Word: israel
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Sourani, who has been imprisoned a half-dozen times by Israeli authorities and was detained by the Palestinian Authority in 1995 after criticizing military courts, is one of the most respected human rights advocates in the occupied territories and Israel...
Sourani said that Israel's systemic oppression of Palestinians, along with the abuses of the Palestinian Authority, threaten to destroy Palestinian civil society and throw the peace process into jeopardy...
Sourani also accused both Israel and Islamic groups of duplicity in their commitment to human rights...
...Israel selectively uses human rights against the P.A. to say `we are not as bad as them'" while continuing to violate human rights norms, he said...
...made a very strong point, that Israel employs human rights doctrine selectively for its political purposes," said Charles L. Wilkins, a non-resident tutor in Adams House...