Israel Builds Another Barrier, This One To Bar Illegal African Immigrants

[Scurrilous]

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"Seven years after starting work on the controversial West Bank security barrier, Israel has decided to build another barrier — along its border with Egypt.

In March, the Cabinet approved a plan to seal Israel’s southwest border, which is currently secured only by patrols and monitoring devices. Egypt has not raised any objection.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presented the decision as necessary to protect Israel’s Jewish majority. In statements released by his office, he argued that the problem with Israel’s southwest border is that, since it is one of the few places where people journeying on foot from Africa can enter a Western country, many Africans go there to sneak into Israel.

Since 2005, there has been an influx of Africans to Israel, the vast majority of them Sudanese and Eritreans. Upward of 15,000 Sudanese and Eritreans have reached Israel via Egypt, according to politicians who decry the situation and to activists who defend the entrants. Police estimate that there are currently 100 to 200 illegal immigrants a week. Many leave Egypt out of a fear of deportation by the authorities — a practice highlighted by Human Rights Watch."

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"Netanyahu has strong support for the plan on the political right. Yaakov Katz, a lawmaker with the right-wing National Union party, told the Forward that he considers sealing the southwest border “a million times more important” than the conflict with the Palestinians, given the project’s long-term ramifications for the state. “In the last 100 years, the Jewish people has built here a Jewish state. Within 10 years infiltrators could cause this to go down the drain,” Katz, chair of the Knesset’s Committee on Foreign Workers, said in a statement.

He estimated that within six to seven years, there will be 100,000 illegal immigrants in Tel Aviv, and he titled his statement, “Residents of Tel Aviv — Wake Up!” He wrote: “Is this what we wanted when we built Tel Aviv? That it should be an African City?"

http://forward.com/articles/127071/

[azurnoir]

1. One wonders if the Israeli government wll take Yaakov Katz's

suggestion for a solution to the "African problem" in Israel as to what to do with any illegals that may get in prior to the walls completion

Katz claimed that Israel will experience a rush of illegal infiltrators ahead of the sealing of the border, and called for the establishment of a city especially for them, where they would be assigned construction work. Their tasks would be a “burden” and cause them to advise relatives not to come to Israel.

as to the wall itself hardly a surprise

[provis99]

2. so Katz wants to build a ghetto for them?

Oh, that is rich. Ethnic cleansing, building ghettoes for undesirable "others", paranoid bigotry, a master race mentality, a country full of oppressive police and soldiers; am I talking about modern Israel, or a certain European country of the early-mid 20th Century?

[aquart]

3. Whereas your Israel would..........

....not exist?