Despite Palestinian media portrayal of the “torture” of Arab prisoners held by Israel, inmates report they are allowed to study in prison as students at Israeli universities, reports Palestinian Media Watch.
PMW includes on its website links to PA-produced videos featuring actors depicting “Israeli torture of Palestinians” in prison. The organization says the video has been broadcast numerous times daily on PA TV as part of “Palestinian Prisoners Day.”
A television interview last week of a Palestinian recently released from an Israeli prison as a goodwill gesture, however, paints a different picture. Ahmad Jabara had served 27 years for murdering 14 in a Jerusalem bombing in 1975, according to PMW.
The host of the TV show asked Jabara to describe the misery of an Israeli jail so “viewers can feel, even just a little, the suffering and wretchedness of the prisoners.”
Jabara responded by first saying the prisons are “Nazi-like.” The worst example of conditions he could cite was that “at any given moment the Israelis could burst into our rooms and check us.”
Later in the June 23 interview, PMW reports, Jabara talked of how Palestinian prisoners can get a university education while incarcerated.
Jabara told the show’s host: “… Thank God, as Palestinian prisoners, more than 200 of us have been accepted into the Hebrew University and the Ben Gurion University, and our brother Hisham Abed Al-Razak (PA minister for prisoners) is paying the tuition fees. … Even in the prisons we are studying, and we are looking forward to the future and live in hope. …”
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