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Galway meeting on Palestine hunger strike

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Wednesday September 01, 2004 19:41

by John Cunningham

Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli gaols have been on hunger strike for several weeks.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040822/wl_nm/mideast_hunger_dc

The Galway branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign is running a public information meeting on the hunger strike (and on non-violent resistance generally) on Friday night, 3 Sept, at 8 pm in the Ardilaun Hotel, Taylor's Hill. There will be two speakers:
Dr Kathleen Cavanaugh of the Centre for Human Rights, NUI, Galway (recently returned from Palestine) will speak on the Israeli penal system, about the status of the hunger strike, and about the condition of the hunger strikers.
Eoghan MacCormac, Sinn Fein member and former hunger striker, will discuss the use of fasting as a form of non-violent protest.

People in the Galway area are also asked to join a 24-hour fast in solidarity with the 3,500 Palestinian hunger strikers, starting on Thursday evening, 2 September at 6 pm. For information, contact Richard Kimball, 087 237 57 89.

Comments (1 of 1)

Arab Hunger strikers

by Frank Adam

Thu Sep 02, 2004 20:28

FrrankADAM at AOL dot com

Dear Sir,

Hunger striking might make sense in Irish pre-Christian Celtic law but it makes no sense in Judaism nor to the English speaking world beyond Ireland.

The Palestine Arabs are great copy cats without always understanding that what works somewhere else does not always transfer.

Remember that Thatcher and the British just thought Bobby Sands and for that matter Mac Sweeney of Cork a bit crazy. At least one Israeli minister has already effectively said good riddance if these fasters die.

Hebrew clinks glasses with "Le Chaim" - To Life ["She's the tenant of the room"] . As Neil Kinnock said, "There's no such thing as out - fluence, only influence."

Yours,
Frank Adam