Save Samer, he is dying’: Samer Issawi,a Palestinian hunger striker

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We are reminded by these demonstarters of the BDS Campaign, calling for an International Boycott, of products made in the illegal settlements in the OPT and companies profiting off the Occupation , and some are boycotting everything made in Israel and in the OPT by Israelis. It is a matter of conscience, people of conscience do not support Regimes and companies and nations that carry out brutal 45+ year Occupations and carry out daily egregious human rights abuses and war crimes against over 5 million people living under Occupation every day of their lives!

 

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We who are participants in the Facebook 24 Hour Hunger Strike Action do not demand only the release of Samer Issawi, we will keep our campaign going until all unlawfully detained Palestinian political prisoners have been released. None of the thousands of Palestinian political prisoners Israel detains are held lawfully, not one single prisoner is held lawfully, all of their detentions violate international law and people of conscience demand all political prisoners be freed.

Enough is enough!

 

[Lipush]

"RECALLING THE IRISH HUNGER STRIKE OF 1981

By John Hurson of County Tyrone, Ireland

In 1980, 7 IRA men in the H Block prison embarked on a hunger strike seeking to re establish their political status, which the British Government had ended 4 years before. After 53 days, and the men close to death, a deal was apparently on the table from the Thatcher led British Government, and the men called of their hunger strike. In the days that followed, it became clear that there was no deal. 2 months later, another hunger strike was announced, and on March 1st, Bobby Sands began his hunger strike. As part of their strategy, different men would join at later stages. Several men would follow Bobby, and by the end of the summer, 10 men had died before the hunger strike was called off.

The prisoners had 5 demands:

1. The right not to wear a prison uniform;

2. The right not to do prison work;

3. The right of free association with other prisoners, and to organise educational and recreational pursuits;

4. The right to one visit, one letter and one parcel per week;

5. Full restoration of remission lost through the protest"

Learning from the Irish Hunger Strikes of 1981 and the Palestinian Challenge «

Sherri

I wonder how many of those requests were given to Gilad Shalit in "prison".

Lipush,

Let me share a personal story. It was years ago now, 2006 or later. And I was having discussions on a discussion board, a different discussion board, about Israel's attacks on civilians in Lebanon and Palestine. And there was so much Hate of Zionists, it is especially prevalent in the midst of killing operations. And an Israeli was killed, and it was one woman, I think, as dozens or more of Palestinians were dying. And I could not feel empathy for her suffering and death I thought I should be feeling, all the other killings by the other side just pushed it out. And I knew it was wrong, and a Zionist poster was imploring/begging other posters to write the Red Cross on behalf of the Israeli soldiers detained by Hamas and Hezbollah, there were three of them. Their names were Gilad Shalit and Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser And I was the only poster there who responded to her request, and those three soldiers and what happened to them mattered to me from that day forward and I prayed for them and cried for them and still I cannot think about the two who did not live without crying, from that day forward. And all of that time, at least up until 2008, I do not think I knew the name of a single Palestinian prisoner detained and there were thousands of them and I did not know their names or pray for them, like I did those Israeli soldiers.

Here is a Photo of one of the soldiers, I remember reading how he wanted to go to law school, that was years ago, that was his dream he never lived to see come true, and it was the last day of their military service when they were ambushed by Hezbollah. I believed they would live and they did not, the two soldiers, we found out two years later, were killed from injuries in the ambush.

The families of the detained soldiers wanted proof the soldiers were alive, that is what had spurred the poster on a discuussion board to ask posters to write the Red Cross.

"Hezbollah has not permitted the Red Cross to visit the men, nor has it provided any sign that they are still alive.

“The strategy is not to provide any information so that they will squeeze us emotionally,” Ms. Goldwasser said."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/world/middleeast/20soldiers.html?_r=0

I even found my email, sent 6/20/07, reproducing here after removing my email address


"Gilad Shalit & Eldad Regev & Ehud GoldwasserWednesday, June 20, 2007 5:54 AM
From: "Sherri Munnerlyn"
To: [email protected]

Dear Sirs,

I am sending this email to express my concern over the welfare of the Israeli soldiers who are being held captive by Hizbollah and Palestinian factions, who have been held in captivity now for over one year. I implore you to do whatever you can and to intensify your efforts to find out anything you can about the conditions of their imprisonment and to obtain proof of life and wellbeing? Can those who are holding them be encouraged to allow the prisoners to contact their families? I know it is horrible for their families, not knowing the conditions facing their loved ones. Thank you for your consideration. God bless you.


Sherri Munnerlyn
6/20/07"

Where was my sin, in sending this emal, in praying for these three Israeli soldiers and their safe returns home to their families, or was it in not knowing the names of the literally thousands of Lebanese and Palestinians Israel held captive then and since then and not sending letters on their behalf and not knowing their names, even? The thousands of Lebanese and Palestinians Israel has held captive since 2006, when those three soldiers were taken captive, had lives and families, too, and their unlawful detentions by Israel destroyed their dreams, too. And many died, too.

Sherri

If that is true, that is a story worth telling, and I wonder where did that women who cared for not only a spcefic side, which I believe is the mistaken one.

You tell of 2006, I cen very well remember. You speak of hate of Zionist, so let me tell you a different story, from the other side, to show you just how the view of reality is not at all simple.

In 2006, I was just turning 17. I didn't know much about anything, and that was the year that shook me and from which I started writing and explaining to people who are not Israelis, just how we live. because a 17 year old girl is not supposed to be interested and active in those field. I was supposed to be interested in boys and shopping and other unimportant things, just being a teenager. But that year shook me.

My parents had friend in Haifa, they were the closest thing to family as friends can be. knew me since I was a baby, saw my first tooth. We were very close. So when the mass started up in the north, the most natural thing to do, was call out to them to come and find shelter from the bombs in the south. They came with their two daughters, granddaghter, the grandmother and two more friends.

Our house was designed for 3 people, since I was an only child. And suddenly 11 people came in, looking for shelter. It was obvious that my mother could not handle everything, so naturally, I had to take responsibility, and the responsibility I was given was the small childen. The oldest was barely 9, her name was Yarin, a beautiful easy going child, which sadly suffered a complicated illness, and the situation only complicated it more. Baby Yo'ad stayed always close to his mother's chest, but 4 year old Offir was also given to me to take care of. I don't know how and if people are familiar first hand which children who suffer war traumas, but it is one of the most shaking, horrible, and unforgetable experiences I've had. Offiri was jumply, happy, always laughing kind of child, and this situation made her frightened, anxious, crying all the time.

Everytime an airplane will be up in the sky, she will hold tight into my leg, fearing the airplane will gonna "fall" on her, with every door being shut she will think a missile hits the ground. Offiri was never afraid in the dark but she would not let me turn the light off at any night, insist I'll read her happy stories untill she falls asleep.

it was a time when you see your houses hit by missles non-stop, when you try to have a life in a place that is naturally not used to so many people. Sleeping in the hallway, if sleep is possible, because you think of those who you had to leave behind. there are not enough beds, so sleeping is naturally on the floor.

What was in their hearts was never hate. They were normal people. the grandmother was more than 80. She cares about hate? she just want to be able to live her last years and to die with respect. The parents have hate? They have an ill child struggling each day to live normal life, and another 4 year old which suffers trauma and screams in her sleep, and another 7 months old baby who doesn't have any idea why he's not close to his familiar toys and his little truck. having all that, who has even time to think about hate? their only concern was their children, and they wished nothing but being able to go back home, hopefully to find it intact.

I don't know who you have been talking to, but normal Israelis don't HATE, because we're no different than the other normal people in any normal state.

 

[irosie91]

sherri---considering all the world wide support samer has,
you should have NO TROUBLE signing up a few hundred
as a SURETY that none of the "military groups" or
any of its members or any of the released prisoners
will engage in FUTURE violence against Israelis or jews
in the world.

Just get a few hundred people to agree to give up their
lives ---either by execution or life in prison ----if such an
event happens-----and I am sure you can manage to work it
out. I would suggest that you add a few hundred if
it is actually SAMER himself who inflicts such a future
act of violence GOOD IDEA ----right?