Word: sourani
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...corruption and criminal collusion at the top of the Fatah-dominated security services that once controlled Gaza. "For the last year and a half, there has been an orchestrated escalation of chaos by some Banana Republic officers to show that Hamas does not have control of Gaza," said Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. "Gaza became like Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Thugs and gangsters were ruling, and some were supported and protected by our own security forces...
...Gilad's captors to treat him well, none would advocate that he be freed without getting something in return. For years, Palestinians have tried to call attention to the 9,000-plus Palestinians in Israeli jails, many of them noncombatants convicted in quick trials in military tribunals that Raji Sourani, the director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, calls "kangaroo courts." Why does the Israeli government appear so inflexible about releasing prisoners at this time? Abbas and Israeli government sources say that at a private meeting in June, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised to release some prisoners...
...said. In the creed of Hamas, suicide bombs are the most potent weapon Palestinians can wield against a better-armed enemy. The killings make Israel understand, Rantisi told me last summer, that "force will not defeat the Palestinians. Ever." Palestinians know "we're not winning the war," says Raji Sourani, a human-rights lawyer in Gaza. "But at least we died trying. It's all about not being the 'good victim...
...Arab society, the father is likened to a god; he is called rabb al-'ayyila, master of the family, just as Allah is rabb al-'alamin, master of the universe. No more. To men like human-rights advocate Raji Sourani, who withstood years of persecution by the Israelis when they controlled Gaza City and then more by Arafat's secret police, this is the cruelest blow. When his twins asked for guns, Sourani took them to a toy shop. "I don't want a toy," said Basel, 7. "I want a real gun." "What for?" Sourani asked. "To protect...