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Nobel Peace Prize winner - State asserts that Irish pro-Palestinian activist Mairead Maguire "took the

law into her own hands" when she flew to Israel despite previous orders.

The state said on Sunday that 1976Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire took the law into herown hands when she flew to Israel last week, after having been told she would not be allowed into the

country because of deportation orders against her that are in effect until 2020.

The assertion came in the states response to an appeal by Maguire to the Supreme Court against a

lower court decision handed down on Friday, rejecting her first appeal against the deportation orders.

The court will convene on Monday to hear the caseand is expected to reach a verdict soon afterward.

The appellant chose toignore the prohibition imposed on her from entering Israel in accordance with

the deportation orders issued againsther, and also chose to ignore two letters sent to the organizer of

the delegation [of which Maguire was a member] by Foreign Ministry officials making it clear beyond

a doubt that her entry to Israel would be refused, wrote the states representative, attorney Hani Ofek.

Instead, the appellantdecidedto take the law into her own hands and establish facts on the ground by

showing up at Ben-Gurion International Airport, apparently thinking that such an act would give her

an advantage and lead toherbeing allowed to enter Israel, contrary to the law and the deportation

orders against her.

The first deportationorder against Maguire was issued on September 30, 2009, after she participated in

the voyage of the Arion, a vessel operated by Free Gaza that was trying to break the Israeli blockade

of the Gaza Strip. The order was to be in force for 10 years.

In June 2010, a few days after the incident in which Israeli commandos stopped the Mavi Marmara on

its way to Gaza, Maguire participated in the voyage of the MV RachelCorrie, which also tried to breakthe blockade. She was brought to Israel and issued another deportation order, this one in effect until

2020.

Despite these orders, Maguire intended to co-lead a delegationorganized by the Nobel Womens

Initiative to Israel and the West Bank from September 28 to October 6. In February, the organizer of

the delegation, Liz Bernstein, informed the government of the planned trip and expressed concern that

Maguire would not be allowed to enter the country.

A Foreign Ministry official made it clear that Bernstein was right.

Ms. Maguire haddeliberately chosen to take part in an illegal clash with Israeli authorities when she

decided to embark on the so-called Free Gaza boat, the Foreign Ministry wrote. The expedition hadnothing to do with human rights or humanitarian assistance. Rather, it reinforced the iron grip on Gaza

by Hamas...

By disregarding internationalagreements between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which confer

on Israel the responsibility to secure Gaza waters, and by attempting to ram their way through to

terrorist-occupied Gaza... The boats crew have infringed on Israeli and international law. This

unfortunate, self-imposed situation now makes it impossible for us to intervene in favor of changing

Ms. Maguires legal position in the eyes of Israeli law.

In July, after the second incident involving the RachelCorrie, Bernstein again asked the Foreign

Ministry to help obtain an entry visa for Maguire. Once again, the ministry refused.

Maguire arrived at Ben-Gurion on September 28 and wasimmediatelybarred from entering the

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country. However, she refused to leave on the next flight and sat down in front of the gangway to the

plane.

The case came before the Supreme Court, which ordered the Central District Court to hear her appeal

against the deportation. On Thursday, the court rejected her appeal.

However, before Maguire could be deported, she appealed to the Supreme Court against the lower

court ruling. In the meantime, she has been held in a special lockup for people who have entered the

country illegally and are due to be expelled.

Maguire is represented in her fight to overturn the deportation orders by the Haifa-based Adalah The

Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.