Yousef Alawnah, a journalist from Jordan, who was once jailed in Israel told a Saudi TV outlet this month that he was ashamed to compare the dire conditions in prisons in the Arab world to the far more impressive conditions in Israeli jails. Alawnah, who previously spent 30 months in an Israeli prison for smuggling explosives, told Saudi 24 it was like being incarcerated in an "institute of education," where inmates were given an opportunity to acquire culture, to read and to study many things. "I am ashamed by [the comparison] between Israeli and Arab prisons," he said in the June 12 interview, translated this week by MEMRI. Alawnah was particularly impressed with the extensive prison libraries in Israel; he told the interviewer they also had books in Arabic. "They have all the important books, history books, books against Israel and against Zionism... Even Hitler's Mein Kampf is there," he said. Alawnah - who MEMRI said wrote for the Kuwaiti press for many years but was deported two years ago after criticizing Shiite leader Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani - went on to say that political prisoners in other parts of the Middle East, especially in Syria, are certainly not afforded such luxuries. "The prisoners held in the dungeons of the Syrian regime... Do you think that they have books?" In Alawnah's interview, he also criticized the Arab world for the widespread violence in the region, saying the Israel has not caused as many deaths as Iran has in recent years. "Consider what the Arabs have done to one another. If the Jews occupied Syria or Iraq, would they do all those things?" he said. "Have the Jews killed as many as Iran's militias killed in Mosul or in Aleppo? No." Photos: Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli jails
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