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</font>Two Detainees Start Their Twenty-Fifth Year in Israeli
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</b></h1><font size=3> Wednesday October 20, 2010
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by Mays Al-Azza - IMEMC & Agencies
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</a></font>The Palestinian national committee for supporting detainees
stated, on Wednesday, that two detainees, Ibraheeb A’layan, 45, detained
on October 10th,1986 and Sameer Abu Ne’mehn, 50, detained on October
20th,1986, both from Jerusalem, have entered their twenty-fifth year in
Israeli jails.<br><br>
The media chairman of the committee pointed out that A’layan was
sentenced to life imprisonment after the Israeli military court accused
him of participation in throwing grenades at a group of settlers in
Jerusalem, killing some of them.<br><br>
The detainee suffered from many serious problems caused by the bad
conditions in jails and medical negligence. The most dangerous problem
was a cardiovascular blockage for which he was transferred to Shiba
hospital in Tel Aviv for surgery.<br><br>
Abu-Ne’meh was detained after he stabbed a settler in Jerusalem. He also
was sentenced to life imprisonment although he still does not know the
specific charges against him. This detainee is suffering from disc damage
in his back and neck which causes serious pain. He has had six
unsuccessful surgeries.<br><br>
Both of the detainees have been mentioned in detainee exchange agreements
between the Palestinian and Israeli sides but were not released.
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The committee pointed out that 123 detainees have spent more than 20
years in Israeli prisons, including 24 who have spent more than 25 years
and 3 more than 30 years. One of them is Na’el Barghouti.<br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4>When Will the Conspiracy of
Silence End?<br>
</font><font size=3><i>Sunday 17 October 2010<br>
</i></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><b>By Dr. Bouthaina
Shaaban<br>
<a href="http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=22694" eudora="autourl">
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=22694<br><br>
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</a></b></font>Seconds passed like an eternity for a heart beating for
freedom, a soul which fought against occupation and its humiliation and a
body shrinking into itself trying to avoid 21st century brutality in a
prison cell without door or windows. The body is thin and delicate, the
head is scarved and the eyes are blindfolded in absolute absence of human
conscience; while the monsters of the Western age in the land of Jesus
Christ dance around their victim. Are these monsters dancing in
celebration of kidnapping an Arab girl whose only sin is that she has
fought for her and her people’s freedom? Or are they dancing in
celebration of the death of world conscience which drawls human rights
and freedom while turning its back on the most sacred cause of freedom in
the 21st century - the freedom of the Palestinian people and its fight
for salvation from Israeli terrorism perpetrated through Western support
for over sixty years.<br><br>
Released prisoner, Ihsan Dababseh (24), tells the story of the video in
which Israeli soldier Avi Yakobov, who abused her by performing a
belly-dance and rubbing against her bound and blind-folded body in
December, 2007 at the Gush Etzion military base. She says, “Another
soldier brought a bottle of wine and asked me to drink”. Minutes later,
soldiers attacked her like frenzied wolves with gun butts. “One soldier
kept hitting my head against an iron bar until I blacked out”. <br><br>
Ihsan Dababseh’s story is only one of numerous daily stories in the lives
of the eleven thousand Palestinian prisoners in the last apartheid regime
in the world. Nevertheless, the ‘civilized’ world hardly remembers them,
except when seconds of the suffering of one of them is leaked out. These
are mere seconds of long years of torture and humiliation, without any
protest on the part of the ‘free’ Western media, human rights
organizations or the UN Human Rights Council, maybe fearing the fate of
American anchor, Rick Sanchez, who was fired by CNN simply for saying
that “Jews are not oppressed”.<br><br>
As a result of Western governments and media collusion with Israeli
government terrorism, Israeli soldiers have arrested more than 90
Palestinian children in one month. The youngest, aged 13, was taken out
of his family home by court order.<br><br>
Human rights groups have revealed more than once that Israeli soldiers
attack female prisoner sells and force them to take off their clothes,
subject them to humiliating inspections and force them to raise their
hands from 9 in the morning to 3 in the afternoon.<br><br>
Do Western politicians, who flatter Israeli war criminals like Benjamin
Netanyahu, by calling Israel ‘and oasis of democracy’ know this? Why
don’t the Americans spread freedom and human rights in Palestine instead
of supporting and funding torture, murder and settlement? Or do they view
Palestinians as they viewed red Indians in America and the aborigines in
Australia as people without human rights and whose life is not equal to
human life?<br><br>
American and European silence towards these atrocious Israeli crimes,
even their absolute support of the racist government in Israel gave
Israeli soldiers and settlers a free hand to kill, torture and run over
unarmed Palestinian civilians. Their crimes have exceeded manifold those
committed by the Apartheid in South Africa. They even exceeded Nazi
brutality. This was the testimony of holocaust survivor on boat Irene
which tried to break the Gaza blockade. He said, “what I suffered in the
holocaust is largely similar to the suffering of Palestinian children
today”. This was also expressed by Amira Hass (Haaretz, 7 October 2010).
She wrote, “Evidence? Explanations? Common sense? No need. They, after
all, are paid a salary by the Israeli taxpayer in order to invent new
kinds of punishment and torture. She adds, “today, the sense of shame has
disappeared. Society's backing is assured”. <br><br>
On my part, I add that the sense of shame has disappeared because the
silence of the ‘international community’ is assured, because none of the
world leaders is ‘free’ any longer. They have become captive to the
Israeli lobby which controls the Congress, the media and the election
money. That is why no American or European leader, not even the United
Nations, will ever condemn any crime against the Palestinians as long as
the perpetrators are Israelis. Even when the victim of such aggression is
the Nobel peace prize laureate, Mairead Corrigan-Maguire. The peace
activist arrived in Gaza on board the ship Rachel Corrie (named after the
young woman run over by Israeli bulldozers). When she returned to
Bein-Gurion Airport days ago, she was detained by Israeli authorities in
the same way they detained American thinkers Noam Chomsky and Norman Gary
Finkelstein and Spanish artist Ivan Prado, secure in the knowledge that
no one will dare criticize the Israeli apartheid regime for fear of being
accused of anti-Semitism. Her crime was that several months ago she took
part in a demonstration organized by the Bili’in villagers against the
racist segregation wall and was twice on board ships to break the Gaza
blockade.<br><br>
The crimes committed with impunity by this racist entity against
prisoners and peace, freedom, justice and human rights activists have
gone so far largely because of the ‘silence’ of ‘democratic’ countries.
It is true that Palestinian prisoners and activists are fighting for the
freedom and dignity of the Palestinian people, but they actually embody
the conscience of free people all over the world. Should we leave them in
Israeli jails, as we have left Nelson Mandela in the Apartheid prisons
for decades, and wait for their release and turning them into icons of
freedom and dignity? Or should we start immediately to work for releasing
all prisoners and for enabling them to live in freedom and dignity with
their families in their homeland?<br><br>
No human rights organization, or regime claiming concern for human rights
and freedom, has any credibility as long as eleven thousand Palestinians
suffer the scourge of a hateful criminal occupation, and as long as the
world keeps silence regarding the atrocious crimes committed against them
in Israel’s Nazi prisons.<br><br>
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