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stood, the peace talks were
_ finished.
1 Voices blasting the depor-
tations were also loudly
>
heard in Israel.
"You can be for the depor-
tation or against it," wrote
Yoel Marcus of Ha' aretz, but
there's no arguing that the
entire move has gone awry
and landed back on us like a
boomerang. It's hard to
understand how people so
°dedicated to peace could
make so many mistakes in
so short a time."
' For people around the
world, the pictures of the 415
llamas and Islamic Jihad
deportees driven into the
Tock-strewn no-man's land of
south Lebanon at the height
of winter may be the sum
and substance of the story.
But it is far more corn-
-i-, plicated.
What may well go down in
2 .Israeli history as "the depor-
tation affair" essentially
' boils down to two issues: the
precarious balance between
the needs of security and the
rule of law in a democratic
state, and the efficacy of
, - deportation as a tool for

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The mass
deportation
answered the
public's angry
demands for action
against escalating
terror.

- enhancing security or
-„ achieving long-range polit-
ical goals.
' Deportation has been used
as punitive measure in the
occupied territories since
September 1967. In all, some
1,266 Palestinians have
been expelled (this includes
f the 415, plus 66 others
deported since the start of
the intifada). Although Arti-
cle 49 of the Fourth Geneva
Convention (to which Israel
,., is a signatory) prohibits
"individual or mass forcible
transfers," Israel's High
Court of Justice has never
ruled against a deportation,
on the technical ground that
the Geneva Convention is
- ,not on the Israeli statute
books.
However, when brought
. into the picture, the court
has required the govern-
ment to stick to the rules,
which gives deportees the
right to appeal expulsion
' before a special military ad-
visory board and, if that

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