« on: March 08, 2017, 04:40:15 pm »
News comes from Ramallah that the brave writer and activist Basil al-Araj was assassinated by Israeli occupation forces in his home in el-Bireh. Basil, age 31, had been hiding from the Israelis for a year. He had been a prisoner of the Palestinian Authority for six months for his role in trying to revive Palestinian politics. Basil's death comes as part of a series of assassination raids by Israel that killed Abdullah Shaladeh, Muataz Washaha and others. These are people who want to breathe life into Palestinian liberation. They are threats not because they are violent, but because they are political and they are human.
The picture is of Basil wearing a BDS shirt. It is fitting. The Israeli Knesset has just passed a bill to prohibit the entry of 'internationals' into Palestine-Israel who support BDS. [ https://s29.postimg.org/l71kyh70n/17157375_10212452679981758_3027833009296713739_o.jpg ]
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“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
