22 May 2017, the House of Wisdom Institute for Consultation and Conflict Resolution and in cooperation with the Palestinian-Egyptian Media Forum organized a political symposium
Entitled “The strike of prisoners and the Palestinian diaspora, where to” in the presence of a number of politicians and representatives of civil society.
Dr. Ahmed Yousif, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute, welcomed the audience and thanked them for their invitation and praised their high national sense of belonging and interest in dealing with national issues. He appreciated Egypt’s important and historic role in supporting the pivotal and supportive Palestinian cause of the Palestinian cause and that Palestine can not relinquish this. The fundamental role of achieving a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian question.
Dr. Yusuf stressed the existence of a compass that determines the direction through which the political partnership to reach safety. And that the basis of the problems in Palestine is the political division between the two parts of the nation, which weakened the media discourse, and that party polarization and the attempt to distort the other is weakening the Palestinian situation. What is required is to strengthen our capabilities and capabilities and not to weaken the Palestinian body. There must be financial support for the Palestinian media in order to be He added that the Palestinian reality is going through a sensitive and difficult stage and the reality must be felt to get out of this crisis, stressing more support and solidarity with the issue of prisoners who hunger strike for 36 days, stressing the end of the division because the division is the one who dispersed the Efforts and weakened the unified media discourse.
For his part, Dr. Kamal Al-Shaer, chairman of the Palestinian-Egyptian Media Forum, said that the aim of this seminar is to support the issue of the prisoners’ strike, which enters its 36th day, and that dealing with the issue of prisoners and refugees is very weak by the Arab media. , And that the Israeli media control the Western media in dealing with the issue of prisoners, as he likened the prisoners to criminals and out of the law.
Dr. Kamal Al-Shaer also stressed the unity of the Palestinian media discourse aimed at the West in particular in order to transfer the suffering of prisoners to the world to put more pressure on the Government of Israel to respond to their just and humanitarian demands.
For her part, Dr. Rania Al-Louh from the Palestinian Council for National Empowerment said that the Palestinian picture is a dark picture. The original is to focus on the division and work to end it, working side by side with the foreign media agencies and with its correspondents in Palestine in order to convey the suffering of the prisoners to the world in all languages. Palestinian communities in Europe to emphasize their role in supporting and support the issue of prisoners and refugees.
Dr. Ibrahim Al-Masri, Director of Ruwais Center for Studies and Research, said that the Palestinian student should be focused on teaching the subject of the prisoners and their suffering in the Zionist detention centers, and focusing on the youth group because they are the mainstay of the country. .
Dr. Mansour Abu Karim, a Palestinian expert, stressed that the Palestinian issue is interrelated and the solution is to deal with the Palestinian issue in its natural size as a central issue. Dr. Abu Kareem blamed the two sides on the situation in the Gaza Strip. The political parties in both sides of the country are expected to step back and make some concessions to get out of this crisis, which could affect the entire Palestinian cause.
Dr. Awad Kandil, head of the Palestinian Families Association, said that the Palestinian communities that live around the world must be focused because they are better able to understand the psychological, circumstances and conditions of the people by understanding the culture of the people they have.
The writer and political analyst Dr. Jamil Salama said that the focus should be on unifying efforts and standing united against the plots being hatched against the Gaza Strip by ending the division and holding the two parties responsible for the catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip.
Professor Mufid Abu Shamaleh, director of the Center for Journalism and Publishing, said that journalists should be focused on more than one language and that new information payments should be produced that could address the world in all languages in order to spread the issue of prisoners to the widest extent possible.
As a. Amjad Abed, head of the student council of Al-Quds Open University, said that Western media only hears the official Israeli narrative on the Palestinian issue. He hears only one voice because the Palestinian media is preoccupied with secondary issues left behind by division such as electricity, salaries and unemployment. Pressure on political elites to end the division.
Dr. Abdul Karim Shbeir, the head of the National Committee for Breaking the Siege, concluded that a national strategy must be developed in dealing with the issue of prisoners and refugees in international forums and that there is no political will on the part of the Palestinian leadership to pressure Israel in the International Criminal Court because it violated international law Humanitarian rights against the Palestinian prisoners.
Dr. Shabir stressed the need to address international trade unions and legal bodies in order to sue Israel for violating international law. He stressed that individuals and Palestinian bodies may file suits against Israel, since Palestine is a member of the Security Council and also a member of the International Criminal Court.
The symposium has made several recommendations, the most important of which are:
1 – There should be a national compass to determine the direction in which the political partnership to reach safety.
2. Unify the Palestinian media discourse in the face of the Israeli media propaganda directed against the Palestinian national issues.
3 – stressed the presence of the need to end the split out of the current situation, because the division is one of the weakest media discourse.
4 – More solidarity and support as the issue of prisoners, especially in
