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How cynical are the Palestinians. Tamimi's parents, it turned out, applied for family unification, but this request has not been approved, which meant the family were actually illegal aliens in Israel.

Do they really want to be Israelis? Or do they just want to get "stuff" from Israel and continue to moan and bitch about "occupation" and "apartheid."?

The mother of the terrorist

Terrorist's family deported to West Bank

Public Security Minister Erdan finds family of Fuad Tamimi, who stabbed two policemen in Jerusalem earlier this week, was illegally living in Israel, leading to their deportation.

Ynet 11/3/16




The family of Fuad Abu Rajab Tamimi, the terrorist who carried out an attack against policemen in Jerusalem last Tuesday, were deported from East Jerusalem to the West Bank.


Immediately after the attack, in which Tamimi was killed after wounding two policemen - one of them seriously, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan ordered to examine the legal status of the terrorist's family, living in Issawiya in East Jerusalem.

Tamimi's parents, it turned out, applied for family unification, but this request has not been approved, which meant the family were actually illegal aliens in Israel.


That being the case, the family's expulsion from Israel is not considered a punishment whose legality is questionable but rather the implementation of existing law, and so the action was carried out.

Erdan stated that "whoever is here illegally will be expelled. We will continue to strongly fight terrorism on all fronts."

This instance does not in any way signal the future prospect of Israel approving the deportation of terrorists' families, but does show the government's desire to carry out deportations.

A similar incident occurred last month, when Interior Minister Aryeh Deri signed an order canceling the residency permit of Riad Zwid, father of terrorist Alaa Zwid, who ran over two soldiers last October. Riad was living in Umm al-Fahm at the time.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 58,00.html

The 'separation barrier' that Israel has built to keep out Palestinians. However, many Arabs are moving into Jerusalem to take advantage of the residential permits.

Israel's wall has forced Palestinians to move home - right into Jerusalem

Stephen Farrell, Jerusalem

Wealth and ID cards allow shift
Drastic changes to population

East to West, the flight has begun. Israel’s controversial “separation barrier”, expanding inexorably over wadis and high streets, is near completion along large stretches of its route. Slab by 30ft slab, it seals off Jewish-majority West Jerusalem to protect it from West Bank suicide bombers. Except that the wall designed to keep out Palestinians has driven thousands of them into inner Jerusalem.

Most East Jerusalem Arabs lucky enough to hold the much-prized Israeli Jerusalem identity cards granting them residency rights have already slipped inside the concrete curtain before its gates slam shut.

The result is drastic social and demographic changes to the outskirts of a Biblical city that is now twice-walled — from some vistas Ariel Sharon’s concrete legacy is clearly visible outside Suleiman the Magnificent’s Old City ramparts.

The “outer” neighbourhoods now lie half-deserted, abandoned by those able and wealthy enough to move.

In the “inner” suburbs the laws of supply and demand have doubled rents and increased land prices in Arab neighbourhoods and even — irony of ironies — forced the new arrivals into Jewish areas. “Many Arabs are moving into the settlements because they are very close to the Arab areas,” said Raed Jaber, a 27-year-old Arab from al-Eizariya, who now owns a creperie serving the overwhelmingly Jewish residents of the settlement of Pisgat Zeev.

“I’ll move in myself in a year or so when I get married,” he shrugs, dismissing antipathy from religious Jews who have leafleted the area urging residents not to rent to Arabs.

Pisgat Zeev is regarded as a neighbourhood of Jerusalem by Israel, but lies beyond the green line and was built on land captured by Israel in the 1967 war.
Critics regard the half-finished 450-mile West Bank “separation barrier” as a “land grab” by the Jewish State.

United Nations mapping experts say that it slices off 10.1 per cent of the West Bank and East Jerusalem claimed by Palestinians for their future state.
Israel insists that it is a security or anti-terrorist fence, vital to protect its citizens.

“It gives a more clear line of the perimeter of the city,” said Miri Eisin, a spokesman for Ehud Olmert, the Prime Minister. “We say, and say cautiously, that this line is not a future border. It is a line which has made a very big difference from that stroll that it used to be for those who came to blow themselves up in Jerusalem.”

On its website the Israeli Ministry of Defence points out that it only becomes a wall — it prefers the euphemism “solid barrier system” — along a small fraction of its route in densely populated urban areas such as Jerusalem and “to prevent sniper fire into Israel and on major highways and roads”. A few minutes’ drive north of Jerusalem city centre the Arab neighbourhood of Dahiyat al-Bareed lies just on the wrong side, by a few metres. Here the towering barricade divides streets and even families, local frustration registered by “Victory to Hassan Nasrallah” and a swastika daubed on the bare concrete. Taxis and commuters can still flit through a narrow gap left for builders to complete the final section, but this is expected to close within weeks. The exodus is evident. Streets are empty, the school roll has fallen from 1,500 to 500 pupils, blocks of flats have lost 80 per cent of their tenants and businesses have closed, moving north to Ramallah.

Increasingly discernible is the influx of poorer, socially conservative West Bankers, drawn by falling rents.

Yellow-plated Israeli car numberplates are being replaced by green Palestinian ones, more women are veiled, East Jerusalemites are disappearing from offices and classrooms, and shopkeepers have noticed the arrival of Jenin and Nablus accents, raising security concerns.

“The moment they started digging the wall here, people started packing and moving. Now 90 per cent of the homeowners have gone,” sighed Hani Bakir, 42. “Crime has increased, shops are being looted and houses broken into.”

A mile south lives Enas Muthaffar, a Palestinian filmmaker whose 2005 documentary East to West recorded her family’s move from “outer” Ar-Ram to “inner” Beit Hanina.

“We had to move inside to keep our Jerusalem IDs, because of the health services, so my dad can get to work, to stay in contact with family and friends and simply to have access to Jerusalem without a permit,” she said.

A 2006 study by the refugee rights agency Badil found that 17.3 per cent of 5,100 Jerusalem Palestinians surveyed moved because of the wall.

But Asmahan Amleh, a 48-year-old mother of six, who moved to Jerusalem years ago, says that economics is less important than the city’s huge religious significance for Arabs, as for Jews: “It is the city from which the Prophet Muhammad was raised to the sky. Whoever has a Jerusalem identity can’t even think of letting it lapse.”

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/worl ... 605058.ece

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For the background read the second article.