Roth - A picture is worth more than a thousand words including words like disaster, dignity, rights, justice and shameless hypocrisy

Ramallah is the home base of the "moderate" Fatah/PLO regime headed by
Mahmoud Abbas that controls the Palestinian Authority. That's where
this protest took place on Friday. The caption for this APF photo says it shows
protesters holding portraits of relatives held in Israeli jails, and that the demonstration is "to show solidarity" with them.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
13 May '12..

In an NBC News report plaintively headed "As Palestinian hunger strikers starve, a mother waits", Yara Borgal makes a heart-tugging effort to evoke sympathy for the mother of one of the prisoners on hunger strike. Then the report moves on to the more serious part of this: the explicit threats by the political leadership of the Palestinian Arabs:

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned Israel that the death of one of the prisoners could result in chaos. “If anybody dies today or tomorrow or after a week it would be a disaster and no one could control the situation," Abbas said in an interview with Reuters at his office in Ramallah. "I told the Israelis and the Americans if they do not find a solution for this hunger strike immediately, they will be committing a crime." Issa Qaraqe, the Palestinian Authority’s minister of prisoner affairs, has appealed to the international community, including the U.N. and even Pope Benedict, to intervene. “Palestinian hunger strikers are fighting for what they have been systematically denied — their dignity, rights and justice,” he said. “I appeal to the world to immediately intervene and save the prisoners’ lives before it’s too late. If the hunger strike results in the death of one of the prisoners then Israel should expect an escalation of violence in the West Bank and even inside the Israeli prisons.”

We're in favour of dignity, rights and justice. Especially justice.

That's why it's so absolutely infuriating to us that editors, photographers, reporters and news readers from all over the world continue to report on these protests without so much as a mention of whom the protestors are supporting and with whom they are expressing their solidarity.

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