Close the loophole, now: all the reasons why it is mandatory to pass the Citizenship Act and fast

What do those who murdered Yigal Yehoshua, those who tried to burn Jews in a residential building in Lod, those who set fire to the police station in the city, those who shot a MDA volunteer and those who burned a playground in Ramla have in common? The Citizenship Law

Kalman Liebskind

19/02/2022

Saturday, 19 February 2022, 20:00 Updated: 20:04

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In the video: Conflicts in Lod (Photo: Yotam Ronen and Liran Levy, Editing: Amit Simcha)

Do you know the explanations given by left-wing representatives in the government, the Knesset and various organizations against the Citizenship Law?

You have heard their claims that preventing the possibility of family reunification here, with us, between spouses one of whom is Israeli and one Palestinian, violates their rights, and violates love, and discriminates and unfairly, and in general we should stop treating every Palestinian as a ticking bomb, and stop scaring us all the time. With terrorism and terrorist attacks?

Well, if these allegations have spoken to you, and if you do not yet understand how urgent it is to pass the Citizenship Law, with clear and limited and transparent quotas for Palestinians who enter here in exceptional humanitarian cases every year, then feel free to read the data that will be revealed here.

This story is the story of Arab-Israelis born to families in which one of the spouses came from the Palestinian Authority, and whose identification with the Palestinians led them to take violent action against Jews, here, in the mixed cities, in the riots last May during Operation Wall Guard.

It is possible to go through case by case.

The data is amazing.

Almost all the prominent terrorist incidents during the riots in Lod and Ramla involve the descendants of "Family Reunification".

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Almost all the riots involve descendants of "family reunification."

Demonstration of solidarity in Jaffa with the Palestinians, May 2021 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

This is the story of three of the defendants in the murder of Yigal Yehoshua, who was attacked with stones in Lod.

All three are members of families who have a Palestinian faction.

Two of them are sons of a father who has a Palestinian wife.

A third defendant is the son of a Palestinian mother.

It is also the story of three brothers, who prepared dozens of Molotov cocktails, and joined others in order to set fire to a residential building in the Chabad neighborhood of Lod at night, and burn down the Jews who slept in it. Preparations for this attack included field trips On

the designated night, the terrorists threw Molotov cocktails at the doorways, balconies and windows of the building. Miraculously, the occupants escaped and extinguished the fire, causing only property damage. The terrorist brothers came to Israel from the town of Beit Likia in the Ramallah district.

In another incident, two Arabs from Lod fired their guns at a distance of 20-10 meters at an MDA volunteer, hitting him in the leg. One of them is the son of a Palestinian mother. The other is the son of a father married to a Palestinian woman, Equipped with a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

A vehicle burned in riots in Lod during Operation Wall Guard, last year (Photo: Liran Levy)

Three others, residents of Ramla, sons of Palestinian parents from Judea and Samaria, were charged with "conspiracy to commit a crime in the circumstances of an act of terrorism, arson in the circumstances of an act of terrorism, and act or dealing with weapons for terrorist purposes," after producing about 15 Molotov cocktails and setting fire in a playground.

Another indictment filed describes how Sami Abu Musa, a resident of Lod, arrived at the police station in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of the city.

He and others dismantled the iron fences that surrounded a compound near the station, broke them, blocked the road, and threw stones at the station.

They tore down the Israeli flag that was hoisted at the station and burned it, then set fire to several nearby palm trees, and later burned another Israeli flag that happened to be on their way.

The indictment attributes to Abu Musa five offenses of arson, malicious damage and riotous motive.

Abu Musa is the son of Wafa, who grew up in Ramallah and whose extended family lives in Ramallah to this day.

Commitment to the Palestinian struggle

Is there a connection between the violence of these Israeli Arabs against Jews, and the fact that they grew up in families separated by a Palestinian?

Is there an increased danger between those who are sons of family reunification, ie those whose half of the family lives, lives, and works in Judea and Samaria - and over-motivation to harm Jews and the State of Israel?

Beyond the security factors that answer this question in the affirmative, we are revealing here new moving data, collected by the "Cities of Israel" organization, a new organization established following the "Guardian" events by Jewish residents in the cities involved, in order to improve personal security, strengthen resilience Community, and prepare for another round that seems to be not the question of whether it will come, but when exactly it will happen.

The members of this organization went through the entire list of Arabs arrested following the disturbances last May, and all the indictments that were filed in their wake, and mapped them in order to examine how many of them are children of families who received permission from the State of Israel to unite here, here, between an Israeli spouse and a Palestinian spouse.

Later, they also checked the Facebook pages of the extended family, to see how committed it is, on both sides, to the "Palestinian struggle."

For the benefit of this study, the people of the "Cities of Israel" went through more than 120 arrest cases and indictments of Arabs who were arrested on suspicion of committing violence and terrorism in Lod and Ramla alone.

Anyone who has not yet understood what the Palestinians import into Israel is doing, in a framework called "family reunification," should read the numbers carefully.

About 60% of the detainees suspected of harming Jewish citizens and / or the security forces during the May riots are related to family ties with Palestinians who came here as part of a family reunification.

When it comes to indictments filed after the investigation, the number reaches about 63%.

In the vast majority of cases, these are relatives of first-degree families, children of a Palestinian father or mother.

In a few cases it is a family relationship in one more distant circle.

Later it seems that this is a particularly cautious figure, and that the real numbers are even higher.

Forces secure Ramla last May (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Why does a mother who lives in Lod, who is married to Israeli Arabs and originates in Nablus, increase the chances that her son will be involved in activities against Jews?

very simple.

A child born to such a mother grows up in a family with a significant percentage of Palestinians.

He has Palestinian grandparents.

He has Palestinian uncles and aunts.

He has a broad Palestinian family.

These Palestinian relatives live elsewhere, wage other wars in their daily lives, and for them the State of Israel - the one in which their Israeli family member lives, and studies, and earns a living, and pays taxes to it, and receives benefits from it - is the enemy.

The Israeli family members often migrate back and forth between the Israeli wing and the Palestinian wing, and are exposed in high doses to the nationalist content that sanctifies the campaign against the State of Israel and its Jewish citizens.

Want another example of such a family?

Take the Hasson family from Lod, which everyone who needs communication here knows.

Musa Hassona, one of the family's sons, was killed at the beginning of riots in the "Wall Guard" by defensive fire from Jews, when Hassona was in a group that attacked their neighborhood with large stones and Molotov cocktails.

Some of the suspects in the shooting were arrested at the beginning of the road, and at the end the cases against everyone were closed.

Moments after this incident, a number of media outlets mobilized to tell the story of the unfortunate Hassona family, who want to live their lives in peace and coexistence, to whom violence and terror are foreign, and to whom the bad Jews have wronged.

It took some time for the full picture to become clear, and this picture depicts a family deeply rooted in the Palestinian Authority and heavily involved in terrorist activities against Jews.

A few days after Musa was killed, during the same attack on the Jewish neighborhood, his brother, Job, and three of their cousins ​​took part in another riot against Jews in the city.

The indictment filed against them details stone-throwing, preparation of Molotov cocktails, arson of eight Jewish cars, possession of weapons and use of live weapons against Jews.

Two of their other relatives, also from Lod, were convicted two decades ago, after aiding a suicide bomber.

A bus set on fire in Ramla, last October (Photo: Walla! System, without credit)

A sturdy family, it turns out, is divided between Lod and Ramallah.

An Israeli plot, a Palestinian plot.

The Palestinian wing, the one in Ramallah, has also carried out several acts of terrorism in the past.

The mother of Musa Hasson who was killed, and of his brother Job against whom an indictment was filed, was born in Ramallah.

Their cousin, who was also arrested on suspicion of terrorism, is also the son of a Palestinian woman, also apparently from Ramallah.

Another cousin, who was also arrested, is the son of another mother, who was also born in Ramallah and came to us to reunite with an Israeli man.

Their two cousins, the ones who previously drove the same suicide bomber and were convicted, are also sons of parents who come from the Palestinian Authority.

This is also the story of A., 17, who threw a Molotov cocktail at a Chicago community center in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of Lod, and was arrested after fleeing to a nearby mosque. A.'s father was born in Gaza. In 1999, his application for family unification was approved, and from then until 2007, the permit granted to him was extended from year to year.

A hearing was held in March 2008, in which he was told that he would no longer be able to extend his stay in Israel "in view of his ties and the ties of his family members to terrorist operatives and their involvement in terrorist activities," as the court noted in one of their proceedings.

The father appealed to the Administrative Court and in November 2009 his appeal was dismissed.

In January 2010, Judge Asher Grunis, in the Supreme Court, denied his request to remain here until the end of the proceedings and a final decision in his case.

According to a photo he uploaded to the social network with his son, after he was released from custody, it seems that despite everything, the father is still with us here.

Either way, this is a family with a clear Palestinian orientation.

How and did it affect the child?

Judge for yourself.

Nationalist ferment

The stories presented here are only small examples of a much longer series.

Just as the numbers show that about two-thirds of those accused of violent and terrorist offenses against Jews grew up in a "family union," they do not fully attest to how widespread the problem is.

Why?

Because this calculation did not take into account those who had committed terrorist acts in the past, and did not take into account those arrested on suspicion of participating in acts of violence in the Wall Guard, and their interrogation, which failed to yield an indictment in this context, due to evidentiary difficulties, Terrorism and weapons.

For example, E., the son of a mother who is a native of the Palestinian Authority, who during the "Wall Guard" was arrested on suspicion of involvement in "violent riots, including assaulting police officers for racist and hostile motives," as the court wrote in a hearing on extending his detention.

On the way, during an investigation, it turned out that he was holding a 16M rifle in his house.

Like A., so was A., who was arrested during the violence in Ramla on suspicion of involvement in "severe riots, stone-throwing, Molotov cocktails, vandalism", and during his interrogation, documents were found on his phone while walking around Nablus armed with a carbine rifle. , Another time when he's with 16M.

A. is the son of parents, both of whom were born and raised in the Palestinian Authority.

Riots in Lod during Operation Guard of the Walls (Photo: Pant)

These, as mentioned, are two examples, and they are not unique, to those that were not even counted in the careful calculation of "Israeli cities", because despite their arrest as suspects of violence against Jews last May, indictments were eventually filed against them for offenses from other days.

Here it is important to add an important note.

When we examine the damage of family reunification only in the eyes of the number of perpetrators and the number of terrorist attacks that this marriage has spawned, we are underestimating this dangerous phenomenon.

Although this test is easier to measure, it does not take into account the contribution of the Palestinians we import here to the extremism of the anti-Israel discourse on the Arab street in Lod or Ramla, and it does not know how to calculate the weight of nationalist anti-Jewish unrest produced by our local Palestinians.

And that's just part of the problem.

We are familiar with the claim made by the supporters of family unification, according to which the relative number of Palestinians who entered here is small, and these together constitute a fraction of a percent for the entire Israeli population.

This is a misconception, because in mixed areas such as Lod or Ramla, where a large group of descendants of families are concentrated, their high dose has a severe and acute effect, as can be seen in the field, and in the examples given here.

The problem of the Negev

The focus is only on Ramla and Lod, stemming from what happened in them during Operation Wall Guard.

But the problem does not start in Lod and does not end in Ramla.

In the past, we have exposed here the large number of Palestinian women imported into the Negev, and the large extent of the Palestinianization phenomenon that the Bedouin sector is going through.

A few weeks ago, Ariel Kahana published in Israel Today the warning of Ronen Bar, the head of the Shin Bet, against the background of this phenomenon, and his appeal to Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, which showed that about 40% of those involved in violence were stone-throwing. In the dumping of Molotov cocktails and the blocking of traffic arteries in the south following the planting of the JNF, they are descendants of a "family union."

These, the GSS chief explained, are less connected to the Israeli experience, and more connected to the Palestinian narrative.

The phenomenon of Palestinianization is shifting to the Bedouin sector.

The riots in the Negev after the planting of Kakel trees last month (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

Another publication by Kahana revealed a document presented by the GSS to the government, which shows that Hamas is investing in the recruitment of Israeli-Arab citizens, one of whose parents was born in Gaza or Judea and Samaria, to assist them in carrying out terrorist acts and gathering intelligence.

In some cases, it was reported, the recruitment operation took place while visiting Palestinian relatives, taking advantage of their feelings of identification with their Palestinian family, amid security tensions.

If we look for an example from the last few days, we can go to the story of the arrest of four Bedouin residents of Segev Shalom, who were arrested on suspicion of assaulting Haaretz journalist Nati Yefet and burning his car, as well as on suspicion of throwing Molotov cocktails at a police station in their locality.

Three of the four are children of a parent who was granted family reunification status here.

Some of them, according to the police statement, also participated in the violent incidents last May.

War on Terror

The citizenship laws - of Ayelet Shaked, Simcha Rotman, Avi Dichter and Zvika Hauser - are due to be discussed in one of the Knesset committees, after passing the first reading.

Although the security reason is not the only reason why it is important to end the legislation and close the loophole through which Palestinians flow, but given the data, it is certainly enough for anyone who fears what is expected of us here in the coming rounds and years, to mobilize immediately.

Not in a few months.

Not in the next session.

now.

As soon as possible.

This is not a political war.

This is a war on terror.

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