Marwan Barghouti is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for premeditated murder in attacks that killed five people, plus a few other crimes.  The original prosecution charges accused him of perpetrating 37 attacks, running terrorist organizations, and recruiting and training terrorists.  The fact that he’s also the most popular Palestinian leader tells worlds about the Palestinians’ unreadiness for a credible peace agreement.  Barghouti was a terrorist kingpin during the second intifada and unapologetically calls for a third intifada.  He’s definitely not a Gandhi-type figure with peaceful instincts. But that’s not the way the New York Times describes him in an article at the top of the foreign-news section in the April 8 edition (“Prisoner In Israel Is Linked To Talks – Popular Palestinian Serving Life Terms”, by Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren, page A4) Rudoren suggests that releasing Barghouti...(Read Full Post)