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| FEATURED | Some Critical Comments from Gaza on Turkey's Normalization with Israel! Jun 28 2016 / 9:26 pm A quick reading of the deal proves that it is a stab in the back of Gaza! (Photo: UNRWA, file) Israel and Turkey have reached an agreement to normalize ties six years after an Israeli naval attack that killed ten Turkish activists and nine years after the imposition of a deadly siege that has left Gaza unlivable. What do we, Palestinians of Gaza, feel about it? To put it mildly, we are dismayed and angered as must be the families of the ten victims of the Mavi Marmara incident. This deal leaves us under a hermetic, medieval siege that amounts to what the Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, calls "incremental genocide!" Needless to say it is also a violation of the boycott guidelines which Palestinian civil society issued in 2005. In fact, it is not unlike normalizing diplomatic and economic ties with the South African apartheid government. AKP is the Turkish branch of Ikhwan (Muslim Brothers) who ruled Egypt for a year and failed to open the Rafah crossing and lift the siege, and Hamas, the Palestinian branch, has added misery to the lives of the besieged of Gaza through its strict rule and absence of any political vision. And now, the Ikhwan of Turkey strike a deal with apartheid Israel at the expense of Palestinian basic rights! To add insult to injury, Hamas has issued a statement "expressing its gratitude for Mr. Erdogan's efforts to help the residents of Gaza, which are in line with Turkey's principled support of the Palestinian cause!" And Hamas leader, Ahmed Yousuf, made it clear that "Turkey has done all it could to lift the siege and help the Palestinians of Gaza. The regional changes have made it change its policy and accept the easing of the siege instead! We can't expect more than this from Turkey'(my translation). Defenders of the Turkish government, namely Islamists, are up in arms to justify the unjustifiable! The Israel-Turkey reconciliation deal has nothing to do with Gaza, and everything to do with Israel's, and to some extent Turkey's, interests. In fact, the Ikhwan never fail to let us down! They don't want to acknowledge that the Israel-Turkey reconciliation deal is a slap in the face of ethical and moral decency for the mere fact that Turkey has ended up asking for Israel's help to lift the siege on Gaza!! So what does "lifting the siege" mean? It basically means the opening of the six crossings, the keys of which are in Israel's hands, and the flow of all kinds of goods, especially essentials, to and from Gaza; and providing Gaza with electricity and clean water; and guaranteeing the freedom of movement of the 2 million Palestinians of Gaza. This also means the permanent opening of the Rafah crossing. This is the responsibility of the occupying power, namely Israel. But even this does not meet the minimum basic rights of the Palestinian people, namely freedom, equality, and justice. No normal relations with apartheid Israel should be resumed without the latter complying with International law that guarantees Palestinian basic rights. A quick reading of the deal proves that it is a stab in the back of Gaza! Improving the conditions of oppression, or rather slowing down the genocide, is a form of complicity because Gaza for the Turkish government is simply a humanitarian case. In a nutshell, the Turkish government has sold us out and wants us to be grateful! The "incremental genocide" continues. - Dr. Haidar Eid is an author and associate Professor at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.
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| SELECTED |  By Haidar Eid - Gaza Israel and Turkey have reached an agreement to normalize ties six years after an Israeli naval attack that killed ten Turkish activists and nine years after the imposition of a deadly siege that has left Gaza unlivable. What do we, Palestinians of Gaza, feel about it? To put it mildly, [...]  By Hasan Afif El-Hassan When Israel occupies and colonizes the West Bank and Jerusalem in a coordinated Zionist and Talmudic zeal, destroys Gaza in three wars and imposes tight blockade on the Strip, that counts as "self defense" by Israel's supporters and their media rhetoric. When frustrated Palestinians, who have been under occupation or besieged [...]  By Jonathan Cook The enraged liberal reaction to the Brexit vote is in full flood. The anger is pathological, and helps to shed light on why majority of Britons voted for leaving the European Union, just as earlier a majority of Labor party members voted for Jeremy Corbyn as leader. A few years ago the [...]  By Dr. Mustapha Al-Barghouthi The production of water in the West Bank is estimated at 932 million cubic meters annually, of which Israel steals at least 800 million cubic meters. In essence, this means it takes over 86% of the total amount of water in the West Bank. A Palestinian citizen in the Occupied Territories [...]  Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, and Israeli Prime, Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have reached an agreement to normalize ties, a senior Israeli official told reporters. This is aimed at ending the rift over the Israeli Navy's killing of nine Turkish citizens during a Gaza flotilla raid in 2010. The agreement, which took three years to reach, is [...]  Israeli Prime, Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said his government is "exerting secret and public efforts to identify the fate of missing soldiers in Gaza." His remarks follow a protest organized by the family of missing Israeli soldier, Avraham Mangisto, on Sunday in front of Netanyahu's office. Protesters called for Mangisto's release in the Israeli-Turkish reconciliation deal. Ilan [...]  Israel Prison Service (IPS) authorities have stepped up punitive measures against Palestinian prisoners affiliated with the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Prisoners have been carrying out hunger strikes in protest of the administrative detention of Bilal Kayid. IPS authorities transferred 17 hunger-striking prisoners from Megiddo prison to Jalameh prison and other [...]  By Mahmoud Zidan Perhaps the assassination of Jo Cox, the British MP, outside a library is symbolic after all. The purpose of Cox's racist murderer, Thomas Mair, killing her after a session with her constituents cannot be missed: he aimed to silence her voice and what it represents. Nevertheless, her voice is now heard all [...]  By Yousef M. Aljamal - Gaza While Muslims around the globe welcome the holy month of Ramadan with delightful decorations and unique rituals, Gaza remains the usual exception due to the collapsed economy. Ten years of blockades imposed on the 1.9 million Palestinians living in Gaza have made the situation desperate. Even Gazans who have [...]  By Center for Citizen Initiatives On June 16, the New York Times reported : "More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of the Obama administration's policy in Syria, urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government of President Bashar al-Assad to stop its persistent violations of a cease-fire in [...]  By Dr. Aayesha Soni The Gaza strip is a piece of land 41 km long and 6-12 km wide, with a total area of 365 square kilometers. Situated on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean sea, it has a strong population of 1, 8 million people, making it one of the most densely populated areas [...]  By Ramzy Baroud Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. This alarming development has been taking place for weeks, since Israel's national water company, "Mekorot", decided to cut off - or significantly reduce - its water supply to Jenin, Salfit [...]  By Jonathan Cook - Nazareth In a little-noticed move last week, Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman barred an official close to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas from entering Israel. Mohammed Madani is accused of "subversive activity" and "political terror". His crimes, as defined by Lieberman, are worth pondering. They suggest that Israel's conflict with the Palestinians [...]  By Tariq Shadid A major political scandal is unfolding in the Netherlands: politician Lodewijk Asscher has made sure over the years that AOW-pension payments to Dutch Jewish settlers in the Occupied Territories were kept at their original levels, while all other AOW-pensions of Dutch expats' were decreased significantly. His astonishing defense, when he was confronted [...]  By Nour El-Borno - Gaza Moons shine through her eyes As she walks past her house: Here, she once laughed; There, she once cried. "I remember," she whispers. The dark hours that once took over Are now gone in the past, But so are the happy moments She once had. "What [...]  Approximately 41.6 per cent of Palestinian residents in the state of Palestine are refugees, Quds Press reported Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) saying yesterday. In an official report, the PCBS said that 26.3 per cent of West Bank residents and 67.7 per cent of those in the Gaza Strip are refugees. According to UNRWA, [...]  Union Construction and Investment's (UCI) major real estate project, TABO, on Monday announced the completion of the extension of a network of high voltage underground electricity cables in QarawaBaniZaid, north of Ramallah. The pioneering project is the first of its kind in the town, which previously only possessed low voltage electricity cables that served a [...]
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| LATEST NEWS | Marwan Barghouti: Attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque is a Form of 'Racism' Jun 28 2016 / 7:29 pm Israeli soldiers in front of Dome of the Rock mosque. (Photo: via Aljazeera/file) By Palestine Chronicle Staff Mustafa al-Barghouti, the Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative has stated that Israeli raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque during the last ten days of Ramadan are a "dangerous incitement". He added that these actions will incite further anger in Palestinians and Muslims, PalSawa.com reported on Monday. Barghotui said that the desecration of the mosque and violations against worshipers by Israeli settlers who are protected by Israeli police is a form of "racism" and a violation of the freedom of worship. Things are calm now at Al Aqsa Mosque after the 2nd day of isreali occupation attacks on worshiper's
He added that the Israeli authorities are placing a new status quo in the mosque based on partitioning it. He further called for all Palestinians to attend the final Jumuah prayer at Al-Aqsa mosque on the last Friday of Ramadan, and to remain inside it as long as possible. (Palestine Chronicle)
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