Word: processing
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Warning that disregard for human rights is undermining the Middle East peace process, Palestinian lawyer and founder of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Raji Sourani accused both Israel and the Palestinian Authority of violating civil rights in a somber speech Sunday afternoon at the Unitarian Church in Harvard Square...
...Human Rights Laureate, divided his remarks between attacks on Israel--which he said enforces a "de facto apartheid" in the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank--and the Palestinian Authority. He accused the Authority of responding to Western calls for crackdowns on militant groups by suspending due process and resorting to torture of suspected criminals...
Sourani said that Israel's systemic oppression of Palestinians, along with the abuses of the Palestinian Authority, threaten to destroy Palestinian civil society and throw the peace process into jeopardy...
...morally, politically and legally responsible as co-sponsors of the peace process," he said. Sourani said the U.S. had pressured the Palestinian Authority to crack down on Hamas and had praised the repressive military courts...
...privy. Diverse though these characters may seem, the author makes little effort to develop their behaviors or idiosyncrasies in either a compelling or interesting way. Each suspect becomes interchangeable with the next, any of whom could have committed the crime. The reader is left bored and impatient in the process...