ABBA NETWORK

Jerusalem, June 2, 2010 - The Israel Government agreed late on Tuesday the release and deportation of hundreds of foreign activists arrested after the assault on Freedom Flotilla which sought to circumvent the blockade on Gaza Strip. Therefore, Israel deported from tonight and in the next 48 hours to hundreds of activists. The decision was taken after the meeting this afternoon of political-military cabinet in consultation with the Ministers of Interior, Eli Yishai, and Defense, Ehud Barak, stated in the note sent by the Israeli Cabinet. According to a spokesman of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the measure would include activists of the Jewish authorities had threatened to sue.

Among the arrested foreigners who could benefit from this decision, taken after a meeting of Israeli ministers, are the Spanish Tapial and David Manuel Segarra, tonight had to decide whether or not the minutes signed voluntary deportation. Activist Laura Arau signed that act throughout the day, so it provides immediate repatriation.

Israel continues the expulsion of hundreds of pro-Palestinian foreign activists were arrested after the murderous assault commandos of its fleet against international humanitarian Gaza, Army Radio said. Among the passengers of the fleet, 380 were Turks, 38 Greeks, 31 Britons, 30 Jordanians, 28 Algerians, French 9, 7 Irish, Italians and six 3 Canadians.

Some 682 people from 42 countries who were on board the fleet, 45 have been deported Monday and Tuesday. But the eviction process has accelerated Tuesday after the decision of the Israeli security cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Nétanyahou, To renew them at the border in 48 hours. “All foreign nationals who were on board the fleet and were arrested will be deported from Tuesday night”, Said a government statement.

According to Army Radio, 250 activists were being deported Wednesday. Some 120 people, mostly Algerians and Indonesians, have been to Jordan, while 60 Turks were at the airport Ben Gurion Tel Aviv, pending special flights to repatriate them. Seventy other Turkish nationals were on their way from the prison in Beersheba to the airport, the radio said. According to Army Radio, the latest eviction will take place Thursday. Most governments of countries whose nationals were on board ships had called for their immediate release. In addition, 48 foreign nationals were hospitalized in Israel, according to Israel Radio.

Palestinians seeking to establish their own state in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, as part of a future peace agreement with Israel, say they want their capital to be in Jerusalem.

Netanyahu’s comments on Thursday, at a ceremony marking Israel’s capture of Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East War, were in line with his election pledge to keep Jerusalem “united.”

“A united Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Jerusalem was and will always be ours. It shall never be divided and disunited again,” Netanyahu said at the ceremony.

Netanyahu, whose right-leaning coalition took office nearly two months ago, said that only Israeli sovereignty over a united Jerusalem would ensure free religious practice and access to holy sites by the three major faiths.

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Netanyahu’s position on Jerusalem was a setback to the goal of a two-state solution, which is strongly supported by the Obama administration.

“Mr. Netanyahu, by saying that, he’s saying the state of conflict will be eternal,” Erekat said.

Netanyahu wants talks with Palestinians to focus on shoring up their economy and improving security in the West Bank instead of tackling thorny issues like the status of Jerusalem, the fate of Palestinian refugees and final borders.

Palestinians reject this approach, saying the renewal of peace negotiations with Israel hinges on Netanyahu publicly endorsing Palestinian statehood and halting settlement activity.

The statement by Netanyahu on Jerusalem was similar to one made by Obama during last year’s U.S. presidential campaign.

In a speech to a pro-Israel lobby group last June, Obama said Jerusalem “will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.”

He later said Palestinians and Israelis had to negotiate the status of the city. “We don’t want barbed wire running through Jerusalem, similar to the way it was prior to the ‘67 war,” Obama explained.

Netanyahu wants talks with Palestinians to focus on shoring up their economy and improving security in the West Bank instead of tackling thorny issues like the status of Jerusalem, the fate of Palestinian refugees and final borders.

Palestinians reject this approach, saying the renewal of peace negotiations with Israel hinges on Netanyahu publicly endorsing Palestinian statehood and halting settlement activity.

The statement by Netanyahu on Jerusalem was similar to one made by Obama during last year’s U.S. presidential campaign.

In a speech to a pro-Israel lobby group last June, Obama said Jerusalem “will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.”

He later said Palestinians and Israelis had to negotiate the status of the city. “We don’t want barbed wire running through Jerusalem, similar to the way it was prior to the ‘67 war,” Obama explained.