From the Human Rights Watch statement "Israel: End Arbitrary Detention of Rights Activist":
Israeli authorities have detained Othman without charge for more than two months on what appear to be politically motivated grounds. On the basis of secret evidence that Othman and his lawyers were not allowed to see, a military court confirmed a military order that consigned Othman to three months administrative detention without charging him with any crime. Othman has no criminal record and, to the knowledge of Human Rights Watch, has never advocated or participated in violence. His detention period, which may be renewed, ends on December 22.
"The only reasonable conclusion is that Othman is being punished for his peaceful advocacy," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "The authorities interrogated him for months, then ordered him held some more, but they won’t say why they are holding him and haven’t accused him of any crime."
Learn more about Othman’s here – http://freemohammadothman.wordpress.com/.
Human Rights Watch – bunch of anti-Semites.
“human rights” is just code for “anti-Jew”
Everyone knows that Arabs are cockroaches, not humans at all.
Israeli Association on Civil Rights reports increasing racism: link to haaretz.com
Where is the Palestinian Gandhi, huh? Does Witty care?
Excellent question. Israelis, at least the govt, are petrified of non-violent resistance, and much prefer the violent sort which enables them to point the finger of blame while providing cover for their far more egregious, destructive and deadly violence. I know you are well aware of this, Chaos, but if you haven’t already seen this column, check it out. link to original.antiwar.com
Ran HaCohen, whose brilliant columns have unfortunately slowed to a trickle, details how the Israelis used agents provocateurs to mingle with the Bil’in protest crowd and begin throwing stones in order to justify a violent response from the IDF.
Recently, of course, Israelis and their supporters have been able to scream about the 8 billion rockets fom Gaza since 2005, or 2000, or the beginning of time, and how the children of Sderot have been traumatized, while ignoring Israel’s own actions against Gaza during the same period which were much more deadly. It would be easy to dismiss such nonsense if US policy makers did not find it, or pretend to find it, so convincing. That is why the rockets, along with being morally indefensible, even when compared to Israel’s more repulsive actions, were so stupid as well. Israelis love to focus the world’s attention on violence against them.
As for Witty, I generally don’t find him worth baiting or debating.
Excellent point as usual, DS. The Israeli narrative requires the Palestinians to be at fault, the villains never the victims, which is the role reserved for Jews.
Great link to HaCohen. The kind of very important story that never appears in the regular American press.
I am afraid Zionist regime would have been the first one assassinate Mahatma Gandhi – because not only he was against Zionism – he may have carried protest marches in support of those 350,000 Harijans in Israel.
350,000 Harijan Jews in Israel
link to rehmat1.wordpress.com
Only democracy in the ME! Light unto the nations! Land without a people for a people without a land! Blah blah blah!
Yea, the Nazi Witty can’t and won’t post in this thread because he can’t regurgitate his bullshit rhetoric (purely a tactic) aimed at equating both sides of the conflict – which white-washes Israel and plays upon the inherent bias of American society towards Jewish identity (political identity).
All our other resident Zionists are too idiotic to provide any insightful commentary.
The passive-aggressive, chicken-shit WonderingJew would begin by saying something like ‘Mr. Horowitz [he address Phil like that as well - 'Mr. Weiss' - when he's trying to point out something he views as a contradiction/etc.] claims that Israel blah blah blah, but upon reading the actual charges, one finds that Mr. Othman “stepped violently on the shoe of an Israeli soldier who was beating the hell out of Mr. Othman’s brother” – clearly, facts do not matter to Mr. Horowitz or this blog. Mr. Othman is guilty of assault’.
yonira would probably talk about how Israel discovered the meaning to life and invented silent velcro while the Palestinians put on a spontaneous carnival for the suffering children of Gaza to cheer them up (he would snidely comment that while Israelis were discovering and inventing, the Palestinians were acting like ‘clowns’).
And of course the village idiot – Julian – would copy and paste something from Little Green Footballs and gleefully end his plagiarized stupidity w/ the ever-stale ‘Israelis don’t want to be Dhimmis’-line.
This is Zionism. This is the best they can come up with.
If you think the comments here are ridiculous go check out what the people at Kabobfest.com have to put up with.
Why is Othman’s case any less worthy of the world’s attention than Gilad Schalit?
If they release 1,000 imprisoned Palestinians for the one Jewish POW, will they all be innocent guys like this? Yet they’ll paint themselves as so generous.
Zionism was never a flawless movement and one wonders how it might have evolved had it included a bit more Martin Buber and a bit less Ben Gurion, in the years previous to 1967. The conquering of the West Bank in 1967 was a momentous event particularly because it included Jerusalem and the Western Wall. The desire to make old Jerusalem part and parcel of the Jewish state was as natural as a desire to see the sunrise after a long night. And since I feel that way about Jerusalem I understand how other Jews feel the same way about the entire West Bank. But there is a price to be paid for such love and that is democracy for all inhabitants and Israel has not been willing to pay the price.
Thus we have the sad situation where apparently nonviolent people are held without a writ of habeus corpus under military law, with two sets of law one for Jews and one for nonJews. It is indeed a shame and a major source of chaos. If Israel had been willing to hold onto the West Bank with the sole purpose of security until the Palestinians would be willing to sign a peace treaty that would have been one thing. But the building of settlements creates a two tier system and this is not permissible. Annexation as was the case with Jerusalem creates its own set of problems, but at least in Jerusalem the ostensible offer of citizenship has been made, which is not the case in the rest of the West Bank.
I don’t know enough about Mohammed Otman to say that he is a man of peace or good will. But I know that a man should be considered innocent until proven guilty. And if a Jew living on the West Bank has the presumption of innocence, then all people in the West Bank should have the same presumption of innocence.
Innocent until proven guilty OF WHAT, moron? You don’t even know what he’s charged with.
Furthermore, your skepticism is bullshit. You know what context means don’t you, Zionist? Israel regularly kidnaps Palestinians and specifically those involved in non-violent resistance to Israeli colonization.
Israel even exiled a Palestinian in the 80s specifically because he was advocating non-violent resistance. Martin Luther King Jr.’s wife even spoke on his behalf about his credibility.
But the way you make it sound is that this Palestinian might be guilty of something but that he should be given a fair trial. You ignore the numerous reports done on the lack of justice in the OT.
Check out the studies by Yesh Din. Or the countless reports by B’Tselem.
All the other garbage you wrote is typical of the colonist’s perspective. If only those sand niggers could just make way for the EUROPEAN Jewish dream of a Jewish country club in the heart of the Arab world.