OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has issued a new military order that would go into effect this week allowing it to deport thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank, a Hebrew daily reported on Sunday.
Ha'aretz said that the order world target in its first stage Palestinians who were born or have their children born in Gaza Strip as well as Palestinians who lost their residence rights in the West Bank for one reason or another along with foreigners who married Palestinians.
It added that the decision was still ambiguous because it said that anyone infiltrating into the West Bank would be deported, which could apply to eastern Jerusalemite Palestinians as well as foreigners.
The Palestinian government led by Ismail Haneyya warned the IOA in a statement of attempting to deport any Palestinian, urging the citizens not to obey the IOA orders.
Taher Al-Nunu, the government's spokesman, told the PIC that the IOA was carrying out a plan to empty the Palestinian land from its inhabitants starting with Jerusalem then the West Bank in order to control it.
He urged the Arab countries to stand up to this new policy.
Sheikh Nafedh Azzam, political bureau member of the Islamic Jihad movement, said in a press release that the IOA decision was a fresh warning to the Palestinians that they should solve their problems, and a message to the Arabs that they should adopt firm positions against Israel and those backing it.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told the PIC that the decision was racist and most dangerous on the Palestinian people's rights.
He charged that the IOA was exerting all efforts possible to displace the biggest number of Palestinians in order to expand it settlements and bring more settlers in their places.
MP Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, secretary general of the Palestinian national initiative, described the decision as "racial cleansing".
He charged that the timing of the decision was provocative and deliberate as the current Israeli government believes that it was on its way to liquidate the Palestine cause.
West Bank Residents Without Israeli Permits Deemed 'Infiltrators' Under New Law
(JERUSALEM / SALEM) - I often write about how the U.S. government utilizes particular terminology to prosecute its perceived enemies. Words like "terrorist" invoke recent U.S. laws that literally strip an American of all constitutionally guaranteed rights. Another example is the word "gang" which is applied by police when they seek to arrest and charge motorcycle club members.
Those who are not imprisoned, will swiftly be deported and expelled from the West Bank - 72 hours after a deportation order has been issued.
Under the new amendment, the term 'infiltrator' will include any person currently present in the occupied West Bank, who does not hold a permit issued by Israeli authorities.
Criminalizing the West Bank
HaMoked says the orders in West Bank could potentially lead to the area being emptied of all its inhabitants in a fast track three-day procedure, with little possibility of judicial review.
The group, a legal centre based in Jerusalem, is leading urgent action for suspension of the orders.
HaMoked says the orders will effectively legalize the expulsion of all Gaza-registered Palestinians living in the West Bank. It could be used to deport to the extremely dangerous and poverty stricken Gaza Strip.
Egypt and Israel maintain an impassible border wall around Gaza, with the Israeli navy at sea known for intercepting relief vessels, and massacring Palestinian families on the beach with attack boats, as we reviewed in a report last week.
The greatest danger according to HaMoked, lies in the potentially limitless enforcement of the law against anyone in the West Bank at any future time. Israel is under increasing criticism from all sides since a merciless attack on Gaza during the winter of 2006/2007 that left more than 1400 dead, among them several hundred children.
The UN's Richard Goldstone issued a report calling Israel's actions war crimes. To activist groups this barely scratches the surface of the oppressive environment Israel reserves for the native inhabitants who lost 99% of their nation since the formation of Israel in 1947 and 1948.
The United States has turned a blind eye to the oppression for years and years, and Israel's current hard right government is seeing record amounts of world pressure for the crimes committed daily against the Palestinians, who have now resorted to non violent protest, which is greeted almost exclusively by violent attack, death and arrest at the hanks of IDF soldiers and police.
Special thanks to Miri Weingarten
Alternative Jewish Percpectives on Israel - Palestine
HaMoked - the Centre for the Defense of the Individual
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Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor. Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines.Tim holds numerous awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), first place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several others including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Serving the community in very real terms, Salem-News.com is the nation's only truly independent high traffic news Website. You can send Tim an email at this address: newsroom@salem-news.com
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