[fwd] Bargouti trial resumes Thursday

[otherisr at actcom.co.il]

FYI

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The Bargouti Trial resumes Thursday - we should be there!
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On Thursday this week, the trial resumes in Tel-Aviv of Marwan Barghouti, head  of the 
Fatah Movement on the West Bank. At the earlier session, a month ago, members of 
the extreme right showed up and used the occasion for rampaging and wild racist 
incitement - without any presence of the peace movement. We have to make sure this 
does not happen again. Activists of several organizations (and/or from no particular 
organization) certainly intend to be there, this time.

It is important to emphasize that Marwan Barghouti  is a Palestinian leader 
unequivocally committed to the two states solution, to a state of Palestine side by 
side with the state of Israel. According to the charge sheet presented against him by 
the state of Israel, Barghouti tried to prevent suicide bombings inside Israeli territory 
and to limit the conflict to the Occupied Territories only.
In the past few months Barghouti , out of his prison cell, has taken an active part in the 
efforts to achieve a cease-fire - efforts which the Sharon Government is doing all it can 
to foil by constant provocations.  The place of Marwan Barghouti is not in the dock or 
in prison, but at the negotiating table.  Those who put Barghouti on trial, like those who 
besieged Arafat, do not want to make peace with any Palestinian.  
Marwan Barghouti's trial resumes on Thursday this week (October 3), at the hall of 
Judge Gurfinkel of the Tel-Aviv District Court (corner of Weizman St. and Sderot Saul 
Hamelech). The trial is supposed to resume at 12.00 noon, but in order to get a place 
inside the hall, it is necessary to arrive already at 11.00 AM or even 10.30 AM). And 
even if you don't get a place inside the hall, it would still be important to be present 
outside the hall, among the crowd which is expected to be there and which would 
include representatives of the media. In short: see you there!