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Palestinian flag is an ‘enemy’ flag– Netanyahu’s latest crackdown

Last week when discussing Israel’s proposed new Jewish and democratic law, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that in the land of Israel, “only the Jewish People have national rights: A flag, anthem, the right of every Jew to immigrate to the country, and other national symbols.” In the same meeting he laid out his latest and harshest measures of Israeli deterrence against a wave of attacks in Jerusalem: deporting Palestinians.
On Wednesday a measure was submitted to the Knesset  from the prime minister’s ruling Likud party to punish Palestinians implicated in terrorism. The punishments include stripping Palestinian citizens of Israel of their citizenship, terminating the West Bank or Jerusalem residency if they are “engaging or cooperating” in crimes against the state and its citizens. For those that have completed prison sentences for terrorism charges, they can be deported to Gaza. And the state can refuse to return remains of deceased Palestinian attackers, or suspected attackers. Not to mention Palestinian flags will also be banned from protests.

“I instructed Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mendelbit, along with Interior Minister Gilad Erdan, to submit draft legislation to revoke rights from residents who participate in terrorism or incitement against the State of Israel,” said the prime minister at a cabinet meeting on Sunday. “This law is important in order to exact a price from those who engage in attacks and incitement, including the throwing of stones and firebombs, and it complements the demolition of terrorists’ homes, and helps to create deterrence.”

The grab bag of punitive laws comes after unrest in Jerusalem, where a series of attacks have claimed the lives of several Israeli citizens, along with the lives of most of the Palestinian attackers and suspects. Most recently five Israelis—four rabbis and one Druze police officer—were killed in a West Jerusalem synagogue on November 18, 2014. There has also been violence in the West Bank.  Lately, one Palestinian was killed and two others injured in the northern West Bank village of Barta’a after they were ran over by an Israeli bus.

The deterrence measures are aimed at Palestinians, regardless of their citizenship status, who committed or intend to commit acts of violence against Israeli citizens. Moreover, the law punishes crimes based on ethnicity. While the bill would apply to Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Jerusalem, equally—irrespective of status—Jewish-Israelis who engage in violence against Palestinians are exempt from the sanctions.

The Israeli outlet Ynet published a rundown of the bill, which was presented as an “eight-step plan,”

  • Israeli Arabs caught engaging or cooperating with terror will automatically lose their citizenship – or Palestinian Authority residency, in the case of Palestinians.

  • After completing their prison term, terrorists will be deported from Israel.

  • Those killed during their attempt to conduct a terror attack will not receive a funeral.
  • The body of terrorists will not be transferred to their families, and will be buried in an unknown location, without ceremony and without future access for their families
  • Terrorists’ houses will be destroyed within 24-hours of the attack
  • Masked stone throwers and those inciting for terror and violence participating in illegal protests in which firebombs or fireworks were thrown will be arrested and held in remand until the completion of legal procedures against them. The same measures will be taken against those who waved an ‘enemy flag’ during the protests, including the Palestinian flag. Anyone convicted at the end of their remand will lose their social welfare benefits and driving license for a 10 year period.
  • Families of terrorists will lose their citizenship and will be deported to Gaza should they express support for their relative’s deed. Support, according to the bill, can be expressed through public or social media.

The bill also includes a clause that would close businesses and printing presses that print posters that support terror or terrorists.

The deterrence law would mark a sea change in how Palestinian citizens of Israel are punished in that it enshrines punitive treatment that is applied based on national identity, separating them from Israeli-Jews. But as with other security measures passed to quell the Jerusalem unrest, they are revisions from an earlier era. Components of the policy are rooted in Israeli military code that governs Palestinians in the occupied territories. For instance, temporary security holds on the remains of Palestinian attackers were commonplace during the first and second intifada across the West Bank.

Moreover, a policy of expulsions outside of Israel is rooted in the period leading up to the Oslo Accords when then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ordered 400 Palestinians bussed over the northern border to Lebanon. That measure was challenged in Israel’s high court and ultimately approved in 1992. Reporting for the New York Times, Clyde Haberman covered the deportation as a midnight run where the Palestinians were dumped with money and rations. “Handed $50 each, along with some food, jackets and blankets, the Palestinians from both the West Bank and Gaza were taken on a wintry night into the ‘security zone’ that Israel has declared in southern Lebanon,” wrote Haberman.

International law forbids the transfer of persons outside of occupied territory as a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory.

On Thursday Haaretz reported the Swiss government is working to assemble a conference in Geneva, similar to the 1999 review on Israel’s violations of the agreement. According to Haaretz, the U.S. has attempted to prevent the event, as it did in 1999. The Fourth Geneva Convention does not include regulations on enforcement.

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Netanyahu’s continuing crack- up~ codifying ethnic cleansing.

G4S & the IOF is gonna be busier than ever.

Thanks, Allison. I was hoping that this latest travesty of justice/”security” would be headlined.

Could zionism be similar to syphilis and or Rabies.The actions of those who are suffering from the later stages of syphilis or Rabies are eerily alike those of nietanyahu and his cohorts.

“Latent and Late Stages

“The latent stage of syphilis begins when all of the symptoms you had earlier disappear. If you do not receive treatment, you can continue to have syphilis in your body for years without any signs or symptoms. Most people with untreated syphilis do not develop late stage syphilis. However, when it does happen it is very serious and would occur 10–30 years after your infection began. Symptoms of the late stage of syphilis include difficulty coordinating your muscle movements, paralysis (not able to move certain parts of your body), numbness, blindness, and dementia (mental disorder). In the late stages of syphilis, the disease damages your internal organs and can result in death. ”

http://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-syphilis.htm

Rabies also mirrors zionism in it,s late stages and it,s effect on those who have the disease.

“Furious rabies

Furious rabies is characterised by episodes of increasingly odd and hyperactive behaviour, separated by periods of relative calm. During these episodes a person may have some or all of the following signs and symptoms:

aggressive behaviour, such as thrashing out or biting
agitation
hallucinations – seeing or hearing things that are not real
delusions – believing things that are obviously untrue
excessive production of saliva
high temperature (fever)
excessive sweating
the hair on their skin stands up
a sustained erection (in men)

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Rabies/Pages/Symptoms.aspx

From the same article:
“Despite their plight, many of the Palestinians — Muslim fundamentalists from the Hamas and Islamic Holy War groups — seemed far from unhappy because they saw a chance to muster international sympathy that their declared armed struggle against Israel might not ordinarily bring.

News reports from southern Lebanon quoted the men as urging the Lebanese Government to keep them out, thereby forcing them to stay in a desolate buffer strip that lies between the nearest Lebanese and Israeli army checkpoints.”
Cry me a river.

Can I mentioned that many of us have been saying and warning for years that Israel ‘was going to get worse and worse” ?
And it has.
None of us had to be geniuses to predict this.
And yet ‘world leaders’ of democracies supposedly couldn’t recognize the Israel mentality problem.
Or they don’t’/didnt care, which is likely the real explanation.

I’m wondering what the Palestinian Chief negotiator and President are thinking at this point. They sure are quiet about what’s been happening.

As to Netanyahu, who’s surprised by his antics?