quinta-feira, 26 de fevereiro de 2026
terça-feira, 4 de novembro de 2025
MARWAN BARGHOUTI RESISTE NAS PRISÕES DE ISRAEL
Transcrevo artigo de Medea Benjamin
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For more than two decades, Marwan Barghouti has sat behind Israeli bars—a living emblem of a brutal occupation that has denied Palestinians their freedom and dignity. His continued imprisonment is not merely unjust; it silences the one leader most capable of uniting the Palestinian people and leading them toward a political solution. Polls over many years show he is the most popular Palestinian political figure, trusted across factions and generations—even by many who have lost faith in politics. Releasing him is not a concession. It is a prerequisite for peace.
When the Second Intifada (uprising) began in 2000, Barghouti was a prominent member of Fatah, the Palestinian political faction that dominates the Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs limited parts of the occupied West Bank. He was also an elected parliamentarian. He was arrested by Israeli forces on April 15, 2002, and in 2004 an Israeli court convicted him and sentenced him to five life terms plus 40 years, accusing him of involvement in attacks that killed Israelis. Barghouti denied the charges, refused to recognize the court’s legitimacy, and declared himself a political prisoner under occupation.
Independent observers, including the Inter-Parliamentary Union, later found that the proceedings failed to meet international fair-trial standards and bore the marks of political persecution.
Barghouti’s case is inseparable from the larger machinery of occupation: like thousands of other Palestinian prisoners, he has endured brutal and degrading treatment, including torture, solitary confinement, and denial of adequate medical care. Israeli authorities are obligated under international law to ensure due process, humane treatment, and access to counsel and healthcare—obligations they routinely violate.
[The case of Marwan Barghouti] is inseparable from the larger machinery of occupation: like thousands of other Palestinian prisoners, he has endured brutal and degrading treatment, including torture, solitary confinement, and denial of adequate medical care.
Throughout his imprisonment, Barghouti has supported a principled stance: he rejects attacks on civilians and defends the right of a people living under military occupation to resist within international law. He has long advocated for negotiations grounded in equality and self-determination. That combination makes him uniquely capable of serving as a key mediator.
It is precisely this credibility that Israel fears. As his son Arab Barghouti said, “Israel sees my father as a danger because of his ability to bring Palestinians together.” Keeping him locked away serves two aims for Israel: decapitating credible Palestinian leadership and perpetuating the fiction that “there is no partner for peace.”
His family fears for his life, with witness reports that he was severely beaten by guards in September. That fear increased on 15 August 2025, when Israeli Minister Itamar Ben Gvir released a video in which he personally threatened Barghouti inside his prison cell.
The family has repeatedly asked Israel to allow international lawyers and the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit him, but their requests have been denied.
There was hope that Barghouti would be released as part of the recent Gaza ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, and Trump said he was considering pressing Israel for his release, but Israel refused.
For years, world leaders have championed his cause. In 2013, Former President Jimmy Carter, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, and other prominent world leaders and Nobel Peace Laureates called for his release. More recently, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese said, “Anyone serious about ‘peace’ should ensure his release, as the most popular—and unlawfully detained—Palestinian leader.” On October 29, a group of global leaders called The Elders, which was started by Nelson Mandela in 2007, called on President Trump to demand Barghouti’s release, “capitalising on the opportunity opened up by the fragile ceasefire deal in Gaza.”
Even senior Israeli security figures, including former Shin Bet director Ari Ayalon, have acknowledged that if Israel truly wants a partner who can deliver the Palestinian public to an agreement, Barghouti is the one leader with the legitimacy to do it.
But perhaps the most interesting recent advocate is Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, who–behind the scenes–lobbied for Barghouti as a gesture to the Arab countries pushing for his release.
Barghouti’s popularity as a uniting figure is why so many Palestinians call him their Nelson Mandela. Mandela’s release did not solve South Africa’s problems overnight, but it unlocked a door that had been nailed shut. Barghouti’s freedom could do the same.
If Israel truly seeks peace, it must stop locking away the very leadership capable of achieving it. If the international community truly stands for human rights, it must raise the political cost of Barghouti’s continued detention.
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domingo, 20 de outubro de 2024
ISRAEL ATACA AS NAÇÕES UNIDAS [Thierry Meyssan, Rede Voltaire]
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sábado, 27 de julho de 2024
ISRAEL/PALESTINA: DECISÃO DO TIJ SOBRE TERRITÓRIOS OCUPADOS
As conclusões seguintes resultaram da minha leitura. Sugiro que efetue a sua própria leitura.
- A decisão do Tribunal Internacional de Justiça é mandatória
- Fica clarificada a natureza criminosa da atuação de Israel, desde 1967, nos Territórios ocupados
- Tem a consequência de mostrar que Israel é um «Estado-pária»
- Os governos ocidentais, ao não reconhecerem esta decisão e ao apoiarem o genocídio da população de Gaza, estão também fora da legalidade
- Os governos europeus estão a reboque dos EUA, na senda da tirania e não do Direito Internacional
- Não se pode esperar que contribuam para a resolução pacífica de conflitos, tanto no Médio-Oriente, como noutros lugares.
- Permanecem do lado da força e não do Direito Internacional
- Os governos ocidentais permitiram e apoiaram a anexação ilegal, por Israel, dos territórios ocupados da Palestina, durante 57 anos: claramente, atos contrários ao Direito Internacional e que também negavam o Direito Humanitário e as Convenções de Genebra.
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Relacionado:
Artigo de Patrick Lawrence: «Gaza: Já não podemos continuar silenciosos»
quarta-feira, 6 de dezembro de 2023
Entrevista exclusiva a ROGER WATERS sobre a guerra de Israel contra Gaza
Também existe um vigoroso movimento anti-imperialista, anti-nazi-sionista nos EUA:
sexta-feira, 17 de novembro de 2023
ONU VOTA CONTRA OCUPAÇÕES ILEGAIS DE ISRAEL NA PALESTINA
quinta-feira, 13 de maio de 2021
ALGUMAS CONSIDERAÇÕES SOBRE ISRAEL/PALESTINA
Um excelente artigo por Jonathan Cook, um jornalista britânico baseado em Nazaré da Palestina.
Ele primeiro explica, com base na sua experiência vivida de Israel-Palestina, a raiz profunda dos tribalismos, para desenvolver a visão dum tribalismo dominante, o ocidental, que atravessa não apenas fronteiras étnicas, como ideológicas. A santificação de si próprias das pessoas, nos países ocidentais, os da tribo dominante, é escalpelizada. É a utilização desse tribalismo (inconsciente, muitas vezes) pelas oligarquias, que permite manipulações de massas como temos vindo a assistir em relação à situação da guerra na Ucrânia.
sábado, 22 de junho de 2019
JONATHAN COOK - ISRAEL ESTEVE SEMPRE NO CAMINHO DA ANEXAÇÃO
A anexação não é um projecto direitista que se tivesse apoderado das intenções benignas da geração fundadora de Israel. Ela esteve nos planos da ocupação desde os princípios, em 1967, quando o dito centro-esquerda - agora apresentado como defensor da paz, em alternativa a Netanyahu – era governo.
Duas imagens de satélite da NASA, tiradas à região com um intervalo de 30 anos - de 1987 e de 2017 - revelam como os colonatos israelitas e as infraestruturas de transporte foram gradualmente desfigurando a paisagem da Margem Ocidental, removendo a vegetação natural e substituindo-a por betão.
No seguimento imediato da ocupação do território da Margem Ocidental, Moshe Dayan, o ministro da defesa, herói do momento de Israel e um dos arquitectos do projecto dos colonatos, observou que os palestinianos deveriam ter que «viver como cães e quem queira partir, pode partir - e veremos aonde este processo vai levar».
O novo mapa revela mais do que os métodos usados por Israel para dominar a Margem Ocidental. As décadas de tomadas de terras mostram um trajecto, um propósito cuja finalidade ainda não foi completada.





