The previous penalty for a Palestinian selling land to Jews was temporary forced labor. But Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas just made that look like a walk in the park, declaring the new penalty to be life in prison with forced labor. Not only that, he’s declared that anyone who does it is an “enemy of Allah and his messenger” and should be shunned by all Muslims.
I think I can hear the bells of peace on the horizon!
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Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas has announced a decree that any Palestinian who sells land “to a hostile country or its citizens” is now punished with “life imprisonment with forced labor”:
“[Abbas] instituted life imprisonment with forced labor for the clandestine transfer, leasing or selling of lands to a hostile country or its citizens. The previous penalty for the duplicitous transfer of land was temporary forced labor.”
[Official PA TV, Oct. 21, 2014]The [Palestinian] Supreme Fatwa Council, chaired by the PA Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, added that selling land to “the enemy” not only violates PA law but violates Islamic law as well:
“The Council designated anyone selling Palestinian real estate to the
enemy a traitor to Allah and His Messenger, as well as to his religion and homeland, and [decreed that] he is to be shunned by all Muslims.”
[Official PA TV, Oct. 23, 2014]