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Thursday, May 31, 2012

UNION OF AGRICULTURAL WORK COMMITTEES

 An AusAID examination has concluded there is no evidence to support claims by the Israel Law Center (Shurat HaDin) that funding through World Vision Australia to a Palestinian NGO, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) was in violation of section 21 of the Charter of the United Nations Act, 1945.

The claims relate to alleged links between UAWC and a proscribed terrorist organisation, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

Senator Carr said he would be as swift as anyone in cutting aid to any organisation that was a front for terrorists.

“But this organisation is officially registered in Israel itself.

“It is not banned by Israel or declared a terrorist organisation by the Israelis.

“Taking into account the thorough nature of AusAID’s examination and advice from AGS that no offence has been identified, the AFP has advised it would not accept this matter for further investigation.”

Senator Carr said that the work of World Vision helps raise Palestinians from hunger and poverty.

“That can only reduce the capacity of terrorists to win recruits.”

The UAWC has received support from a number of donor governments and international aid organisations including Oxfam (Great Britain, Italy, Belgium), Norwegian People’s Aid, FAO, the Japanese Government, the Netherlands Government, the European Union, Catholic Relief Services and Save the Children.

The UAWC has helped deliver plant and seedling nurseries to provide food security and help more than 1,000 low-income households in the West Bank and Gaza.

Aid to the UAWC commenced under the Howard Government in 2005 and was renewed by then Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Bob Carr said the Israel Law Center had provided information to AusAID on April 11, 2012 in support of its claim.

“I understand the material provided by the Israel Law Center has been carefully examined by AusAID in consultation with other agencies including the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation,” Senator Carr said.

Since 1996 UAWC has been registered as a not-for-profit organisation with the Israeli Ministry of Justice. This registration was most recently renewed on 5 March 2012.

Regular reporting by UAWC and World Vision, and regular monitoring by AusAID, confirm that appropriate due diligence and fiduciary risk management processes are being implemented by World Vision.

This provides direct assurance that project funding from AusAID through World Vision is not being used to support terrorists but is being spent on agreed, high priority development activities.

 Minister’s Office:      02 6277 7500  or  0435 658 623
AusAID:          0417 680 590

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The Syrian Regime's Brutality Vs. The Free World's Indifference/ Elias Bejjani


It is a well-known scientific fact and a proven reality that animals who are carnivorous predators do not hunt and kill their prey unless they are hungry and not because they love to kill or find a pleasure in hunting. These animals do not torture their prey but kill them on the spot within few minutes.
Based on these realities it is a deadly sin and a cowardly encroachment against every and each human value, faith, covenant and principle to say that those armed murderers (the "Shabeha"-Assad's family�s armed thugs, mercenaries, professional murderers and militias) who committed the Houla massacre in Syria last Friday are acting like animals. It is not fair at all and under any given reasons or circumstances to even relate their barbaric and savage acts to animals, or otherwise we would be genuinely and purposely insulting animals.
One can't really imagine or believe that there are still human beings in this 21st century who are actually vampires and Draculas, much, much worse than what was depicted in the 1897 novel, "Count Dracula" by the Irish author, Bram Stoker. Watching this scary and disgusting amateur video will display those real and actual human vampires and Draculas in action. What a shame on the free and civilized world to watch and just do nothing to forcefully topple the Syrian dictatorship and rescue the Syrian people.
Click on the link below, sign in to prove that you are 18 or older and watch (an amateur video) what the whole world is talking about, but just talking and doing nothing except issuing comedic and ineffective denouncement releases as well as toothless and sarcastic sanctions.
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DASi9wrUJc%26feature%3Dyoutu.be
Last Friday, 110 Syrian citizens were tortured and mutilated beyond all human imagination and then they were slaughtered like sheep. This barbaric crime took place in Syria's west-central area of Houla on the hands of Al-Assad regime "Shabeha" thugs in cold blood, and with dead conscience, numbed hearts and indescribable brutality.
The victims as per UN observers' reports were 50 children, 35 women and 20 elderly men. This gruesome massacre was denounced rhetorically by the UN General Council and the majority of the countries all over the world including Canada, but sadly nothing yet has been practically done on the ground to stop the Syrian regime from murdering its own people that has been mercilessly continuing on a daily basis for the last 15 months. According to the UN, 13.000 have been killed, 50.000 detained and thousands have disappeared with no knowledge of their fate.
Even the murderers themselves, their bloody leadership and criminal allies (the Syrian regime, Iranian mullahs, the Hezbollah terrorist organization) have issued statements of denouncement stupidly alleging that the Syrian revolutionists, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have committed this horrible crime and not them.

In an evil act of humiliation to the whole world, the Al-Assad dictatorial regime with extreme insolence and audacity has announced that it is has started a massive investigation campaign and that all those accountable for the crime will be put on trial to dearly pay for their atrocities.
Meanwhile, special UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan visited Syria on Monday and met with its criminal leadership, but there was nothing he could do except count the victims, uttering empty warnings and engaging in fruitless, Babylonian and endless talks. The same inept stance also applies to the Arab League and to all the Arab countries, as well as to neighboring Turkey which has loudly voiced many threats but never yet put any of them into action.
It is worth mentioning that the brutal Syrian regime has been in power for the last 42 years with the help, support and financing of the Western world, Iran, Arab countries and Russia. It was allowed to freely occupy neighboring Lebanon for 30 years and to slaughter its people, force them to leave their country, and destroy all its institutions. It was the Syrian regime that helped Iran to form the terrorist Hezbollah armed Shiite militia and to erect its ministate. It was also the Syrian regime turned the 17 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon into ministates. Meanwhile, the majority of worldwide terrorist groups, fundamentalist Salafists and Islamists were hatched, trained, used and exported by the notorious Stalinist and Nazi Syrian Secret Intelligence bodies.
It is time for the UN, Free World and Arab countries to speak about "force" and military intervention, the only language that Al-Assad and his thugs will understand and respond to. Force MUST be utilized sooner and not later to topple the brutal Syrian regime and rescue the victimized Syrian people as was the situation with Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc. Meanwhile, it doesn�t matter who is going to rule Syria after the Al -Assad era is over because in reality nothing could be worse than this Stone Age dictatorship.
In conclusion, there will be no peace in the Middle East and a reasonable and acceptable long-lasting solution for the Arab-Israeli conflict unless the Syrian butchering regime is toppled, as well as all the other dictatorships in the region which survive on hostility, enmity, hatred and fanaticism

Monday, May 28, 2012

AUSTRALIA TO SUPPORT UN RELIEF WORKS FOR PALESTINIAN REFUGEES

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Bob Carr today announced Australia would support additional teachers and doctors for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East, with a $90 million funding agreement to be signed with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Canberra this afternoon.
The agreement would provide the $90m in overseas aid to be distributed by UNRWA over five years, supporting education and medical care for Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
The agreement would be signed by Senator Carr and UNRWA Commissioner General Mr Filippo Grandi in Canberra today.
"More than 1.4 million Palestinians live in recognised refugee camps in the Middle East, including those fleeing ongoing violence in Syria," Senator Carr said.
"The total number of Palestinian refugees in the region could exceed five million.
"Today's funding agreement means more Palestinian children will go to school, and more doctors will be supported to work in refugee camps and Palestinian communities.
"That's good news on humanitarian grounds, and good news for Middle Eastern regional stability."
Senator Carr said while Australia's first priority was always its own citizens, there was room for wealthy countries to also do their part in fighting poverty overseas.
Since 2007, Australian aid has:
  • helped more than 470,000 Palestinian refugees attend school in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, including more than 200,000 girls; and
  • supported 4200 health workers to provide basic and emergency care to Palestinian refugees.
UNRWA is a United Nations agency established by the UN General Assembly in 1949 to provide assistance and protection to registered Palestine refugees. Australia has provided over $119 million to UNRWA since 2000, to deliver education, health, housing and infrastructure services to Palestinian refugees.
Minister's Office: 02 6277 7500

Sunday, May 20, 2012

LETTER TO ALL EGYPTIANS

The members of The Australian Egyptian Forum Council in Sydney, Australia deplore, and express their objection to, the current presidential campaigns of some of the presidential candidates and the current political environment in Egypt. They strongly oppose any presidential candidate who calls upon the people of Egypt to vote for him in the name of religion and who claims that “if anyone who does not do so will not go to heaven”.

The Australian Egyptian Forum Council calls upon the current Egyptian Military Council, the current Egyptian Parliament (Majlis al-Sha’b and Majlis al-Shurah) to forbid such practice and to police all voting places in order to stop Candidates and their supporters from influencing and manipulating people’s votes.

The Australian Egyptian Forum Council also requets the Egyptian Military Council to appoint female supervisors to supervise and positively identify women who are wearing BOURKA when entering the polling places to cast their votes unless they agree to remove the covers off their faces so they can be easily identified by the polling places inspectors or judges.

The Australian Egyptian Forum Council is a non political group which cares about the future of Egypt and which would like to see Egypt once more occupying a leading role in the Middle East as was the case before.

God bless Egypt and the people of Egypt.
Gayed Adel

Saturday, May 19, 2012

THE BANANAS with dark patches on yellow skin - Anti Deadly Cancer!

I Never knew this!
BANANASwith dark patches on yellow skin   The fully ripe banana produces a substance called TNF which has the ability to combat abnormal cells. So don't be surprised very soon the shopwill go out of stock for bananas. As the banana ripens, it develops dark spots or patches on the skin. The more dark patches it has, the higher will be its' immunity enhancement quality . Hence the Japanese love bananas for a good reason. According to a Japanese scientific research, banana contains TNF which has anti-cancer properties.
The degree of anti-cancer effect corresponds to the degree of ripeness of the fruit, i.e., the riper the banana, the better the anti-cancer quality.
In an animal experiment carried out by a professor in Tokyo U comparing the various health benefits of different fruits, using banana, grape, apple, water melon, pineapple, pear and persimmon, it was found that banana gave the best results. It increased the number of white blood cells, enhanced the immunity of the body and produced anti-cancer substance TNF.
The recommendation is to eat 1 to 2 banana a day to increase your body immunity to diseases like cold, flu and others.
According to the Japanese professor, yellow skin bananas with dark spots on it are 8 times more effective in enhancing the property of white blood cells than the green skin version.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

PREMIER RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTORATE FROM UNIVERSITY IN LEBANON


On behalf of the people of NSW, Premier Barry O’Farrell has received an Honorary Doctorate from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik during his visit to Lebanon.

The ceremony at the University was one of the highlights of a day of visits to sites across the country.

“This Honorary Doctorate from a renowned university honours the relationship between the people of NSW and the people of Lebanon, as much as it does any individual. It is therefore particularly humbling to receive it,” Mr O’Farrell said.

“I sincerely hope that my current visit to Lebanon conveys the high esteem in which the Government and people of NSW hold the Lebanese community, and reflects my desire to foster an even closer and more productive relationship, including in the field of education.

“As Premier of NSW, I encourage and support efforts to increase educational links between universities in my state and in Lebanon. I urged the fine staff and alumni gathered to work towards that goal,” Mr O’Farrell said.

Earlier in the day Mr O’Farrell also toured the Khalil Gibran Museum and visited the Qozhya Monastery. He also visited the villages of Bcharre and Al Minie where he met with local mayors and community leaders.
 
"Many Lebanese immigrants to Australia hail from these regions and, although they have returned to their homeland, they maintain strong ties with New South Wales.
 
“These immigrants brought with them the very best that Lebanon had to offer – the generosity and warmth of the Lebanese people, as well as the innovation and trade savvy of their Phoenician ancestors.

“I was delighted to meet people in these villages who have visited New South Wales to see their family and friends and have been left with such a positive impression of our State,” Mr O’Farrell said.

On his final day in Lebanon, Mr O’Farrell met the President, His Excellency General Michel Sleiman, the Prime Minister His Excellency Mr Najib Mikati, and the Speaker of the Parliament His Excellency Nabih Berri.

The Premier closed his tour of Lebanon by attending a Presidential Lunch, also attended by the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Information Minister.


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Friday, May 11, 2012

Moselmane calls it a day after 16 years

The Leader
Retiring from the council:
 Cr Moselmane with wife Mika and son Joseph. Picture: John Veage
LABOR MLC for Rockdale and councillor of 16 years, Shaoquett Moselmane, announced his resignation from the council yesterday.
The council will apply to Local Government Minister Don Page for an order that the vacancy left by councillor Moselmane's resignation not be filled until the local government elections in September.
Councils can make such applications where a vacancy occurs 18 months before an election.
Cr Moselmane has been an Australian Labor Party member for 28 years.
He has held several posts in local branches, including secretary and president of the Rockdale State Electorate Council.
A lawyer, Cr Moselmane said it was an "honour and a privilege" to have served the people of Rockdale as a councillor and mayor.
He has been a councillor at Rockdale for 16 years, since 1995, including four terms as mayor, most recently in 2009.
He stepped down from the mayoralty after his appointment to the NSW upper house.
Cr Moselmane said that he would continue to serve the people of Rockdale in his capacity as a state upper house MP.
Among his achievements, Cr Moselmane included protesting against the M5 east ventilation stack, council rate rises and assisting Arncliffe resident Joan Coleman, 94, to fight against closure of Arncliffe's Commonwealth Bank branch.
He said he was resigning from the council to make way for the new councillors who would be elected in the state's upcoming local government elections.
"When I stepped down as mayor I made sure there would not be a by-election," Cr Moselmane said.