the front side of the school, but on the terrace behind the room of the manager, after a high wall, out of the sight of the settlers. “Since 1 September 1994 we have the right to put out the Palestinian flag on all schools at the West Bank”, says Rajid Ja’abari, director of the Department of Education in Hebron. “At 220 schools in the city the Palestinian flag blows. Only here we have trouble, because the military administration surrenders to the settlers.”

(Continued: Hebron, page 4)


HEBRON:
‘All settlers must go’
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Two investigators of the Palestinian institute for human rights Al-Haq from Ramallah, take testimonies from female teachers about the threats which female settlers uttered last week to the children during their attack to the school.“We'll cut your throats. Goldstein (Dr. Baruch Goldstein murderes last year 29 Palestinians in the Ibrahim-mosque) you are a martyr of the Jews, come and kill the children of this school” they shouted to the Palestinian schoolgirls, according to these witnesses.“The children are traumatized. Some of them wake up screaming at night”, says Firgal Abu Haikal, since two weeks the manager of the Kurtuba-school.“If I defend myself physically against these insults, the soldiers will intervene against me. Here the Jews are always right”, says the Palestinian journalist excitedly.

(translated from the Dutch newspaper article)

I have waited for over 11 years before deciding to publish anything about the crimes of the Palestinian Authority and the violation of the rights of Palestinians under the PA. Some readers may have asked themselves why I waited so long before deciding to write anything about these crimes. Simply said, I had working engagements with Palestinian newspapers I was instructed to never write or say anything critical about the PA, never to criticize the Palestinian patriarchal system and the discrimination of women in my writings. At the same time, I experienced many troubles due my journalistic work because I am a woman. I have put my life and my family in big danger many times due to this work. For example, my mother, aged over 80, received a “friendly visit” due to this article. Finally yet importantly, the main interest of my writings was and is the Israeli occupation and the criminals of the Jewish State, so I did not have enough time to write about the crimes and other problems with the PA.


Under the PA, social progress in Palestine has been turned back over 50 years. There is no real difference between the PA and Mafia gangs. The uncounted military systems established under the corrupt PA and financed by funds from the EU and other international agencies are in reality criminals, thieves (among other things of Israeli cars, with full connivance of officials on both sides), murderers, sexual perverts and gangsters. The proliferation of “military” systems established under the PA, which cannot be considered as a State, does not exist in the biggest countries in the world. All this and more contributed to last years election, in which the PA was voted out of power. While the Hamas are troubling in their own way, they are widely seen as less corrupt and much less likely to sell us out to the occupation. This was enough for assorted imbeciles in western state chanceries to declare them “terrorists” and subject all Palestinians to a genocidal embargo and continued incursions against civilians by the Israeli army.


Today I spoke with somebody from my homeland. As always, I asked about the situation. This call brought me some horrible news about another crime perpetrated by people from the military organizations of the PA. I am sure that the Palestinian newspapers and the Arab Media will not dare to publish such a story. The story, which was related to me, is just one example of the horrible things, which these people are doing.

Mr. Audeh (first name withheld for fear of retribution) is an officer with the National Security Forces of the PA in Bethlehem. He was a well-known criminal before the PA employed him as an officer. This criminal married three times. He divorced the first wife, she was his cousin. The second wife has a child; he stole the gold from her dowry on the first day of their marriage, during even the marriage festivities. The third marriage was without the knowledge of his second wife, a simple woman from a village near Hebron.


This criminal “National Security” officer proceeded to force his third wife to engage in prostitution, to render sexual favors to his “friends”. He would film her during these encounters and spread the film to the public, taking money for copies. The family of this third wife, the victim of his criminal activities, received a copy of one of these films showing this shameless behavior. Consequently, they slaughtered the daughter, cut her head, and portrayed themselves as heroes. They were very proud of what they did. There is no law that protects the victims in such a case. Such crimes are always “justified”. They call it “honor killing”.

There were hundreds of Palestinian women killed by their families during the Al-Aqsa Intifada and since the time PA had the power to establish the military system. The PA employees are directly responsible for causing the in honor killings of women in Palestine. The PA employees customarily abuse women sexually, especially women who work in the same offices, or women who come to ask for public services at the PA offices.


The PA always protects their criminals. Persons belonging to the military should be sentenced if they violate the military and civilian laws, but this never happens. In cases when Palestinian woman are abused sexually, the headquarters of the Palestinian military does nothing. The National Security officer from Bethlehem who forced his wife into prostitution and was thus the direct causant for her family killing her in order to clean the family honor, was not sentenced. He is currently in jail, but he still receives his full salary, which is financed by European countries. The PA will leave him free of any charges, as he has other relatives working with the PA, and these relative protect him from the consequences of his crime. The slaughtered wife who he forced to sell sexual favors to others should not be held responsible for what happened to her.


The second wife, who was left with a child and was betrayed by her husband, asked an Islamic Judge for a divorce on grounds that her husband had stolen her gold on the first day of her marriage, and also on grounds of his criminal behavior which caused the death for his third wife. However, she will not be free. While the Islamic law gives the husband the power of the divorce, there is no justice at the Islamic courts. The justice of Islam is just a rule written in the books, to which women seldom have access.


Under the PA, many military systems have been established; thousands of employees receive a salary at the end of the month, while in reality they do nothing more than posing the affluent class of Palestinian civil society. Here are the names of some of the military systems that were established under the PA:

The Presidential Forces Unit; The Presidential Security; The “Nobility Security”; The Intelligence Forces of the President; Military Intelligence; Military Police Unit; 17 Forces Unit; Marine Forces; The Special Forces; The National Security forces; The Alternative Security System; The Emergency Forces; The Military Tax Unit; The Disturbance Forces; The Quick Reaction Forces; The Border Police; The Public Security Forces; The Palestinian-Israeli Military Coordinating Unit which is a spy unit working in DCO building together with Israeli army. The Israelis use these officers as spies, and when the oppose, they are dismissed. It is important to keep in mind that this proliferation of “military” and “security” units goes on while there is no real, sovereign government, or President, in Palestine. All functionaries from all branches of the “government”, from the President down, must get permission from Israel for every move they make, if they want to move between different Palestinian cities, if they want to travel, if they want to say anything in public.


No to the US Presence in Palestine !

In addition, the US, Israel and the PA are coordinating with the Jordanian military to get the “Bader” Brigades into Palestine. Before that, the U.S sent us a military coordinator and representative, the corrupt war criminal General Keith Dayton. Before that, they sent us an “economic coordinator”, Mr. James Wolfensohn. Most Palestinians do not welcome these American criminals coordinating the destruction of their homeland. They strongly condemn the acceptance the PA has given these “coordinators”.


General Keith Dayton was involved in crimes against humanity in Iraq, where is responsible for the widespread use of torture against civilians in Abu Ghraib and other places, for jumpstarting the activities of an array of death squads, and for the constant flow of giant car bombs which are detonated among civilians and are invariably labeled as attentates from either the Shia or Sunni groups against each other. He is now training the PA military units how to fight against Hamas and the Palestinian civil society. He has gained experience in organizing death squads and genocide in Iraq. Because of these criminal skills he was sent to "coordinate activities" in Palestine. He represents American tax dollars at work, paying for murder and crimes on a vast scale.


Since the establishment of the PA they have neglected building and organizing the civil society in Palestine. The PA neglects the creation of a functioning of justice system; they neglect the protection of human rights and the reconstruction of a system of civil laws. The Palestinian military systems are completely paralyzed and corrupt. Their main occupations (and duties) are to steal from and to make life impossible for Palestinian civilians. The work of the police officers is seen as a clear problem in the middle of the Palestinian cities. At the end of the month, they have to get their salary before the employees from the civilian organizations get their salaries. Worse of all, Palestinian security units, military and police alike, are never present to protect anybody from the incursions of the Israeli army and the crimes of the illegal jewish colonists. I remember not one instance when one of these jewish terrorists have been even warned for an acto of terrorism, for theft, for murder. The situation with the corruption of the "government" was the real reason behind the break-out of the second Intifada.


The Palestinian Police system is corrupt. Briberies have replaced the law. If someone wants to visit their relatives in jail, the wife of a prisoner is obliged to give sexual favors to police officers. Police officers lead gangs of drug pushers and thieves who steal cars from Israel. The former Police officer Gazi Al-Jabali was a very big corruptionist person. The Israeli military confiscated millions of his wealth, which they found in his house during a search by the military. These millions had been looted from poor Palestinians in Gaza. I wonder why we need these military systems. Where were all the PA military units when the Israelis invaded Gaza and many West Bank cities? Where were the huge Palestinian military units when the Israelis invaded the jail in Jericho? Why were they stripped down to the underwear during that invasion? On the fourth of January, the occupation forces invade Ramallah, where President Abass live with most of the PA. The IDF killed four Palestinian civilians and injured 35. During this invasion military units of the PA disappeared. They left the civilians to fight against the IDF with stones. For what do these cowards train, receive a salary, receive a weapon if in the end they will demean themselves like dogs before the occupiers ?



The Composition of the PA military organizations

The Palestinian military organizations, paid by the European countries and other International funds, can be classified in these groups: The military groups that came (“returned”) with Arafat, were brought from other Arab countries. These people are rabble recruited in other Arab countries and given some military training. They are lacking in intelligence, education or culture, and they integrate poorly into Palestinian society. They speak a different dialect of Arabic; some of them have other nationalities. These military groups often trained and served with the armies of other corrupt Arab dictatorships. They come to Palestine without their own families and they suffer of psychological problems because of that. These people often marry with Palestinian women in a second marriage, but most of these marriages end in divorce because of cultural differences or because of the psychological problems, which these men have to start with.

The career military officers who are from Palestine and loyal to Palestinians, who often have better education, are separated from there work or frozen in lower echelons as they considered a threat to the PA and the corrupt officers brought from outside. The same is valid for the civilian posts: the corrupt people, spies and criminals are given high positions, the honest people are left in low positions or pushed out by use of whatever pretexts.


The Palestinians who were jailed during the first Intifada or killed Israelis, were automatically engaged by the PA military and given officers rank. The Israelis had tortured most of these people during their stay in Israeli jails, they suffered different mental diseases as a consequence. Apart from that, the Israelis only released the people who agreed to spy for them.

All the criminals, the cars thieves, the unemployed, the illiterates were automatically engaged in the PA military and police. Mohammad Dahlan, who had been a small-time gangster in Gaza before the Israelis, Americans and Europeans discovered him as “somebody they could do business with”, brought in many criminals to work under his command. He established death squads which have been involved in kidnappings and killings of civilians in Gaza. One recent murder attributed to Dahlan’s death squads has been reported here and attributed to “unidentified gunmen”.

Some of the PA officers were sent for training, but I know of no Palestinian officer who has attended a college military school. Some of them get some training by the USA, Britain, or in other Arab countries. Most of these officers do not speak a second language and have not finish school. To be an officer in the PA means to be a murderer, a criminal, or a relative of somebody who works in the PA.

On the first day of Eid Al-Adha Al-Mubarak, 1.5 billions of moderate Muslims have been insulted in their Islamic faith, insulted in their human dignity, and insulted because of their identification with Muslim traditions and culture. For millions of secular Muslims, who do not practice the religion but who nonetheless live their lives according to culture and traditions rooted in the Islamic faith, their way of life has equally been deeply disrespected by the execution of Saddam Hussein on the first day of Eid Al-Adha.


The big sacrilege was in the choice of the date of Saddam s execution. The criminal governments of USA and Israel made the illegal choice of the date of Saddam s execution, so much is clear. Moreover, the disgusting government of Iraq made up of the gang of hirelings and traitors around Mr. ‘Darkness Al-Maliki’ (his actual name, 'Nur', means light in Arabic) implemented this decision, which would never have been taken by real Iraqi government. The astonishing depravity of this vile sacrilege could only have been thought out by those high priests of misery who live all over the West Bank and go by self-adjudicated, respect-conferring titles like “Rabbi” (teacher) or “Tzaddik” (pious one). Only they have at the same time the necessary knowledge of religious traditions, the unmitigated hate of anything Islamic and a poisonous psyche permeated by that trait typical of the behavior of psychopaths and which has been elevated by these zionist Jews to a cultural institution under the name of chutzpah, while they themselves arguably live in apostasy to everything Judaism stands for. This and the hairsplitting around the legality of the execution or whether “before dawn” of this special day qualified as beginning of the Eid, it all points to these moral degenerates and their political zionist brethren in high positions in the US and other western regimes as the intellectual perpetrators, and the Americans and their Iraqi hirelings as the willing executors of this incredible sacrilege.

The president of the filthy and evil Iraqi “government” has violated the most elemental sacredness of the holy day of Eid Al-Adha Al-Mubarak. On this day, the Islamic faith forbids torturing, killing or humiliating another person. It is a holy festivity, just like the Easter festivities are holy for Christians. There is a big possibility that Mr. Al-Maliki received some millions $ from the USA and Israel for his dirty mission.

In order to understand what they did and why it is a sacrilege, which goes beyond the purely religious dimension, here is the pertinent quotation from the book of Genesis, Chapter 22, which is the basis to Eid Al-Adha, the Muslim Hajj, and which is basis for religious teachings of Christianity:



The basis of Eid Al-Adha and the Hajj in Islamic scripture is in the Sura of As-Saaffat, verses 102 through 107, quoted below:



The interested reader may also want to read Here (.PDF) an article on the origin and significance of the Hajj published by the American Islamic Institute.



Eid Al-Adha is the festivity or ceremony of the sacrifice, during which Muslims celebrate the sacrifice made by Abraham to save his Son Ismael. The symbolism of this is paramount, as Martyrdom is conceived as a sacrifice to save the Nation and its freedom.
This festivity originates in the writings of the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. It is the story (quoted above from the Genesis in the Old Testament) of Abraham, the father of the Prophets, and his son Ismael. While there is contention between the Islamic and Christian religions as to whether the son mentioned in the story is Ismael or Isaac, the symbolic teachings of the episode are clear for both the Muslim and the Christian faiths.

On this day Muslims must remember the story of the father of the prophets and Master Abraham, who dreamt of slaughtering his son Ismael as a sacrifice to God, but his hand was stopped by Gods Angel when he readied to slaughter his son on the pire. God sent him a ram to be slaughtered instead of his son. The symbolic teaching of this holy story is very clear: It is forbidden by God to slaughter human beings. Eid Al-Adha, the festivity of the sacrifice, is meant for all Muslims to remember the divine prohibition against human sacrifice. It is also an occasion during which pardons are customarily granted to criminals and forgiveness is plasticized in personal matters. To remember the expiatory ram sent by God to Abraham, sheep and goats aged over one year are slaughtered and their meat is shared among relatives and with the poor.

Whatever Saddam Hussein was, what ever he did in Iraq, it did not give justify violating the fundamental sacredness of the holy day of Eid Al-Adha. Saddam was slaughtered on a holy day on which killing humans is forbidden. Symbolically, killing Saddam on this day was the equivalent of a re-introduction of human sacrifice against Gods will, and, since in the Muslim tradition during this festivity only animals to be eaten can be slaughtered, killing Saddam on this day is also the equivalent of slandering all Muslims, religious or not, as cannibals. In the language of symbols, Saddam was killed in place of the expiatory ram of the religious scriptures.

Imagine, if you will, that the Chilean government had decided to execute former dictator Augusto Pinochet on Holy Saturday, just before the Pope started the Easter Vigil in Vatican City. How would a Christian describe their feeling after that ?

From here, all Muslims felt insulted in their faith and cultural identity by the execution of Saddam Hussein.

What I want to say is that the timing of Saddam Hussein execution was chosen to coincide with a holy moment for all the Muslims in world, which is commemorated by Muslims with the same respect and veneration as Christians observe the Easter festivities. Everybody, Christian or Muslim, should respect Easter and Eid Al-Adha as sacrosanct. Killings and executions are forbidden on these occasions. Saddam symbolically became the sheep of Eid Al-Adha, which the criminal extremists of the U.S and Israel decide to slaughter. This is the real face of the US occupation. Saddam Hussein was executed in this way because he had frightened the criminals of the U.S and Israel. He frightened them when he was a leader and when he was in jail. They thought that his execution would perhaps take away from their worries, clean the shame of the defeat which they have brought upon themselves.

We have understood the insult conveyed to us by the execution of Saddam. However, what neither the U.S nor Israel do understand is that the Arab nations will never say yes to the American and to the Israeli occupations, even if all the Arab “leaders” become dogs at the farm of George Bush (what they certainly are, figuratively speaking).



The root of the zionist subversion of western politics are the same reprobate poseurs who terrorize the Palestinian population day after day in the West Bank and Gaza. The common ideology and the lines of influence can be traced from specific illegal settlements and yeshivas in the West Bank, from specific persons residing illegally in the West Bank often enough known by name and address, to influence circles in Tel Aviv, London, Washington, New York, Canberra and many other places, and directly into the boards of many of the corporations well known for their economic depredations around the world, as well as to persons very active in the international economic and political spheres but who are less well known to the public, if at all as “philanthropists” or “oligarchs”.

The ideology espoused by these circles is old-testamentary, racist and brutal: hate the ‘other’ as you love their material possessions, denigrate and insult the social religious and moral values of the ‘other’, provoke and kill your political opponents whenever possible. The zionist circles who live this ideology draw the religious justification for their behavior not from the lessons of forgiveness in the religious scriptures, but from the bloodiest passages of the biblical old testament in which Yahweh commands his people to kill, rape and plunder their way across the land. Understanding their ideologic background explains why Augusto Pinochet died of old age while Saddam and his sons were hounded to death: Pinochet never opposed the designs of the zionists and he even facilitated the sellout of his country to interests aligned with them, but Saddam was an obstacle to their pipe dreams of “Greater Israel”.

In Islamic history we have never heard that a prisoner was executed or killed by his own government on the day of Eid Al-Adha. We always heard that prisoners were released and that pardons were dispensed to people guilty of crimes and offenses some days before the ceremonies of this Eid started. On this day, Muslims are allowed to slaughter goats and send the meat to neighbors and the poor people. How could we not understand the terror message sent to us by way of the sacrifice of Saddam by the USA and their Israeli and Iraqi allies ?

Saddam was the last courageous Arab leader who did not buckle under to Israel and the USA. He was the only leader who twice sent his military to fight the criminal terrorists of Israel. Whatever Saddam Hussein did, he was a leader and a war prisoner. The USA and their CIA supported him for a long time, ultimately he had to die because he knew many of the disgusting secrets of these people. Saddam said no to Israel and USA. His country was rich of oil. This was the reason behind the occupation of Iraq and his execution. Despite all the propaganda and outright lies of the expensively clothed commentators of all the corporate media, the people in West know that the agenda being executed “in their name” in Iraq has nothing to do with “democracy” or “terror”. Most people know exactly that what is happening there is motivated by exactly two factors: the irrational greed of the American oil transnationals, and much more prominently the influence of the criminal zionist elements which have subverted the American and Israeli political landscapes.

The choice of religious celebration clearly shows which is their world vision when compared with the other prevailing religions: Christianity celebrates Easter as a symbolic reminder of the death and resurrection of Jesus symbolizing hope; the world of Islam celebrates Eid Al-Adha to remember the already mentioned story from the scriptures symbolizing forgiveness; Judaism celebrates
Pessach to commemorate the escape from slavery under the Egyptian Pharaoh. But zionist jews celebrate the mass murder of 75.000 of their political opponents (women, children and old men included) as related in chapter 9 of the book of Esther.

These two terrorists countries perpetrated many crimes against humanity, the daily killings in Iraq and Palestine continue. Every week the USA kills in Iraq more people than Saddam Hussein killed during all of his leadership in Iraq. According to known to lie US sources, in 2006 over 14.300 people were killed in Iraq. According to more reliable sources, the number of dead because of Bush and his accomplices in December of 2006 alone must be over 18.000 persons.



But Saddam Hussein sent his military twice to fight against Israel, that was the real reason behind destroying Iraq and killing thousands of Iraqis, and at last executing him. Everybody understands and sees the disgusting terrorist face of the USA except the corrupt “leaders” of many western nations. The people of these nations are not stupid, despite the corruption of these politicians. Bush’s rant that “Saddam’s execution was an important milestone on the country's path to democracy” is a clear lie. If he is right in his saying, then he should be executed for killing thousands of Iraqis. He should be executed for the deteriorated situation which his “democracy” brought to Iraq. The same goes for all those self-anointed "leaders" who babble about "bringing democracy" or "pacifying" this or that country which had no problems before they sent their armies.

The Israeli war criminals should also be executed for the uncounted massacres they perpetrated in Lebanon and Palestine. The execution of the Israeli war criminals is very important for achieving justice and peace. Israel is a big threat for peace and justice in the world, not only in Palestine and the Middle East.


The victims of the Israeli and the American occupations will never give up, they will request the execution of these criminals, if not today, then tomorrow. Perhaps the face of this black history will change and real justice will replace the false American democracy. Hopefully, we will see Mr. Bush and the Israeli leaders executed for the next celebration of Purim.