Jarghoun spoke during a rally in Khan Younis outside the International Committee of the Red Cross office on Thursday, emphasizing the need to raise the level of attention on the prisoners’ cause in the Palestinian and Arab movement, saying that this cause must not be seasonal but permanent until the prisoners win their freedom, an essential part of the rights and freedom of Palestinian land and people.

The protest was widely attended by a wide variety of groups in the area, emphasizing the need to mobilize around the issue of political prisoners and prisoners of war, and to raise this issue at an international level in all international forums. He saluted the Palestinian lawyers boycotting Israeli military courts in solidarity with Khader Adnan, and called for a national vision and plan to advance the prisoners’ cause.

Jarghoun spoke about Khader Adnan’s ongoing hunger-strike, entering its fifty-fifth day. He described Adnan’s struggle as an epic battle, placing flesh and blood on the line in a battle for human dignity in the face of the occupation’s massive structures of oppression, represented by the Shin Bet and their torture, the Israel Prison Services and their abuses, and the arrogant racism that underlies their aggressive policies, attempting to break the will of the Palestinian people. Khader Adnan’s steadfastness and courage, said Jarghoun, is a brilliant example of the failure of torture and oppression to break the spirit of Palestinian resistance.

He denounced official international silence and particularly that of the Red Cross, noting that such silence is complicity as the suffering of prisoners worsens daily inside the occupation’s prisons.

Ahmed al-Mudellal of Islamic Jihad spoke about Khader Adnan, saying that his health is deteriorating daily and the occupation has full responsibility for his life and health. He called upon all Palestinian parties and institutions to expand their work in solidarity with the prisoners’ movement. He noted the strong role of the Popular Front in supporting the prisoners’ movement and calling for protests in solidarity with Sheikh Khader Adnan, and saluted the Palestinian national leaders in occupation prisons – Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat, General Secretary of the PFLP; Marwan Barghouti; Aziz Dweik; and all of Palestine’s prisoners of freedom.

Comrade Rami Abu Saud, a freed prisoner, spoke about the need to continue the popular actions and sit-ins taking place to put pressure on international institutions to focus on the prisoners’ cause. He said that Khader Adnan is a true hero and a model of steadfastness and sacrifice, as is Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat, who with his fellow isolated prisoners have firmly stood for dignity for all while engaged in “battles of the empty stomachs.”

The protest raised slogans condemning the occupation’s racist policies toward prisoners, and sent a letter to the Director of the ICRC in the province, urging action on the struggle of Palestinian prisoners and particularly Khader Adnan.

Hunger strikes and protests continued in solidarity with Khader Adnan as his hunger strike reaches into its 56th day, with protests in Haifa, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jenin and Gaza. Adnan has been on hunger strike since December 17, 2011, when he was abducted by the occupation military. He has been held under administrative detention on secret evidence without charge since that time, and was subjected to torture and abuse in interrogation. In protest, Adnan has refused to speak or eat since that time, and he has become a symbol of Palestinian prisoners’ steadfastness and resistance even as his life is in serious danger.

Ha anche fatto appello ad un totale boicottaggio dell’occupazione a tutti i livelli , ufficiali e pubblici, e ad aumentare la pressione legale per giudicare lo stato di occupazione e i suoi rappresentanti colpevoli per i loro crimini. Ha anche auspicato un boicottaggio palestinese delle udienze e dei processi relativi alla detenzione amministrativa dato che non sono altro che una mistificazione per tentare di legittimare la detenzione arbitraria, segreta ed illegale e non sono niente altro che un’arma dell’occupazione. Khader Adnan è detenuto in detenzione amministrativa senza accusa dal 17 dicembre ed è in sciopero della fame da quelle data, per protesta contro il sistema della detenzione amministrativa illegale e contro le torture e gli abusi ai quali lui e gli altri prigionieri politici palestinesi sono sottoposti durante gli interrogatori.

La compagna Jarrar ha reso omaggio a Adnan e ai suoi compagni prigionieri palestinesi, sottolineando che dieci detenuti della prigione di Ofer, inclusi quattro compagni del PFLP, sono stati sottoposti all’isolamento per il loro sciopero della fame in sostegno a Khader Adnan. Jarrar ha chiesto l’abolizione dell’isolamento, che è un meccanismo di tortura e abuso, notando che è di solito utilizzato su basi di lungo termine contro dozzine di prigionieri palestinesi, incluso il segretario generale del PFLP Ahmad Sa’adat.

Jarrar ha fatto appello agli attivisti internazionali affinché vengano lanciati azioni di solidarietà e protesta a sostegno di Khader Adnan, attirando l’attenzione sulla sua situazione e ha reso omaggio e fatto appello all’intensificazione degli sforzi nazionali per sostenere le proteste degli studenti, degli avvocati e delle famiglie dei prigionieri a sostegno di Adnan in Palestina.

Elle a également appelé à un boycott complet de l’occupation à tous les niveaux, officiels et publics et à une  action en justice accrue pour tenir l’état d’occupation et ses personnalités officielles responsables de leurs crimes.

Elle a encouragé un boycott palestinien des audiences et processus de détention administrative de la Cour, car ils ne sont rien qu’une imposture pour tenter de légitimer la détention arbitraire, secrète et illégale et ne sont rien de plus qu’une arme de l’occupation. Khader Adnan est maintenu en détention administrative sans accusation depuis le 17 décembre et il a été en grève de la faim depuis ce temps, pour protester contre le système illégal de détention administrative ainsi que la torture et les abus auxquels lui et les autres prisonniers politiques palestiniens sont soumis lors des interrogatoires.

Elle a salué Adnan et ses compagnons prisonniers palestiniens, notant que 10 prisonniers de la prison d’Ofer, dont les 4 camarades du FPLP, avaient été placés en isolement en raison de leur grève de la faim en solidarité soutenant Khader Adnan. Jarrar a exigé la suppression de l’isolement, qui est un mécanisme de torture et de maltraitance, notant qu’il est actuellement utilisé sur une base de longue durée contre des dizaines de prisonniers palestiniens, dont le Secrétaire général du FPLP Ahmad Sa’adat.

Jarrar a appelé les militants internationaux à lancer des manifestations et des actions de solidarité à l’appui de Khader Adnan, attirant l’attention sur sa situation,  et elle a salué et a appelé à intensifie les efforts nationaux pour appuyer les manifestations étudiantes, les manifestations de protestation des avocats et les manifestations de protestation des familles des prisonniers en soutien de Adnan en Palestine.

Le Camarade Kayed al-Ghoul, membre du Comité Central du FPLP et le chef de sa branche à Gaza, a déclaré dans un entretien télévisé avec Al-Jazeera, qu’il n’y avait eu, avant cette réunion, aucun effort ou activité pour mettre en ouvre l’accord de réconciliation signé plus tôt au Caire pour une période de presque 9 mois. Il a dit que des mécanismes avaient été convenus en décembre 2011, qui étaient encore une fois écartés et il a demandé si les « bienfaits du Qatar » avaient poussé les deux parties à s’entendre sur le nom d’Abou Mazen – déjà Président de l’AP- comme premier ministre dans ce qui est prétendu être un gouvernement de consensus national, malgré le fait qu’une telle action est illégale en vertu des propres lois de l’AP.

Il compagno Kayed al-Ghoul, membro del comitato centrale del PFLP e leader del suo braccio in esilio, ha affermato in una intervista televisiva con al-Jazeera che non c’è stato, prima di questo incontro, nessuno sforzo o attività per implementare il precedente accordo di riconciliazione firmato a Il Cairo nel dicembre 2011, che è stato ancora una volta disatteso e si è chiesto se la “benedizione del Qatar” non sia stata una forma di pressione che ha fatto sì che i due partiti si accordassero sul nome di Abu Mazen-già presidente dell’Autorità Nazionale Palestinese- come primo ministro in quello che si vuole spacciare come governo di unità nazionale, nonostante il fatto che questa azione sia illegale secondo le leggi della stessa Autorità Palestinese.

Egli ha sottolineato che l’etica e i valori popolari arabi hanno giocato un ruolo importante nei confronti di coloro che cercavano di vendere la loro terra all’occupante, e hanno continuato a svolgere un ruolo cruciale nella costruzione della sensibilizzazione pubblica grazie al confronto con le politiche reazionarie che mirano a importare la normalizzazione nella società civile palestinese.

Obeidat ha dichiarato che la “normalizzazione” è nata come un termine e un concetto politici dopo gli accordi di Camp David del 1979, occasione in cui Israele ha insistito sulla creazione di “normali” relazioni economiche, politiche, culturali, commerciali, diplomatiche e di sicurezza con l’Egitto prima della restituzione delle terre arabe occupate, del riconoscimento e dell’attuazione dei diritti del popolo palestinese (compresa l’attuazione delle risoluzioni internazionali). «Il concetto culturale e politico di “normalizzazione” è il prodotto di una cultura della sconfitta e della resa, istituzionalizzata da Sadat a Camp David», ha detto Obeidat, notando che tale concetto è stato ampliato dalle politiche militari ed economiche della sconfitta, che vedono gli Stati Uniti e Israele come i fattori determinanti di qualsiasi soluzione. Pertanto, tale politica risponde alle condizioni e ai dettami di Israele e degli Stati Uniti sul radicamento o la risoluzione del conflitto arabo-israeliano, due satati che hanno etichettato qualsiasi soluzione diversa dalle loro come “irrealistica, irragionevole ed estremista”.

«L’accettazione di questo concetto dal punto di vista politico ha seriamente danneggiato lacausa araba e palestinese, e ha tentato di soffocare tutte le altre soluzioni e opzioni volte al recupero della nostra terra e dei nostri diritti, ha detto Obeidat; la normalizzazione guida i negoziati e allo stesso tempo oscura completamente le radici della lotta, nasconde la violenza usata contro il popolo palestinese e la nazione araba dall’occupante per preservare il proprio potere e dimentica la repressione dei nostri diritti fondamentali. La normalizzazione cerca di minare la morale, la legittimità politica e giuridica della nostra lotta per la libertà, fornendo una copertura per l’occupazione e la sua aggressività».

La normalizzazione, ha aggiunto Obeidat, mira fondamentalmente a liberare l’occupazione dall’isolamento regionale e internazionale. Di recente c’è stato un aumento significativo dell’attività di normalizzazione, che è diventata un vero e proprio “tsunami”. Lo scrittore ha osservato che la normalizzazione pre-Oslo è differente da quella post-Oslo, in quanto durante quei negoziati l’Autorità Palestinese ha accettato numerose condizioni e accordi che la obbligano ad impegnarsi nell’attualizzazione della normalizzazione a più livelli, in accordo con l’occupazione, sul livello della sicurezza, nonché sui piani politico, culturale, accademico e istituzionale.

L’Autorità è il “bulldozer” della normalizzazione, ha dichiarato Obeidat, ma il pericolo maggiore per la nostra cultura e la consapevolezza dell’occupazione non proviene dalla normalizzazione dell’Autorità, ma dagli sforzi intellettuali, culturali, politici e sportivi che tentano seriamente di spostare la normalizzazione da un programma ufficiale dell’Autorità palestinese ad un livello popolare palestinese. Questo sta accadendo in particolare presso le università e le scuole sotto bandiere malignamente false e ingannevoli che promuovono accordi scientifici, accademici, didattici, sportivi, artistici e di altro tipo, destinati a penetrare il muro della coscienza palestinese, distorcendo la cultura e minando le fondamenta della narrazione palestinese.

Obeidat ha condannato le élites, che non rappresentano il popolo palestinese, da dentro o fuori la Palestina, e che cercano di testare le loro idee e concetti contro la realtà palestinese, a prescindere dalla applicabilità o inapplicabilità di tali concetti e visioni, anche quando questi concetti sono incompatibili con i diritti del popolo e della causa nazionale palestinese. Obeidat ha fatto un appello per discutere della normalizzazione ad un livello popolare per prevenirne l’espansione, sostenendo che «è dovere di ogni comunità nazionalmente orientata e degli attivisti istituzionali impegnarsi in campagne per affrontare la normalizzazione e per sensibilizzare l’opinione pubblica contro questo pericolo».

Lo studioso ha invitato i presenti a mobilitarsi con tutte le energie e gli sforzi possibili per smascherare i rapporti finanziari e istituzionali guidati da programmi di normalizzazione. A conclusione della manifestazione, Obeidat ha risposto alle domande degli studenti. Alla conferenza ha partecipato un gran numero di studenti del Parlamento della gioventù di Gerusalemme così come molte comunità e gruppi di studenti, compresi coloro che hanno causato il fallimento di una serie di incontri e conferenze “normalizzate” previste a Gerusalemme.

Il a souligné que l’éthique et les valeurs populaires arabes jouent un rôle important face à ceux qui essayaient de vendre leur terre à l’occupant et qu’elles ont continué à jouer un rôle crucial dans la prise de conscience par le public pour affronter les politiques réactionnaires visant à importer  la normalisation au sein des masses palestiniennes.

Obeidat a dit que la « normalisation » est apparue d’abord comme un terme et un concept politique après les accords de Camp David de 1979, alors qu’Israël insistait pour l’établissement de relations normales, économiques, politiques, culturelles, commerciales, diplomatiques et de sécurité entre l’Égypte et Israël avant le retour des terres arabes occupées et la reconnaissance et la mise en œuvre des droits du peuple palestinien (et la mise en œuvre des résolutions internationales). Le concept culturel et politique de normalisation est le produit d’une culture de la défaite et de la capitulation institutionnalisée par Sadate à Camp David, a dit Obeidat, notant qu’il s’est développé à partir de la politique militaire et économique de la défaite qui considère les États-Unis et Israël comme les facteurs déterminants de toutes solutions. Ainsi, une telle politique répond aux conditions et aux diktats d’Israël et des États-Unis en ce qui concerne le règlement ou la résolution du conflit israélo-arabe et étiquette toute solution hors du cadre U.S./ Israël comme étant « irréaliste, déraisonnable et extrémiste ».
Cette acceptation de ce concept a été gravement politiquement dommageable pour la cause arabe et palestinienne et a cherché  à barrer d’autres solutions et options pour récupérer nos terres et nos droits, a dit Obeidat. C’est le concept qui conduit les négociations tout en obscurcissant totalement les racines de la lutte et le fait que la position de pouvoir de l’occupation n’ a été atteinte que par une agression massive contre le peuple palestinien et la nation arabe et la suppression de nos droits fondamentaux, a-t’ il dit ; il cherche à saper la légitimité morale, politique et juridique de notre lutte pour la liberté, tout en offrant une couverture à l’occupation et à l’agression.

La normalisation, a dit Obeidat, cherche fondamentalement à faire sortir l’occupation de l’intérieur du cercle de l’isolement régional et international. Il y a eu une augmentation significative de l’activité de normalisation dans ces derniers temps, a dit Obeidat, telle qu’elle est devenue un « tsunami ». Il a noté que la normalisation pre-Oslo est différente de la normalisation post-Oslo, en ce que l’Autorité Palestinienne d’Oslo s’enchaînait elle-même par de nombreuses conditions et accords qui l’obligeaient à s’engager dans la normalisation à de multiples niveaux avec l’occupation et à établir des co-entreprises avec elle, sur un niveau de sécurité ainsi que politiquement, culturellement, académiquement et sur le plan institutionnel.

L’autorité est le « bulldozer » de la normalisation, a dit Obeidat, mais le plus grand danger pour notre culture et notre conscience ne vient pas de la normalisation de l’Autorité, mais des efforts intellectuels, culturels, politiques et sportifs qui tentent de tirer la normalisation d’un programme officiel de l’Autorité Palestinienne au des masses palestiniennes. Ce qui se passe notamment dans les universités et les écoles sous des bannières malicieusement fausses et trompeuses et les noms de promotion de projets communs scientifiques, universitaires, éducatifs, sportifs, artistiques et autres, destinés à pénétrer le mur de la conscience palestinienne, à déformer sa culture et saper les fondements de la narration palestinienne. Obeidat a condamné des élites, qui ne représentent pas notre peuple, de l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur de la Palestine, qui cherchent à tester leurs idées et concepts contre la réalité palestinienne, sans tenir compte de l’applicabilité ou de l’inapplicabilité de ces concepts et  visions, même lorsque ces notions sont incompatibles avec les droits de notre peuple et avec la cause nationale.

Obeidat a appelé à affronter la normalisation au niveau local et d’empêcher son expansion, disant qu’il était du devoir de toutes les communauté orientées sur la nation et des militants institutionnels militants de s’engager dans des campagnes pour affronter la normalisation et sensibiliser l’opinion publique contre la normalisation. Il a appelé les personnes présentes à mobiliser les énergies et les efforts afin d’exposer les relations financières et institutionnelles qui pilotent les programmes de normalisation. À la fin de la rencontre, Obeidat a répondu aux questions des étudiants. La conférence a rassemblé un grand nombre d’élèves par le Parlement de la Jeunesse de Jérusalem ainsi que plusieurs groupes communautaires et d’étudiants, y compris ceux qui avaient participé à l’origine de l’échec d’un certain nombre de réunions et conférences de normalisation  prévues à Jérusalem.

She also called for a full boycott of the occupation on all levels, official and public, and increased legal action to hold the occupation state and its officials accountable for their crimes.

She encouraged a Palestinian boycott of court hearings and processes of administrative detention, as they are nothing but a sham to attempt to legitimize arbitrary, secret and illegal detention, and are nothing more than an arm of the occupation. Khader Adnan has been held in administrative detention without charge since December 17 and has been on hunger strike since that time, protesting the illegal administrative detention system as well as the torture and abuse to which he and other Palestinian political prisoners are subjected in interrogation.

She saluted Adnan and his fellow Palestinian prisoners, noting that 10 prisoners in Ofer prison, including 4 comrades from the PFLP, had been placed in solitary confinement because of their solidarity hunger strike in support of Khader Adnan. Jarrar demanded the abolishment of isolation, which is a mechanism of torture and abuse, noting that it was currently being used on a long-term basis against dozens of Palestinian prisoners, including PFLP General Secretary Ahmad Sa’adat.

Jarrar called on international activists to launch protests and solidarity actions in support of Khader Adnan, drawing attention to his situation, and saluted and called for intensified national efforts to support the student protests, lawyers’ protests, and prisoners’ families’ protests in support of Adnan in Palestine.

Comrade Kayed al-Ghoul, member of the Central Committee of the PFLP and leader of its branch in Gaza, said in a televised interview with Al-Jazeera that there had been, prior to this meeting, no effort or activity to implement the earlier reconciliation agreement signed in Cairo over a nearly 9 month period. He said that mechanisms had been agreed upon in December 2011, that were once again disregarded and asked whether the “blessings of Qatar” had pushed the two parties to agree on the name of Abu Mazen – already PA President – as Prime Minister in what is claimed to be a government of national consensus, despite the fact that such an action is illegal under the PA’s own laws.

He pointed out that popular Arab ethics and values played an important role in confronting those who were trying to sell their land to the occupier, and have continued to play a crucial role in building public awareness to confront reactionary policies that aim to import normalization into the Palestinian grassroots.

Obeidat said that “normalization” first appeared as a term and a political concept after the Camp David accords of 1979, as Israel insisted upon the establishment of normal economic, political, cultural, commercial, diplomatic and security relations between Egypt and itself before the return of occupied Arab land and the recognition and implementation of the rights of the Palestinian people (and the implementation of international resolutions). The cultural and political concept of normalization is the product of a culture of defeat and surrender institutionalized by Sadat at Camp David, said Obeidat, noting that it grew from the military and economic policy of defeat that views the US and Israel as the determining factors of any solutions. Thus, such a policy responds to the conditions and dictates of Israel and the U.S. in regards to a settlement or resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and labels any solution outside the U.S./Israeli framework as “unrealistic, unreasonable and extremist.”
This acceptance of this concept was seriously politically damaging to the Arab and Palestinian cause, and sought to close off other solutions and options to reclaim our land and our rights, said Obeidat. This is the concept that drives the negotiations while utterly obscuring the roots of the struggle and the fact that the occupation’s position of power was achieved only by massive aggression against the Palestinian people and the Arab nation and suppressing our fundamental rights, he said; it seeks to undermine the moral, political and legal legitimacy of our struggle for freedom, while providing cover for the occupation and its aggression.

Normalization, said Obeidat, fundamentally seeks to release the occupation from inside the circle of regional and international isolation. There has been a significant increase in normalization activity in recent times, said Obeidat, such that it has become a “tsunami.” He noted that pre-Oslo normalization is different from post-Oslo normalization, in that the Palestinian Authority of Oslo shackled itself with numerous conditions and agreements that require them to engage in normalization at multiple levels with the occupation and establish joint ventures with it, on a security level as well as politically, culturally, academically, and institutionally.

The Authority is the “bulldozer” of normalization, said Obeidat, but the greatest danger to our culture and awareness does not come from the normalization of the Authority, but from the intellectual, cultural, political, and sporting efforts that seriously attempt to move normalization from an official program of the Palestinian Authority to a Palestinian grassroots level. This is happening particularly at universities and schools under maliciously false and deceptive banners and names promoting joint scientific, academic, educational, sporting, artistic and other projects, intended to penetrate the wall of Palestinian consciousness, distort its culture, and undermine the foundations of the Palestinian narrative. Obeidat condemned elites, who do not represent our people, from inside or outside Palestine, who attempt to test their ideas and concepts against Palestinian reality, regardless of the applicability or inapplicability of those concepts and visions, even when those concepts are inconsistent with the rights of our people and the national cause.

Obeidat called for confronting normalization at the grassroots level and preventing its expansion, saying that it was the duty of all nationally-oriented community and institutional activists to engage in campaigns to confront normalization and raise public awareness against normalization. He called upon those present to mobilize energies and efforts to expose financial and institutional relationships that drive normalization programs. At the conclusion of the event, Obeidat took questions from students. The lecture was attended by a large number of students from the Youth Parliament of Jerusalem as well as many community and student groups, including those who had been involved in causing the failure of a number of normalization meetings and conferences planned in Jerusalem.