Marwan Barghouthi has been sentenced to life in prison. Charles at LGF calls this Reuters article “shamefully biased,” and it is: Barghouti is called a “revolt leader” and a “fiery and articulate Palestinian lawmaker.” Never mind that he was implicated in the murders of innocent people. Note also the behavior of the Israeli Arab lawmakers.
“The (Israeli) occupation is going to end one day. It is dying,” Barghouthi, 45, said just before the Tel Aviv court handed down five consecutive life sentences for murder over the killings of five people by militants in his Fatah faction.
Barghouthi, who denied involvement in militant ambushes, received another 20 years for attempted murder and a further 20 for activity in a “terror group” — 165 years in total — in a high-profile case that Palestinians denounced as a show trial. …
A fiery and articulate Palestinian lawmaker, Barghouthi did not recognize the jurisdiction of the court that convicted him of murder last month but acquitted him of 21 other killings, citing insufficient evidence. …
Israeli Arab parliamentarians shook Barghouthi’s hand and kissed him before he entered the courtroom. Relatives of 20 slain Israelis screamed at the Israeli Arab lawmakers: “You’re garbage! Peace will come when terrorism ends!” …
The court found Barghouthi guilty of murder and complicity in attacks that killed a Greek Orthodox monk in the West Bank in 2001, an Israeli at the Jewish settlement of Givat Zeev in 2002 and three people at a Tel Aviv restaurant in 2002.