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Israel/Palestine: the 'Robin Hood' of international law
Roughly around the same time Walt Staton, a former UA student, was convicted by a Tucson federal court this June for providing humanitarian aid to migrants in the Sonoran desert, another human rights activist 7,500 miles away in the Negev desert of Palestine is being legally persecuted in a similar way, for comparable "crimes" of compassion.
Ezra Nawi's very name means "help" in Hebrew. And his government is punishing him for living up to his name, as he attempts to uphold basic human rights standards routinely denied by his government upon Nawi's Palestinian neighbors.
Nawi, a plumber by trade, has been praised by the New York Times as the "Robin Hood of the South Hebron hills, an Israeli Jew helping poor locals who love him, and thwarting settlers and soldiers who view him with contempt."