Feb 20, 2012 -- 6:30PM, SherriMunnerlyn wrote:

Feb 20, 2012 -- 5:57PM, LeahOne wrote:

www.cfr.org/israel/palestinian-islamic-j...

What are the goals of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad?

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad wants to reestablish a sovereign, Islamic Palestinian state with the geographic borders of the pre-1948 mandate Palestine. The PIJ advocates the destruction of Israel through violent means; it approaches the Arab-Israeli conflict as an ideological war, not a territorial dispute. PIJ members see violence as the only way to remove Israel from the Middle East map and reject any two-state arrangement in which Israel and Palestine coexist.

The PIJ, unlike other Palestinian separatist groups, refuses to negotiate or engage in the diplomatic process. It does not seek political representation within the Palestinian Authority. The PIJ is also accused of attempting to hinder the efforts of the 1993 Oslo Accords by launching several terrorist attacks on Israeli targets.

 

"Palestinian Gandhi", my left buttock! 

Are the words in bold above somehow invisible on certain posters' screens?

Exactly how does going on a hunger strike absolve and redeem a person from SPEAKING FOR a group which advocates and participates in violence seeking to eradicate an entire nation?

 

Leah,

Khader Adnan is a human being and the issue is his rights, his legal rights that Israel has violated.

>>>>And where in ANY of my posts did I deny that?  NO PLACE.  Stop with 'answering' arguments I never made, please.  

The issue is not Islamic Jihad.

>>>>> Maybe not to you, but in case you hadn't noticed - you're not the only one posting here NOR are you in charge.

And the man, Khader Adnan, what I see him doing is embracing nonviolent resistance, thus making him by definition, a genuine Palestinian Gandhi.

>>>>>Whoop-tee-doo.  I got that.  What you've declined to discuss is how his not merely being a member of, but a spokesperson for a violent terrorist group is "embracing nonviolent resistance"?  There is an apparent contradiction here which remains unresolved.

Now IFF this man has repudiated his former terrorist affiliation, then I could see your point.  PLEASE - can you show me where he's renounced violence in all situations?

If not, then I think my point still stands.

This is something that one does not regularly see, an Amnesty Petition, and I notice it calls for a release or charging of crimes against all Palestinian prisoners held under administrative detentions, and also calls for all charges to be "for internationally recognizable criminal offences in full conformity with international fair trial standards."

This last element is addressing many past practices of Israel that violate intl law that Amnesty is asking Israel to change and conform to the requirements of intl law, Amnesty is calling upon the entire trial practice to meet due process requirements of intl law. And this also does away with trying prisoners for being members in banned groups, that is not a crime recognized under intl law. Intl law permits armed resistance to Occupations.

"Khader Adnan, Bobby Sands", the You Tube video is entitled. 

Here is a song written in the honor of Khader Adnan.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoEPftesWyA&feat...

Here is a comment to the song, addressing the report of Khader's release:

daraghma100 33 minutes ago "

I never saw him referred to with that title before.

We see before us with this struggle by Khader Adnan the power of NONVIOLENT MOVEMENTS as a response to INJUSTICE.  We all see dispalyed magnificently how nonviolence transforms people and it can transform our entire world in this very same way. And it can give FREEDOM to those under bondage and unlawful detentions all over our world. We set our own limits by our own choices and how we tap into these NONVIOLENCE MOVEMENTS.

If only the resources put into wars were put into resolving conflicts with nonviolence, the world would be a different place altogether.

Sherri

Court decision to cancel Adnan’s appeal hearing

The Supreme Court issued the following decision today:

"We have been delivered a joint notice by the representative of the Appellant and the representative of the Respondents, according to which there is no intention to extend the administrative detention beyond 17 April 2012, and (after offsetting the days of detention during which the Appellant was subjected to a criminal investigation), subject to the absence of new and significant material being added in the matter of the Appellant. In light of the above, the Appellant has ended his hunger strike and declared his retraction of the appeal.This being the case, the appeal is stricken, and the hearing schedule for today is thereby cancelled."

electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunima...

Khader Adnan will be released April 17, 2012, there will be no more administrative detentions, and he ends his hunger strike.

I think this is a pretty good outcome, I do not think there will be any more torture or abuse by Khader Adnan by Israel, after all the publicity. And I think care will be taken with respect to his recovery, as anything that happens to him between now and April 17, Israel will be blamed for.  They are responsible for his safety and recovery between now and April 17.

Sherri

Feb 24, 2012 -- 6:27AM, Dostojevsky wrote:

Sherri, hope you are right.

Still quite few days to April 17th*

Dos,

Physicians For Human Rights have stated they will issue updates on Khader's medical condition, when I find information I will post it. So far, I have not found any updates since Tuesday. I expect he remains in a precarious and dangerous physical state, after going 66 days without food.

I did just find an article that addresses a number of past Palestinian prisoners who have died from hunger strikes, in prisons detained unlawfully in Israel.

Why do we not hear news about all of this?

"Adnan has set an unprecedented record among Palestinian prisoners with his hunger strike," said Abdel Nasser Farawneh, an official with the Palestinian ministry for prisoner affairs.

Until now, the Palestinian record for going without food was set in 1976 when a group of prisoners ate nothing for 45 days. After a short break of several days, they then fasted for another 20 days.

Farawneh, who heads the ministry's statistics department, keeps records of the prisoners who have died while on hunger strike.

The first was Abdul Kader Abu al-Fahem who died in Ashkelon prison in 1970 after refusing food for nearly 20 days.

A decade later, four prisoners began a hunger strike in Nafha prison, near the southern desert town of Mitzpe Ramon.

Three of them, Rasem Halaweh, Anis Dawleh and Ali al-Jaafari, died after more than four weeks of refusing food.

The fourth prisoner, Ishaq Maraha, survived 32 days without food but died in 1983 from complications brought on by the lengthy strike, ministry statistics show.

The last Palestinian prisoner to die while on hunger strike in an Israeli prison was Hussein Ibeidat, in 1992, after 15 days without food.

"Khader Adnan is the longest and he is still alive. We hope he will stay alive," Farawneh told AFP."

news.yahoo.com/palestinian-prisoners-hun...

Sherri