Comments on: Amira Hass Arrested by Israelis After Leaving Gaza

By: Military Forbids Journalism in Gaza : Federal Jack

Military Forbids Journalism in Gaza : Federal Jack — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:36:52 +0000

[...] Amira Hass’ arrest came right after her publication of a new article describing why the Israeli government is intent [...]

By: Gert

Gert — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:05:18 +0000

I thought she’d been hustled out of Gaza by Hamas because they felt they couldn’t vouch for her safety at that time. What was she to fear though: Hamas (she’s critic of Israel but also of Hamas) or Israeli strikes? Either way, a dead Israeli journalist on their hands would be terribly hard to deal with.

By: Pretty Pink Unicorns

Pretty Pink Unicorns — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:30:51 +0000

Amirah is the daughter of two survivors of the Bergen-Belsen death camp, and hence most likely an Ashkenazi.

By: fiddler

fiddler — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:58:01 +0000

IIRC, a while ago Israel unilaterally designated Gaza an “enemy entity”, not a state. I’m at a loss though if there’s a consistent legal definition of “entity”, what it is, and if this designation has any legal standing.

By: Richard (not Silverstein)

Richard (not Silverstein) — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:27:44 +0000

So Amira Hass (I’m not sure if she is Ashknazi, or Sephardi, or Druze, or ‘Arabic’) Has been arrested by ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’.

By the charges she faces, it seems that Israel already accepts that Gaza is ‘an enemy state’.

That’s quite a confession for the Israelis.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:22:32 +0000

Not all Hamas leaders or members are thugs or goons. But the ones who hustled Hass out of Gaza that particular day were. There are some who are terribly threatened by any Jew or Israeli who genuinely attempts to find common cause with them. Some have a narrative that suspects any Israeli of either being Mossad or having some ulterior motive. That’s what I was being critical of in my statement.

By: SimoHurtta

SimoHurtta — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:05:45 +0000

for violating a law which forbids residence in an enemy state.

Well then Israeli police has much work in future. All settlers in the West Bank must be arrested on the same grounds or Israeli law system is a “joke” (which it interestingly is).

State is a sovereign political entity, a well-defined jurisdiction, with its own set of laws and courts or a sub-national political entity in several countries. So if Israeli law system (but obviously not the political system) sees Gaza as a sovereign state the interesting question is why the other part of the same entity, West Bank, is not and how can Israel behave against the state Gaza as it does. In any case the international law experts will have amusing times ahead when analysing what Israel’s “declaration” that Gaza is a state means.

Israel is increasingly using methods against critics and less “loyal” press which we can see in countries like Burma, Zimbabwe etc. House arrests, detentions on very suspicious grounds and not allowing even Jewish critics to enter the country.

By: Bruno Leicht

Bruno Leicht — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:32:20 +0000

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