[Ppnews] Occupied Palestine - 2 Start Their Twenty-Fifth Year in Israeli Jails

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Two Detainees Start Their Twenty-Fifth Year in Israeli Jails

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  Wednesday October 20, 2010 12:21
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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.

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.

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.

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.

Both of the detainees have been mentioned in detainee exchange 
agreements between the Palestinian and Israeli sides but were not released.

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.
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When Will the Conspiracy of Silence End?
Sunday 17 October 2010
By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=22694



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.

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".

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".

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.

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.

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?

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".

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.

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?

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.






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