Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.
But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.
The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.
The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.
Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.