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Support both Ayman Sharawna and Samer Issawi

I pledge to Support both Ayman Sharawna and Samer Issawi

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-1-Congratulations Ayman Sharawna 

Ayman Sharawna , a Palestinian prisoner who was on long-term hunger strike, arrives at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on March 17, 2013. Sharawna reached a deal under which he was freed from prison but exiled from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip for 10 years.

-2- Samer Issawi's opinion regarding deportation was just like I expected, wonderful and strong and from a stubborn man of dignity and strong poise who doesn't give up his principle for the sake of his own physical relief. According to him, this battle of hunger strike isn't personal but it is rather a collective one. He doesn't want to allow Israel to use this systematic policy of ethnic cleansing against Palestinians. He refuses to be released at the condition of being deported even if it was within our historical Palestine.

The Laywer Fawwaz Shloudi managed to visit Samer Issawi after long time of continuous attempts and asked Samer Issawi whether he will ever agrees to be deported in exchange for his freedom. Samer Issawi's answer was as following:

Regarding the Israeli Occupation offer to deport me to Gaza, I affirm that Gaza is undeniable part of my homeland and its people are my people. However, I will visit Gaza whenever. I want or I feel like it as it is within my homeland Palestine which I have the right to wander whenever I like from the very north to the very south. I strongly refuse to be deported to Gaza as this practice will just bring back bitter flashbacks from the expulsion process which our Palestinian people were subjected to during 1948 and 1967.

We are fighting for the sake of freedom of our land and return of our refugees in Palestine and diaspora, not to add more deportees to them. This systematic practice which Israel aims to empty Palestine from Palestinians through and bring strangers in their place is but a crime. Therefore, I refuse being deported and I will only agree to be released to Jerusalem as I know that the Israeli Occupation is aiming to empty Jerusalem of its people and turn Arabs to become a minority group of its population. The issue of deportation is no longer a personal decision, it is rather a national principle. If every detainee agrees to be deported outside Jerusalem under pressure, Jerusalem will eventually be emptied of its people.

I would prefer to die on my hospital bed to being deported from Jerusalem. Jerusalem is my soul and my life. If I was uprooted from there, my soul would be uprooted from my body. My life is meaningless away from Jerusalem. No land on earth will be able to embrace me other than Jerusalem. Therefore, my return will be only to Jerusalem but nowhere else. I advice all Palestinians of embracing their land and their villages and never succumb to the Israeli Occupation's wishes. I don't see this issue as a personal cause that is related to Samer Issawi. It is a national issue, a conviction and a principle that every Palestinian who loves his homeland's sacred soil should hold. Finally, I reaffirm for the thousand time that I continue my hunger strike until either freedom and return to Jerusalem or martyrdom!


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YOU MUST KNOW THAT ISRAEL DID NOT EXIT BEFORE 1948. IT IS THE PALESTINIAN LAND THAT ISRAEL IS OCCUPYING NOW. PALESTINAINS ARE NOW FIGHTING TO RECOVER THEIR HOME LAND. WE HAVE, YOU HAVE TO SUPPORT THEM IF WE ARE HONEST PEOPLE!

Ghassan El-Kadri

Freedom! Freedom for all Palestinians!

Free Samer Isawii! Samer is not a hooligan,he wants freedom for all palestinians,more recognation and protection and respect!

Most people don't know that Palestine existed before the British took away half of their country.

Maha Bakeer

MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT WHAT IS NOW"ISRAEL" DID NOT EXIST BEFORE 1948;NOR DO THEY KNOW THAT THE END OF THE BRITISH MANDATE WAS FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY BY THE DECLARATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ISRAEL AS A STATE !
PALESTINE WAS HANDED OVER TO THE ZIONISTS !

نريد من المواطن العربي أن يكون صادقا مع نفسـه ومخلصا لله ودينه ومؤمنا بوحدة وطنـه العربي.

صمودنا تعلمناه من صمودكم.

<3 Falastine forever.

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