Sunday 14 December 2008

Greta Berlin and Hezbollah members due to give conference at Belgian Parliament

"Deep sensitization and spreading awareness on the aggressive, terrorist and racist nature of the Zionist entity as well as the hazards on security and peace in the world it causes. Exposing its expansionist objectives and inhuman practices and crimes against the Palestinian people and the sacred places, and seeking the expulsion of the Zionist entity from international institutions." (IUPFP articles of association)

Surely it is astonishing and deeply alarming that these people will be holding a conference at the Belgian Parliament:

Sources: IUPFP (and Association belgo-palestinienne in French)

"The International Union of Parliamentarians for Palestine (IUPFP) will be holding a conference this monday the 15th of December at 14:00 hours in the conference hall of the Belgian Federal Parliament.

The conference is entitled : The Palestinian prisoners: their suffering and their resistance: in light of the fact that more than 10 000 Palestinians still languish in "Israeli" [note the quotation marks] jails mostly without a trial and among them many women and children and also parliamentarians. Add to that, the continuous inhumane siege of Gaza that has been turned into a huge prison causing a tremendous humanitarian crisis and inflicting unbearable suffering upon the innocent civilian population. therefore it is of great importance to create awareness on this great injustice in all the above mentioned dimensions."

Speakers at the conference:

"Dr. Hassan Khraishe: Vice President of the Palestinian Parliament (on the current situation in Palestine and the prisoners issue).

Mr. Abdullah Kassir: Secretary general of the IUPFP and former Lebanese MP, he is also the current general manager of the Lebanese Al Manar TV station ( on the role and vision of IUPFP in advocating Palestinian rights). [See Hezbollah TV says German ban on station is unjust, 'Zionist lobbies' behind decision]

Dr. Hussein Al Hadj Hassan: Lebanese Member of parliament- Hezbollah, ( on the prisoner exchange deal between Hezbollah and Israel and the lessons learned from it). [See Hizbullah MP Hussein al- Hajj Hassan and here]

Mrs. Gretta Berlin: From the Free Gaza Movement that has been organizing boat trips to Gaza in order to break the siege." [What nice company Greta Berlin keeps. Being a woman she is treated with great respect and obviously comes after her chivalrous male friends.]

The IUPFP Secretary General is Iranian MP Sayyed Ali Akbar Mohtashemi who is thought to have:

"... played an active role, with the Pasdaran and Syrian military intelligence, in the supervision of Hezbollah's suicide bomb attacks against the American embassy in Beirut in April 1983, the American and French contingents of the MNF in October 1983 and the American embassy annex in September 1984."

and according to a Pakistani newspaper:

"An Iranian member of parliament, Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-Pur, who helped found Hezbollah in Lebanon as his country’s ambassador to Syria in the 1980s, has confirmed in an interview with the Iranian newspaper Sharq that Tehran has equipped the group with long-range missiles capable of hitting "any target in Israel".

"Hezbollah’s arsenal not only includes Katyusha missiles, but also Zelzal-2 missiles, which could hit targets as far as 250 kilometres, leaving no spot in Israel unreachable", said Mohtashemi-Pur, who holds a government-appointed post as secretary-general to the Palestinian Intifada Conference. "There are countries that have weapons but don’t have the courage to use them”, he lamented."

The Director General of the IUPP is no other than the pro-Hezbollah founder of the Arab European League (AEL) Dyab Abou Jahjah and self-styled Belgium's Malcolm X/Arab pride and official fears.

The "Zionist watcher" section of the IUPFP infamous website features biographies of the following "Zionists":

Dick Cheney, Ehud Yaari, Elliott Abrams, Douglas Feith, Majalli Whbee, Timothy Kirkhope (the only European), Daniel Pipes, Avi Dichter, John Bolton, Karl Rove, Lynn Woosley, Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Kagan, Yuval Steinitz, Zalmay Khalilzad and astonishingly ... Stephen M. Walt (co-author with John Mearsheimer of the The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy).

The following are some of the aims of the IUPFP :

"Consolidating the presence of the Palestinian people in its land by assisting and supporting its resistance against occupation in all its forms, and providing Palestinians with all essential elements for their steadfastness and the continuation of their glorious Intifada on their national soil."

"Deep sensitization and spreading awareness on the aggressive, terrorist and racist nature of the Zionist entity as well as the hazards on security and peace in the world it causes. Exposing its expansionist objectives and inhuman practices and crimes against the Palestinian people and the sacred places, and seeking the expulsion of the Zionist entity from international institutions."

"Seeking to spread a culture of resisting the normalization of relations with the Israeli occupation, and a culture of boycotting both the American and Israeli products."

"Exposing the dealings of every state or organism in supporting the Zionist entity against the objectives of the Palestinian people as well as exposing the policies of such states and boycotting them economically."

- Muslim European group posts anti-Semitic cartoons
- British writer David Hart calls for the creation of an international anti-Zionist lobby

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