NOVANEWS
“Zio=Nazi bid to expel West Bank Palestinians is a step too far “ [title of Zionist Haaretz Editorial Monday, April 12, 2010, item 4 below]
Dear Friends,
The 4 items below are on one and the same subject: the threat of expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank. Each of the first 3 discusses a slightly different aspect or lays emphasis on a different aspect from the others, and therefore I have included the 3, all of which are reports. The final item on the subject is an editorial—an opinion piece. It is a strong editorial, but not strong enough, as the words “a step too far” in the title should indicate.
The impending expulsion of a large number of Palestinians from the West Bank is surely not merely “a step too far”! It is a potential NAKBA, a catastrophe! Zio=Nazi regime is not satisfied with stealing Palestinian land. It now intends to deport the population!!!
Well, governments did not raise their voices when Jews were being deported by the Nazis. And it is unlikely that governments will raise their voices now when Palestinians will be deported by New-Nazi’s Jews.
But the term ‘deportation’ should make every Jew shudder! Every Jew in the world should forthwith renounce his/her privilege of immigrating (aliah) to Zionist state. And today, when Zio=Nazi regime commemorated the SHOAH, the Holocaust, deportation hangs over the heads of Palestinians by Jews!!!!
Every Jew in the world should now denounce Zionist regime for its taking its privilege of going-as-far-as-it-can in its handling of Palestinians, because Zionist regime knows that it can get by with it (just as the Nazis knew they could with the deportation of Jews). Zio=Nazi regime knows that no foreign government will cut relations with it, demand sanctions, or even criticize it for this dastardly act!
SHAME ON THE WORLD! Jews stand up and shout loudly and clearly:
“NOT IN MY NAME”
If there is one thing in this world that Zionist regime needs in addition to the billions in US military aid, it is Jews! Jews abroad can make a difference. Tell Zio=Nazil’s leaders that it will never have your support again, EVER and that you will never come to live in the Zionist state of ‘Israel’ or to visit it. If ever there has been a time when another people has needed your help, your protection, it is NOW!
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1. NY Times Sunday, April 11, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/world/middleeast/12mideast.html?ref=middleeast
JERUSALEM — A recently amended military order that allows Israel to remove people from the West Bank if it does not recognize their legal status could lead to the expulsion of thousands of Palestinians, Israeli human rights groups warned Sunday.
The amendment — to a 1969 order on dealings with those judged to be infiltrators of the West Bank — was signed by military officials last October and is due to take effect on Tuesday.
In the original document, issued two years after Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 war, “infiltrator” was defined as a person who entered the area illegally from a neighboring Arab country. The amendment redefined the term to refer broadly to anyone who entered the West Bank “unlawfully” or who “does not lawfully hold a permit.” The permit required is not specified.
“The wide definitions are the problem,” said Elad Cahana, a lawyer for HaMoked: The Center for the Defense of the Individual, one of 10 groups appealing for a delay on the change in the order. The group estimated that tens of thousands of Palestinians could theoretically be at risk.
The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, denounced the change. “These military orders belong in an apartheid state,” he said. “Extensive in scope, they make it infinitely easier for Israel to imprison and expel Palestinians from the West Bank.”
But Capt. Barak Raz, a spokesman for the Israeli military, said that there had been no change in policy regarding the extradition of illegal residents from the West Bank, and that “anyone who has the right paperwork” allowing residency “has nothing to worry about.”
Mr. Cahana said the concern was less of a mass expulsion than of the military deporting those officially registered as residents of Gaza, as well as Palestinians or their spouses who moved to the West Bank from abroad.
When the military currently tries to remove such individuals from the West Bank, it often faces difficulties in arguing the cases before Israel’s Supreme Court. The amended order could help the military overcome those difficulties, Mr. Cahana said.
Under the revised order, a deportation cannot be carried out until 72 hours after legal papers have been issued, and until the person served has had a chance to appeal in a military court.
Those convicted under the order could now face up to seven years in jail.
In the past, deportation orders could be carried out the same day they were served, with no appeal, so Captain Raz, of the Israeli military, said the amendment could actually help those without legal residency. “It makes it easier for people without the right paperwork to appeal,” he said.
A version of this article appeared in print on April 12, 2010, on page A8 of the New York edition.
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2. The Guardian Sunday, April 11, 2010
Israeli groups fight orders allowing army to jail West Bank residentsIsraeli human rights campaigners claim Palestinians or foreigners could be labelled infiltrators
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/11/israeli-groups-attack
(233)Tweet this (74)Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem guardian.co.uk, Sunday
Israeli human rights groups say that Palestinians and any foreigners living in the West Bank could be deemed ‘infiltrators’ and deported within 72 hours or jailed for seven years if they are found without the correct permit under the new orders. Photograph: Musa Al-Shaer/AFP/Getty Images
Israel’s leading human rights groups are trying to stop two new Israeli military orders which will make any resident of the occupied West Bank who does not have an Israeli-issued permit liable for deportation or jail.
The new Order Regarding Prevention of Infiltration and Order Regarding Security Provisions, which comes into force on Tuesday have “severe ramifications,” the rights groups say. Palestinians, and any foreigners living in the West Bank, could be labelled infiltrators and deported within 72 hours or jailed for seven years if they are found without the correct permit. It does not define what Israel considers a valid permit.
“The orders … are worded so broadly such as theoretically allowing the military to empty the West Bank of almost all its Palestinian inhabitants,” said the 10 rights groups, which include Ha-Moked, B’Tselem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and Rabbis for Human Rights. Until now the vast majority of Palestinians in the West Bank have not been required to hold a permit just to be present in their homes, the groups say.
“The military will be able to prosecute and deport any Palestinian defined as an infiltrator in stark contradiction to the Geneva conventions,” they said. The law broadens the definition of an “infiltrator” and could allow Israel to transfer some Palestinians from the West Bank to Gaza, or to deport foreign passport holders married to West Bank Palestinians, or to deport Israelis or foreigners living in the West Bank. The groups said tens of thousands of Palestinians were in those categories.
Israel effectively controls the Palestinian population register and since 2000, apart from once in 2007, the Israeli authorities have frozen applications for renewal of visitor permits for foreign nationals, or applications to grant permanent status in the occupied territories.
As a result, many Palestinians live in the West Bank without formal status and are now vulnerable under the new orders. The human rights groups wrote to the Israeli defence minister, Ehud Barak, today asking him to delay or revoke the orders, which they said were “unlawful and allow extreme and arbitrary injury to a vast number of people”.
The Israeli military said the purpose of the orders was “the extradition of those residing illegally in Judea and Samaria,” an Israeli term for the West Bank. The orders had been “corrected” in order to “assure judicial oversight of the extradition process,” it said.
However, Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said the orders would make it easy for Israel to imprison or expel Palestinians from the West Bank. “These military orders belong in an apartheid state,” he said. “They are an assault on ordinary Palestinians and an affront to the most fundamental principles of human rights. Israel’s endgame is not peace. It is the colonisation of the West Bank.”
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3. Haaretz Monday, April 12, 2010
Fayyad: New IDF orders threaten to empty West Bank of Palestinians
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1162471.html
By DPA
Tags: West Bank
The Palestinian leadership on Monday protested against Israeli military orders that could see tens of thousands of Palestinians deported from the West Bank.
On Sunday Haaretz revealed that a new military order aimed at preventing infiltration will come into force this week, enabling the deportation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank, or their indictment on charges carrying prison terms of up to seven years.
The measure, due to come into force on Tuesday, “threatens the emptying of large areas of land from its Palestinian inhabitants,” Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said in a statement.
Ten Israeli human rights organizations have appealed to Defense Minister Ehud Barak to freeze the orders, which were issued on October 13, 2009, with the provision they come into force within six months.
The military orders class people living in the West Bank without the proper documentation as “infiltrators”. “The order targets thousands of Palestinians from Gaza who work and live in the West Bank and could lead to their forced deportation to the Gaza Strip,” Fayyad said.
Also affected are Palestinians who have identification papers from neighboring countries as well as foreign women married to Palestinians residing in the West Bank. Fayyad said the measures contradict International Humanitarian Law as well as UN Security Council decisions which condemn forced deportations.
With the measures, Israel “aims at deepening the hold of the occupation in the West Bank and facilitating more Israel land-grab,” the prime minister said.
Earlier Monday, Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa also condemned the Israeli move, telling reporters in Damascus that “it is hard to establish real peace in the region due to the Israeli measure.” His comments followed a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“We reject such measures and we call on the international community to bear responsibility,” Moussa said, adding that an Arab League meeting will be held to discuss the situation.
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4. Haaretz Monday, April 12, 2010
IDF bid to expel West Bank Palestinians is a step too far
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1162382.html
By Haaretz Editorial
Tags: West Bank, Palestinians
A new military order will take effect this week, enabling the army to deport tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank and prosecute them on infiltration charges, which carry long prison terms. The order, uncovered by Amira Hass in Haaretz yesterday, bears the signature of Maj. Gen. Gadi Shamni in his previous capacity as commander of the Israel Defense Forces in Judea and Samaria.
The order’s vague language will allow army officers to exploit it arbitrarily to carry out mass expulsions, in accordance with military orders which were issued under unclear circumstances. The first candidates for expulsion will be people whose ID cards bear addresses in the Gaza Strip, including children born in the West Bank and Palestinians living in the West Bank who have lost their residency status for various reasons.
This would be a grave and dangerous move, unprecedented during the Israeli occupation. For years, Israel has used a heavy hand against the Palestinian population registry, trampling basic human rights such as the freedom to move one’s residence within the occupied territories. Many Palestinians’ lives have thus been made very difficult because they have been cut off from their previous places of residence without being able to return or legally register their new addresses.
The right of all Palestinians to choose where to live in the West Bank or Gaza marks a very low threshold for defining their human rights. Israel, which justifiably prevents Palestinians from returning to where they lived before 1948 and does not offer them fair compensation for their property (while enabling Jews to recover property from the same period, as has happened in Sheikh Jarrah), cannot expel Palestinians from the occupied territories on the basis of dubious bureaucratic claims.
Implementing this new military order is not only likely to spark a new conflagration in the territories, it is liable to give the world clear-cut proof that Israel’s aim is a mass deportation of Palestinians from the West Bank. While all Jews can settle wherever they wish, in Israel or in the territories, Israel is trying to deprive the Palestinians of even the minimal right to choose where to live in the West Bank or Gaza. The prime minister and defense minister should immediately shelve this military order before the IDF feels free to begin carrying out expulsions.
