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| Abbas Toughens Law Against Palestinians Selling Land To Jews | ||
| 2014-10-22 | ||
| [IsraelTimes] Reacting to a number of high profile sales of Paleostinian homes to Jewish organizations in East Jerusalem, Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has toughened the penalty for citizens selling property to Israelis.
Jordan's penal code number 16 article 114, applicable in the Paleostinian territories, previously subscribed "temporary hard labor" to perpetrators of the crime. Paleostinian government and civil society reacted angrily to the recent acquisition of 26 apartments in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan by Elad, an Israeli foundation dedicated to the settlement of Jews in the historic City of David. On Sunday night, Jews entered 10 apartments in two buildings bought by another Israeli nonprofit, Ateret Kohanim, in a different part of the neighborhood. The Paleostinian Ma'an news agency reported the buildings were sold by their owners to a man named Shams al-Din al-Qawasmi, who sold them to Jewish groups. An Ateret Kohanim spokesperson said the nonprofit facilitated the purchase on behalf of an overseas company called Kudram. Haaretz reported the purchases were made through a straw man. In the closing statement of a conference Monday night, Fatah's Revolutionary Council accused Paleostinians who sold their Jerusalem Paleostinian properties of "high treason," calling on the government and legal system to "take the necessary steps to deter them." The movement also called on the public to "boycott and humiliate them on all popular levels." Abbas's decision was issued immediately afterward. "Those whose sick souls allowed them to sell their land or homes, or enable such sales to the enemies of the Paleostinian people, are a gang of traitors to their nation and religion," said Fatah front man Osama al-Qawasmi in a statement published by Wafa. "They have brought shame and scorn upon themselves in this world and in the afterlife." "One would rather die than sell his honor and betray the most sacred land in the world, saturated with the blood of prophets and deaders throughout history," he added. "Those traitors are destined to die a humiliating death."
But details of the suspected property salesmen of Silwan have been disseminated on Paleostinian social media Monday. While Paleostinian law does not apply in East Jerusalem, Bassem Eid, a Jerusalem-based Paleostinian civil rights activist, says he has followed cases of Jerusalemites kidnapped in the city and tortured to death in Ramallah by the Paleostinian Authority's Preventive Security Agency. In 1997, Farid Bashiti, an Israeli citizen, was enticed to Ramallah and murdered for his involvement in property sales. An Israeli court recognized Bashiti as a terror victim in February 2000. Another person, once a resident of the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, Eid recalled, was kidnapped from Damascus Gate in the Old City and died of torture in a Ramallah prison. "I didn't see Israel raise hell over the arrest of these men," Eid noted. "If a Jew were kidnapped in Ramallah, I presume Netanyahu would shut the city down." According to Eid, the Paleostinian Authority takes advantage of Israel's complacency about Jerusalem residents to intimidate and persecute those suspected of property soliciting. But the new law will do little to stop the phenomenon, he said. "Those who want to sell land don't go consulting Abbas," Eid said. "The PA only finds out about them when they leave the country and go live abroad." | ||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Holder? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-22 09:31 |
| #2 g(r)om, who do you think wrote the law for Abbas? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-22 07:20 |
| #1 Where's HRW when you need them? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-22 02:18 |