Kuwaiti journalist appreciates Israel's treatment of prisoners

From Doc's Talk, here's a review of an article by Kuwaiti Fuad Alhashem.

Fuad Alhashem, a senior journalist at the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Watan, published an article on 21 July favorable to Israel, entitled "Prisoners of War – Ours and Theirs". The article points out that Samir Kuntar was incarcerated in an Israeli prison for 29 years and "they didn't cut off his ears, his hands weren't amputated, and he wasn't raped! He received three meals a day, watched television and read newspapers. He was given the chance to learn Hebrew, studied in the Open University in Israel and received a BA. The pictures published of him when he was released and returned to Lebanon showed him in good health. Now, he can see his mother and enjoy the various restaurants in Beirut, smoke a water pipe and get drunk and shout out loud: 'To the Israelis, who turned out better than Saddam and his party.'" In his article, Alhashem calls on Hizbullah and Kuntar's relatives to pray to the God that made Israel their neighbor and not Saddam's Iraq. If it had been otherwise, Kuntar would not have returned to his homeland walking on his own two feet and carrying 90 kg. of healthy weight. Instead, his body would have been returned in a little plastic bag – like the Kuwaiti prisoners who were returned from Iraq weighing three kilos each! Alhashem reminds his readers that Saddam Hussein murdered 600 Kuwaiti POWs after they spent 24 months in prison. They were innocent and didn't spray Iraqi civilians with bullets like Kuntar did to the Israelis. Of course the Kuwaitis were tortured in the Iraqi prisons, ate bread harder than rock and drank polluted water. They were certainly not allowed to study in Iraqi universities, but were taken as a group to the desert, murdered using the Nazi method and buried in mass graves, without a trial and without a public appearance in the media.

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[BLACKLISTED DICTATOR]

Steve,
I don't have the moral authority to comment on this one. Sorry mate.

However, i have applied to go on a course at the WHRTC (world human rights teaching centre) in Joburg. Jody Kollapen is organizing the course material and Judge Davis and Cameron are lecturing. When I complete my studies, I will let you know what I think about the Kuwaiti article. At the moment, I just don't have enough moral authority or knowledge about human rights.

[Gary]

Talking of world human rights, isn't it something that the war between Russia and Georgia in which three thousand people have died in three days has not touched the radar screens of condemnation in SA.
Imagine one precent of that number of Palestinians had died in an Israeli retaliatory incursion into Gaza.
The ANC and thousand other organizations would be demmanding SA cut ties with Israel, SA would be calling for Israel to be outed from the UN, there would be marches of thousands in all the SA major cities.
But because the victims were not Pallies no one in SA gives a hoot.