{"id":34341,"date":"2013-09-30T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=34341"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:59:00","slug":"israel-gives-palestinian-10-year-prison-sentence-for-selling-pretzels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/09\/israel-gives-palestinian-10-year-prison-sentence-for-selling-pretzels\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Gives Palestinian 10 Year Prison Sentence for Selling Pretzels"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat is a bagel seller doing in prison in the first place, let alone with a harsher sentence than a drug trafficker?\u201d<\/i>
\n<\/i>–Haaretz<\/p>\n

\"preztel\"<\/a><\/p>\n

28 Sep 2013 – <\/i>This is the kind of stuff that is devastating to the average Palestinian. \u00a0Most Americans don\u2019t really understand just how oppressive the Israeli government is. They require a permit to do anything \u2013 have a job, build a home, get water etc but when you file the appropriate paperwork \u2026. it doesn\u2019t get approved (if you\u2019re Palestinian). \u00a0Palestinians live under absolute tyranny even when they\u2019re Israeli citizens. \u00a0Their government takes a hostile approach to them and does everything possible to ensure they remain in poverty strictly because they\u2019re not Jewish.<\/p>\n

The plan is simple. \u00a0Cut off Palestinians\u2019 ability to take care of their families, make them lose their homes and force them into concentration camps<\/del> refugee camps. \u00a0Refugees don\u2019t have legal rights. \u00a0It sucks to be them.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s wrong and Americans fund this oppression.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the Israeli government is engaging in a campaign of ethnic cleansing and this is just one more example out of a plethora of examples. \u00a0And it\u2019s so bad that even the U.S. State Department has characterized the Israeli government as being guilty of\u00a0\u201cinstitutional and societal discrimination\u201d of citizens who they characterize as Arab (I call them Israeli citizens of Palestinian descent). \u00a0You can read that report HERE<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Haaretz has the story on how Israel gave Zaki Sabah 10 years in prison for selling pretzels in July 2013 HERE<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The sentence was imposed two weeks ago by Local Affairs Court Judge Tamar Nimrodi. Her decision was a technical one, arrived at by aggregating 254 files opened against Sabah for peddling without a license. The thousands of tickets he received since 2005 had ballooned to fines totaling NIS 731,910.21. Because the nonpayment of any fine has a prescribed option of a few days in prison, the number of days that had accumulated totaled 3,554. Most of the hearings in his case were held in absentia, and since he had not reached a payment arrangement with the municipality, the judge consolidated the cases and approved the cumulative imprisonment orders. Shortly after the ruling, Sabah was imprisoned.<\/p>\n

Following his attorney Amir Schneidscher\u2019s request to the court, the municipality agreed to release Sabah if he paid 10 percent of the debt, around NIS 80,000. Jerusalem Magistrate\u2019 Court Judge Tamar Bar-Asher-Zaban then ruled he could be released for only NIS 8,000, but Sabah said he could not come up with that amount, either, and remained behind bars.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 apartheidexists.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Join the BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS<\/i> <\/b><\/span>campaign to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n

DON’T BUY<\/b> PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/b> BARCODE<\/b> STARTS WITH<\/b> 729<\/b>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They require a permit to do anything \u2013 have a job, build a home, get water etc but when you file the appropriate paperwork \u2026. it doesn\u2019t get approved (if you\u2019re Palestinian). Palestinians live under absolute tyranny even when they\u2019re Israeli citizens. Their government takes a hostile approach to them and does everything possible to ensure they remain in poverty strictly because they\u2019re not Jewish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}