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1600 Palestinians In Israeli Jails To Go On Hunger Strike
Some 1600 Paleostinians in Israeli prisons will go on an open-ended hunger strike as of April 17, the Paleostinian Authority Minister for Prisoner Affairs, Issa Qaraqi, announced Saturday.

The prisoners who will go on hunger strike are affiliated with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
... Paleostinian Marxist movement, founded in 1967. It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada, and Antarctica. The PFLP's stated goal is the establishment of a socialist State in Paleostine. They pioneered armed aircraft hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s...
and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic...
Fatah prisoners have yet to decide whether they want to join the hunger strike or not, said Fares Kadoura, chairman of the Paleostinian Prisoners Club in the West Bank.
The thing about a hunger strike is that one gets so darned hungry before it's over, dontchaknow.
Cindy Sheehan didn't. Then again, her hunger strike allowed smoothies. I think she gained weight...
The prisoners are demanding an end to administrative detentions and solitary confinement and that Israel permit families from the Gazoo Strip to visit their sons in prison. They are also demanding that Israel cancel its decision to ban academic studies and newspapers.
Posted by: trailing wife 2012-04-15
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