{"id":8334,"date":"2009-07-30T00:48:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T07:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8334"},"modified":"2009-07-30T00:48:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T07:48:51","slug":"we-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-police-state-here-in-palestine-we-have-two-police-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8334","title":{"rendered":"&quot;We don\u2019t have a police state here in Palestine. We have two police states.&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/frykberg\/2009\/07\/25\/two-police-states-no-solution\/\">From Antiwar.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We don\u2019t have a police state here in Palestine. We have two police states. One in Gaza and one in the West Bank,&#8221; says Rabie Latifah from the Palestinian human rights organization Al Haq.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The abuse of Palestinian civilians by both Fatah and Hamas security forces has become systematic and is no longer the exception to the rule,&#8221; Latifah told IPS.<\/p>\n<p>Mysterious bomb blasts, assassinations by masked gunmen, detainees denied access to their lawyers, torture and death in detention, the random arrest of critical journalists, and the banning of peaceful demonstrations are but a few of the human rights violations sweeping the Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n<p>While armed men are being arrested, politically motivated arrest campaigns are also targeting citizens suspected of merely sympathizing with the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have endured over 40 years of occupation and human rights abuses by the Israelis, and now we are doing it to ourselves,&#8221; says Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stories like this make me feel that even if a two-state solution leads to a genuinely independent Palestine being created, the civil rights outlook for ordinary Palestinians is not bright. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benwhite.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1340\">Via<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Antiwar.com: &#8220;We don\u2019t have a police state here in Palestine. We have two police states. One in Gaza and one in the West Bank,&#8221; says Rabie Latifah from the Palestinian human rights organization Al Haq. &#8220;The abuse of Palestinian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=8334\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}