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  Friday  February 18  2005    09: 14 PM

Israel Is Failing the Moral Test
Apparently, it is forbidden for Palestinians to use the tactics of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. to try to save their land and their communities from destruction.


According to Israeli authorities, one reason for my arrest two weeks ago in Biddu and my denial of entry into Israel in 2003 is that I "organized and participated in illegal demonstrations." Israeli authorities frequently use the term "illegal demonstrations" to describe peaceful protests against Israeli government violations of international law. This twisted reasoning needs to be exposed and rejected.

What is legal often does not completely correspond to what is moral. However, when what is moral is described as illegal, there is a major problem.

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