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| Israeli Supreme Court Approves Expulsions |
| 2002-09-03 |
| In a "black day for human rights," the Israeli Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday, September 3, for the expulsion to the Gaza Strip of two relatives of West Bank resistance activists. "This set a dangerous precedent, and the whole world should understand the bad situation for human rights in Israel," said chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat. It's a "human right" to support terrorist bombings? Citing lack of evidence, the nine-member bench of the court did not, however, approve the expulsion of a third relative that an Israeli military tribunal sought to evict. The tribunal said it found the three guilty of knowing about planned retaliatory attacks against Israel. The decision allows the army to go ahead with the expulsion of Kifah and Intissar Adjuri, the brother and sister of Ali Adjuri, a local West Bank chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Ali Adjuri, assassinated by Israeli soldiers August 6 near the West Bank town of Jenin, was accused of organizing a martyr bombing in Tel Aviv on July 17. The judges decided that Intissar Adjuri had "directly helped her brother by sewing the belt containing the explosives which he used in the attack," although Intissar had earlier pleaded in a military court that she did not know how to sew. So what'd she do, knit it? Or crochet it? Maybe an hour's work with a hot glue gun? Same thing in the end result... In addition, the court said Kifah had provided his sibling with a hide-out and acted as a look-out while the explosives were being transported. Sounds an awful lot like aiding and abetting... But the judges ruled there was insufficient evidence to confirm the complicity of Abdel Nasser Assidi in the attack by his brother, a member of Hamas wanted by Israeli security forces for a July 16 bus ambush near an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Now they can go cheer for the Killer Korps in Gaza. My sympathy meter hasn't budged. Knitting him a dynamite belt, indeed... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |