P F Tinmore
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It is really hard to think of a single convincing or legitimate reason for the flagrant abduction of Professor Aziz Dweik by Gestapo-like Israeli troops earlier this week.
The 63-year-old Palestinian leader was returning home in Hebron from Ramallah when soldiers manning a roadblock snatched him rather unceremoniously from his car. They handcuffed him as if he were a common criminal.
Dweik is the elected speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council. He was elected in 2006 in free elections, monitored by many American and European observers, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who testified to their transparency.
Dweik has a long experience of being arrested, mistreated and imprisoned by the Israeli apartheid authorities without charge or trial.
Dweik never hurled stones at anyone. He never indulged in violence, verbal or physical. Yet the Israeli regime, which classified Palestinians into either terrorists who ought to be annihilated or collaborators who are entitled to no respect, couldn't bear seeing the Geography professor speak up against the Israeli occupation, apartheid and oppression.
Dweik's abduction is state terror, pure and simple
The 63-year-old Palestinian leader was returning home in Hebron from Ramallah when soldiers manning a roadblock snatched him rather unceremoniously from his car. They handcuffed him as if he were a common criminal.
Dweik is the elected speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council. He was elected in 2006 in free elections, monitored by many American and European observers, including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who testified to their transparency.
Dweik has a long experience of being arrested, mistreated and imprisoned by the Israeli apartheid authorities without charge or trial.
Dweik never hurled stones at anyone. He never indulged in violence, verbal or physical. Yet the Israeli regime, which classified Palestinians into either terrorists who ought to be annihilated or collaborators who are entitled to no respect, couldn't bear seeing the Geography professor speak up against the Israeli occupation, apartheid and oppression.
Dweik's abduction is state terror, pure and simple