Palestinian court jails U.S.-Palestinian for life for Jerusalem land sale

Al-Reuters ^ | December 31, 2018 6:57 AM | Reporting by Ali Sawafta, Nidal al-Mughrab, Jeffrey Heller

[Olog-hai]

A Palestinian court sentenced an American-Palestinian on Monday to life imprisonment for violating a ban on selling land to Israelis, judiciary officials said.

The U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, called in November for dual national Issam Akel to be released, saying his suspected crime was “selling land to a Jew” and his incarceration violated American values.

Akel was accused of attempting to sell a property in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem without the permission of his business partners or Palestinian authorities. Palestinian officials have not publicly identified the intended buyer.

The Higher Offences Court in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, convicted Akel of “attempting to sever parts of Palestinian land and annex it to a foreign state,” the judiciary media office said. […]

Palestinian law bars selling land to “a hostile state or any of its citizens”. It requires the permission of the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank, for all land sales in East Jerusalem. …

[mindburglar]

Wonder how much the ransom is.

[faithhopecharity]

Israel desperately needs a better government. What other nation permits, even enables, a blatantly hostile, bloodthirsty enemy terrorist murder gang to exist and operate in its country — attacking and kidndpping and condemning innocent people ( as well as murdering many more good folks) — ? This is an insane policy. Totally insane.

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his incarceration violated American values

Mr. Ambassador, you aren't in America, and neither is Mr. Akel.

Perhaps you will figure that out before you get the Ambassador Stevens treatment. Perhaps not.

[BBQToadRibs]

Islam being Islam.

[jjotto]

Israel has such a policy to satisfy American elites.

[datura]

Ask the court to define “Palestinian”.

[faithhopecharity]

Sorry to be so blunt but this kind of Satanic- evil krap is what israel gets for permitting enemy gangs like plo/ Abbas/Fatah/pa to exist / operate. Jerusalem can’t complain they’re surprised — anyone housing and feeding savage,rabid alligators 🐊 will inevitably get bit.

[Cowboy Bob]

This is Pali-on-Pali. Too bad. I'll have to side with the court on this one.

[Olog-hai]

That’s de-facto recognition of their authority in Israel’s capital, remember.

[Olog-hai]

That’ll be like asking for proof of divine inspiration of the Koran.

[faithhopecharity]

It’s a totally insane policy only suicidally- inclined people would even consider for more than two seconds. “Satisfying” or enabling enemies hell-bent on one’s own destruction — especially islamonazi mass- murderers — is sheer lunacy —— Jerusalem desperately needs to grow up and cast out both its suicidal galut mental disorder and it’s enemies now, before they can cause more damage mayhem death destruction

[American in Israel]

Send the Marines to settle accounts.

[dsrtsage]

Palisimians should be kept securely behind bars at the zoo

[EinNYC]

What is this crap “Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem”? There IS no “East Jerusalem” and no “occupation”. “Occupation” implies something held temporarily, and Jerusalem, in its entirety, is part of Israel, eternally. I don’t have to read the rest of this article, as I can predict its slant.

[Olog-hai]

Well, the mere fact that it comes from al-Reuters ought to reveal that right away.

[SJackson]

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Well, it is their law, longstanding. Jordan too. But when an American citizen is sentenced to life in prison for selling real estate to a Jew, offensive to most but not all Americans, it is a legitimate issue for our government to address. At whatever time or in whatever way the government considers appropriate. Plenty of people on the left sympathize, though I doubt many if any will publicly.

[onedoug]

I agree with everything you’ve written

[faithhopecharity]

Great! Thanks Happy new year!

[SunkenCiv]

his suspected crime was “selling land to a Jew”