The trial of Marwan Barghouti, the highest-ranking Palestinian political leader in Israeli custody, opened yesterday in a Tel Aviv court with Barghouti refusing to contest the murder charges against him and flashing V-signs at friends. Barghouti is accused of complicity in attacks by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement in which 26 Israelis were killed.
Poor Marwan. On trial, and everybody's looking at something else and somebody else got to be prime minister. He must feel so... insignificant. |