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“A Palestinian writer”
Samizdata ^ | 9 Apr 2024 | Natalie Solent

Posted on 04/09/2024 7:15:38 AM PDT by Rummyfan

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The death in custody of Walid Daqqa, a 62-year-old Palestinian writer who was the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails after 38 years of imprisonment, is a cruel reminder of Israel’s disregard for Palestinians’ right to life...

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The death in custody of Walid Daqqa, a 62-year-old Palestinian writer who was the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails after 38 years of imprisonment, is a cruel reminder of Israel’s disregard for Palestinians’ right to life

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6:39 PM · Apr 8, 2024

The tweet calls Walid Daqqa “a Palestinian writer”, as if he had been imprisoned for his writings – as if he were the sort of prisoner of conscience on whose behalf I used to write letters on that special blue Air Mail paper, back when I was a member of Amnesty International.

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Perhaps concerned about her wordcount, Amnesty’s writer, Erika Guevara-Rosas, did not say much about Moshe Tamam. She cited Walid Daqqa’s youthful age at the time, 24, but did not see fit to say that his victim Moshe Tamam was just 19. And she skips over some relevant details in that brief word “killed”. Daqqa and his PFLP comrades did not just kill Moshe Tamam, they tortured him to death. They gouged out his eyes and castrated him. Then they murdered him.

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1 posted on 04/09/2024 7:15:38 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Israel needs the death penalty.

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2 posted on 04/09/2024 7:22:45 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Rummyfan

And yet not a tear shed by “Amnesty International” for what happened to Israel on October 7th.


3 posted on 04/09/2024 7:31:01 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Rummyfan

He wouldn’t have been in Israeli prison if he had been in Jordan, as per the real two-state solution that wasn’t enforced.


4 posted on 04/09/2024 7:36:31 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Rummyfan

Same should have happened to Mandela. SAfrica would not be a failed state today.


5 posted on 04/09/2024 7:52:38 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: Rummyfan

The sadistic terrorist had a terminal illness and died in the hospital.

And they complain that prisoners don’t get adequate medical treatment? So, torture and kill an Israeli and expect them to save your life? Sorry, not sorry.


6 posted on 04/09/2024 8:05:16 AM PDT by Chicory
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To: HombreSecreto

Yep.


7 posted on 04/09/2024 8:22:00 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: Rummyfan

Amnesty International. Otherwise known as Terrorist Apologists R’ US.


8 posted on 04/09/2024 11:05:47 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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