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<div class="AuthorStyle_inside">By Khalid Amayreh</div>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;">When Israeli President Shimon President  was pressed by some human rights organizations to stop the practice of  &#8220;administrative detention&#8221; of Palestinian intellectuals, he claimed that  &#8220;Palestinians who don&#8217;t hurl fire bombs and who don&#8217;t shoot have  nothing to fear.&#8221; Peres were lying through his teeth as usual because  nearly all victims of administrative detention have not indulged in any  illegal activity.</p>
<p>Administrative detention is very much like  taking hostages. One is snatched from his home and family by the Israeli  occupation army (and now by the Palestinian Authority-PA- forces) and  kept behind bars for months or years without charge or trial). I  remember one of these seemingly perpetual detainees, Mustafa Shawar of  Hebron telling me that he begged the Israeli military judge to inform  him why he was being kept in jail.</p>
<p>&#8220;I told him I need to know  the violation I committed so that I won&#8217;t do it again after I am  released from here. But the Judge wouldn&#8217;t tell me because of  unspecified security reasons.&#8221;</p>
<p>The truth of the matter is that  there are no real violations and no security reasons barring the  so-called judge from revealing the reasons for a given Palestinian&#8217;s  arrest and incarceration.</p>
<p>The real reason is the sadistic  Israeli urge to torment and harm Palestinians. Israelis do feel good  watching Palestinians suffer, just as the Nazis felt good watching Jews  suffer and die throughout Europe during and prior to the Second World  War.</p>
<p>Israelis often like to brag about having a country of &#8220;law  and order&#8221; But the question that begs itself is what sort of law and  order does Israel have and according to which it acts and behaves?</p>
<p>Even the Third Reich, from its beginning to end, was in a certain sense based on   law and order.</p>
<p>In  light, Israel commits every conceivable crime under the sun and claims  that everything is done according to the law. Thus they rain down White  Phosphorus in Gaza to incinerate as many children as possible according  to the law! They murder babies and children by the thousands also  according the rule of law! They even murder Arab youths to snatch their  vital organs for transplanting in Jewish recipients, all according to  the law, as disclosed by a Swedish journalist last year!</p>
<p>In  fact, there are a thousand forms of Israeli criminality meted out to the  Palestinian people by this hateful state which claims to be civilized  and democratic.  The criminal detention of Palestinian intellectuals is  just one of these forms.</p>
<p>A few years ago, Israel arrested nearly  sixty democratically-elected members of the Palestinian legislative  Council for no reason other than appeasing the Israeli Jewish public  opinion. These Palestinians committed no felony or misdemeanor or any  other violation apart from taking part in democratic elections which  Israel and its guardian ally, the United States, okayed.</p>
<p>However,  when these Islamist candidates won the elections, Israel and the US and  nearly the bulk  of the western world rejected the results, not because  they were marred with some irregularities or vote rigging, but rather  because the US and Israel didn&#8217;t like the identity and ideology of the  winners.</p>
<p>And when an Israeli occupation soldier was taken  prisoner by some resistance fighters in Gaza, Israel abducted all these  lawmakers in one fell swoop, as if we were living in the American wild  west.</p>
<p>Now, what is the difference between this kind of behavior  and the behavior of gangsters, hoodlums and common criminals? Well, in  Israel&#8217;s case there seems to be no difference whatsoever.</p>
<p>Eventually, these 60 MPs had to serve up to 50 months for nothing, again in accordance with the law!!</p>
<p>According  to sources within the Israeli &#8220;justice system,&#8221; Israel has taken an  &#8220;informal&#8221; decision whereby hundreds of Palestinian Islamists are kept  in jail 8 months every year. This means that they are released for 4  months and then rearrested and dumped behind bars for eight months every  year.</p>
<p>In recent weeks, the Israeli occupation army has  rearrested four MPs of the sixty MPs abducted in 2006 in connection with  the Shalit affair.</p>
<p>One of them is Sheikh Nayef Rajoub from  Dura, who is also brother to the former  PA security official Jebril  Rajoub.  Nayef Rajoub languished one fifth of his life in Israeli  dungeons and detention camps. In June, 2010,  he was released after  spending 51 months in an Israeli concentration camp for being a  &#8220;threat  to Israel and the Jewish people.&#8221;  Such flimsy and frivolous  charges  are leveled against anyone the racist Israeli justice system views  non-conformist.</p>
<p>Rajoub  was rearrested a few weeks ago. He  reportedly was sentenced to six months of administrative detention.  Whether this unjust imprisonment will be extended or not depends on the  whims of a junior Israeli officer.</p>
<p>Three other  MPs have also  been rearrested, including Khalil Rabei, Muhammed al-Till, and Hatem  Qafeesha and most recently Omar Abdul Razzaq, an American-educated  professor of economics and finance.</p>
<p>Needless to say, the  purpose  of these arrests is obviously to punish these  dignified  Palestinians who reject capitulation to the Zionist fait accompli,   preferring imprisonment  over disgraced surrender.</p>
<p>The Zionist  behavior vis-à-vis the Palestinian people  differ very little from the  treatment meted out to Jews when they were underdogs.</p>
<p>This  criminal  treatment,  which is devoid  of  justice and fairness, shows  that Jews are like  all underdogs, when they get on the top they become  as brutal and oppressive as their former oppressors were to them when  they were underneath.</p>
<p>This is certainly one of the main reasons   why Israel is an illegitimate state that must go sooner or later.  States that don&#8217;t practice justice won&#8217;t live long.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s72lmvXFodQG9bnbI%2bmfBoxaM1y50mTNgFbeBY3DPHuiSE%2fVOdAhJ1N9IhbOoYcG6j392iESRBhJEIPxrmQdYhyfD9ICkYS9PY6emkHfPJUds%3d">Oppressors and liars, and they call themselves a light upon the nations</a>.</p>
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