Talk:Sabri Jiryis

about the 1969-1970 events
What is related here is based on the political autobiography by the Swedish/(Israeli) author Göran Rosenberg: The lost Country: Israel; a personal history. 1996. Chapter 12: "The land under the stones". Professor Rosenberg translated "The Arabs in Israel" into Swedish in 1970. He visited Sabri Jiryis in Haifa in January, 1970. Huldra 05:43, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Defence (Emergency) Regulations
There should perhaps be an article about this? From Rosenberg:

The Defence (Emergency) Regulations, also named Defense Laws, were established by the British Mandate in 1945, mainly with the goal of fighting the Jewish extremist groups at the time. Yaákov Shimshon Shapira, later Israeli minister of Justice, stated at the time that "the system that was established with the Defence (Emergency) Regulations does not have its equal in any sivilized world. Not even Nazi-Germany has anything similar.."

The Defense Laws of the British Mandate were taken over by she state of Israel in 1948, and was renewed annually until 1972.

Using this as a legal base, the government created three areas or zones to be ruled by the Ministry of Defense:
 * the Northern Area, also known as the Galilee Area, the locale of about twothirds of the Arab population.
 * the socalled Little Triangle, located between the villages of Et Tira and Et Taiyiba near the border with Jordan (then Transjordan), officially known as the Central District.
 * a major part of the Negev Desert, a region traversed by the nomadic beduins.

Article 125 of the Defense (Emergency) Regulations empowered military governors to declare any specified area "offlimits " to those having no written authorization. The area was then declared a security zone and thus closed to Israeli Arabs who lacked written permission either from the army chief of staff or the minister of defense. Under these provisions, 93 out of 104 Arab villages in Israel were constituted as closed areas out of which no one could move without a military permit.

Emergency Regulations (Cultivation of Waste Lands) Ordinance: used to transfer to Jewish settlements land in the security zones that was lying fallow because the owner of the land  was not allowed to enter the zone as a result of the above national security legislation.

Military Government ended in 1966.

See also: Fouzi El-Asmar: To Be An Arab in Israel (London: 1975),

Huldra 06:08, 15 October 2005 (UTC), Huldra 15:07, 15 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I have read, and heard it said, that the regulations were officially abrogated both by the British before leaving and by the Jordanians, in respect of the West Bank - and that their application by Israel is therefore without legal foundation - I'll see if I can find a source (it'll have to be an internet source) for this. Palmiro | Talk 17:12, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

(+ inf. about 1982+1983)
The information given here is taken from: "Prisoners of Israel" by: Edward Dillon, August - September 1983 The Link - Volume 16, Issue 3 AMEU - Huldra 13:41, 15 October 2005 (UTC)