Palestinian prisoners end hunger strike
By YAAKOV KATZ
Yaakov Ganot, head of the Prisons Service, can finally breathe a sigh of relief. The past 18 days have been very tense for the former Traffic Police and Border Police commander as he has had to deal with the first hunger strike under his watch since taking up the post less than a year ago.
Ganot is happy the strike is over, but refrained from defining its end as a success for the Prisons Service.
“If I call it a success then it is as if I am insulting the other side,” Ganot told The Jerusalem Post shortly after the last of the prisoners sat down for the first meal Thursday. “The prisoners have the right to try and improve their conditions and make demands but it is also our right to do our job and keep Israel secure by maintaining order in the prisons and preventing terror.”
(emphasis mine)
My question: Would any Arab, or indeed any Muslim, hesitate to insult the “other side?”
white pebble 