Israeli order paves way for West Bank deportations: Report

By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, April 11, 2010 13:37 EST
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JERUSALEM – A new Israeli military policy could see tens of thousands of people living in the occupied West Bank without permits deported or facing criminal charges, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper said on Sunday.

The military, however, insisted the new orders merely formalized existing procedures and said there would be no new wave of deportations from the territory.

Haaretz said amendments to an existing order on preventing infiltration could apply to Palestinians living in the West Bank without official ID cards issued by Israel, as well as to Israelis and foreigners working in areas under limited Palestinian control.

“The order’s language is both general and ambiguous, stipulating that the term infiltrator will also be applied to Palestinian residents of Jerusalem, citizens of countries with which Israel has friendly ties (such as the United States) and Israeli citizens, whether Arab or Jewish,” the newspaper said.

“All this depends on the judgement of Israel defense forces commanders in the field.”

The military insisted the amendments merely formalize the military advocate’s oversight of the deportation process and did not change the criteria by which it judges illegal residency.

“The order is the same as that which has always existed regarding Palestinians residing illegally in the Judaea and Samaria area,” military spokeswoman Avital Leibovitz said, using the biblical name for the West Bank.

“There is really nothing major here.”

Haaretz said the new order would probably be used first against Palestinians with Gaza ID cards and the foreign spouses of Palestinians living in the territory.

It said that until now Israeli civil courts have generally prevented such expulsions but that the amended order would grant the military full jurisdiction over the matter.

Hamoked, an Israeli rights group focused on freedom of movement, called on the military to rescind the orders because they “do not define what Israel considers a valid permit.”

“The definition of ‘infiltrator,’ which exposes a person to a prison term of three to seven years could, in principle, be applied to any person the military commander wishes ill, including Israeli and international citizens,” it said.

Israel seized the West Bank including east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War. It is expected to form the main part of the Palestinians’ promised future state.

The Israeli military can issue its own orders in the West Bank, but these can be overturned by the government or by Israeli courts.

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  • markusgarvey

    “All this depends on the judgment of Israel defense forces commanders in the field.” …what could possibly go wrong?…

  • dennycrane

    Oh good, they are going to move those people out that have the Star of David decal on their army tanks.

  • DesertWren

    And the Israelis still think they can't be fascists because they are Jews? The amount of mental compartmentalization needed to continue to believe that now must be colossal.

  • louierippo99

    Wow, Those Israelis just dont know when to quit do they?

    Lou
    http://www.whos-watching.es.tc

  • HurlyBurly

    Warsaw Ghetto Wall= Israeli West Bank Barrier

    South Africa circa 1970's= Modern day Israel

    US media= Goebbels wet dream

  • Corporate Industrial Complex

    .
    FOLLOWING HOLOCAUST, ISRAELI BECOMES FIRST VICTIM-MENTALITY MIC SUPERPOWER
    .

  • fukum

    All I can say is if they don't mellow out, they need to go down.

  • Bubba

    Ethnic cleansing by any other name

  • Aurelio

    A long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object: Eretz Yisrael.

  • mick

    Slow motion Holocaust 21 Century style .

  • Anonymous

    I’m certain that people would be much less likely to compare the Zionist Israelis to Nazis if they DIDN’T ACT LIKE THEM!

  • http://biscuits007.wordpress.com/ protobone

    Israel's “final solution” to the Palestinian problem. The Palestinians won't die and that's the problem. Be dang curious to hear what the Obama has got to say about 'forced deportation'. Oh right I forgot, the Obama won't say word one. The Obama answers to Netanyahu.

  • sanchosdad

    i have seen no mention of this on any of the MSM networks today. but then again, thos people are MOOSLIMS, aren't they? just like our president, right? nothing that happens to them is worth mentioning. no amount of starvatinon, entrapment, gunfire from helicopter gunships at them, phosphorous bombing of them, nothing. they dont count as people. they dont deserve a minimum standard of international releif, they dont deserve anything but o get 'legally” moved out by force if necessary.

    thanks, jews. you are truly the gift that keeps on giving.

    now if you would only have an international child molestation conspiracy dating back 100 years…..

  • unclejoe40

    tell me, when did the jews of poland commit acts of terrorism against the polish or german peoples

    your attempt to compare the warsaw ghetto with the security wall is not only absurd, but it denies history and facts on the ground

    i would suggest you spend more time studying history, rather than spewing jew hating rhetoric

  • unclejoe40

    from 91 through 98, kuwait expelled without cause over 300,000 palestinians residing and working in that country

    and yet the world was silent

    israel makes an order that apparently deals not with palestinians but individuals in country illegally, and you all rush to accuse

    hmmmmmmmmmm

    they might as well kick them all out…you will scream at them no matter what

  • KeepItInContext

    Hey, Unk, can you provide the context in which this happened? I'm sure it was just the same as the Isreali planned exodus, i.e. the Kuwaitis occupy Palistinian land and then expel the residents from their own land or I'm sorry from the “land without a people”. I'm sure it had nothing to do with any grave loss to the kuwaitis when Arafat sided with Saddam during the Iraqi invasion. Say it ain't so, Joe!!!

  • margaretpoa

    How can you “deport” people from ancestral land that has been in their families for generations? There are people alive still who remember when the Nazis “deported” millions of Jews. Rom, Homosexuals, mentally disabled persons and etc. In this way they come to resemble that which they hate.

  • doctim11

    Leave the damn Israelis alone. They have enough problems with Palestinians on the inside and Arabs on the outside without idiots who have never lived there calling them Nazis and comparing this to the Holocaust.

  • DeCoderRingMissing

    HB, you have committed the ULTIMATE sin, You..You Anti-Semite, You. You spoke against Isreal!!!

    Joey here thinks that by critisizing an aparthied policy of the ISREALI GOVERNMENT, you are speaking ill of our entire jewish brethren. There can be no dailog regarding Isreali policy because WE ALL know any critique of ISREALI policy has natural anti-semetic undertones and jew bashing code words.

  • Elim

    I'm in total agreement with deporting Israeli's from Palestinian land.

  • Prattvictory

    Israel's intention is to transfer or eliminate the Palestinians just as the Nazis intended with the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto The Palestinians just as the Jews have a right to resist.

    Arguing that the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto didn't resist is not only wrong but absurd.

  • nader paul kucinich gravel

    Judeo Fascism

  • Mister

    To hell with the Jews.

  • uscitizenagainstoilanddrugwars

    More support of Palestinian genocide by the son of a bitch Israeli's. The Israeli's didn't learn from being victims of The Warsaw Ghetto's, or did they? Did they use the Warsaw ghetto experience as a templet for the attacks on the Palestinians, only to add cluster bombs, white phostpherous bombs, and helicopter assassinations? Break the Israeli and US war machines to stop world wide genocidal atrocities.

  • Yorrick21

    Right on.

    Uncle J, let's see how you feel if I use some 2000 year old text to justify stealing your house, destroying your possessions, assaulting your family and branding you a “terrorist” for getting pissed off. Israel's politics are guided purely by greed and a lust for widespread human suffering.

  • uscitizenagainstoilanddrugwars

    UncleFoe40, Jew hating hasn't even fired up in the US yet. The US citizenry is getting to the point that US taxpayer money for IDF genocide and the planned Israel Air Force attack on Iranian nuclear facilities will be cut off by the people of the US. So, take your illogical misrepresentations of copious genocidal conduct by Israel mass murder inc.(IDF – Mossad) and try them on mentally challenged folks locked up in the Bellview Hospital psyc. ward. Maybe you're acting out because the IDF was defeated by Hezbollah in the last war because Israel can't figure out how to defeat Hezbollah with donated sophisticated US war machines. Now Israel is begging the US to replenish it's cluster/phosphorus bombs, and stealth F35's for the aging F15 fighter jets. As a US citizen I say no, hell no to the Israeli perpetrated genocide of The Palestinians with US taxpayer funding minus Congressional oversight. The people of the US are not buying the lame Israeli excuses to prevent peace in Palestine and propaganda being troweled out by the Israeli right wing / you. I don't care if you call me names. Here's the truth you can't handle.

  • Yorrick21

    Oh, and do you live there? Or have you ever even seen living conditions in the West Bank?

    There's a reason Palestinians are pissed off. Prior to the 1960's, Muslims and Jews pretty much lived in harmony, and had for years. Only when Israel began using the Bible to justify stealing Palestinian property, forcing Palestinians into walled, isolated communities and restricting their movements did things get really bad.

    If I use some general reference in the Bible as justification to steal your house, deprive you and your children of access to food and water, prevent you from visiting relatives across town, etc., let's see how quickly you react.

  • uscitizenagainstoilanddrugwars

    Just shut up and watch more School of The Americas type atrocities prevail. Shhhhh.

  • fukum

    Yeah, I say leave the damn Israelis alone too. If they bomb Iran, leave them to fight it alone. I 'm tired of the US fighting all of their battles for them.

  • Anonymous

    Come on people. Israel wasn’t even around then, Thank god. The Jewish people at Warsaw/Germany were Bundas that fought the nazis. After the war they decided to spread thru out the world so they could never be killed off at one location and keep their traditions to pass down to their generations. The Balfour Declaration changed all that with the nation of israel. The zionist asswipes would only allow the Bundas in, if they gave up their yiddish tradtions. Don’t mix the two.

  • dennycrane

    I have tried to make a comment but I get the “approval” shit.

    Quick to the point: you are mixing the Bundas from the war with these asswipes from a place I can't mention that have a star of david on their tanks.

  • uscitizenagainstoilanddrugwars

    It is an advanced mutation of the holocaust, that is the only difference. Compartmentalization of genocidal atrocities does not rationalize naked genocide.

  • Prattvictory

    The land of Palestine and Israel belonged to the Canaanites, the sons of Ham. Jerusalem was not founded by Jews but rather the Jebusites.

  • opeluboy

    I would comment on this issue, but then you would never see it, so I won't.

  • Cabal

    All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

    If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

    “A.H.”

  • blacktiger1

    I am in agreement with Elim. I have lost all respect I ever had for the Israelis. I say deport them back to the countries that kicked them out. Anti-semitic? I guess I am then, I'm tired of my taxes paying for the death and injury to Palestinians, and I won't stand for it anymore.

  • FlaGuy954

    GOD BLESS ISRAEL!

  • sheen43

    Maybe if you were in danger every day from Palestinian missiles ( which the media never mention) then maybe you would feel differently about the Palestinians living in your land which they won fair and square in 1968.
    All you hear is how bad the Israelis are, you never hear about the fear they are in every day from missiles from Hamas – the ones who use women and children to plant sucide bombs or fire missiles from the homes of innocent Palestinians so that when the Israelis fire back the Palestinians shout loudly about how the Israelis are killing women and children. You really need to get all the facts before you start downing people who you know nothing about.

  • blacktiger1

    1968 was a sham! period. Fair and square? hogwash!

  • sheen43

    And the reason it was “hogwash”? You obviosly were there seeing you think you know so much about it. You will be saying next there was no Holocasst.
    You really need to get your facts right before you spout forth about things you know nothing about.
    Take care and have a good weekend-I forgive you.

  • blacktiger1

    Oh I know there was a holocaust, my sweet uncle died fighting the Germans, as for 1968 I was 29 yrs. of age and did not agree with the take over then anymore than I do now. It is all wrong and not all the Jewish people are right either. Don't consider people who disagree with you uninformed and stupid. I watched the news everyday for 6 days and wept for the Palestinians, while you hoorayed for the Israelis.!!!! There will never be an end to the war until there is peace on both sides.

  • blacktiger1

    I also am sick of “the friendly relations” of Canada and the USA sending our tax money to Israel and our children's schools close down for lack of funds. Soon the rebellion here in North America will start and the funds to Israel will fade away.

  • blacktiger1

    I agree too,how about the Jewish youth who are against their own govt.'s policies? They languish in prison as traitors. I pray for them every day.

  • blacktiger1

    So do it without our tax money and military arms and machines and planes, give those back and do it by yourselves.

  • sheen43

    You sound a very angry person yet you say you want peace on both sides. Maybe you should try to calm down yourself because if there are more bigoted people like yourself there never will be peace.There's no point in getting angry and getting yourself upset over something that you yourself cannot change, all you will get is high blood pressure and ulcers.. It's not worth it so just calm down relax take it easy my friend and life will be alot better for you and others.

  • blacktiger1

    You bet I'm angry!! But my blood pressure is fine and no ulcers[which are caused by infections] No need to reply, you have nothing to put forward.

  • sheen43

    You are quite right about ulcers I'll give you that but I'll tell you if I have anything else to say you do not.
    It's obvious you are bigoted as well as anti – semitic so you are right there is no point in speaking with you because you are one angry person who needs to calm down and look at both sides before you spout forth your spiteful lies.

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