Israel treats Palestinian prisoners horrifically. Cruel and unusual punishment is policy. Detention conditions include torture, intimidation, and other abusive practices. 

Is the mass Palestinian prisoner hunger strike the beginning of the Palestinian Spring?

Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1,500 prisoners engaged in a hunger strike in any country in the world other than Palestine, the media in the West would be obsessed with the story?

A recent report by CBS show 60 Minutes on "Christians of the Holy Land" has received a lot of attention, not least for the embarrassing contribution by Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren.

Tuesday was Palestinian Prisoners' Day and to acknowledge this 1,200 Palestinian prisoners started an open-ended mass hunger strike in Israeli jails. They were joining 10 inmates who had begun their hunger strike over 40 days earlier in protest at both their imprisonment and their conditions.