What better way to defeat an enemy than to cause a situation which has its ranks divided, and seeing its energy unleashed by one faction upon another, followed by tit-for-tat retributions, in an unending cycle of mutual destruction? Watch those who support one common cause going at each other’s throats, and you will find yourself faced with a very difficult...
Some events are just too tragic, too grim, too significant to forget. Can you imagine someone being murdered – not by bullets, but by 15 knife wounds – in the middle of a courtroom, right in front of the judge and all the other legal assistants? What if I told you that the murderer was actually on trial, and the...
This year the Palestinian struggle is marked by the actions of courageous Palestinian individuals in Israeli detention, who are protesting against their imprisonment without due process by awe-inspiring hunger strikes. Despite the world’s mass media’s attempts to keep attention to the issue limited, the actions of human rights organizations, social media activists and other individuals all over the world have...
For many days now, Khader Adnan has been waging a principled hunger strike against the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. At the time of this blog post, his hunger strike has been going on for 58 days. Khader was imprisoned in December without any charges, a very common practice of the Israeli occupier. After having been subjected to...
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