After Spending 40 Years in Israeli Jails….Maher Younis Dies

He had served 40 years in Israel prisons. Maher Abdel Latif Younis died early Sunday morning following a severe health crisis, nearly three years after his release. His funeral took place after noon prayers at the Al-Dhahrat Mosque in the village of Ar’ara in occupied Palestine.

Younis was released on 19 January, 2023, after spending four consecutive decades in Israeli prisons. He was arrested on 18 January, 1983, at the age of 25, for his resistance to the occupation and his membership of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah.

After his arrest, he was harshly interrogated, and the Israeli court initially sentenced him to death. However, his sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment about a month later and then further reduced to 40 years in 2012 according to Quds Press.

Whilst in prison Younis lost his father in 2008 who was himself a former prisoner and spent eight years in Israeli jails. During his incarceration, Younis also managed to earn a BA degree in Political Science.

Maher Younis was born on 6 January, 1958, in the village of Ar’ara, within the 1948 borders. He leaves five sisters and one brother. He received his primary and secondary education in his village and then continued his studies at the industrial school in Hadera.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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Palestine Was Never Bought!

Zionists often claim that Palestine was simply bought.

​While Zionist funds did purchase land, it amounted to less than 6%.

​This is documented directly in the Government of Palestine’s own Village Statistics from 1945. That 6% was acquired over 60 years of purchasing, using funds gathered from Jewish communities worldwide through the Jewish National Fund’s collection boxes and Theodor Herzl’s bank, the Jewish Colonial Trust. At that rate, purchasing the remainder of Palestine would have taken another 900 years.

​While popular narrative claims those land purchases built a country, official ledgers show that 94% of the land was never theirs. That 94% comprised many things: village fields, public land, communal pastures, and desert.

​However, one thing it was not: sold.

​A land sale transfers a specific parcel—it does not transfer the neighboring village, the tenants, the wells, the roads, or sovereignty.

​So why persist in claiming Palestine was bought fair and square?

​Because if Palestine was purchased, then there was no conquest and no colonization—only fair business. It implies no one was driven out, and that an owner was merely tidying his property.

​Ultimately, this myth exists to reframe a dispossession as a simple transaction; it is the counterpart to the “empty land” narrative. First, the people are erased from the story, and then that 6% is expanded to fill the entire map.

​A receipt only proves ownership of the parcel written on it.

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