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April 25, 2017

The Palestinian Hunger Strike Has Nothing to Do with Conditions in Israeli Prisons

It’s about an internal power struggle.

For over a week, Marwan Barghouti—a former leader of the Fatah faction’s military wing and a key figure behind the second intifada—has been engaged in a hunger strike along with hundreds of his fellow Palestinian prisoners. Ostensibly, the strikers are seeking better treatment from the Israeli prison holding them. Bassam Tawil argues that something else is at stake:

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