But they have demonstrated that, although willing to compromise, they are not willing to accept second-class status just because they have the weaker hand.A successful arbiter shall understand that whatever Israelis argue about Palestinian intentions in the long run, they do not have the right to continue depriving millions of innocent people of the basic rights and freedoms we all Westerns take for granted.Back to the recent meeting in Washington, even if Zomlot and Abbas are correct about Trumps intentions, I'm far from sure that the USA's president understands that it is Israel that wants peace and the Palestinians who want freedom. That is an understanding that has generally eluded US leaders from the first. It is hard to imagine that Trump would be the one to break that pattern.Unless he is as clever as he thinks he is. To be continued... Testimony of hunger striker Rami Barghouthi - , 2015As Palestinian prisoners entered 18th day of hunger strike, the day that standing up may become difficult of even impossible, significant Palestinian political leaders declared they would be joining the mass hunger strike. A joint conference held in Ramallah on the same day, declared that imprisoned Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) general secretarya Ahmad As'adat would join the strike along with dozens of leaders form several Palestinian policital factions such as Nael Barghouthi, Hassan Salameh, Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, Abbas al-Sayed, Ziad Bseiso, Basem al-Khandakji, Mohammed al-Malah, Tamim Salem, Mahmoud Issa and Said al-Tubasi.Leila Khaled, the historic Palestinian resistance icon and active present-day political leader in exile, also announced an open-ended hunger strike in support of the striking prisoners.She announced the hunger strike at the prisoners support tent in Amman, Jordan, in the courtyard of the office of the Democratic Peoples Unity Party (Wihda Party) of Jordan. The prisoners on hunger strike are in direct confrontation with the enemy, but they have only the weapon of the empty stomach, said Khaled. She urged unity in supporting the strike, saying that the prisoners are telling us for 20 days to come to the streets and showing us an example of unity, noting that the prisoners struggle is a clear alternative to the path of the official Palestinian Authority leadership, which wants to sell us the illusion that Trump will resolve our struggle through negotiations. We must uphold the right of return, and the liberation of Palestine, and the establishment of a democratic Palestine on the entire land of Palestine, she said. To the heroes on hunger strike in Israeli prison, I join you in this strike from this moment. Israeli Prison Service have continued to transfer prisoners, restrict lawyer visits and attempt to coerce prisoners to end their strike by all means at their disposal. The following day, as Marwan Barghouthi managed to let a message out - 'Israel cannot silence us, nor isolate us, nor break us'. - Israel was seeking foreign doctors to force-feed the hundreds of hunger-striking Palestinians, because its own medical association has banned the practice. And as the Hunger Strike for Dignity aand Freedom was entering