Expelled West Bank Mayors Appeal
to Israel to Reverse Deportation Decision

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Mayors of Hebron and
Halhoul, Fand . Kawasme
and Mohammed Milhim,
appealed to the Supreme
Court Wednesday to reverse
the deportation orders
under which they were ex-
pelled from Israel-held
territory last May.
Their attorney, Felicia
Langer, submitted the ap-
peal after Premier
• Menahem Begin, in his
capacity of Defense Minis-
ter, refused to intervene.
Begin told Mayors
Rashad a-Shawa of Gaza
and Elias Friej of
Bethlehem that he could not
bypass the Surpeme Court
which will render the final
judgement in the case. He
promised that the govern-
ment would abide by what-
ever the high court decides.
A-Shawa and Friej
met with the premier for
an hour and 40 minutes
Tuesday in a vain at-
tempt to have him inter-
vene with the West Bank
military government
whose special review
board upheld the depor-
tation orders after de-
liberating over the
weekend.
The appeal to the Sup-
reme Court asked that the
state show cause why the
deportation orders should
not be reversed. Ms. Langer
claimed that the proceed-
ings of the military review
board were illegal because
the testimonies of the
mayors were not taken into
consideration. Their
eloquently expressed desire
for peace and co-existence
were ignored," she said.
Instead, the board ruled
on the basis of interviews
given by the two mayors
while traveling abroad after
their deportation whereas it
should have been limited to
the deportation order itself
which was carried out
summarily without the
hearing the appellants were
entitled to under Israeli
law, Langer said.

She accused the comman-
der of the West Bank, Maj.
Gen. Binyamin Ben-
Eliezer, of self-serving mo-
tives. He appointed the re-
view board in order to jus-
tify the expulsion and
thereby protect his own
prestige rather than to look
into its legality, Langer
charged.
The Supreme Court
was scheduled to begin
its consideration of the
appeal Thursday in what
is expected to be a long
judicial process, possibly
lasting for 2 weeks.
Kawasme and Milhim
were deported on May 2,
within hours of the ambush
killing of six yeshiva stu-
dents in Hebron by Palesti-
nian terrorists. While they
were not directly implicated
in the murders, the military
government contended that
their extreme nationalist,
anti-Israel public state-
ments created the climate
for the terrorist act.
The attorney reportedly
has not ruled out a final ap-
peal to Begin should the
Supreme Court decide
against them. Tuesday's
meeting with Begin by
Mayors a-Shawa and Friej
was the first time either of
them had been received in
the prime minister's office
in Jerusalem.

In the past, their dealings
with the Israeli government
were conducted through the
Defense Ministry office in
Tel Aviv.

Kawasme and Milhim,
who remain in custody
near the Allenby Bridge,
went on a hunger strike
Monday. A demonstra-
tion by their relatives
outside the prime minis-
ter's office was dispersed
without incident. Langer
said she would demand
that the two men be
transferred to a regular
place of detention where
they could receive medi-
cal attention.
Meanwhile, attempts by
their supporters to convince
the mayors in the occupied
territories to resign en
masse as a gesture of sol-
idarity with the deportees
have so far failed. Mayor Ib-
rahim Tawil of El Bireh
spoke by telephone Tuesday
to Mayors Bassam Shaka of
Nablus and Karim Khalaf
of Ramallah on the subject,
but apparently got no com-
mitment.

Relatives of the deportees
appealed in vain to Mayor
Friej to resign, but he re-
fused. Military government
officials are convinced that
there will be no mass resig-
nations because, they said,

the mayors know that this
time their resignations may
be accepted."

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