Posted on 03/03/2012 5:33:05 PM PST by James C. Bennett
KOCHI: Susan Nathan, the British-born Israeli writer who achieved fame through her book 'The Other Side of Israel', is continuing to stay in India despite her visa expiring as she wants to be in a war-free zone, her counsel submitted to the Kerala High Court.
When the writer's petition challenging the deportation move came up for hearing on Friday before division bench of acting Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice PR Ramachandra Menon, her counsel Manjeri Sunder Raj submitted that she was staying in India as she wanted to be in a "war-free zone" in the last years of her life.
The counsel's submission was in response to the Court's statement that she could have left the country after completing the medical treatment for which she came to Kozhikode.
Susan, who migrated to Israel from England in 1999 to make aliyah - the Hebrew term for Jewish people migrating to Israel - had later highlighted the oppression faced by Israel's Arab population through her writings. The district administration of Kozhikode ordered for her deportation after a translation of her book by a local publisherbecame controversial. The deportation order was based on an intelligence report that she was in contact with Muslim extremist outfits.
Mark
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