Hunger striker Samer Al Issawi, 33 years old, has been on hunger strike for over 184 days now, protesting the injustice of his detention and that of all the other Palestinian political prisoners. Like other Palestinian political prisoners, Samer Al Issawi’s indefinite detention, without charges or trial, is grotesquely inhumane. It is an excuse to continue the persecution of the Palestinian people and those who dare to stand against Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine.
Al Issawi was previously sentenced to 30 years by Israel in 2002 and was among freed Palestinian prisoners who were released in October 2011 under a prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel after he had served 11 years. However, Israel reneged on its agreement — nothing new here — and rearrested him eight months later.
Having violated the terms of the swap deal, Israel was to rearrest Al Issawi under Mickey Mouse charges — as an administrative detainee. Administrative detention is a procedure that allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely on secret evidence, without charging them or allowing them to stand trial.
According to Aldemeer, a Palestinian Human Rights watch dog group, there are 25 members of the Palestine National Council, including the Speaker of the Parliament, who are among 5,000 Palestinians held captive in Israeli dungeons. These include 6 women, 166 children and 320 “administrative detainees.”
Since the year of 2000, the Israeli occupation authority has issued over 20,000 administrative detention orders. Palestinians held prisoners often reject the authority of the Israeli military courts, as they view them as sham courts that are used by the Israeli occupation army and Israeli intelligence as a cover for illegal detention based on so-called “secret” files and lack of concrete evidence for any crimes committed.
Basic elements of jurisprudence require Israel to either charge or free Samer Issawi and other administrative detainees. Under a democratic system of government you are innocent until you are proven guilty, and not guilty till you are proven innocent. If you are a Palestinian living under Israeli occupation, however, forget about the rules of law. It does not apply to you.
Last December, Israeli guards assaulted Al Issawi during a court hearing for the whole world to see. When he tried to greet his family in a Jerusalem court, the prisoner’s hands and feet were cuffed. Why this spiteful brutality in open court?
Al Issawi, who was assigned to Israel’s Ramleh prison, was briefly hospitalized when his heart dropped to 36 beats per minute. That did not stop the guards and Israeli forces from assaulting Al Issawi again as he tried to address the media. The guards dragged him by his hands and feet to the court’s detention room.
To add insult to injury, Israeli forces raided Al Issawi’s home town north of Jerusalem on the same day he was beaten in court and arrested his sister, Shireen, without any charges. Her putative crime? Defending her brother’s right to a fair trial and freedom. Shireen, who is a qualified attorney, is now telling the world to “stand by my brother before it’s too late!”
“HELP MY BROTHER!”
To make his voice heard and challenge his illegal detention and inhumane treatment, Al Issawi went on an open-ended hunger strike. As of this writing, Issawi is on his 183th day. He is currently in a very critical condition due to an acute vitamin B-12 deficiency. Moreover, he has suffered from neural and muscular problems, lost control of his limbs, and has been vomiting blood. His eyesight has also been impaired.
Last December, Issawi lost consciousness for 48 hours after he was given “medicine.” One cannot help wondering: is medical treatment a form of punishment in Israel?
As one one who has had the personal experience of lobbying for 18 months for my brother’s freedom from an Israel concentration camp in south Lebanon in 1980s, I do know that writing and challenging Israel publicly does make a difference. So I strongly urge all people of conscience who read this to have their voice heard and be seen and counted, as I did few days ago. Yes, I did get a reasonable response back. It was not a death threat or a visit from DHS or the FBI. The two people I heard from were officials of high rank in Israel.
Write to the President and prime Minister of Israel. Email: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu :[email protected] ; [email protected]
Email: President of the state of Israel Mr. Shimon Peres:[email protected]
Fax: +972-2-5664838 ; +972-2-5887225. (You can send via free fax).
Subject: charge or free Samer El Issawi
Dear President/Prime Minister,
For the love of peace, please use your power to prevent injustice!
Excellent article from Palestinian activist Mahmoud El- Yousseph. Let’s hope that Samer Al Issawi is set free soon, though I’m not holding my breath…
It seems to be an established principle of the Jewish mindset that if a non-Jew, particularly a Palestinian, is totally innocent of a crime, that he should be pronounced guity at once. No evidence needed! Just the Jews’ say-so.
If this were not so, we would not be seeing so many innocent women and children wantonly slaughterd in Gaza by these world-class bullies — whose constant carnage makes one feel curiously sympathetic to the “Evil Nazis”.
See the little VICTIMS:
http://image.space.rakuten.co.jp/lg01/03/0000005003/71/img462857aczik3zj.jpeg
Now see the little KILLERS:
http://www.indiaonrent.com/forwards/t/the-selected-conceptual-pics-from-the-world-part-1/res/-5uzhc.jpg
More update on Samer Issawi’s case:
To pressure Samer Issawi to end his hunger strike, Israeli Police arrested his sister for 24hrs, IOF cut off water supply from his family’s home, & Israeli Army demolished his brother’s home on Jan 1, 2013
America is run by gangsters, justice is a joke. Bush and Romney are major drug runners and cash launderers. They care nothing about anyone or anything, people are arrested and put away without charges.
The rule of law is over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=s9QA5B6U86s
Romney’s secrecy in business is detailed, and revealed; as well as his role as a drug money launderer for GHW Bush; his connection, through Bush, to CIA death squads in Central America; his role in 9-11; in the murder of US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens; and the significance of his endorsement of and by Cheney.
@Veteran
Recent reports on good developments: ‘Christian Churches are now vile anti-Semites’ reported by Goon Squad 26 jan. :
http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.nl/2013/01/christian-churches-are-now-vile-anti.html
And ‘Jewish groups apologize for Israeli attack on USS Liberty!’ by Rehmat 27 jan.
CIA O
This note is to thank John and Darkmoon for helping with spread the word in support of our hero of empty stomachs Samer Issawi who has been on hunger strike for 186 days.
Like wolfs, the Israeli soldiers bounced on our hero Samer Issawi saying, “You’ll die; your heart as well as your kidneys aren’t working properly; Your body is shrinking. You will die.” His response though was as powerful as sound of bullets in their hearts, “I’m continuing my hunger strike till freedom in loyalty of the martyrs who were recently killed in cold blood. Their lives isn’t any more precious than mine. I’m on hunger strike for the sake of freedom for all Palestinians who were re-arrested. I’m on hunger strike till either freedom or martyrdom and for my beloved Jerusalem I will return free. I will return free!”
This is Samer Issawi whom the Israeli Prison Service is hoping to kill him. He’s going through a process of slow death at their hands. He’s ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of freedom but we don’t want him to die!! Support him any way you can!! Our silence can kill him!
Again, thanks for your contiuous support for the plight of the Palestinians!
Do you have the answer why Samer’s hunger strike is being ignored ?
In 1943′s Gandhi & 1980′s the Irish hunger strikes was world wide news and drew a lot of support for their cause but today the international media is ignoring the Palestinian hunger strikes….WHY !!!
whoever keeps silence about a righteous issue is complicit in the crime.
Samer Issawi is 186 days Hungry for Freedom………………
Via: Ghinwa M. Al-hamdan
Firework in NATO headquarters Brussels in the Begian parliament by 32 years old Laurent Louis, MP Belgique, 17 jan. 2013, seldom seen. ‘The Greatest Speech by a Western Statesman This Century?” asks Kenny’s Sideshow rightly.
(…) Have not we created september 11 after all, to justify the invasions, arbitrary arrest, torture andmassacre of innocent populations? (…)
http://chemtrailsplanet.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/belgium-pm-laurent-louis-transcript.pdf
(vid included)
CIA O
Where were you when the lights went out in NY City? A line about the sync of things in a song. At 911 I had the intention to broadcast in Rotterdam a cable tv program of august/sept 1990 that I did in Amsterdam, a main theme in it: the good old Dutch Colonial times (the ”Golden Age”), cancelled the broadcast lasty minute. Nature had something else in store.
Brilliant Laurent Louis hits the nail on the head in his work/this speech. Naming the beast by its name: Neo colonialism. Jews were the financers and main executors behind Western Colonialism (but naturallement this does not leave the non jew Europeans and the collaborating upper class of the Asian/African/American continents off the hook. The NWO=JWO is a ”recorded earlier” can and must and will be stopped.
CIA O
Funny sync 2. Bilderberg Beatricks held a televised abidication speech yesterday at 19.00 hrs. after this gj comment. Last year she was stripped off her crucial role as advisor in the formation of a new Dutch govt. She past the ceremonial scissors to cut ribbons to her son .
Together with Victor Rothschild Beatricks is the largest shareholder of Royal Dutch Shell one of the Big co. behind the Oil wars. So she will not have any pension deductions.
CIA O
This is an urgent message from Free Samer Al Issawi campaing to former US president Jimmy E. Carter, as it epxoses the new Israeli lies behind reeresting Samer Issawi in violation of POW exchange treaty. President Jimmy Carter
The Carter Centre
One Copenhill
453 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, GA, 30307
Dear Mr. President,
Israel’s use of Administrative Detention is inhumane, unjust and a violation of International Law!
I am writing to you today about the 212 Palestinian prisoners from the occupied West Bank who are being held illegally without charge or trial in
Israeli jails.
Further, administrative detainees as well as other Palestinian prisoners are
subjected to human rights violations such as torture and other ill treatment during interrogation, as well as cruel and degrading treatment during their detention. They face bans on family visits, poor prison conditions, inadequate medical care, forced transfers and deportations and solitary
confinement.
These actions contravene Israel’s obligations under International Human
Rights Law and International Humanitarian Laws. For decades, Human rights
organizations such as Amnesty International have called for an end to Israel’s use of Administrative Detention but it continues to this day.
I would like to bring your attention in particular to the case of Samer al Issawi, an administrative detainee from Jerusalem, imprisoned since 7th July 2012 with no charge or trial.
Samer was released from an Israeli prisoner in October 2011 as part of the Shalit prisoner exchange deal. He had been serving a 30 year sentence for
alleged weapon possession and forming military groups in his home town of Jerusalem. Only eight months after his release, he was rearrested in Hizma because Israel claims that he broke the terms of the release by leaving Jerusalem; however Israel’s own maps show that Hizma is within the borders of the municipality of Jerusalem. He was detained but has not been charged
or brought to trial.
To protest this injustice, he has been on hunger strike for the past 186 days and his life is now in eminent danger. He is currently in hospital because of a slow and erratic heartbeat, he faints often and cannot stand or
move on his own, he has pains everywhere and his vision is failing. His family and as well as the people of his village are being pressured by Israeli authorities when they hold solidarity protests for him and other hunger strikers. Even the Red Cross and Israeli NGO Physicians for Human Rights Israel have been denied access to him.
Samer is one of several Palestinian administrative detainees in Israel who
are now literally starving to death for justice. Israel must stop the use of administrative detentions and release all prisoners immediately unless they are charged with an internationally recognized crime and given fair trials in independent courts. I urge you to take action in this matter before it is too late. I ask that you stand with us for Samer and all other Palestinian administrative detainees.
Sincerely,
Abbas Hamideh
National Chair, Al-Awda, The Palestine Right To Return Coalition & Coordinator, The Free Samer Issawi Campaign
Daleen Elshaer
Coordinator, The Free Samer Issawi Campaign
the message the jews are sending is that nonviolent resistance is futile.
Early his month, Israeli-born Gilad Atzmon revisited Lebanon after 30 years. Gilad went to see Israel’s notorious Khiam Torture Center where Israeli Jews detained and tortured their Lebanese and Palestinian opponents, in some cases, for as long as 14 years.
Gilad also reminds his readers about the notorious Ansar, an Israeli concentration camp located in South Lebanon. “It was back in 1984, on a piece of flat land in the middle of the camp, I noticed a dozen concrete boxes with small metal doors (pictured on left), they looked like dog kennels being only about 80 cm high, 100 cm long and probably about 80cm wide. When I pointed out to the commanding officer that these concrete construction weren’t suitable for dogs, he told me not to worry: no one would even think of putting dogs in them. “Put a Palestinian in one of those for 24 hours,” he laughed, “And he’ll come out singing the Hatikvah.” They were solitary confinement units for Palestinian prisoners. That was it. Then and there, I realised that Israel was not my country,” says Gilad.
http://rehmat1.com/2013/01/11/atzmon-hizballah-taught-israel-a-lesson-it-would-never-forget/
For Samer Al Issawi: Signs of increasing smartness in the world
http://www.bollyn.com/#article_13939
(…) The review of Solving 9-11 by professor James D. Smart will be read in the coming month by tens of thousands of readers in government, embassies, and universities across the United States and around the world. This is a major breakthrough as it is the first time Solving 9-11 has been reviewed in a leading scholarly publication that focuses on the Middle East (…)
(…) an extract from the beginning of the review: …As terrified workers jumped from the burning towers on 9/11, five Mossad agents celebrated the event across the river in New Jersey. They high-fived each other, danced and took photos of themselves in obvious delight. Notified, the police apprehended them. They had Palestinian clothing in their truck. They failed lie detector tests, but were released. Back home they admitted on Israeli television they had come to New York “to record the event.”……
…….These events in particular caused Christopher Bollyn, an independent journalist, to suspect that Israel was a key player behind 9/11 (…)
In his book Bollyn proposes that “9-11 was an elaborate false-flag deception carried out by Israeli military intelligence and Zionist agents” in the United States. He states the “Israeli nationals or dedicated Zionists [can be found] at every key point of the 9-11 matrix.” (…)
CIA O
Sorry for not being able to switch gears here. This is the latest update on Samer’s case to share with readers.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=562280
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