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author: Eyal
First, not all fourty-seven of them were intenationals. They weren't going to deport the Israelis and Palestinians.
Actually one of the main reasons that they weren't deported was because this was a large number of arrestees, mixed with Israelis who advocated for them and made the whole arrest incident into an international media event.
If one looks at the pattern of deportation, they do it with very small numbers at a time, usually individuals, which make less of a media wave (if the media picks it up at all).
Mas'ha was the exception, not the rule, but you know that to be the truth.
Second, there is a qualitative difference between disbarring entry and actively deporting an individual that is already here.
Daniela, please tell me truthfully (you say that truth is above all), can you really say to me with a straight (virtual) face that if those international protestors who were detained at Mas'ha, and were eventually released, would have been allowed into the country if at the airport or at the brigde, they would have said: "I am coming to Israel to enter the occupied West Bank and do non-violent protests against the path of the security fence and against Israeli military house demolitions."
For your previous comment to be valid (equating release of the internationals without deportation with allowing them in the country if they said what they were going to do) the authorities at the border and airports would have to allow them in under these conditions.
You and I both know that they would not have been let in, so stop with the nonsense, b'emet...