Israel breaks up checkpoint wedding to challenge citizenship laws

[Jefferson23]

RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Saturday broke up a wedding procession organized at a West Bank checkpoint to challenge Israeli laws preventing Palestinians in the West Bank from living with their spouses in Israel.

Two buses left from Jaffa and Ramallah to meet at opposite sides of Hizma checkpoint, northeast of Jerusalem, for the wedding of Hazim, from Abu Dis and his bride, who is from Nazareth.

Both buses were stopped by Israeli forces before reaching the checkpoint and Israeli forces fired sound bombs at guests who had begun singing and dancing on the West Bank side of Hizma, an organizer told Ma'an.

"While they were dancing and singing for the groom, Israeli occupation forces started throwing sound bombs and pushing people back. They then fired tear gas, forcing people to run away," organizer Najwan Berekdar said.

in full: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=573228

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

1. Oh, so the IDF didn't have the opportunity to shoot

anybody in the back this time?

The Citizenship and Entry into Israel law was enacted by the Israeli Knesset in 2003, and prohibits granting residency or citizenship to Palestinians from the occupied territories who are married to Palestinian citizens of Israel, Adalah says.

Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs website says the temporary order is "security orientated" and enacted after people took advantage of Israeli identity to carry out "terrorist attacks." (Too bad they couldn't cite one example, but you know all Palestinians wanting to marry are terrorists.)

Human Rights Watch has said that "the law violates Israel's obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which applies not only to race but also to national or ethnic origin."

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in 2003 called on Israel to revoke the law.

Israel to the world: Fuck You.

[sabbat hunter]

2. couple of things

If they are citizens of Israel, then they aren't Palestinians, they are Israeli.
Second, all countries have a right to decide who is and isn't allowed to immigrate to their country. That includes Israel. Israel is under no obligation to allow spouses of citizens (if the spouse is a non citizen or non resident) in to the country.

If someone decides to marry someone who does not live in the country, that is their decision, but it doesn't mean that country should automatically allow the new spouse in.

[azurnoir]

3. how often does Israel disallow non Israeli Jewish spouses of Israeli Jews

not to live in Israel because they are not citizens?

[Scootaloo]

4. So you endorse this notion, Sabbat Hunter?

[King_David]

5. "Israel to the world: Fuck You"

Makes a change , doesn't it.

If only Jews throughout history had always adopted the position and acted on the "Israel to the world: Fuck You" philosophy .

Thankfully things changed in 1948