Catchy phrases such as “against the law,” “crime of apartheid,” “war crime,” etc. have more impact than the complicated truth. Globalists and anti-Israel media outlets know this all to well and have no interest in the truth. Although a story about a “French-Palestinian human rights lawyer” being jailed without charges is eye-grabbing, there is a deeper story. The most important parts of it are these points:
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- In the words of lawyer Salah Hamouri himself: “Wherever a Palestinian goes, he takes with him these principles and the cause of his people – his homeland carried with him to wherever he ends up.” Here, he admits his own allegiance, which is not to France, but to the Palestinian cause of “resistance” against Israel, from the (Jordan) River to the (Mediterranean) Sea.
- “Hamouri was detained in March and had his residency status revoked on 1 December on the grounds that he was active in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP), which is classified by Israel and its western allies as a terror group.”
- “Israel contended he had continued his activities with PLFP.”
Israel has no choice but to protect itself from the Palestinian “resistance” (jihad). What the rest of the world thinks is inconsequential when Palestinians directly threaten Israel’s national security. It is no secret that globalists and, more broadly, the UN, do not recognize Israel’s right to defend itself from obliteration by jihadists.
Salah Hamouri will continue to play the Western media for all it’s worth.
“Salah Hamouri’s deportation from Israel ‘against the law’, says France,” by Jon Henley, Guardian, December 18, 2022:
France has denounced Israel’s expulsion of a French-Palestinian human rights lawyer, who had been held in prison without charge since March accused of security offences against the state and ties Salah Hamouri, to a banned militant group.
“We condemn the Israeli authorities’ decision, [which is] against the law,” the foreign ministry said, adding that Paris had “clearly communicated its opposition to this expulsion of a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, an occupied territory”.
Hamouri, 37, a lifelong Jerusalem resident without Israeli citizenship, arrived in Paris on a Sunday morning flight from Tel Aviv, where his wife, Elsa, as well as politicians, NGO representatives and supporters, were waiting to greet him at Charles de Gaulle airport.
A statement from his campaign called the deportation a “war crime” and said it constituted a breach of international law. “Wherever a Palestinian goes, he takes with him these principles and the cause of his people – his homeland carried with him to wherever he ends up,” the lawyer – who holds French citizenship through his mother – said in a statement.
Jean-Claude Samouiller, the head of Amnesty International France, described the expulsion as a “crime of apartheid” to Agence France-Presse, saying it was “a happy day for a family reunited, but for the Palestinian people, a sad day”.
The deportation underlines the fragile status of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, where an overwhelming majority are not Israeli citizens but hold residency rights, which are revocable. It could also spark a diplomatic row with France, which repeatedly appealed to Israel not to carry it out.
The Israeli interior ministry said earlier on Sunday that the lawyer was being deported “following interior minister Ayelet Shaked’s decision to withdraw his residency status”. Shaked declared in a recorded video statement: “I’m happy to announce that justice was served today and the terrorist Salah Hammouri was deported from Israel.”…..
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
He could be a stand-in for the Wagner Group head, Yevgeny Prigozhin.