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Related: About this forumPalestinian Christians Protest Israeli Permit Regime During Palm Sunday Procession
Whether during Ramadan or Easter, every year, Palestinians with West Bank IDs face challenges entering Jerusalem for religious worship. Despite claims by Israeli authorities of granting more permits and relaxing restrictions, each year thousands of worshipers are denied entry.
This Easter season, early reports indicate that Palestinian Christian communities from the northern West Bank had to cancel their Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem due to a lack of permits. Parishes from the Bethlehem and Ramallah areas received between 30% and 40% of the permits they requested.
One individual from the Bethlehem area lamented that while he was granted entry, the rest of his family was turned away at the checkpoint. Such arbitrary policies are typical with Israel’s permitting system, which rarely provides a coherent rationale for who is granted and who is denied, other the than the catch-all excuse of “security reasons”.
PLO official Hanan Ashrawi was quoted as saying:
There should not even be a question of needing permits to visit one’s own city…. East Jerusalem is the occupied capital of the Palestinian people and freedom of worship is a basic human right for all of our Christian and Muslim citizens; a right which is being systematically and increasingly denied by a foreign occupying force. The fact that so many Palestinian Christian communities are denied their simple human right to worship freely in their own capital city is unacceptable.
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Jefferson23
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King_David
(14,851 posts)Anything goes to prevent suicide bomber such as " The Passover Massacre"
Which happened over Pesach or if you need a translation "Passover ".
That's a good reason...
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 26, 2013, 10:17 PM - Edit history (1)
Good to know you support as you say, anything goes...
Collective punishment.
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azurnoir
(45,850 posts)are they protesting their fellow Christians not being allowed to worship in Jerusalem or is more like they're Arabs first for these folks?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)The office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, however, said it rejected, on security grounds, only 192 of the 19,000 requests it received.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/palestinians-add-national-meaning-to-palm-sunday-in-jerusalem.premium-1.511736
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)I just like to point out inaccuracies when I see them.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)the author is named in the credits it is Amira Hass but there is no way of checking for the veracity of anything else something I'm sure you did not realize 
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Do you mean the Ha'aretz article? Works for me and I don't pay for premium.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)*According to the PLO officials, in many communities only half the requests by some of the 50,000 Palestinian Christians were approved, at most.
And Israel always pulls the same bullshit reason, security.
You would think of this OP as a lie.
Disgusting: One banner, which caused Hebrew and Arab speakers to smile sadly, was a large replica of an entrance permit ostensibly issued by the Civil Administration that read: "The purpose of the permit: Christian holiday. Valid: March 19-May 11. Name: The Palestinian People. ID number: 1948."
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oberliner
(58,724 posts)And I'm glad you were able to read the article - are you paying for premium or is it not actually behind a paywall?
Your bolded section doesn't really contradict the fact that the article has inaccurate information.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)In bold is the clear depiction of yet another foul aspect of the occupation perpetuated
by Israeli policy.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)It is the paragraph from the article that shows that original OP has incorrect information.
Anyone can read the rest of the article at the link which I also provided.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)192 denied of 19,000 when over 50, 000 are the whole. You left that out.
*According to the PLO officials, in many communities only half the requests by some of the 50,000 Palestinian Christians were approved, at most.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)The article made a claim - another source showed the claim to be false. That's it.
