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    The Prisoners' Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag
    The Prisoners' Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag
    The Prisoners' Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag
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    The Prisoners' Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag

    By Norma Hashim, The Centre for Political and Development Studies and Ramzy Baroud

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    The Prisoners' Diaries provides a deeply moving series of first - person commentaries on what Palestinian prisoners have been enduring for decades in the dark recesses of Israel's unlawful and inhumane network of prisons.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 20, 2013
    ISBN9781903718940
    The Prisoners' Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag

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      It is an appalling inaccuracy and calumny to refer to Israel’s “unlawful and inhumane network of prisons.” This is simply a lie and no verifiable evidence is given for such a claim. I have to rate with a star to be able to review but it deserves no star at all. How this book has been published with such an untruthful and propagandistic blurb I cannot understand. It is deeply offensive, as is the term “Israeli-gulag”. There are no gulags in Israel and it is an outrage to use such a term in the title of a published book. The publishers should be ashamed as should the author. The book is written with the collaboration of the Centre for Political & Development Studies, Gaza, 2013. In other words it is funded by Hamas and it is Hamas propoganda .

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    The Prisoners' Diaries - Norma Hashim

    Contents

    Synopsis

    Reviews

    Preface

    Acknowledgements

    Foreword

    Introduction

    Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association

    Note

    Glossary

    A Photograph

    Suffocating The Soul

    Hungry For Freedom (Part 1)

    Hungry For Freedom (Part 2)

    Tortured Memories

    Detention Facts and Figures

    Forgive Me, My Daughter!

    The Worst Pain Of All

    A Stolen Journal

    A Mother’s Anguish

    Detention Facts and Figures

    Three Decades

    One Night Separates Us

    What A Place To Be Sick!

    A New Grave

    The Light Of Freedom

    Detention Facts and Figures

    Prison Isn’t Built On The Shoulders Of Men

    Out Of The Depths

    The Day My Children Were Scattered

    A Brother’s Love

    Detention Facts and Figures

    Search And Suppression

    My Son, My Son

    A Martyr

    Aloe And Its Peel

    Letter by Hassan Salama

    Centre for Political & Development Studies (CPDS)

    Photo Credits

    Synopsis

    22 voices ring out in this collection, 22 voices that the Israeli occupation force would rather you didn’t hear. They are the voices of Palestinian women and men who, bearing the physical and psychological scars of their imprisonment, refuse to remain silent.

    Although all shared the agony of separation from loved ones and frequent maltreatment from their jailers, each former prisoner speaks with an utterly distinctive voice, testifying not only to suffering but also to faith, hope and endurance.

    The diaries are woven together with commentary by journalists and activists who have dedicated their lives to exposing the flagrant human rights abuses so rarely covered by mainstream media. These accounts of life in Israeli prisons are essential reading for anyone who demands to see both sides of a tragic conflict.

    Norma Hashim is a social activist involved mainly with literacy projects, treasurer of Viva Palestina Malaysia, and mother of five boys.

    In close collaboration with

    The Centre for Political and Development Studies

    promotes citizen journalism among Palestinian youth.

    Reviews

    It is difficult not to feel the pain that they suffer as one reads their writings.

    Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, Former Prime Minister of Malaysia

    "The Prisoners’ Diaries provides a deeply moving series of first-person commentaries on what Palestinian prisoners have been enduring for decades in the dark recesses of Israel’s unlawful and inhumane network of prisons.

    Somehow these texts make us feel and understand the reality of Palestinian suffering that is associated with living under such a long and abusive occupation in vivid ways that statistics, however necessary, can never manage.

    This book combines the witnessing by prisoners with just enough information about the magnitude of the Israeli prison system to give readers a true understanding of this most agonizing dimension of the Palestinian ordeal.

    Reading this book, makes one doubt whether such individuals who have resisted the occupation of their country should be treated as criminals at all rather than brave warriors in a ceaseless and legitimate war waged against great odds to recover control of their homeland."

    − Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University and UN Special Rapporteur for occupied Palestinian Territories

    I defy you to read these stories and not weep for Jews and Palestinians. Now dry your eyes and work for justice, peace and reconciliation.

    − Stephen Robert Sizer, Anglican vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water, Surrey, England, writer, peace activist and freelance photographer

    A humane, beautiful, valuable yet painful book. I ask all people of conscience to read it to learn more about the suffering of the Palestinian detainees in Israeli Occupation prisons.

    − Hana Shalabi, former hunger striker, Hasharon prison, Tel Aviv

    Yet more horrific revelations of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians; this time behind bars. Inhumane and consistent with its expansionist policies in the West Bank and siege of Gaza.

    − Dr Musa Mohd Nordin, Chairman, Viva Palestina Malaysia

    The Prisoners’ Diaries had me in tears almost immediately. This first hand testimony by survivors of Israeli detention centres and isolation cells makes it a pivotal work. I lived every moment from cover to cover. So will you. The question is - what do we do now we know the truth?

    − Lauren Booth, English broadcaster, journalist and pro-Palestinian activist

    The Prisoners’ Diaries

    Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag

    Edited by Norma Hashim

    The Prisoners’ Diaries are translations of accounts dictated in Arabic by former Palestinian prisoners of the Israelis.

    Early in 2013, Malaysian social activist Norma Hashim resolved to get these diaries translated and published. She gathered a like-minded team determined to do whatever they can to help raise awareness of the plight of the Palestinian prisoners.

    By publishing these diaries, they are now reaching out to people of goodwill, appealing to you for help to put a stop to a saga of abuse.

    Published by

    www.ihrc.org.uk

    Published in Great Britain in 2013

    by Islamic Human Rights Commission

    PO Box 598,Wembley, HA9 7XH

    © 2013 Islamic Human Rights Commission and Norma Hashim

    Copy text edited by Mark Gibson

    Design & Typeset: Red Bamboo Creative Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

    Cover illustration by Foong Teck Hee http://creativetrees.blogspot.com

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereinafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

    Distributed in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America by Islamic Human Rights Commission

    Distributed in Malaysia

    by Palestine Mall

    Registered trademark of Deen Reach Sdn Bhd (1001980-D)

    Lot A03A-G, Plaza Jelutong Persiaran Gerbang Utama

    Bukit Jelutong, 40150 Shah Alam, Malaysia.

    Email: palestinemall@deenreach.com

    Website: www.palestinemall.net

    http://theprisonersdiaries.blogspot.com

    e-ISBN 978-1-903718-94-0

    Dedicated to

    the hunger striker Samer Issawi and

    all Palestinian prisoners –

    past, present and future –

    illegally held in Israeli jails

    Drawing of Samer Issawi

    Drawing © Shahd Abusalama, all rights reserved

    Preface

    This is a book like no other book. It is a compilation of the writings of Palestinian prisoners who have been freed, and reflect the pain and sufferings of forgotten prisoners, of prisoners without hope, of prisoners who may never be free again, who will die incarcerated in their prison.

    That this is happening in our age is hard to believe. We live in the age of freedom, the age when the already free still demand for more freedom. Yet there is no freedom at all for these prisoners of the Israelis. They can hardly move in the cells they are confined to. They can neither exercise the body and limbs nor their minds. They are total prisoners not because they are criminals but because they crave to be free like other people in a free country.

    It is difficult not to feel the pain that they suffer as one reads their writings. That they are suffering like this as we enjoy our freedoms seem incongruous. Yet they are truly suffering.

    If we cannot release them, then the least we can do is to tell the world about them. Maybe we will stir the conscience of the world and the world will do something for them which will make our civilisation truly civilised.

    Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad

    Former Prime Minister of Malaysia

    Photo © Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association, all

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