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Israel 'denied residency to thousands of Palestinians'
2012-02-06
...Who no longer live in the Palestinian Territories.
(Ma'an) -- Israeli policies have arbitrarily denied thousands of Paleostinians the right to live in or travel to and from the West Bank and Gazoo, an international rights group said Sunday.

"Israel's control over the population registry has significantly reduced the registered Paleostinian population in the West Bank and Gazoo, probably by hundreds of thousands of people," the report by Human Rights Watch
... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world...
 said.
Somewhat closer to reality, then. Remember when it was revealed that Palestinian population numbers were off by about a million actual people?
"This reduction has occurred while Israel has simultaneously increased the number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank, in violation of international humanitarian law on transferring one's population to occupied territory."
There are consequences for not accepting peace offers, and for making the stronger side believe you never will. One day y'all might figure it out.
Israel's 1967 census of Paleostinians in the West Bank and Gazoo census excluded at least 270,000 Paleostinians who were not present in the aftermath of the war in which Israel seized the territories, the group said.
Shocking.
Israel later removed from the registry Paleostinians who traveled abroad for significant periods, including some 130,000 West Bank Paleostinians between 1967 and 1994, the report noted.

Since 2000, Israel stopped processing residency applications by unregistered Paleostinians who live or have family and work ties to the West Bank and Gazoo.

Israel received an estimated 120,000 such applications that it did not process between 2000 and 2005, the report said.
The second Palestinian Intifada lasted from September, 2000 to...officially it ended with the Sharm el Sheikh hudna in February, 2005, but rocket attacks have continued at a slower pace to this day. What motivation have y'all given Israel to let more of you in?
Meanwhile Paleostinians registered in Gazoo were forbidden from traveling to the West Bank or changing their registered address despite living in the West Bank.
Quid pro quo, my dears. One you created.
"Around 35,000 of these 'Gazooks' had entered and resided in the West Bank using temporary permits that have expired," Human Rights Watch said.

Around 12,000 unregistered Paleostinians live in Gazoo, and are forbidden by Egyptian authorities from traveling through its Rafah crossing out of the coastal strip, according to the report.
Have you noticed that Egypt really doesn't like its rabid Palestinian brothers?
Citing a political gesture to the Paleostinian Authority, Israel processed 33,000 registration applications between 2007 and 2009, and allowed around 2,800 Paleostinians registered in Gazoo to change their address to the West Bank.

"Israel should allow Paleostinians to live in their homes with their families, and to travel freely, not treat its control over where Paleostinians can live as a political bargaining chip," Middle East director at Human Rights Watch Sarah Leah Whitson said.

"These steps have not cleared the backlog," the report added, noting that the indiscriminate policy towards registration does not screen individuals for security threats.

"Israel has never put forth any concrete security rationale for blanket policies that have made life a nightmare for Paleostinians whom it considers unlawful residents in their own homes," Whitson said.

"The current policies leave families divided and people trapped on the wrong side of the border in Gazoo and the West Bank. Israel should revise these policies and process requests for families to reunite, so that Paleostinians can live with their families where they want."
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  The noxious pretender is gone, g(r)omgoru. You get the first, and I concur.
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-02-06 14:01  

#2  I spotted him (Israel_for. Now denisnealson) first!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-02-06 12:20  

#1  it was revealed that Palestinian population numbers were off by about a million actual people?
Let me know when they start acting like actual people. Perhaps I'll care.
Have you noticed that Egypt really doesn't like its rabid Palestinian brothers?
It's not just an Aegyptian thing. The Paleos have been kicked out of every country they've been in. Hell, they even kicked some out of Gaza.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-02-06 03:24  

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