The World - News from June 7, 1988
The United States said that Palestinian-American activist Mubarak Awad was given due process in his appeal of a deportation order to Israel’s Supreme Court. But State Department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley said Washington continues to urge the Israeli government not to carry out the order, upheld by the court. A three-judge panel rejected Awad’s argument that as an Arab born in East Jerusalem, he had a right to live in that city. “We think he was given an opportunity to present his case in the Israeli courts,” Oakley told reporters.
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