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Mosby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 08:07 PM
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Palestinians in Egypt prisons ‘are tortured’
Gaza’s Hamas rulers, whose relations with Cairo are growing increasingly tense, yesterday accused Egypt of torturing Palestinian prisoners.

“They are subjected to horrible methods of torture, electrocuted, hung by their limbs for long periods, beaten,” said Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for the Islamist movement.

“The situation of the detainees in the Egyptian prisons is catastrophic,” he said. “Arrests and torture are increasing.”
He said 30 members of Palestinians factions, including 11 from Hamas, are held in Egyptian prisons, where they have served from one to six years.

Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s main opposition movement, and its relations with Egypt have become increasingly tense in recent weeks.

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=361134&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17

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ConsAreLiars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-13-10 01:13 AM
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1. They are natural and reliable allies with the occupying forces in Palestine.
Same methods, same enemies, same friends, same financial and military support from the region's hegemonic power and mass murdering empire. Natural bedfellows, sharing the same bed.
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 10:02 AM
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2. They were the former occupiers of Gaza...and did not give them citizenship
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ConsAreLiars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 12:57 AM
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3. Exactly.
Edited on Sun May-16-10 12:58 AM by ConsAreLiars
The military dictatorship in Egypt which gets its weapons budget from the US behaves no differently toward the Palestinians in Gaza than its peace-dealed partner in the supremacist theo-state that gets its weapons budget supplied by the US.

They are equally supine, and morally indistinguishable when it comes to the treatment of the indigenous population of greater Palestine.

(edit a few words)
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 02:20 PM
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4. Disgusting
Not that the Muslim Brotherhood are an appetizing bunch; but torture is ALWAYS evil.
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