> The Ledger (Lakeland, Fla.) - September 6, 2007
> <http://www.theledger.com/article/20070906/NEWS/709060547/1039>
>
> Lakeland Family Separated By Rules at Airport in Israel
> 7 children, declared Palestinians, must stay.
> By Cary McMullen
>
> Although the Yacoubs are naturalized U.S. citizens and all their
> children were born in America, Israeli officials told them they had been
> designated Palestinian citizens.
> They would not allow Wedad Yacoub and 10 of her children to board the
> flight.
Lovely. Of course, if Palestinians didn't exist, Israeli settler colonialism would have been obliged to invent them all over again, the same way the US Empire invented a bogus Communist threat -- and today, an even more bogus Islamofascism -- in order to justify its murderous expansionism.
> After a second attempt to board a return flight in Tel Aviv failed on
> Thursday, the family said they were forced to spend $15,000 for one-
> way tickets for the children from Amman to Orlando.
Hmm, evidently the family ran afoul of Israel's demented, criminal blockade of ordinary Palestinians, which is an attempt to jail 3 million people for daring to vote in free and fair democratic elections.
-- DRR