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* By Jim Kouri, Law Enforcement Examiner
* June 2nd, 2011 6:14 pm ET
Israeli intelligence: U.S. leftists joining Hamas for "Naksa Day" protests
The following information was provided exclusively to the Law
Enforcement Examiner by a former American police sergeant who now lives and
works in Israel with his wife, a ranking officer with the Israeli Defense
Force (IDF).
Palestinian and Western organizations participating in a continuous campaign
to de-legitimize the Jewish state of Israel are reportedly preparing various
types of anti-Israeli propaganda displays beginning June 4 or 5, using
Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport as center stage for their
guerrilla theater.
A prominent American radical academic -- and anti-Israeli activist -- Dr.
Paul Larudee is expected to assemble a contingent of American leftists to
participate in June's anti-Israel activities in Gaza and other parts of the
Middle East.
Their objectives are to show solidarity with the Palestinians, embarrass
Israel, and raise international public consciousness for the so-called
"right of return."
The various groups and networks regard the displays as an alternative and
counterweight to the flotilla currently being organized in Turkey, whose
goal -- "lifting the siege of the Gaza Strip" -- they regard as "too
narrow." Their goal is "lifting the siege from all Palestine."
An alert was recently posted on Hamas' main web site for "Palestinian
refugees" to take regular commercial flights to Israel's airports (referred
to as the airports of "Palestine occupied since 1948") on June 4 or 5 as
part of the events of Naksa Day, the day commemorating the Arab defeat in
the Six Day War 1967.
Law Enforcement Examiner's source and the The Meir Amit Intelligence and
Terrorism Information Center do not have concrete information about
practical preparations being made to implement the call.
However, during the past year some of the networks and organizations
participating in the campaign to de legitimize Israel and bring the "right
of return" to public consciousness, tinkered with the idea of sending
several hundred refugees (and their descendents) holding foreign citizenship
to Ben-Gurion Airport. They would carry copies of the deeds to land and
pictures of families who lived in Israel before 1948, demand to return to
their houses, and employ lawyers and media backup to oppose deportation from
Israel.
An initiative is scheduled for June 8, 2011 to send hundreds of activists to
Ben-Gurion Airport. They are supposed come from various countries around the
world, including Germany. After a protest at the airport, they are expected
to go to Judea and Samaria for solidarity meetings with Palestinians. There
are 15 organizations planning the propaganda event, most of them
territory-based and Palestinian.
The most prominent organization is the International Solidarity Movement
(ISM), which specializes in obstructing IDF activities in the territories.
The ISM sends activists and volunteers from foreign countries to the weekly
demonstrations in Bila'in, Ni'lin and other friction points in Judea and
Samaria, and its leaders hold central positions in the flotilla project.
According to Examiner sources, the planned propaganda displays at Ben-Gurion
Airport are also a result of internal competition between the organizations
and activists participating in the campaign to de legitimize Israel. Some of
the organizations may regard it as an opportunity to stand in the
international media spotlight by proposing an innovative initiative which
will embarrass Israel and overshadow the flotilla project.
Hamas is calling for "refugees" to assemble at Ben-Gurion Airport for Naksa
Day events
A group referring to itself as the Committee Preparing the Return March
called for marking June 5, Naksa Day, the day commemorating the Arab defeat
in the Six Day War, with marches to the borders of Israel (referred to as
"occupied Palestine") from Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip.
The committee also called for Palestinian refugees to fly to Israel's
airports (the airports of "occupied Palestine") on regular commercial
flights. To date it is unknown whether Hamas' call is backed by practical
preparations carried out by pro-Palestinian activists. However, the idea of
sending Palestinian refugees (or their descendents) to a propaganda display
at Ben-Gurion Airport to raise public consciousness for the so-called "right
of return" and to embarrass Israel has been tinkered with for the past year
by the networks and organizations participating in the campaign to
de-legitimize Israel.
The suggestion to hold a propaganda display of this sort was raised in the
past by Dr. Paul Larudee, an anti-Israeli American activist who heads a
radical leftist West Coast organization called the Free Palestine Movement
(FPM). He has said that his organization intended, in collaboration with
like-minded groups dealing with the so-called "right of return," to put the
idea into practice.
Interviewed by Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV, Larudee said that various
organizations, among them the *Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), a British
organization affiliated with Hamas, and an American branch of **Al-Awda
("the return"), wanted to send about 200 Palestinians with European and
North American passports to Ben-Gurion Airport.
He said they would take commercial flights departing from various countries
on the same day, and arrive with copies of property deeds and pictures of
families who lived in Israel before 1948, and demand to implement the "right
of return" and return to their houses.
*The PRC is an organization affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas
which operates in Britain. Hamas activists who sought asylum in Britain have
senior positions on its board of directors. The most prominent of them are
Majed Khalil Musa al-Zeer and Zaher Khaled Hassan al-Birawi.
**Al-Awda is a pro-Palestinian organization operating in the United States
to promote the so-called Palestinian "right of return." Its full name is the
Palestinian Right to Return Coalition, PRRC
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