Comments on: Asylum Seeker

By: Clap Hammer

Clap Hammer — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:13:26 +0000

MITNAGED – ‘I hope that she will use her safety to speak out and tell Islamist apologists here the truth about Hamas.’

I feel sure that she will.

Problem is that the apologists for Hamas know the truth but the destruction of the one true western liberal democracy in the Middle East is far more important to them than the well being of Palestinians.

By: amie

amie — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:56:30 +0000

Lynnr T: I am indeed referring to the British Home Office. It was they who refused her application for Asylum in the UK, against which she appealed. Israel was not in any way involved in the application.

My comment was unrelated to your suggestion about her safety in Israel. I was not making any comment on your contentions, I was just mentioning as a matter of passing interest one of the more specious arguments of the lawyer representing the Home Office in the appeal.

By: Lynne T

Lynne T — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:39:03 +0000

Amie:

I assume you mean the British Home Office and not the equivalent in Israel.

All I was getting at is that Khalid Abu Toameh requires a certain degree of protection for writing unflattering things about Fatah and Hamas in the JPost and other places. If this woman was to move to Israel and publish anti-Hamas, anti-hejab, anti-fundamentalist articles, I’m not sure she wouldn’t run afoul of certain Arab factions in Israel.

By: amie

amie — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:27:47 +0000

Thanks for that link Serendipity. The judgment in fact includes a reference to a briefer earlier news report about the persecution on the beach of this other woman journalist interviewed here by Chessler.

By: Serendipity

Serendipity — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:37:29 +0000

This woman is not alone, see:

http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/07/08/palestinian-taliban-arrest-palestinian-feminist-government-promises-investigation/

By: amie

amie — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:57:03 +0000

This is the case I mentioned before, Lynne T.
The lawyer from the Home Office, in opposing this appeal against the Home Office refusal, argued ingeniously that because some of the newspapers had been closed down or banned, she would no longer be subject to the possibility of violent or degrading treatment as a journalist. That is because there would be no opportunity for her to publish in the first place.
The judge declared :
I find that an unattractive and unappealing submission.

By: MITNAGED

MITNAGED — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:47:02 +0000

I am glad the judge found in her favour.

I hope she will be able to make a good life for herself here, away from the extremism which threatened her in Gaza.

I hope that she will use her safety to speak out and tell Islamist apologists here the truth about Hamas.

By: Larkers

Larkers — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:19:11 +0000

David T. Thank you for this. It seems the system can work from time to time.

By: Lynne T

Lynne T — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:13:12 +0000

Dan Dare
22 July 2009, 11:42 pm

Since there are no direct flights between the UK and Gaza, she must have passed through either Israel or Egypt (perhaps both) before arriving here. Are these not considered safe countries for asylum purposes?

Egypt certainly wasn’t very safe for Darfurians and Eritreans trying to escape the Islamists in their benighted homelands. A number have been killed in the last year or so by Egyptian police for trying to enter Israel.

I guess the poor souls didn’t realize that Israel is a heinous apartheid state. / sarcasm

Hard to say how unsafe this woman would be in Israel though.

By: Lynne T

Lynne T — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:08:11 +0000

“She wrote on occasion about women being unable to win elections because of the patriarchal society within Gaza.”

Except of course for Miryam Farhat AKA Umm Nidal, mother of three suicide terrorists, who used her blood money to fund her electoral campaign and was elected under the Hamas banner.

Israelinurse — interesting that you say some Palestinians want to see separate political entities set up in the WB and Gaza. Where does that leave the usual suspects who decry Israel for creating “bantustans”?