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...
