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September 19th, 2017 
Awake Goy After it came under Israeli pressure, United State is to deport 70-year-old Palestinian woman from Chicago to Jordan on Tuesday, spokesman said.
Supporters and community activists plan to gather at O’Hare Airport’s international terminal before Rasmea Odeh, 70, departs for Jordan, said Hatem Abudayyeh, coordinator of her defence committee.
Odeh pleaded guilty in April to concealing her convictions when she applied for US citizenship in Detroit in 2004. Her record, which is based on Israeli lies and false claims, would have disqualified her from entering the US a decade earlier.
In 1970, Odeh was convicted of two bombings in Jerusalem, including one that killed two young men at a supermarket. However, she insists she was tortured into confessing by the brutal Israeli military.
She was sentenced to life in Israeli prison but was released in 1979 as part of a prisoner swap with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
With family in Michigan, Odeh applied for a US visa in 1994 and in 2004 she applied for US citizenship.
After Israeli pressure, Odeh was convicted by an American court of lying and sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2014, but the verdict was overturned.
She chose to make a deal with the government rather than face a second trial.
Odeh did not serve any time in prison after pleading guilty, but due to the Israeli effect on the American judiciary, she lost her citizenship and must leave the US.
In Chicago, Odeh was associate director of the Arab American Action Network, which provides social services and education. She is widely respected for her work with immigrants, especially Arab women.
Source Article from http://www.daysofpalestine.com/news/pushed-israel-us-deports-elderly-palestinian-woman/
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