ABSURD STUPISITY OF ZIONISM

NOVANEWS

By Jesse Bacon

..By not recognizing their names and refusing them entry for award ceremony in their honor. .

This should remind us just how arbitrary the whole edifice of permits and

checkpoints is that it can keep out people who helped contain the horrible

fires and prevent worse disaster. I am also reminded of the U.S. soldier who

was the first to die in the Iraq War and was posthumously awarded the citize-

nship he was denied in life.

Israeli officials on Tuesday canceled a ceremony planned to honor

the Palestinian firemen who assisted in battling the Carmel fire last

week, after a number of crew members were refused permits to cross

the border.

Palestinian Fire Services Commander Ahmed Rizik said that he and his

staff were surprised to learn when they arrived at the checkpoint that

only seven out of the 10 fireman would be granted entry into Israel,

although all of them had been allowed in at the time of the disaster.

“There is no logical reason and I don’t know what the catalyst was,

but unfortunately we could not make it, and therefore the event has

been postponed to a later date,” he said.

The Israel Defense Forces said that the permits were denied due to a bur-

eaucratic mistake, explaining that the list of names was processed witho-

ut the firefighters’ identification numbers attached.

The army said it was now working on getting the honorees the correct

permits.

Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi deemed the incident a “not just a march of

folly or a theater of the absurd but stupidity and the normative lordly

attitude of the occupation regime.”

“This is a complete shame,” he added.

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