The advocacy group Addameer visited five hunger strikers in Israel's Ramle Prison last week and said they were weak and barely able to move. Boo Hoo those poor babies. Either eat your food or shut up.

Noble Peace Prize Laureate Obama showed how it is done. When detainees in Guantanamo Bay Prison (none who have been tried or convicted of any crime) threatened to go on hunger strike, Obama ordered them shackled to a dentist's chair and force fed.

It is unconscionable to interfere with the right of an individual to exercise free will. While someone's right to flail his arms ends at your nose, there are no such restrictions on an individual's inalienable right to engage in a hunger strike. Israel is in a Catch-22 position here. On the one hand, if we let them pursue their hunger strike to its inevitable end, the international community will screech. On the other hand, if we force feed the hunger strikers, the international community will howl that Israel is interfering with their right to exercise free will. Can't have that -- so let them starve. Although I note for the record that Barghouti -- imaginary president-elect of the imaginary state of "Palestine" -- is not among the hunger strikers. And he really could use a diet. I guess while he doesn't mind sending others to their deaths as suicide bombing "martyrs," he has a rather healthy sense of self-preservation. Seems to me that Israel could use this in some form of publicity. At the very least, it will shame Barghouti.