Although hashtags like #ReleaseIssawi, #PalHunger, #FreeSamer, #SetIssawiFree, and #IssawiIntifada have been trending on Twitter, and news of the hunger strikers all over Facebook, little has been said or written in international media about the plight of the five Palestinian strikers nearing death. ???When Shalit was being held in Gaza, the whole world, especially America and Obama, was focused o