Arab MK Azmi Bshara goes on trial today. He is accused of supporting a terrorist organization, as manifest in his declarations in support of Hizbullah on two different occasions - one in Syria, and one in Um el-Fahm. Dozens of Bshara\'s supporters and civil rights activists from abroad showed up at the trial, many of them waving PLO flags. Earlier this month, Bshara wrote in the Cairo weekly, Al-Ahram, that “the Palestinians’ only hope is to resist\" and that the “intifada… needs more than rhetorical support…the Lebanese resistance won the battle against Israel thanks to the genuine backing of both Syria and Iran.” Bshara summed up by writing, “Palestinians [need] to resurrect the language and tradition of national liberation… [They] cannot keep alternating between two languages: that of Oslo and that of national liberation.\"