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Barghouti was illegally imprisoned

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Barghouti was illegally imprisoned


Written by
Stephen Lendman
Date: January 9, 2012
Subject: Israel - Palestine

Marwan Barghouti: Prisoner of Conscience - by Stephen Lendman

From March 29 - May 3, 2002, during the second Intifada, Israel conducted Operation Defensive Shield. Before Cast Lead, it was its largest military operation since June 1967 when Israel occupied Palestine.

On September 23, 2001, a warrant was issued for Barghouti's arrest. On April 14, 2002, he was arrested on spurious charges of murder, aiding and abetting murder, promoting murder, criminal conspiracy, and being an active member of a terrorist organization.

At the time he said:

"I am a political leader, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, elected by my people. Israel has no right to try me, to accuse me, to judge me. This is a violation of international law. I have a (legal) right to resist occupation."

On September 5, his trial began. Barghouti disputed its legitimacy under international law. On December 12, Judge Zvi Gurfinkel ruled as follows:

"I reject the argument at this stage of the proceeding regarding the Court's authority in the context of the petition for the detention pending completion of proceedings filed by the State against the Defendant."

"Ultimately, the State of Israel has the right and the authority to judge the Defendant," according to Israeli and international law.

On May 20, 2004, Barghouti was convicted of involvement in three terrorist attacks killing five people. Acquitted on 33 other charges, he received five consecutive life sentences plus 40 years.

A three-judge panel ruled that although he didn't fully control local Brigade leaders and wasn't directly involved, he had "significant influence" over their conduct.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) international organization of parliaments and sovereign states published a legal assessment of his proceedings based on case notes, prosecutorial member and defense team interviews, as well as others with international NGO trial observers.

IPU concluded that:

"From the beginning of the investigations until the final day of the trial, the prosecution put almost as much effort into staging a media event as it did into working on the legal aspects."

Moreover, show trial theatrics and publicity took precedence over Barghouti's legal rights. Numerous international laws were breached. Judicial fairness was denied. The entire process was illegitimate. It elevated him more than ever to prominence.

Justice was clearly denied. Barghouti remains imprisoned. During last October's prisoner swap, he was excluded. So were other Palestinian leaders, including Ahmed Saadat, Ibrahim Hamed, Hasan Salameh, Abdullah Al-Barghouti, Jamal Abu El-Heija, and Abbas Issyd.

Barghouti Indicts Israel

On October 3, 2002, Barghouti indicted Israel on 54 counts, saying:

"The State of Israel is directly and indirectly criminally responsible for committing specific acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, including uprooting Palestinians by military attacks, arbitrary arrests and illegal imprisonment, administrative detention, attacks on women, children and the elderly, systematic and wanton destruction of property and homes, (and) systematic expropriation and dispossession...."

He added other charges, including:

Violence to life and person (including assassinations), confiscation of lands and property, creation of separate reserves and Bantustans, disruptive public life and terrorizing a whole population (including collective punishment and reprisals)...."

In addition, "racial discrimination, stealing, looting and plundering, infliction of serious bodily or mental harm (including torture and other cruel and inhuman treatment), mutilation, causing death and serious injury, (and) deliberate imposition of (inhumane) living conditions...."

Also, "legislative measures calculated to prevent Palestinians from participation in the political, social, economic and cultural life and the deliberate creation of conditions preventing the full development of Palestinians, exploitation of labor, persecution of organizations and members, depriving persons of fundamental rights and freedoms because they oppose military occupation, colonialism, or apartheid, and other criminal acts."

Barghouti powerfully presented provable facts. Yet he's wrongfully imprisoned while legions of past and present Israeli leaders remain unaccountable for decades of crimes of war and against humanity, slow-motion genocide, and much more. Justice awaits its day.

Release Barghouti

On November 8, 2011, The New York Times (a notorious Israeli supporter) gave op-ed space to Avinoam Bar-Yosef, Jewish People Policy Planning Institute president and former daily Maariv chief diplomatic correspondent.

Headlined, "Release Marwan Barghouti," he said:

Barghouti's "regarded as the sole Palestinian leader who enjoys the full trust of Fatah and the Palestinian public, (and) is said to have figured prominently in high-level Israeli consultations (in retaliation against) Abbas for his" UN de jure membership petition.

"The Israeli peace camp" wants him released. Israel so far refuses.

Bar-Yosef knows him well. He "never denied the right of the Jewish people to a Jewish state." He favored an Islamic Palestinian one, but "expressed contempt for Islamic fundamentalists."

"Above all," he's uncorruptable. While a student, he focused on refugee camp humanitarian needs.

As a Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member, he strongly opposed Fatah corruption. He's a powerful leader. "He is rightly courted by the Obama administration and many Israelis."

Most Israelis support a two-state solution provided Palestine recognizes Israel as a Jewish state and accepts limited right of return privileges. Abbas can't achieve it. Only Barghouti can and deserves a chance.

Barghouti's Background

Detailed information on him can be found at:

free barghouti.org

Called the architect of the first Intifada (1987 - 1993), he symbolizes Palestinian unity and resistance. He served as Fatah West Bank Higher Committee Secretary-General (to develop civil society). He's also a PLC member.

He's easily Palestine's most popular leader and would win overwhelmingly if allowed to run for president.

At age 15, he joined Fatah and co-founded its Youth Movement (Shabiba). In 1978, he was arrested and imprisoned for over four years for "membership in a banned organization."

In 1985, he was arrested again and administratively detained uncharged for six months. In 1987, he was expelled to Jordan for "incitement." He liaisoned between exiled PLO members and Fatah during the first Intifada.

In 1989, he was elected to Fatah's Revolutionary Council and the PLO Central Council. In April 1994, he returned to the West Bank. He supports Palestinian independence; a two-state within 1967 borders; peace with Israel; social, political and economic justice; democratic values, and women's rights.

Initially an Oslo supporter, he later rejected it. Settlement expansions betrayed it. As a result, he urged ending negotiations until Israel unconditionally halted them and committed to ending Palestine's occupation.

He denied founding the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, advocates a political solution, rejects violence or submission, but supports "any (legal) action against the Israeli occupation."

He also became disillusioned with America as an "honest broker." As Oslo dissolved into violence, he urged liberating resistance.

In prison, he completed his high school education and became fluent in Hebrew. He later earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Birzeit University. His master's thesis covered Palestinian-French relations from 1967 - 1997. He was also active in student politics and headed BZU's Student Council.

His wife Fadwa Ibrahim prominently supports Palestinian prisoner rights. She also campaigns actively for her husband's release.

She calls him Palestine's "natural leader," saying opinion polls show he's "the choice of Palestinians because of his adherence to the two-state solution, his fight against corruption and for the rights of women and democracy."

They also want him freed "to lead them in their fight against occupation."

Israel calls him a terrorist. Supporters know he champions diplomacy, not violence.

He's also for Palestinians and Jews living independently in their own states in peace. Israel chooses confrontation and violence to prevent it.

A Final Comment

On the eve of last October's prisoner swap, Barghouti's secretly written book was smuggled out of prison by lawyers and family members. Titled, "One Thousand Nights in Solitude," it detailed his prison treatment.

Once arrested and detained, Palestinians are guilty by accusation. Convictions are virtually certain. So is horrendous treatment, including physical and psychological torture, as well as other forms of abuse.

Political activist Majad Abdel Hamid said Barghouti's "trying to create a civil resistance" in prison. "If all Palestinians refused to recognize the legitimacy of" military trials and automatic convictions, "Israel would be in big trouble. This is partly what the book is about."

Barghouti endured three years of punishing tiny cell isolation, as well as other physical and psychological torment. He never broke and champions Palestinian unity and nonviolent resistance to end Israel's occupation.

He also authored two books and a University of Cairo doctoral dissertation titled, "The Legislative Council and its Contribution to the Democratic Process in Palestine from 1996 to 2008."

In 1999, he was accepted by the University of Cairo and Arab Academy for Research and Studies to pursue doctoral studies. In prison, he successfully completed them.

Free or imprisoned, he symbolizes hope. Supporters hope one day he'll be free to lead them.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/.                                  


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Comments in Response

Comment by: TL Winslow (#21344)
   Entered on: 2012-01-08 13:17:09

Oh yes, to answer my own question, the Allah Akbars won't leave Israel alone because Allah commands them to KILL JEWS as an act of worship to come closer to him:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/01/hamas-praise-be-to-you-our-lord-you-have-made-our-killing-of-the-jews-an-act-of-worship-through-whic.html

That's what Muslims mean when they call each other heroes and fighters.  That's what Lendman agitprops for per orders from the Kremlin.  He's sick :)

Of course, Hamas and Fatah were killing each other for awhile, causing the little people among the Muslim Palestinians to grumble that they're violating the Quran, which makes it a crime for Muslims to kill Muslims.  That's why it won't go on forever, and they will eventually close ranks and do what Allah likes, namely kill Jews - if they can.  Let's hope that Israel won't let them.

One thing they both agree on: NO ISRAEL IF THEY CAN HELP IT.

http://madaboutmahound.blogspot.com/2012/01/fatah-member-balfour-declaration.html 

 

Where's the new U.S. president with the cajones to finally help Israel expel all Muslims from the Nile to the Euphrates and create a wide DMZ so that the 350M Allah Akhbars won't get any chance of coming closer to Allah?

http://www.thejerusalemconnection.us/blog/2012/01/06/the-u-s-and-biblical-israel.html

Meanwhile the other flavor of white meat, the Shiites in Iran must be prevented from getting their hands on nukes or they will hand them to Hezbollah to use in suicide missions in Israel, starting WWIII.  Ron Paul and his 19th cent. isolationist mentality can stuff it because the U.S. won't hesitate to help Israel makes its last stand, while Israel-hating Pres. Paul's desire of letting Iran nuke Israel in the first place is just what would bring it on.

 

 

 


Comment by: TL Winslow (#21344)
   Entered on: 2012-01-08 10:43:31

{On October 3, 2002, Barghouti indicted Israel on 54 counts, saying:

"The State of Israel is directly and indirectly criminally responsible for committing specific acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, including uprooting Palestinians by military attacks, arbitrary arrests and illegal imprisonment, administrative detention, attacks on women, children and the elderly, systematic and wanton destruction of property and homes, (and) systematic expropriation and dispossession...." }

What is this convicted terrorist and murder going to do, arrest Israel and put the Jews into concentration camps? He and his fellow fake Arab Muslim "Palestinians" already tried repeatedly to do just that militarily and lost, so now all they can do is whine, many from jail where their own actions put them.

Kremlin puppet Lendman is just cranking out more 1-sided agitprop against Israel to please his masters. Did he mention that from Mar. 29-Apr. 21, 2002 14 Muslim suicide bombers killed dozens of Israeli civilians and wounded hundreds more? No matter who Israel convicted of murdering their own, Lyingman would accept their protestations of innocence at face value and go on to call for Israel's dissolution.  He doesn't lend, he steals history.

Lendman says that Barghouti should be the new Hamas leader since Abbas can't achieve a 2-state solution. Why then did Barghouti back Abbas from prison? The answer is that none of them want anything but a 1-state solution, a Muslim one, with Jews returned to dhimmi 9th class citizen status where they have to avoid looking a Muslim in the eye, give up their seat on the bus to one, walk in the gutter instead of the sidewalk, and pay a yearly tax not to be executed for being an infidel: does the Israeli slogan "Never Again" ring a bell?

 

As to Lendman trying to convince us his innocence, if Barghouti is really a Gandhi who is innocent of killing Jews, why does his own son say that he is a 'hero", and another Palestinian say that "he was a fighter from the beginning"?  In the Quran, "fight" always means kill, and "hero" means jihadist. His son also calls it a "war", in Arabic JIHAD, his daddy taught him well, including to call the extermination of the Jewish state Israel and enslavement of the Jews "winning their freedom", no matter how many Jews they have to kill.

When will the ARAB MUSLIMS get off their act and VACATE THE ENTIRE AREA AND LEAVE POOR OUTNUMBERED SURROUNDED ISRAEL ALONE? The 22 Arab countries have a pop. of 350 million, and have millions of sq. mi. to worship Allah Akbar, so why don't they?

http://tinyurl.com/muslimscope

 

 

 

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