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Shireen Issawi holding Samer's picture

Samer Issawi’s letter in SEVEN languages

The translation of Samer Issawi’s letter by the Musical Intifada was taken up by wonderful activists from other countries, now resulting in translations from Arabic into six languages. Please share this page so that the message of our brave hunger striker can be read and understood in all corners of the world. The text is here below in: English, Arabic,...

Samer Issawi: ‘Either the light of freedom, or that of martyrdom’

Samer Issawi, the Palestinian political prisoner in Israeli incarceration who is on the longest continuous hunger strike recorded so far, has today entered his 203rd day of refusing food. This morning, his laywer Fawaz el Shaloudy spoke to him, and Samer said: “I swear that I will continue this strike, either to victory or martyrdom. I am almost at the...

Sarkozy: “Netanyahu is a liar.” Obama:”I have to deal with him every day!”

Sarkozy: “Netanyahu is a liar.” Obama:”I have to deal with him every day!”

Reported by Reuters – true sentiments come out ! French President Nicolas Sarkozy told US President Barack Obama last week he was fed up with dealing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and considered him a liar. Sarkozy made the comment during a private conversation with Obama during a G20 summit in the French riviera town of Cannes last week...