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Title: Israel moves to deport 'illegal' Palestinians from West Bank
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URL Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Midd ... al-Palestinians-from-West-Bank
Published: Apr 12, 2010
Author: Ilene R. Prusher
Post Date: 2010-04-12 18:01:39 by Skip Intro
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Comments: 11
Israel moves to deport 'illegal' Palestinians from West Bank A new Israel military order scheduled to go into effect on Tuesday gives Israel the power to deport and prosecute Palestinians living in the West Bank without a permit. A sweeping new Israeli military order that is due to go into effect on Tuesday could allow for the deportation of thousands of Palestinians whom Israel considers to be in the West Bank illegally – and could also affect internationals living in the West Bank. The order, which was passed into military code six months ago but is due to go into effect on Tuesday, was discovered by the Israel-based human rights group HaMoked: the Center for the Defense of the Individual, and reported in Sunday's Haaretz newspaper. HaMoked and nine other human rights groups have banded together and appealed to Israel's Ministry of Defense to delay enforcing the order. Under the new Israeli rules, anyone caught living in the West Bank without an Israeli permit could face expulsion within three days or be sentenced to up to seven years in prison. The deportation policy would primarily be applied to Palestinians or foreign nationals who are residing in West Bank without a permit, according to an army statement. "The major problem is that for the first time, Palestinians can be regarded as infiltrators in their own land," says Elad Kahana, a lawyer for HaMoked. She adds that even people who have been living in the West Bank for 20 years will be required to obtain a special permit. "The main target is people who originally came from the Gaza Strip and foreigners who came here under family reunification laws." The greatest number of those falling into the second category, says a spokeswoman for human rights organization B'tselem, is Jordanian women who married West Bank Palestinian men. Such marriages are common, usually within extended families. "These are the groups at risk, but the order is so general and so wide that it could be used against almost anybody caught in the West Bank," says Sarit Michaeli, the spokeswoman for B'tselem. Violation of Oslo Accords? In recent years, several Gaza-born Palestinians have been deported from the West Bank to Gaza. One of the most prominent of these occurred late last fall, when Berlanty Azzam, a student at Bethlehem University, was arrested at a Ramallah-area checkpoint on her way to a job interview. Having been born in Gaza, she was detained by soldiers and then deported her back to the coastal strip several months before her scheduled graduation. The Oslo Accords declared that the West Bank and Gaza Strip should be considered as one contiguous territory. As such, many human rights groups say this behavior by Israeli forces is illegal, and seems aimed at reducing Palestinian population growth in the West Bank. The new military order, B'tselem says, is an attempt on the part of the army to make deportations easier, as well as adding the possibility of criminal charges. "Let's say you're born in Gaza, but you came to study at Bir Zeit University [north of Ramallah] and you stayed and got married, even had kids," Michaeli says, explaining a typical predicament. "According to Israel, you're still a Gazan, and if you cross a checkpoint and a soldier notices that your ID card says Gaza, you could be arrested and deported. If you are eventually forced to leave the West Bank, you're likely to bring your family with you." According to HaMoked, "tens of thousands of Palestinians" would live in danger of being deported either to Gaza or to Jordan. But exact numbers are difficult to obtain because the numbers of people to be considered "illegal sojourners" by the Israeli military order have not been documented. HaMoked and nine other groups appealed to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Monday to delay the implementation of the order. They have not yet received a reply.
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#1. To: Skip Intro (#0)
The major problem is that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people or a Palestinian land. Just a bunch of useful idiot Arab squatters being used as propaganda tools. Learn some job skill other than strapping bombs on their 2 year olds to kill Jews, and maybe they'll get a better life.
I think that's the stupidest thing you've posted yet.
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. - Thomas Jefferson
If you believe other than that, you are the stupidest thing "posted."
As I said, that's a really stupid statement, even for you. The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. - Thomas Jefferson
It was a name applied to a geographic region, not a Nation or people, tool. -- As Walid Shoebat and others have stated so eloquently, there never was "a Palestinian people" until the myth of "a Palestinian people" became politically expedient for primarily Arab Islamists dealing with the west and opposing the Jews. The true history of "the Palestinian people" is that one day a bunch of people were told they were "Palestinian", prior to which most of them had thought of themselves as Jordanian. The notion of "a Palestinian people" is derived from revisionist history, and from the enthusiasm of American bleeding heart liberals who found a cause to advocate for that they never checked for historical validity. Although there is historically a geographic reference to an area called Palestine, there was a parade of different tribal and ethnic groups through this area, including Jews. This is historical fact. Since the time that the fiction of "a Palestinian people" was invented, their numbers have swelled beyond the rate at which it is possible for humans to reproduce, further demonstrating that today's "Palestinians" are a politically expedient fiction.
That "fiction" goes back over 3000 years.
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. - Thomas Jefferson
I'm not talking 3000 years; I'm talking about 150 or so years, but you are so indoctrinated into your "Juze are evil" way of thinking, you are too stupid to realize it. The fact of the matter that around the beginning of the 20th Century, "Palestine" was desolate and virtually unpopulated. The land was bought by Jews (the Arabs were more than happy to sell this worthless land to the stupid Jews) who developed it. Jews legitimately own the land.
The facts are that at the beginning of the 20th century Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire and hardly unpopulated. I don't know where you came up with the idea that the Jews bought Palestine, but as always you're totally wrong. I suggest you look into the history and aftermath of WWI and educate yourself.
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. - Thomas Jefferson
Educate youfrelf, jew hating Muzzie loving Paultard: -- One of the most misunderstood issues today is the question of "Who are the Palestinians?" The truth about this matter has been so deliberately obscured that even to raise the question will seem strange to many people. The land of Israel became known as Palestine after the Roman destruction of Israel in A.D. 70. It was ruled by many differentxinvaders for the following 19 centuries. In the 7th century, the Muslims took control of Palestine for the first time. From A.D. 635 until 1917, the Muslims ruled it, with only a few interruptions by the European Crusaders. During that span of time, the land was reduced to total desolation. Many people who traveled the land in the 19th century remarked on the fact that Palestine was as desolate as the moon and very few people lived there. In 1867, Mark Twain remarked about his visit to the Holy Land in his book, "The Innocents Abroad." He lamented, "Stirring scenes occur in the valley [of Jezreel] no more. There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent - not for 30 miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. One may ride 10 miles hereabouts and not see 10 human beings." By all eyewitness accounts of that era, Palestine was a total desolation. There were virtually no trees and no people. Because of lack of trees, the weather changed and it rarely ever rained. The irrigation systems of the once fertile valleys were all destroyed, rendering most areas into malaria-ridden swamps. The terraces of the mountainsides were torn down, causing terrible erosion that left only barren rocks. This was the condition of Palestine by the beginning of the 19th century. It was at this time that Jews began to flee severe persecutions in Russia and Eastern Europe. In the mid-1800's, some Jews came to Palestine and, with the generous aid of some successful Jews like the Rothschilds, began to buy property from Muslim Ottoman Turks. The Muslims thought the land was worthless anyway, so they sold it to the "dumb Jews" for extremely inflated prices. To everyone's amazement, the Jews were very successful at reclaiming the land. Many of them died from malaria and the rigorous life the work demanded, but they performed an agricultural miracle that made the land very productive again. As a result of their success, poor migrant workers from the surrounding Muslim countries began to flood in to work for the Jews. The Jews literally became victims of their own success - almost all of the people calling themselves "Palestinians" today are the descendants of those migrant workers. Much more is said and documented on this subject in my book. But the main point is this: The Muslims have repeatedly shown they understand these things. Since they know that the so-called "Palestinians" are not a homogeneous people, but rather a mixed conglomerate of workers with no cohesive organizational or political skills, they have repeatedly not given them a state. When the Hashemite Tribe, who were rulers over Mecca and Medina for centuries, were driven out by the Saudis, the British gave them control over the vastly greater numbers of "migrant workers" in Trans Jordan. The British said this would be, in effect, "The State of Palestine." Instead, the Hashemites, who make up only about 20 percent of the population, turned itinto their own kingdom and called it the Kingdom of Jordan. When the Jordanians and Egyptians controlled the so-called West Bank and Gaza Strip for 19 years (1948 to 1967), there was never a thought of giving the disorganized mass of "migrant workers" a state. Why? Because they knew there was no cohesive, homogeneous people known as "Palestinians."
Your book, Eric? What book are you talking about?
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. - Thomas Jefferson
What book are you talking about? He's written books so his cohorts can find hookers in foreign countries using the native language and phrases.
It's the war, stupid.
"The major problem is that for the first time, Palestinians can be regarded as infiltrators in their own land
#2. To: no gnu taxes (#1)
The major problem is that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people or a Palestinian land.
#3. To: Skip Intro (#2)
I think that's the stupidest thing you've posted yet.
#4. To: no gnu taxes (#1)
The major problem is that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people or a Palestinian land.
#5. To: Skip Intro (#4)
#6. To: no gnu taxes (#5)
This is historical fact. Since the time that the fiction of "a Palestinian people" was invented
#7. To: Skip Intro (#6)
That "fiction" goes back over 3000 years.
#8. To: no gnu taxes (#7)
The fact of the matter that around the beginning of the 20th Century, "Palestine" was desolate and virtually unpopulated. The land was bought by Jews
#9. To: Skip Intro (#8)
#10. To: no gnu taxes (#9)
Much more is said and documented on this subject in my book.
#11. To: Skip Intro (#10)
Your book, Eric?
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