Palestinian/ Israeli update 1/12/2016..Palestinian journalist Mohamed al-Qiq has fallen into a coma after entering his 48th day of hunger strike
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The Palestinian journalist Mohamed al-Qiq has
fallen into a coma after entering his 48th day of hunger strike, family
sources revealed.
According to the Palestinian News Center (PIC),
al-Qiq’s wife said that her husband had entered a very critical stage of
his hunger strike that was started on Nov. 24, 2015.
The Emek
Medical Center, the hospital in Afula where he is hospitalized, has
begun taking forced blood samples from his body as a prelude to force
feed him, the wife quoted his lawyer as saying.
On the forty-six
days after he began his hunger strike, al-Qiq has lost the ability to
speak or walk, and has begun to vomit and urinate blood.
According to his lawyer, Ashraf Abu Snena, al-Qiq can barely communicate using signals.
Both his legs and one arm are handcuffed to his bed at all times and he already lost 22 kilos.
He is from the village of Dura, near Hebron, and used to work as a reporter for the Saudi news channel “Almajd.”
Al-Qiq
was arrested on November 21, 2015 when Israeli soldiers blew up the
front door of his house and took him in for interrogation at Israel’s
Kishon (Jalame) detention center.
He went on hunger strike in protest against being held under administrative detention with no charge or trial.
According
to PIC, over the past week, al-Qiq has refused an Israeli offer for his
release after extending his administrative detention for one last time.
He declared his insistence on maintaining his hunger strike until his
unconditional release
The Palestinians MUST put their political act together if their cause is to be kept alive
By Alan Hart
……………Changing the dynamics requires for starters the dissolution of the PA and handing back to Israel complete responsibility and full accountability for occupation.
This would impose significant security, financial and other burdens on Israel. Its response would undoubtedly be more and more brutal repression of all kinds, but this could (I think would) benefit the Palestinians because the true face of Zionism would be exposed, fully naked, like never before for all the world to see. And that in turn could lead to mounting public pressure on the American-led Western powers, perhaps at some point enough pressure to cause them to say to Israel, “Enough is enough” and put it on notice that it will be isolated and sanctioned if it does not end its defiance of international law and denial of justice for the Palestinians.
The dissolution of the PA would open the door to rebuilding the institutions of the Palestinian national movement on the basis of unity which by definition would mean an end to factionalism and political tribalism. At top level, and to enable the Palestinians to determine policy and speak to power with one credible voice, this in my view would require bringing the Palestine National Council (PNC) back to life refreshed and reinvigorated by elections to it in every country where Palestinians live.
Even if there are enough Palestinians in the diaspora who would be prepared to become engaged to make it happen, elections to refresh and re-invigorate the PNC would take time. So after the dissolution of the PA and handing back to Israel complete responsibility and full accountability for occupation, what would be the most effective resistance strategy for the occupied and oppressed Palestinians to adopt?
Their incredible almost superhuman steadfastness in staying put is proof that Zionism’s policy of making life hell for them in the hope that they will leave to make new lives elsewhere has failed to date and is unlikely ever to succeed. But that’s not enough.
The steadfastness of the occupied and oppressed Palestinians needs to be reinforced by peaceful, absolutely non-violent, demonstrations, preferably on a daily basis, across the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip, calling for peace with security and equal political, civil and human rights of every kind for all. This would be in effect a campaign for one state for all.
Demonstrations of resistance would have to be peaceful, absolutely non-violent, because escalating Palestinian violence would play into the hands of those Israeli Jews, leaders and others, who would welcome a pretext for a final round of ethnic cleansing.
In theory equal political, civil and human rights for all in one state would lead in time to the de-Zionization of Palestine; but it’s not unreasonable to assume that Israel’s leaders will never allow that to happen,
In that light, and despite what I have written above, the question that has to be asked is this.
Even if the Palestinians do put their political act together in the way I have suggested, is there any reason to entertain real hope that there can be in future in which they enjoy an acceptable amount of justice?
In my view that’s a question only the Jews of Israel can answer.
If the Palestinians remain steadfast and do put their political act together to keep their cause alive, they will bring about the day when the Jews of Israel will have to address the question of what kind of future they want.
Do they want to live in an obnoxious, apartheid state which has to resort to ever more brutal measures to maintain its domination of the Palestinians, with the very real danger that the ever more brutal measures will transform the rising global tide of Israelism into anti-Semitism, setting the stage at some point for Holocaust II (my shorthand for another great turning against Jews everywhere); or, do they want peace and security in one state with equal political, civil and human rights for all – even though that that would mean the end of Zionism’s colonial-like enterprise?
If by putting their political act together in the way I have suggested the Palestinians can cause the Jews of Israel to make that choice, there will be some hope (perhaps not a lot but some) for a peaceful resolution of the conflict.
I once said, and I think it bears repeating, that there is not and never has been a Palestine problem. There is only a Jewish problem. And only the Jews can solve it. Or not.
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Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2016/01/palestinian-israeli-update_12.html
