Jerusalem (AFP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he would not allow Israel to be “submerged” by refugees after calls for the Jewish state to take in those fleeing Syria’s war.
Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu also announced the start of construction of a fence along Israel’s border with Jordan, according to his office.
“We will not allow Israel to be submerged by a wave of illegal migrants and terrorist activists,” Netanyahu said.
“Israel is not indifferent to the human tragedy of Syrian and African refugees… but Israel is a small country — very small — without demographic or geographic depth. That is why we must control our borders.”
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog on Saturday said Israel should take in Syrian refugees, recalling the plight of Jews who sought refuge from past conflicts.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas also called for Israel to allow Palestinians from refugee camps in Syria to travel to the Palestinian territories, whose external borders are controlled by the Jewish state.
There is already hostility in Israel toward asylum-seekers from Africa and a concerted government effort to repatriate them.
Rights groups say thousands of African asylum seekers have been coerced into “voluntary” departures.
Official figures show 45,000 illegal immigrants are in Israel, almost all from Eritrea and Sudan. Most of those not in detention live in poor areas of southern Tel Aviv, where there have been several protests against them.
– ‘To the Golan heights’ –
The start of construction of the 30-kilometre (19-mile) fence announced by Netanyahu involves extension of a security barrier to part of its eastern border with Jordan in a bid to keep out militants and illegal migrants.
Netanyahu said when it was approved in June that the new fence was a continuation of a 240-kilometre barrier built along the Egyptian border which “blocked the entry of illegal migrants into Israel and the various terrorist movements”.
In its first stage, the new fence is being built along Israel’s eastern border between Eilat and where a new airport will be built in the Timna Valley.
“We will continue the fence up to the Golan Heights,” Netanyahu said.
That would take it into the Israeli-occupied West Bank along the Jordan Valley, an area which is already under Israeli military control but is claimed by the Palestinians as part of their state.
Israel has insisted on maintaining troops in the area in any final peace agreement, a stance completely rejected by the Palestinians who say it would be a violation of their sovereignty and merely perpetuate the occupation.
Israel also has a fence that runs along the Syrian frontier through the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Those fences are in addition to a barrier that runs through the West Bank, which Israel began building during the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, which lasted from 2000-2005.
Israel seized 1,200 square kilometres (460 square miles) of the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War and annexed it 14 years later, in a move never recognised by the international community.
http://news.yahoo.com/netanyahu-not-allow-israel-submerged-refugees-132526742.html
No surprise here. “Diversity is strength” only applies to the goyim. It’s to be a Jewish state for the Jews, Africa for the blacks, Mexico for the Mexicans, Asia for the Asians, and white countries for everybody. Anything else is “hate.” Is that about right, Satanyahu?
It should also be pointed out that the destabilization in the Middle East that gives rise to these wars and crises is almost invariably the result of overt or covert aggression by the US government, which itself is in the grip of Israel via its lobby and the neocon/Zionist fifth column.
This is funny. As the Zionists orchestrate the invasion of every sovereign country with foreigners, Israel, of course, has to be kept pure.
(Every European country is experiencing their own “wetback invasion” consisting mainly of Arabs, and it’s not just the Syrian refugees. It’s been going on for a decade there too).
Destroying everyone’s national identity is part of the New World Order scheme, and that’s most effectively done by diluting the population with foreigners of a different culture.
That’s the main reason the wetbacks have to go. What they cost in dollars is a pittance compared to what the Pentagon simply “loses” (not counting what it spends), but the real problem is that they’re of an entirely different culture, and they refuse to assimilate into ours. They’ll always be what makes us “a nation divided against itself”. America can’t exist with these wetbacks here, and that’s exactly WHY they’re here. (and why they have to go)
Practical Idealism – Richard Nicolaus Coudenhove Kalergi – (Praktischer Idealismus) – The Racist and Supremacist Roots of the European Union
http://balder.org/judea/Richard-Coudenhove-Kalergi-Practical-Idealism-Vienna-1925.php
Looks like aglobal plan now.
-flek