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Palestinian Authority arresting Palestinians for endorsing Israel’s assertion of sovereignty

Jul 18, 2020 9:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

According to the establishment media, Israel is racist and oppressive to Palestinians. The UN aids in the dissemination of anti-Israel propaganda. However, there are many Palestinians who openly say that they are much happier in Israel, better treated and more respected than they are under the Palestinian Authority. I, too, have listened to many Palestinian cab drivers tell me, during my visits to Israel, how happy they were in Israel and how much they despised the Palestinian Authority. They clearly say this with conviction. But the Palestinian Authority does not want that to become known. Nor would the Islamic supremacist nations who use the Palestinian claims of oppression to demonize and delegitimize Israel, with the ultimate goal of obliterating it. So now the PA has begun arresting Palestinians who openly endorse Israel’s annexation of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) because they are happier in Israel.

“I want an Israeli identity card,” one Palestinian is heard saying. Another stated he didn’t see “Israelis as enemies — their government is the enemy”. And a third said he “chose Israel” and wasn’t afraid to speak out publicly.

Palestinians who speak the truth publicly risk arrest, while the world continues to call Israel the oppressor.

“Report: PA Arrests Palestinians for Endorsing Israel’s Annexation,” by Deborah Danan, Breitbart, July 14, 2020:

TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Authority has arrested several Palestinians who said they were in favor of Israel’s plan to apply its laws to parts of the West Bank, the AFP news wire reported Tuesday.

In a broadcast aired in June on Israeli television, veteran Israeli Arab affairs reporter Zvi Yechezkeli interviewed Palestinians on the street about their views on the matter.

Many expressed hope that Israel would indeed apply sovereignty to the areas in which they lived.

“I want an Israeli identity card,” one Palestinian is heard saying. Another stated he didn’t see “Israelis as enemies — their government is the enemy”. And a third said he “chose Israel” and wasn’t afraid to speak out publicly.

In another report by Breitbart News published around the same time, similar responses were heard. “I think it will be better to live under Israel[i law]. Anything is better than the Palestinian Authority which just steals our money,” I. from the northern West Bank told Breitbart News.

Another said, “Ask me or any of my friends. We all prefer to be under Israel. Maybe we will have better jobs, more pay, anything is better than this.”

The Breitbart report originally contained identifying details including names and locations at the express permission of those interviewed who declared that they were not afraid to speak their mind.

However, after Breitbart News learned that some of those interviewed by Yechezkeli had been arrested by the Palestinian police, it chose to redact identifying details.

Tuesday’s AFP report quoted Yechezkeli saying at least six Palestinians he interviewed had been arrested.

“I was surprised to see that even though I’ve blurred the faces of all the people I filmed and distorted their voices, the Authority has reached and arrested (some) of them, it’s just amazing,” he told AFP.

Ramallah denied arresting anyone, the report said, but added corroborations from Palestinian sources, including one who said his relative had been held for several weeks by Palestinian police and was due to face a court soon after telling Yechezkeli that despite “fear” of being arrested, he was hopeful “that Israel will give us citizenship.”…

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Filed Under: Israel, Palestinian Authority Tagged With: West Bank, Zvi Yechezkeli


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  1. mortimer says

    Jul 18, 2020 at 10:08 am

    Dictatorship and thought police. How cosy. Or rather, claustrophobic. I’m relieved that people are less afraid to speak out and express their desire to END THE PSYCHODRAMA.

    Once Israel assumes control of the territory that it was assigned by the British Colonial Office in 1923, the PSYCHODRAMA will be largely over. Only a few crackpots will carry on thinking that a separate Arab ‘Palestine’. Everyone knows there is no difference between Arabs living in Jordan and those on the West Bank. Similarly, there’s no difference between Acadians living in Maine and those across the border in New Brunswick.

    The Pallies have nothing to fear, for Arabic is an official language of Israel and they have over 70 years of experience with Israelis to judge how well Arabs have done in Israel. The conclusion increasingly seems to be to dump the PA and become Arab citizens of Israel.

  2. kami-sama says

    Jul 18, 2020 at 10:09 am

    Fuck those thieves the Palestine cause has made their pockets fat while me & many others can’t afford shit & i really mean shit it keeps flooding in winter & we can’t afford the pulling service (pulling shit from shit hole) i can’t afford cars i can’t afford even decent internet connection i can’t afford a cellphone which i have been disconnected from for 3 years coz i can’t pay them thank allah indeed

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 18, 2020 at 9:05 pm

      Thanks for this view on the ground, kami-sama.

  3. mortimer says

    Jul 18, 2020 at 11:48 am

    The only Pallies that still want the PA to remain are the ones that haven’t built their monster homes in Cyprus yet using diverted international aid monies.

    The corrupt, censorious, brutal dictators of the PA are acting like any other Islamic dictators.

  4. gravenimage says

    Jul 18, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    Palestinian Authority arresting Palestinians for endorsing Israel’s assertion of sovereignty
    …………….

    Thugs.

  5. tgusa says

    Jul 20, 2020 at 12:11 am

    Looking over each others shoulders attempting to ferret out un-islamic muslims. A win win situation and that strategy should always be employed. And it costs very little to do. A superstitious and paranoid lot they are.

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