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| Israeli Islamic State fighter stripped of citizenship in absentia |
| 2019-04-06 |
| [IsraelTimes] Interior minister revokes Abdallah Hajleh’s citizenship at Shin Bet’s recommendation, seeks court order to keep him from entering country. Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Friday moved to strip an Israeli man of his citizenship for traveling to Syria to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadist group six years ago. Deri instructed ministry officials to take action in absentia against Abdallah Hajleh at the recommendation of the Shin Bet security service. The revocation must be approved by a special citizenship court. Deri’s office also asked the Central District Court to bar Hajleh from ever returning to Israel, according to Hebrew reports. It wasn’t clear where Hajleh is, or if Israeli authorities know his location. According to reports in Hebrew-language media, Hajleh has a citizenship in a second country. A 2017 amendment to Israel’s nationality act allows those engaged in hostile activity to be stripped of their citizenship in absentia. The Shin Bet security service has in the past estimated that several dozen Israeli nationals had fought for IS in Iraq and Syria. Most were either killed in action or returned to Israel, where they were jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! After the amendment passed two years ago, Deri said he drew up a list of 20 Israeli IS members whose citizenship he intended to revoke. According to reports at the time, Deri’s list was composed mostly of Arab Israelis and East Jerusalem Paleostinians, but also included two Jewish converts to Islam. On Friday, Deri said the "facts are clear" in Hajleh’s case. "This person poses a danger to the Israeli public." "This is a person who is disloyal to Israel, who worked to undermine its existence, and spent years trying to damage its security," he said. "I see no other way besides nullifying his citizenship." |
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