PALESTINIAN-AMERICAN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON BY PA FOR SELLING PROPERTIES TO JEWS

[DavidSling]

The man, Isaam Akel, was arrested by the PA last October despite holding an Israeli ID card.
BY KHALED ABU TOAMEH

DECEMBER 31, 2018 12:38
1 minute read.

A general view of the Damascus Gate, which leads to the Old City's Muslim Quarter, July 21 2017. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)

A Palestinian Authority court in Ramallah on Monday sentenced a Palestinian American citizen to life in prison with hard labor for his involvement in the sale of properties to Israeli Jews.

The man, Isaam Akel, was arrested by the PA last October despite holding an Israeli ID card in his capacity as a resident of east Jerusalem.

The US State Department and the US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman had protested against the incarceration of Akel by the PA.

“Akel’s incarceration is antithetical to the values of the US & to all who advocate the cause of peaceful coexistence,” said Friedman on Twitter in November. “We demand his immediate release.”

The Pal Authority has been holding US citizen Isaam Akel in prison for ~2 months. His suspected “crime”? Selling land to a Jew. Akel’s incarceration is antithetical to the values of the US & to all who advocate the cause of peaceful coexistence. We demand his immediate release.

Palestinian sources said Akel, a resident of Bethlehem, had worked for the PA Ministry for Local Government before his arrest.

“The 55-year-old man, who is a US citizen, is being interrogated by the Palestinians security agencies in Ramallah for his role in the sale of an Arab-owned house in the Old City of Jerusalem to a Jewish organization,” sources told The Jerusalem Post upon Akel’s arrest.

https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-...-prison-for-selling-properties-to-Jews-575903

 

[PakSarzameen5823]

@Dubious @waz @Slav Defence @DavidSling

I think it would be more appropriate for the title to say "Israeli" rather than "Jew" because that appears to be the main issue rather than the religion of the people who were purchasing the property.

 

[Nein]

What an idiot these Palestinians have no love for their land.

How can one sell their land off?

 

[hussain0216]

What an idiot these Palestinians have no love for their land.

How can one sell their land off?

Yep more love for money they his people and land

A traitor who deserves what he gets

Its like jews who helped the Nazis

 

[Falcon29]

Good job, it's illegal to sell our land to anyone but another Palestinian. And especially through illegal means.

He is not going to be in jail forever, he'll get out soon once everything is settled.

 

[KhalaiMakhlooq]

I think it would be more appropriate for the title to say "Israeli" rather than "Jew" because that appears to be the main issue rather than the religion of the people who were purchasing the property.

This is the weakness of the State of Israel.

They don't have any authentic Jew culture, Jew religion or Jew roots. They cant understand scripture. They have more DNA variance than a public phone directory. They are an amalgamation of ethnicity and nation dumped there. Some are black, some are brown some are white.

Question an 'Israeli' on his roots and his brain frame will fall like a house of cards.

The only thing that links the 'Israeli identity' together is their hatred for Palestine.