Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. There was no rule of law applied to his final sentence.
The Middle East is not a place where conversations to achieve a benevolent end can be conducted by people approved by a white washed media that is controlled by leaders that care more about their image. There is an interesting article today in the "Times of Israel."
As few in the USA know, Egypt has been working with the leadership of Israel and Palestine to achieve a peace agreement. Every Friday there is a protest at the Gaza border by the Palestinians. The protesters have died. The protests have escalated to include bomb balloons. Egypt has demanded a civilized protest with respect for their commitment to the peace process. The leadership calling for a peaceful protest is the leader who developed the protests and the escalation to violence that they have become. The whitewashed politicians in DC do not want to be affiliated with him as a peace partner. Egypt sees the end of violence and they will work with all parties responsible for violent leadership to end it.
October 19, 2018
By Judah Ari Gross
One of the main organizers of the “March of Return” protests (click here) along the Gaza border called on participants on Thursday night to behave nonviolently in the demonstration planned for the next day, following a flareup between Israel and the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group that threatened to spark all-out war.
“The most important message tomorrow is the masses gathering in a peaceful manner,” Khaled al-Batsh, a senior leader of the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group and an organizer of the march, wrote in a statement....
...Al-Batsh also called on participants not to give Israeli snipers a reason to open fire at them.
Daoud Shehab, another member of the organizing committee of the marches, said officials were encouraging protesters to stay away from the border fence. But he said he was not sure to what extent they would succeed in “restraining the public mood.”...
Why is the Egyptian involvement important with these radicals? Because there is a commitment to bring about peace, improvement of the Palestinian economy and the end of radicalization of the people in Gaza. There is only one way to achieve this and that is to talk to the people responsible for the violence as a method they embrace to act against Israel.
Israel always demands the end of violence before it will discuss peace. That demand is nearly impossible to achieve with a population dedicated to dying to achieve the breaching of a border fence with Israel. The capacity of being peaceful has to be demonstrated to Israel to further the peace talks. When radicals are the leadership there is no choice in whom people speak to in engaging a ceasefire and ultimately peace recognizing Palestine.
If the press in any country engages radicals to bring about a conversation that ultimately leads to a greater understanding of the path forward, there is no shame in that. Quite frankly, that is leadership and blatantly heroic.
Every person in the world deserves a legal process that brings enlightenment to charges and the opportunity to prove her or his innocence. A governance that denies that process to human beings is a human rights violator. Even the Hague, the ultimate place for human rights to manifest, provides a sound process that brings the truth to the floor of a judgment of human rights violators. There is no sacrificing to this process and to be denied a chance to a fair trial is nothing short of a dictatorship that has no benevolence to the people under it's power.
There will be no rest for the power that Jamal Khashoggi met with that resulted in his death. It is a violation of life and there can be no tolerance for it.
