Friday, September 3, 2010

Why Israel imprisoned my best friend


(Abdallah Abu Rahmah being arrested by Israeli soldiers at demonstration in Bilin in 2005.)

Mohammed Khatib, The Electronic Intifada, 2 September 2010

"And just as Israel has gradually increased restrictions of where we can go, the boundaries of what is permissible to do as a Palestinian have narrowed markedly. We have reached a point where peaceful protest is unacceptable to the Israeli state and military legislation has been constructed to criminalize and throw in jail anyone who dares to publicly voice dissent...."

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