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Monday, July 2, 2007

Top Palestinian journalist seeks asylum in Norway

A prominent Palestinian journalist from the Gaza Strip has sought political asylum in Norway, Palestinian journalists said Saturday.

Seif al-Din Shahin, the correspondent for the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel network, left the Gaza Strip together with his family, they said, noting that he had received many death threats over the past few months.

Shahin's request has yet to be approved by the Norwegian government. Several other Palestinian journalists are also reported to have fled the Gaza Strip out of fear for their lives.

Earlier this year, masked gunmen set fire to the offices of Al-Arabiya in Gaza City, causing heavy damage to furniture and equipment. Although no group claimed responsibility, Palestinian journalists blamed members of Fatah's armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades.

The group was also responsible for beating Shahin in two separate incidents in 2001 and 2004. The second assault followed Shahin's live broadcast of a rally held on Fatah's anniversary. The report angered Fatah leaders who had instructed Shahin and other journalists to report that tens of thousands had participated.

In 2003 he was arrested by the Palestinian Authority security forces because of his reporting. Al-Arabiya's offices in Ramallah have also been attacked by Fatah gunmen on a number of occasions...


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Tel Aviv long ago expanded to include villages that existed before racist Eastern European Ashkenazim came to steal Palestine from the native population.

Tel-Aviv district includes Tel-Aviv-Jafo city, whose official name somewhat anomalously preserves the name of the pre-existing Arab city.

The Palestine Remembered web site provides copious information on the crimes of genocidal Zionists and the historical coverup in which their racist subversive ethnic Ashkenazi American allies are engaged (see http://www.palestineremembered.com/JaffaTownsSnapshot.html ) to the harm and detriment of the USA.

[I don't understand how this comment attached to the wrong blog entry.]

Tel Aviv long ago expanded to include villages that existed before racist Eastern European Ashkenazim came to steal Palestine from the native population.

Tel-Aviv district includes Tel-Aviv-Jafo city, whose official name somewhat anomalously preserves the name of the pre-existing Arab city.

The Palestine Remembered web site provides copious information on the crimes of genocidal Zionists and the historical coverup in which their racist subversive ethnic Ashkenazi American allies are engaged (see http://www.palestineremembered.com/JaffaTownsSnapshot.html ) to the harm and detriment of the USA

[I don't understand how this comment attached to the wrong blog entry.]

Tel Aviv long ago expanded to include villages that existed before racist Eastern European Ashkenazim came to steal Palestine from the native population.

Tel-Aviv district includes Tel-Aviv-Jafo city, whose official name somewhat anomalously preserves the name of the pre-existing Arab city.

The Palestine Remembered web site provides copious information on the crimes of genocidal Zionists and the historical coverup in which their racist subversive ethnic Ashkenazi American allies are engaged (see http://www.palestineremembered.com/JaffaTownsSnapshot.html ) to the harm and detriment of the USA

You keep posting it to the same wrong entry.

I seem to have stumbled onto some sort of web software bug. This comment is supposed to be attached to Hamas Guarding the Hen House, but when I try to put it there, it attaches to Asylum in Norway, and I do not believe that I am doing anything wrong.

Don't know what to tell you. As you can see (until I delete them), I've just posted several test comments and they worked.

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