On Al-Isawi and the world..

I've just seen this image on 9gag. I like it, it is a funny way of looking at what happened this week.. but wait a minute, isn't there something missing? Why is the news about women wanting to pray on the "wailing wall" so important, while the story of a prisoner who has broken the world's record with the longest hunger strike ever for not just a sacred, but also a decades-old cause, not considered a main headline? I am not trying to say that women's rights are not a real or a significant cause, but I think that the records should be set straight when it comes to Al-Buraq wall before discussing stuff like who gets to pray there..
Why does the world not know about Samer al-Isawi? what are we doing wrong that the world does not even consider our suffering heroes a news worthy of mentioning? what went wrong?
We do not deserve a hero like Samer, and neither does this world..
May God be with you Samer, Ayman, and all heroes that perhaps the world has never and will never hear about..

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