Posted on 01/09/2019 9:30:40 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Issam Akel, an Arab who holds American citizenship and an Israeli identification card had been kidnapped by the Palestinian Authority after being charged with helping to sell an Arab-owned house to Jews.
“We are aware of reports that a U.S. citizen has been sentenced by a Palestinian court,” a U.S. government official said.
“The Ramallah Grand Criminal Court sentenced a Palestinian identified only by his initials I.A. to life in prison with hard labor after it found him guilty of selling Palestinian land to a foreign country,” Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Monday.
The “unidentified” Palestinian is, in fact, Issam Akel, an Arab who holds American citizenship and an Israeli identification card. He had been kidnapped by the Palestinian Authority after being charged with helping to sell an Arab-owned house to Jews.
He was brought before the court on Dec. 23, according to the Wafa report, and sentenced for “selling property in occupied Jerusalem to Jewish settlers.”
“We are aware of reports that a U.S. citizen has been sentenced by a Palestinian court,” a U.S. government official said, according to the Arutz 7 news site. “When a U.S. citizen is incarcerated abroad, the U.S. government works to provide all appropriate consular assistance.”
On Nov. 28, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman demanded that the Palestinian Authority (PA) release Akel.
(Excerpt) Read more at thejewishvoice.com ...
He's not a real American. He just has a US Passport.
Imagine the firestorm if someone was jailed for selling land to blacks.
I’m sure AOC and the muzettes send their sympathies.
Exactly to whom is anyone’s guess.
“Issam Akel, an Arab who holds American citizenship and an Israeli identification card ...”
That’s a lot to unpack. Sounds like an over there problem.
I didn’t realize things were so bad in Pennsylvania.
One less muzzle in pa..yeah!
RE: US Citizen Sentenced to Life in Prison by PA for Selling Land to Jews
Whew, for a moment I thought he was sentenced to life imprison in Pennsylvania for selling land to Jews.... :)
Whoa, Pennsylvania doesn’t mess around.
Dual citizen or citizen? Article leads with suspicious statement.
The US does not prevent you from being the citizen of another country, but legally, the US does not recognize dual citizenship either. If you are a citizen of the US, you are subject to all US laws with no defense that you were acting as a citizen of another country when you broke US law.
...The Palestinian Authority is planning to extradite a Palestinian-American resident of East Jerusalem to the United States after sentencing him to life in prison for attempting to sell land to Jews, Israeli television reported Wednesday.
A PA court in Ramallah sentenced Issam Akel, a resident of Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina neighborhood who holds a blue Israeli identification card, on Monday, according to an official in the PA judiciary’s media office. The PA arrested him in October and he has since remained in its custody...
...The PA rarely arrests and carries out judicial proceedings against residents of Jerusalem who hold Israeli ID cards...
“...The Palestinian Authority is”
Incapable of furnishing a list of Pally Kings/Rulers for the immediate past 2000 years over an their imaginary country!!
“He’s not a real American. He just has a US Passport.”
If he’s not breaking any US laws to justify revoking his citizenship then he is a real US citizen and there should be airstrikes on key PA targets until such time as those vermin surrender their hostage.
These crazy Palis need to be given an ultimatum. Immediate release or Ramallah gets destroyed.
President Trump will/is going through Arab allies - Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt - to get this man released.
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Trump should get him released.
This is an outrageous violation oof international law by this pirate state which has no real reason to exist.
These people should be forcibly removed to Jordan, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
Palestine should be turned over to Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
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