Egyptian newspaper claims that the move follows a court decision declaring Hamas a terror organization
Egyptian newspaper Alyoum Alsaba has reported that Egyptian security forces intend to take away the citizen status of 13,757 Palestinians because of their support for Hamas. The report is quoted by Israeli daily Maariv.
The Palestinians affected by the move received citizenship during the year in which Islamist Mohammed Morsi was in power. It comes after an Egyptian court decided Tuesday to declare Hamas a terrorist organization and to seize the group's assets and funds in Egypt.
The Cairo court banned Hamas's activity. It ordered the organization's institutions in Egypt shut down immediately and their assets seized. The decision followed reports of Hamas's involvement in the wave of terrorism that has plagued the country since the Muslim Brotherhood government headed by Morsi was ousted from power.
The court decision requires government approval, but Egyptian media said that it had been made at the request of temporary president Adli Mansour, as well as the prime minister and minister of the interior.
Hamas denied the accusations against it and the court verdict. “This is a dangerous precedent that will have negative implications,” said a member of the group's political leadership, Izet Alrashek. “This will give legitimacy to the continuation of the unjustified siege of the Gaza Strip and encourage the Zionost enemy to carry out further attacks in Gaza,” he said, adding that it “grants support to the enemies of the Palestinian people and to its right of resistance.”
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There are precedents for the removal of citizenship
from Palestinians by Arab countries.
Middle East Forum: Much has been made of the Palestinian exodus of 1948. Yet during their decades of dispersal, the Palestinians have experienced no less traumatic ordeals at the hands of their Arab brothers.
As early as the mid-1950s, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Libya expelled striking Palestinian workers.
In 1970, Jordan expelled some 20,000 Palestinians and demolished their camps.
In 1994-95, Libya expelled tens of thousands of long-term Palestinian residents in response to the Oslo process.
After the 2003 Iraq war, some 21,000 Palestinians fled the country in response to a systematic terror and persecution campaign (in retaliation for their behavior during the Saddam Hussein years).
As recently as 2007, Beirut effectively displaced 31,400 Palestinian refugees when the Lebanese army destroyed the Nahr el Bared refugee camp during fighting between the militant Fatal al-Islam group and the Lebanese army
http://www.meforum.org/3391/kuwait-expels-Palestinians
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Kuwait expelled 400,000 Palestinians in 1991
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2009: Jordan withdraws citizenship for Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria (West Bank).
They said it was in fear of those Arabs being expelled by Israel. But this unrealistic excuse was only to cover the fact that the Jordanian monarchy is in deep fear of the violent and destabilizing nature of the Palestinian presence in Jordan.
INN : The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has begun revoking the Jordanian citizenship of those people defined by officials as Palestinians with roots in Judea and Samaria. The new policy robs thousands of residents of the kingdom of civil services.
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Palestinians have been a destabilizing presence wherever they are. Governments have responded with harsh measures.
BLACK SEPTEMBER - When thousands of Palestinians in revolt against the Jordanian government were killed by the Army - and many Palestinians sent to exile
(Israel would subsequently take them in, under United States pressure - only to have them engage in terror against Israelis).
At its core the civil war sought to determine if Jordan would be ruled by the Palestine Liberation Organisation or the Hashemite Monarchy.[6] The war resulted in the deaths of thousands of people, the vast majority Palestinian.[3] Armed conflict ended with the expulsion of the PLO leadership and thousands of Palestinian fighters to Lebanon.
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2012 - Black September and the Palestinian attempt to take over Jordan in 1970
An in-depth analysis of the armed conflict when Jordan killed thousands of Palestinians.
(The Palestinians had become a real armed force threatening to take over Jordan and had been engaged in battle with the Jordanian army.)
Excerpts:
On June 5, the senior Palestinian organizations, including Yasser Arafat's Fatah, came out with a declaration on Radio Baghdad in which they called for the deposition of King Hussein. The reason they gave for this was that deposing him was the only way to prevent the signing of "a peace agreement between Israel and Jordan."
The Jordanian army, which for almost 10 months had been pushing the Palestinian organizations out of the major cities, used large forces to expel them from the mountainous regions of the cities of Jerash and Ajloun, in the north of the kingdom, where about 3,000 armed Palestinians were located.
The members of Fatah declared that they preferred to die in battle rather than surrender to the Jordanian dictates. After four days of battle, the Jordanian army overcame the last pockets of resistance.
For Yasser Arafat, Black September was a test. He was asked to honor agreements, and repeatedly violated them; he was asked to rout out the extremists in his camp, and he didn't rout them out; he was asked to opt for realistic strategic goals, and he didn't opt for them. From Jordan he continued to Lebanon, from Lebanon he was expelled to Tunis, from Tunis again to Gaza and to Ramallah, where he found himself, 32 years after Black September, once again causing chaos, and once again besieged by armored forces which he will not be able to subdue.
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