Israel deports Italian after Bethlehem raid
Israeli authorities said Tuesday they had deported an Italian woman detained in an earlier military raid in the Bethlehem area of the occupied West Bank.
Stefania Costantini was arrested Monday during an incursion by Israeli forces into Dheisheh refugee camp, in the southern West Bank, Israel's Shin Bet domestic security agency said.
A 14-year-old boy was shot dead by Israeli forces during the raid, with the army saying forces opened fire when residents threw Molotov cocktails and other weapons at them.
The Shin Bet said Costantini arrived on a tourist visa in May and was suspected of being involved in the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) militant group.
"Costantini was summoned in September 2022 for interrogation by the Shin Bet, but she did not report (to the authorities) and even continued her activities for the terrorist organisation," the agency said in a statement.
The PFLP has also been designated a terrorist organisation by the United States and the European Union.
After Costantini's arrest on Monday, she was handed over to Israel's Population and Immigration Authority, whose spokeswoman told AFP she was deported the same day.
The Italian consulate in Jerusalem did not immediately comment on the case when contacted by AFP.
Italy's ANSA news agency said Costantini was around 50 years old.
Her expulsion came the same day Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani spoke by phone to his Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen.
Neither mentioned Costantini's case in their statements about the call, published on Twitter.
The deadly raid in Dheisheh brought to 14 the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank so far this month, including civilians and fighters, the majority shot dead by Israeli forces, according to an AFP tally.
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Ten years before the state declared its "independence" in 1948 on land stolen from the people of Palestine, Albert Einstein described the proposed creation of Israel as something which conflicted with "the essential nature of Judaism." Having fled Hitler's Germany and eventually becoming a US citizen, Einstein needed no lessons in what fascism looked like.
One of the greatest physicists in history, supported by other high-profile Jewish intellectuals, Einstein spotted the flaws and fault lines in 1946 when he addressed the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on the Palestinian issue. He couldn't understand why Israel was needed. "I believe it is bad," he said.
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Two years later, in 1948, he and a number of Jewish academics sent a letter to the New York Times to protest against a visit to America by Menachem Begin. In the well-documented letter, they denounced Begin's Herut (Freedom) party, likening it to "a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties."
Herut was a right-wing nationalist party that became the Likud led by Benjamin Netanyahu. As the leader of the Zionist Irgun terrorist group, a breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization, the Haganah, Begin was wanted for terrorist activities against the British Mandate authorities. Even when he became prime minister of Israel (1997-1983) he never dared to visit Britain, where he was still on the most wanted list.
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The full article:
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210604-the-final-downfall-of-israel-was-predicted-by-einstein/
We all know who the terrorists are and it is not the people who are protecting and reclaiming their land!
