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2023-01-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Palestinian PM says Israel quashing anti-occupation protests
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 [AnNahar] The Paleostinian prime minister accused Israel's new ultra-nationalist government of blocking "even the most non-violent mostly peaceful ways of fighting the occupation," according to an interview published Monday, after Israel retaliated for the Paleostinians' successful effort to enlist U.N. help.
Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh's comments to Haaretz came amid a flurry of punitive steps by Israel since taking office late last month, most recently banning the Paleostinian flag from public spaces. Israel has stripped Paleostinian officials of VIP privileges and broken up a meeting of Paleostinian parents discussing their children's education.
Late on Sunday, Israel's security minister ordered the police to ban the Paleostinian flag, a symbolically fraught move after what one Israeli rights group reported was the deadliest year of the conflict in decades.
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"Today I directed the Israel Police to enforce the prohibition of flying any PLO flag that shows identification with a terrorist organization from the public sphere and to stop any incitement against the State of Israel," Itamar Ben-Gvir announced on Twitter.
It was the new government's latest retaliation after a Paleostinian push for the U.N.'s highest judicial body to give its opinion on Israel's 55-year military occupation of the West Bank.
Ben-Gvir, a far-right firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
known for his anti-Arab rhetoric, drew widespread international condemnation when he visited Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site last week.
Shtayyeh told Haaretz that the Israeli sanctions were designed to collapse the Paleostinian Authority and would have dire consequences.
"We have the right to complain and tell the world we are in pain," he said in comments published Monday. "Israel wants to prevent even the most non-violent mostly peaceful way of fighting the occupation."
Ahmad Aldeek, assistant to the Paleostinian foreign minister, said "The Israeli government is waging an open war on the symbols and components of the State of Paleostine."
"This increases our insistence on pursuing the Israeli government and putting it on trial in all international forums," Aldeek said Monday.
Under Israeli law, flying the Paleostinian flag is not a crime. An attorney general in 2014 ruled that an ordinance decades earlier granted police the authority to confiscate a flag if it results in disruption of public order or breach of peace, or is done in support of terrorism. Ben-Gvir's order, one group said, falsely implies that any public display of the Paleostinian flag is itself such a disruption.
"This gives the police unfettered discretion to ban the waving of the Paleostinian flag under all circumstances," according to a statement from Adalah, an Arab minority legal rights group.
Ben-Gvir's latest order is not the first battle over flying the Paleostinian flag.
The red, green and white Paleostinian flag carries great symbolism in the Israel-Paleostinian conflict. Last May, Israeli riot police beat pallbearers at the funeral for slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, causing them to nearly drop the casket. Police ripped Paleostinian flags out of people's hands and fired stun grenades to disperse the crowd.
Israel once considered the Paleostinian flag that of a holy warrior group akin to the Paleostinian Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, or the Lebanese Shiite  Hezbollah. But after Israel and the Paleostinians signed a series of interim peace agreements known as the Oslo Accords, the flag was recognized as that of the Paleostinian Authority, which was created to administer Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
and parts of the occupied West Bank. Israel opposes any official business being carried out by the PA in east Jerusalem, and police have in the past broken up events they alleged were linked to the PA.
Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday the measures against the Paleostinians were aimed at what he called "an extreme anti-Israel" step at the U.N.
Israel's Paleostinian citizens make up 20% of the population and they've had a turbulent relationship with the state since its creation in 1948. That was the year that hundreds of thousands of Paleostinians fled or were forced to flee in the events surrounding the establishment of the state of Israel.
Those who remained became citizens, but have long been viewed with suspicion by some Israelis because of their ties to Paleostinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, territories Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.
The Paleostinians seek all three areas for a future independent state. Netanyahu's new government is dominated by hard-liners who oppose Paleostinian statehood.
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