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Titolo: Come previsto

Barghouti uscira'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwan_Barghouti
Free Barghouti
By Yossi Sarid
Before his trip to the United States and during the visit, Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert announced that he was bringing with him a large
number of surprises if only Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) would agree to
meet with him finally. The chairman of the Palestinian Authority
cannot even imagine what would await him during such a meeting, which
has been delayed for months and years: One meeting on the bush is
better than two to three fulfilled promises in the hand. That's how it
always is when one travels to the Oval Room: mountains and hills on
the way there, plains and valleys on the way back. The road to
Ramallah passes through Washington, and it is about 10,000 kilometers
long.
Marwan Barghouti is not going anywhere. He is sitting in Hadarim
Prison and serving five life sentences, to which he was sentenced by a
civil court. "Informed sources" made sure to publicize the fact that
there is no chance of releasing him in the context of the deal for
exchanging prisoners and kidnapped soldiers - the deal that will free
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The Israeli government does not agree to
release Barghouti, and that's final. And that is another of its
mistakes.
Not that Barghouti is a righteous man in a place where there are no
righteous men, but he does not have "blood on his hands." At worst,
his blood rose to his head in the wake of the targeted and unfortunate
assassination of his friend Raed Karmi. It is possible that Barghouti
bears responsibility for terror attacks, but this is the
"responsibility of the dispatcher" (which in itself is serious and
grounds for conviction). The problem is that there is no person on the
other side who is entirely free of such responsibility - and who is
free of it on our side? Everyone here has already immersed himself
once in the river of blood, and it is in fact possible to immerse
twice in this river, in the same blood of the innocent. Everyone with
whom we have sat at the negotiating table (and will sit with in
future) is unfortunately stigmatized as a dispatcher of terrorists,
and Barghouti is no better and no worse.
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Chaotic Palestinian politics is also divided into two main camps, and
all the rest are splinter groups and splinters of splinters: The
moderate camp recognizes Israel and is willing to accepts its
existence, and the radical-extremist camp, which is adhering to its
refusal, is unwilling to compromise and considers Israel a foreign
element that must be uprooted. Although Israel is making every effort
to blur the boundaries between the two camps and to turn them into
one, Barghouti still belongs to the camp of the reconciled, and there
is no authorized body in Israel that would deny this assessment. From
prison he supported the election of Abu Mazen as PA chair, although he
had the power to interfere with this choice.
Inside prison he formulated the "prisoners' document" drawn up by
Fatah and Hamas members, which calls for the establishment of two
states based on the 1967 borders, adopts previous agreements between
the sides and abandons the armed struggle in the unoccupied
territories. This is not a perfect document that Israelis are invited
to sign, but it is unquestionably a reasonable basis for discussion.
There will be no third Palestinian camp that is more convenient for
Israel. There will be no leader more desirable to Israel than
Barghouti. When you look around, you cannot identify any Palestinian
leader more popular than he. Only a few days ago a survey was
conducted in the refugee camps in Lebanon, and once again it turned
out that even there Barghouti is popular with his people - more so
than Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal and much more than Abu
Mazen. The Israeli prison turned him into a martyr and gives him a
courageous, clean and popular image; Barghouti is a shaheed in his
lifetime.
It's true Abu Mazen arouses amazement and admiration for his spiritual
fortitude. It is so difficult, almost inhuman, to conquer the fire of
passion and not to be burned in the furnace of daily calamity. But the
chairman cannot handle things on his own, and needs help. And nobody
can help him more than Barghouti. With Barghouti at his side, Abu
Mazen will sit at the negotiating table without his chair wobbling
beneath him.
And what will happen one fine day when Abu Mazen is out of the
picture? Who exactly will succeed him? In the situation that has been
created, only a habitual refuser from Hamas will be the successor,
because the weak Fatah organization has no natural replacement at
present. Will Israel continue to hold Barghouti in prison, as long as
he doesn't weaken prematurely as well? Is this Olmert's secret plan?
The day will come, and it is not far off, when in any case the
imprisoned Barghouti will be appointed PA chairman or president of
Palestine. And what will we do then? The entire world - and currently
changing America, too - will insistently demand the immediate release
of the persons chosen in democratic elections, which are the ideal of
George W. Bush, the well known founder of democracies.
There is nothing new under the sun that beats down: Official Israel
will always do the right thing too late. That's the way it likes to do
things. 
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 By Yossi Sarid
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