A hunger strike isn't much fun after a while

Some Brown University students went on hunger strike last week to protest the ill treatment of Palestinians and Hamas terrorists (impossible to separate the two) in the Gaza Strip. Yesterday they gave up. Their week-long fast compares rather pathetically with the sixty-six days Bobby Sands lasted in 1981, let alone the seventy-four days Terrence McSwiney managed in 1920. The Students for Justice in Palestine should have acquainted themselves with the Irish Republican Army: a hunger strike is a farce unless you're actually willing to die. And you get hungry!