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Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... in Graves and Prisons
10/01/2010
[Counter Punch] Dear Bono,
In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I’ll place my hopes on the possibility — however remote at the moment — that…people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their Gandhi, their King, their Aung San Suu Kyi."
Your hope has already been fulfilled in the Palestinian territories.
Unfortunately, these Palestinian Gandhis and Kings are being killed and imprisoned.
A Message of Non-Violent Resistance From Within Israeli Prison
09/01/2010
[Huffinton Post] On Tuesday, January 5, I attended the trial of my husband Abdallah Abu Rahmah in an Israeli military detention camp. Ofer Military Base is a dark and dehumanizing place, but I was happy to go there because it meant that I would finally see my husband.
Israeli detention of Palestinian activists must end
08/01/2010
[Amnesty International] The Israeli authorities must immediately release, or bring before a fair trial, three Palestinian human rights activists detained in Israel following their protests against the construction of the West Bank fence/wall, Amnesty International said on Friday.
My Husband: Jailed for Protesting Israel's Wall
04/01/2010
[Huffington Post] On International Human Rights Day in last year, my husband Abdallah Abu Rahmah was in Berlin receiving a medal from the World Association for Human Rights. This year on the same day, December 10th, Abdallah was taken away at 2am by Israeli soldiers who broke into our West Bank home. Abdallah was arrested for the same reasons he received the prize - his nonviolent struggle for justice, equality and peace in Israel/Palestine.
Israel resembles a failed state
31/12/2009
[The Electronic Intifada] One year has passed since the savage Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, but for the people there time might as well have stood still.
