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International media attention over the hunger strike of a Palestinian father named Khader Adnan, has opened the world's eyes once again to the Jewish state's unbalanced sense of political justice.
After refusing food for more than 66 days, Mr. Adnan's attorneys finally reached an agreement with the Israeli government, and unless these officials have any other tricks up their sleeves, he will be released on 17 April, which ironically, is 'Prisoner's Day' in Palestine; all the while never having been charged.
The incredible image below that was posted on Twitter, expresses in visual terms, the story of dedicated, political hunger. This is not the 'power-hungry' political aspiration we know so well in America, but a political act where the desire to refrain from eating itself... is what becomes insatiable. This act of sacrifice, almost always conducted behind bars, has moved mountains, ending suffering and strife on a wide scale. Starvation for the benefit of others is the act of Khader Adnan.
How does it feel to live in a country that supports rules in another country, that Hitler would be proud of? What country you say...? Sadly, the answer is Israel.
Israel's Zionist policies have dictated apartheid or 'separate' laws for those who are not Jewish, since the early 1950's.
Within this framework of Israeli laws favoring only one religion and culture, in a land where three monotheistic religions simultaneously exist and reside; Khader Adnan protested something called 'administrative detention' that allows Israel to arrest and hold Palestinian people without charges as long as they want.
Adnan's ordeal is over; public pressure and inquiries from the European Union and United Nations, caused the Israelis to finally relent. Israel also feared possible a court decision from within its own system that could have arisen from this highly publicized political starvation.
Khader Adnan has just completed the longest hunger strike ever by a Palestinian prisoner, perhaps the longest in modern history that was successful. His pain and suffering brought to mind many similar sacrifices in the past, and the names of those hunger strikers like Bobby Sands of the IRA and Nelson Mandela of the ANC, kept surfacing in articles and even songs; these men and others defied their 'terrorist' brand by proving indisputably that they were willing to subject themselves to the worst conditions humanly imaginable.
At this point, some 300 Palestinians currently remain in Israeli administrative detention, without the ability to represent themselves. It is an utterly amazing problem for a country or state as the case may be, that considers itself to be a democracy, as Israel does.
To Palestinians and humanitarians all over the world, the unconventional heroes who matter the most are men like Khader Adnan, and they are considered freedom fighters. Their dreaded enemies are laws that are inadmissible in an international court, and they are feared by the separation walls themselves.
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