[[{"content_id":"127141","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"29","user_id":"1","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Mohammed Allaan's Blood Is on Our Hands","content_number":"0","content_date_event":"2015-08-17 17:59:31","content_summary":"Haaretz: Mohammed Allaan\u2019s blood is on our hands, on the hands of the State of Israel. The regime will bear full and sole responsibility for his death if, perish the thought, he dies.","content_summary_fill":"0","content_body":"Haaretz opinion\r\n\r\n\tMohammed Allaan’s blood is on our hands, on the hands of the State of Israel. The state will bear full and sole responsibility for his death if, perish the thought, he dies. No excuses will cover the shame, no propaganda will atone for the offense.\r\n\t\r\n\tWhile these lines are being written, Saturday afternoon, he tottered between life and death, in an induced coma and on a respirator.\r\n\t\r\n\tThe death of this 31-year-old lawyer from the village of Einabus is liable to not only cause “damage to Israel’s image” and lead to a conflagration in the West Bank and Gaza – first and foremost, Allaan is the victim of one of the basest acts of the Israeli occupation: administrative detention.\r\n\t\r\n\tThat, they do not see here.\r\n\tAllaan is a freedom fighter.\r\n\t\r\n\tThere is no one who suits this definition more, no other way to describe him.\r\n\t\r\n\tAllaan is striking until death for his freedom, to which he is entitled according to any constitutional, democratic or moral criterion.\r\n\t\r\n\tEven if thugs of Ashkelon and its violent nationalists scream until the end of time “terrorist,” and even if inciting television reports talk about “blood on the hands,” Allaan will remain a freedom fighter, innocent.\r\n\t\r\n\tAs we recall, he was never indicted nor tried.\r\n\t\r\n\tThe security establishment has not a shred of evidence against him or against hundreds of his friends, not even evidence that could lead a military court astray – which is the easiest thing to do in a system that has no connection whatsoever with justice.\r\n\t\r\n\tNot by chance were almost all the longtime hunger-strikers administrative detainees.\r\n\t\r\n\tThey did not fight against the settlements or against the occupation.\r\n\t\r\n\tThey fought for their personal liberty, which is their absolute right.\r\n\t\r\n\tThey are not prisoners, they are detainees of arbitrariness.\r\n\t\r\n\tTheir administrative detention has become a terrifying normality, obvious, like a checkpoint, senseless killing and nighttime abductions.\r\n\t\r\n\tOver the past 15 years the number of such detainees has ranged from 150 to 1,000 at any given moment.\r\n\t\r\n\tEven in the most promising of quiet times their number does not decline.\r\n\t\r\n\tRight now there are about 400.\r\n\t\r\n\tIn other words, there are hundreds of people being held without trial in Israeli prisons.\r\n\t\r\n\tIf there is a reason to turn to the International Criminal Court – that is the reason, perhaps even before the killing, expulsions and the settlements.\r\n\t\r\n\tIf there is evidence that can put the lie to “the only democracy in the Middle East” – that is the clear evidence.\r\n\t\r\n\tA state in whose prisons hundreds of people are confined without trial is not a democracy, and all the excuses about “security” will not help.\r\n\t\r\n\tThere is not, never has been and never will be such a thing – a democracy with mass arrests without trial.\r\n\t\r\n\tAllaan knows all this.\r\n\t\r\n\tHe and his friends have called upon their private, non-violent, doomsday weapon – the hunger strike, because justice is on their side.\r\n\t\r\n\tBecause there is no other justice that can excuse their detention, except the justice of the Ashkelon thugs and their ilk: freedom or death, and Israel should have bowed its head in admiration for their determination, their justness and their courage.\r\n\t\r\n\tAllaan is dying, and with him, Israel’s pretense of democracy.\r\n\t\r\n\tIsrael fears the damage it will incur.\r\n\t\r\n\tMost of its legal experts are silent and most of its journalists cover for it.\r\n\t\r\n\tIsrael should not have arrested Allaan last November and sent him to six months’ detention without trial.\r\n\t\r\n\tIsrael should not have subsequently extended his detention by another six months.\r\n\t\r\n\tIt should not have done this to tens of thousands of people over the years.\r\n\t\r\n\tIt should not have acted this way.\r\n\t\r\n\tBut it is not too late.\r\n\t\r\n\tThe debate now should not be dealing with ways to extend Allaan’s live.\r\n\t\r\n\tThe only way to save him is to release him immediately, unconditionally, and with him the hundreds of other administrative detainees.\r\n\t\r\n\tThat will be not only the great victory of these freedom fighters, it will also be Israel’s victory.\r\n\r\n\t ","content_html":"

\r\n\tHaaretz opinion<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tMohammed Allaan’s blood is on our hands, on the hands of the State of Israel. The state will bear full and sole responsibility for his death if, perish the thought, he dies. No excuses will cover the shame, no propaganda will atone for the offense.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tWhile these lines are being written, Saturday afternoon, he tottered between life and death, in an induced coma and on a respirator.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThe death of this 31-year-old lawyer from the village of Einabus is liable to not only cause “damage to Israel’s image” and lead to a conflagration in the West Bank and Gaza – first and foremost, Allaan is the victim of one of the basest acts of the Israeli occupation: administrative detention.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThat, they do not see here.
\r\n\tAllaan is a freedom fighter.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThere is no one who suits this definition more, no other way to describe him.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tAllaan is striking until death for his freedom, to which he is entitled according to any constitutional, democratic or moral criterion.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tEven if thugs of Ashkelon and its violent nationalists scream until the end of time “terrorist,” and even if inciting television reports talk about “blood on the hands,” Allaan will remain a freedom fighter, innocent.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tAs we recall, he was never indicted nor tried.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThe security establishment has not a shred of evidence against him or against hundreds of his friends, not even evidence that could lead a military court astray – which is the easiest thing to do in a system that has no connection whatsoever with justice.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tNot by chance were almost all the longtime hunger-strikers administrative detainees.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThey did not fight against the settlements or against the occupation.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThey fought for their personal liberty, which is their absolute right.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThey are not prisoners, they are detainees of arbitrariness.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tTheir administrative detention has become a terrifying normality, obvious, like a checkpoint, senseless killing and nighttime abductions.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tOver the past 15 years the number of such detainees has ranged from 150 to 1,000 at any given moment.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tEven in the most promising of quiet times their number does not decline.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tRight now there are about 400.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tIn other words, there are hundreds of people being held without trial in Israeli prisons.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tIf there is a reason to turn to the International Criminal Court – that is the reason, perhaps even before the killing, expulsions and the settlements.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tIf there is evidence that can put the lie to “the only democracy in the Middle East” – that is the clear evidence.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tA state in whose prisons hundreds of people are confined without trial is not a democracy, and all the excuses about “security” will not help.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThere is not, never has been and never will be such a thing – a democracy with mass arrests without trial.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tAllaan knows all this.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tHe and his friends have called upon their private, non-violent, doomsday weapon – the hunger strike, because justice is on their side.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tBecause there is no other justice that can excuse their detention, except the justice of the Ashkelon thugs and their ilk: freedom or death, and Israel should have bowed its head in admiration for their determination, their justness and their courage.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tAllaan is dying, and with him, Israel’s pretense of democracy.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tIsrael fears the damage it will incur.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tMost of its legal experts are silent and most of its journalists cover for it.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tIsrael should not have arrested Allaan last November and sent him to six months’ detention without trial.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tIsrael should not have subsequently extended his detention by another six months.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tIt should not have done this to tens of thousands of people over the years.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tIt should not have acted this way.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tBut it is not too late.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThe debate now should not be dealing with ways to extend Allaan’s live.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThe only way to save him is to release him immediately, unconditionally, and with him the hundreds of other administrative detainees.
\r\n\t
\r\n\tThat will be not only the great victory of these freedom fighters, it will also be Israel’s victory.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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