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Some consider the Palestinian prisoners’ release a mistake, legally and ethically, and a shocking injustice to the families of their victims.
By demanding the release of more than 1,000
prisoners
in exchange for one soldier, Hamas is conceding the stark military reality of this imbalance: thousands of their prisoners, fighting with knives, explosive belts, and primitive rockets, are worth only one Israeli soldier.
As a result, one prisoner in exchange for a thousand Palestinian
prisoners
is neither a humiliation nor a surrender, but an acceptable agreement that acknowledges, even on behalf of the enemy, the military capacity of Israeli soldiers.
There are also those who vigorously oppose the prisoner exchange with Hamas because some of the released
prisoners
will return to terrorism against Israel, as has happened after past exchanges.
But many of the released
prisoners
will be transferred to the Gaza Strip, a territory that is completely separate from Israel, where they might join Hamas’s militant forces but will not be able to execute terrorist attacks against Israel.
Likewise, other
prisoners
will be expelled to the West Bank, and will not come into contact with the Israeli population, neither in the settlements nor in Israel.
The 70 or so
prisoners
who will return to the West Bank could also be influenced by the positive atmosphere created by the Palestinian Authority as it awaits the resumption of negotiations to achieve a two-state (and two-population) solution.
Turkey has committed itself to a vast legislative effort to improve human rights, freedom of thought, treatment of prisoners, and civilian control over the military.
The US, owing to its horrific treatment and torture of
prisoners
in Baghdad, has had no option but to search for international legitimacy after denying and defying it for so long, in order to extricate itself from the chaos and drama of what is now Iraq.
Up to 200,000 political
prisoners
are kept as slaves in brutal labor camps, where they are lucky if they are not tortured to death.
While President Barack Obama has released a few prisoners, notably the Chinese Uighurs, and sent another for a real trial in New York City, he is now, chillingly, signalling that he is about to begin “preventive detention,” which would empower him to hold forever an unspecified number of
prisoners
without charges or trials.
The question seems absurd in the light of photographs of American soldiers torturing and humiliating Iraqi
prisoners.
Some Colombians demand a “humanitarian accord” – an exchange of
prisoners
for hostages – and reject “blood and fire” rescue attempts.
The source of that shame is not any particular act, but simply being part of a nation that could behave so arrogantly as to disregard international law and the United Nations by invading a country that was not threatening America, and then sending untrained military police to keep
prisoners
in line by any means they happen to devise.
Even if the UN Security Council could establish an ad hoc tribunal to try the abuses of American officials in Iraq, this would still address only the guilt of individuals, not the problem of each American's own responsibility for having participated, directly and indirectly, in a culture that generated the torture of
prisoners.
But Iraq has already degenerated into so many rival factions that apart from the abused prisoners, there is no identifiable entity America has wronged and to whom it is indebted.
Ordinary citizens want to own a modest business, have access to a free press, organize political parties, re-make society, and liberate
prisoners.
How long must we be
prisoners
of that historical experience?
In this context, it seems possible that the US will end up pushing Venezuela’s opposition not to cut off oil to Cuba, even as it pressures the government to free political
prisoners
and pursue fairer and more transparent governance.
Indeed, here Chinese Twitter users lead the world, using it for everything from social resistance, civic investigation, and monitoring public opinion, to creating black satire, “organizing without organizations” in the Guangdong anti-incineration movement, and mailing postcards to
prisoners
of conscience.
Mostly, I remember the hundreds of black and white mug shots of
prisoners
and victims that covered every inch of the walls – a ghastly montage of human suffering that haunts me to this day.
Political prisoners, hungry children, the homeless Chernobyl refugees, or the irradiated workers in need of a lifetime of medical help – to dismiss their plight, to refuse to offer some spark of hope, is to exile them to a netherworld of helplessness.
Now, we will move for the suspension of Burma’s membership of ASEAN unless Aung San Suu Kyi and other political
prisoners
are released and clear progress towards democracy is made through negotiations involving the Aung’s National League for Democracy and representatives of the various ethnic groups.
This year has witnessed political opening, the release of several prominent political prisoners, and evidence of self-assertion by the nominally civilian government (headed by a former general, Thien Sein).
As the new regime released political prisoners, permitted freedom of movement to the detained Suu Kyi, and even questioned the environmental and economic impact of a big Chinese dam project in the country’s north, Western critics began to acknowledge that genuine change might be on the way.
Of the 98 fellow Muslim Brotherhood
prisoners
with whom Qutb discussed his new confrontational ideology in 1964, 35 were strongly supportive, 23 strongly opposed, and 50 hesitant.
The US now incarcerates more people than any other country, largely as a result of soaring drug convictions, with a disproportionate number of African-American and Hispanic
prisoners.
A genuinely representative assembly in the twenty-first century will not establish a polity that tolerates political prisoners, censorship, oppression of minorities and women, torture, disappearances, or detention without trial.
In The Outermost House, the American naturalist Henry Beston wrote, of nonhuman animals, “They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow
prisoners
of the splendor and travail of the earth.”We
Equally important, our
prisoners
of war and hostages deserve to be returned to their families.
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