2012 tear-gas incident[edit]
Barghouti claimed that at the annual Land Day protest in Bethlehem in 2012, he was struck in the head by a canister of tear gas shot by Israeli forces. “I was hit with a tear-gas bomb on the side of my head and my back,” Dr. Barghouti told a reporter from his hospital bed. “My scalp is injured, my right ear has problems, and they are checking to see if I have any spinal injury.” Palestinian witnesses, however, said that he had been attacked by fellow Palestinian protesters.[11]
According to The Jerusalem Post, witnesses reported that “scores of Fatah activists,” not Israeli forces, had attacked Barghouti as part of a conflict between his supporters and Fatah “over who should lead the Land Day protests.” Among the assailants, according to one witness, were “a number of PA security officers.” Witnesses maintained, moreover, that “the ambulance that took Barghouti from the scene was also attacked by angry Fatah activists.”[12]
After the attack, it was suggested that Fatah members may have attacked Barghouti because he had criticized it. “Fatah is like the Zionist Movement,” Haaretz quoted one observer as saying. “It needs a common enemy and then it unites against it. That enemy is Mustafa Barghouti.” One rumor suggested that the Syrian government had ordered Palestinian opposition groups to support Barghouti. It was also noted that some leftists were worried “that Barghouti has begun to attend the mosque and pepper his statements with quotes from religious sources.”[13]
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Of course it's a good video: it's just not honest. I bet he's still telling his fantasy version of the tear-gas incident at parties.......
