Marwan Barghouti,45, is convicted of involving in 5 murders and is serving 5 life terms(+some 40 years) in an Israeli prison. After talking to Mahmoud Abbas a few days ago he announced that he would not run for presidency. However now he decided to run for president of Palestine. Israeli officials said that they would not free him from the jail even if he is elected. Israeli officials said that if the Palestinians elect him as their president it shows that they are not ready for peace. He is considered as one of the leaders of the Fatah movement. He fluently speaks English, Hebrew and of course Arabic,as his mother tongue. He learnt Hebrew while he was in an Israeli jail. He was a critical of Arafat and his political corruption.
In
this article published in Washington Post he describes himself as follows:
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated -- the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else.
Marwan Barghouti's Profile.
The same news from BBC
1 comment:
that's a strong statement quoted by the post
i would be fine if he won the election
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