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By Micah Halpern
Friday March 29, 2013 I've Been Thinking: A Palestinian Authority court in the West Bank has sentenced a journalist to one year in prison. It happened just yesterday His crime was posting a picture on his own facebook page. The picture was a depiction of Abbas as a traitor. Over the past few months human rights groups have lodged a series of complaints against Abbas for the way in which he is cracking down on civil rights in the West Bank. Most often the people targeted by Abbas have been Hamas members. I agree that Hamas must be reigned in, especially in the West Bank, in order to control, rule and protect the Palestinian Authority. But this case is about a facebook picture. A free and critical internet is part and parcel of the new media. Read my new book THUGS. It's easy. Just click. To reprint my essays contact sales (at) www.featurewell.com 4 June 2017 12:13 PM in Thoughts
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