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| Israel jails ex-MP for Syria visit |
| 2014-09-05 |
| [ARABNEWS] Israel sentenced a former Druze MP to 18 months in prison Thursday for traveling to Syria and making contact with a "foreign agent," the Justice Ministry said. Said Naffa travelled in 2007 to Syria, with which Israel is technically still at war, as part of a delegation of 300 Druze religious leaders, the charge sheet said. An MP at the time, he met a leader of the PFLP-General Command, an offshoot of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, which "is a terror organization," according to a ministry statement. Naffa said the trip was aimed at "reestablishing contacts between members of the Druze community in Israel, Syria and Leb." |
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