Not a peep from Muslim leaders in the West or their leftist lapdogs. Linda ‘sharia’ Sarsour, terror-group CAIR, woman beater jihadist Attorney General of Minnesota Hakim Muhammad (Keith Ellison), Dalia Mogahed … secretly applauding the sentence.
Palestinian-American Tortured, Sentenced to Life in Prison by PA for Selling Land to Jews
A Palestinian-American was tortured by the Palestinian Authority and then sentenced to life in prison with hard labor this week for the crime of selling land to Jews.
Issam Akel, an East Jerusalem resident and U.S. citizen, was sentenced Monday by a Palestinian court for “attempting to cut off a part of the Palestinian land and adding them to a foreign country,” the Jerusalem Post reports. The official news agency of the PA referred to his crime as “selling a house to the enemy in Jerusalem”:
Akel was accused of acting as a broker in the sale of a house jointly owned by the Alami and Halabi families in the Muslim Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem. Palestinians claimed that the house was sold for $500,000 to Ateret Kohanim, a Jewish organization that has been purchasing Arab-owned properties in east Jerusalem for several years.
The PA, the Palestinians said, has frozen the bank accounts of Akel and the two families.
Israel’s police are investigating the circumstances of Akel’s arrest by the PA. There are conflicting reports over whether he was was arrested by Palestinian authorities while in Ramallah or was seized from East Jerusalem. The Post notes he holds an Israeli ID and is immune to prosecution in a PA court.
Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll, writing in the progressive Jewish publication Forward, said she heard from people in touch with Akel that he was lured to Ramallah under false pretenses and then tortured. His wife and an American official who spoke with him while he was imprisoned also said he was tortured.
A man Keats-Jaskoll called “Ali” testified before the Knesset about his experience with torture at the hands of the Palestinians. He said his captors threw hot water and rotten food at him in a cage, forced him to sit on broken glass and hung him upside down. Ali’s crime was collaborating with Israeli security forces, a requirement under the Oslo accords but a violation of hardline Palestinian law.
The case got the attention late last year of U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who demanded Akel’s release and called his incarceration “antithetical to the values of the US & to all who advocate the cause of peaceful coexistence.”
Keats-Jaskoll added leading left-wing human rights groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and Code Pink had been silent on Akel’s treatment by the Palestinians. She also criticized liberal, anti-Israel figures like Marc Lamont Hill and incoming Palestinian-American congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for saying nothing on the matter.
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Jay Wizzy
5 years ago
Trump is still giving the Muhammadists money.
Unjust Muhammad commanded to kill those who reject the unjust Muhammad-law.
Those people must be freed & further arrests prevented.
Incitement to the unjust Muhammad-law must become illegal.
The Muhammadist organisations must be militarily eliminated.
He “stops being a Muslim” once he starts treating Jews and non-Muslims as equals, by selling (and not stealing) land to the Jews. I see him as one of us and he deserves our help.
Islam is pure insanity and if it ever dominates our countries, the same treatment will happen to us. Then the fanatics will go after the more ‘moderate’ Muslims until every muslim turns into a screaming lunatic like the Taliban, Iran’s regime, Hamas or ISIS.
Yeah and Hitler? He was kind to his dogs and even a supposedly Jewish little girl.
Either you’re a f’ing muslum or you’re not. You can’t be non-committal fascist.
How do you know the muslum b@stard didn’t just sell his property for more than it’s worth (i.e. out of pure greed)? The SS tortured and killed the SA — that fact didn’t make the SA the good guys.
“Moderate” muslum like “moderate” nazi is a lie wrapped up in a fairy tale. What proof do I have for this statement? Every, single f’ing muslum state on the face of this earth today (as well as Dearbornistan, Michigan).
He “stops being a Muslim” once he starts treating Jews and non-Muslims as equals, by selling (and not stealing) land to the Jews. I see him as one of us and he deserves our help.
Islam is pure insanity and if it ever dominates our countries, the same treatment will happen to us. Then the fanatics will go after the more ‘moderate’ Muslims until every muslim turns into a screaming lunatic like the Taliban, Iran’s regime, Hamas or ISIS.
Laurence Jarvik
5 years ago
If he’s a dual citizen, why can’t US Embassy get him released?
R. Arandas
5 years ago
If it is HIS land and property, who cares whom he sells it to?
Please prove Jimmy Carter created the PA — because something tells me muslums don’t take their marching orders from a kafir peanut farmer.
ssparks19
5 years ago
Why don’t we get it, they are going for the throat! They have murdered and destroyed for the past 1300 years. they do not assimilate.
jerrys
5 years ago
A terrible situation, we know the palestinians are not very nice. But everything aside I am concerned that there are so many palestinians here in America and they are insinuating themselves into positions of power ie: the palestinian muslima now in the house of Representatives. Many gas station managers are now palestinian, how do they get dual citizenship???? imagine the mischief they could do to our transportation system. A fifth column is in place and we will regret it.
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