Free Republic 1st Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $31,064
38%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 38%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: diengagement

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Barghouti: Disengagement is victory for Intifada

    10/02/2004 4:22:29 PM PDT · by yonif · 12 replies · 226+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | Oct. 2, 2004
    Jailed West Bank senior Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti said in a rare prison interview that Israel's plan for disengagement is "a victory for the Intifada." Speaking to the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, Barghouti stated that Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip is, in his words, "the first step of the collapse of an occupation which is on its way to the trash heap of history." Prison services are looking into how Barghouti managed to hold the interview, although assumptions are that he made the statements via his lawyers. In May of this year, Barghouti was convicted of involvement in four...