Author: Kobo-Daishi
Date: 06-04-12 18:02
Dear all,
The following is a June 4, 2012 article titled "African migrants hurt in Jerusalem 'arson attack'" found at the BBC News web site:
Four African migrants have been hurt in a suspected arson attack on their home in Jerusalem, Israeli police say.
The fire was started at the entrance to the two-storey building on Jaffa Street in the city centre after 03:00 (00:00 GMT), trapping the 10 Eritreans inside.
Graffiti found at the scene read: "We want the foreigners out."
There is increasing argument and dissent in Israel over what to do with the 60,000 Africans who have entered the country illegally in recent years.
On Sunday, a new law came into force allowing immigration authorities to detain illegal migrants for up to three years.
'Targeted specifically'
The four Eritreans injured in Monday's attack were taken to hospital with burns on their hands and suffering from smoke inhalation.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme: "We believe that those individuals from the African foreign community were targeted specifically."
He said the building had graffiti sprayed on its walls saying: "We want the foreigners out."
In recent weeks there have been violent scenes in Israeli towns and cities where many migrants live and work, reports the BBC's Wyre Davies in Jerusalem.
In south Tel Aviv, in particular, African-run businesses have been attacked and many migrants have been abused in the streets, our correspondent adds.
"This was the first incident which has taken place... on a level of a specific attack," Mr Rosenfeld said.
The police spokesman said that of the 60,000 illegal immigrants living in Israel, an estimated 35,000 of them lived in the Tel Aviv area and about 5,000 in Jerusalem.
'Infiltrators'
In a newspaper interview on Friday, Interior Minister Eli Yishai referred to African migrants as a demographic threat who could "end the Zionist dream".
"We don't need to import more problems from Africa," Mr Yishai, leader of the religious Shas party, told Maariv.
"Most of those people arriving here are Muslims who think the country doesn't belong to us, the white man."
One politician from the governing Likud Party recently compared asylum seekers to "a cancer."
While such language has been deplored by human rights groups, politicians from right-wing parties in the governing coalition say something has to be done about illegal immigrants who are mainly from Sudan, South Sudan and Eritrea, our correspondent says.
They blame the migrants for a rise in crime and say they could eventually undermine Israel's Jewish majority.
The Israeli government also dismisses claims that the migrants, who cross the Sinai desert at the rate of 2,000 a month, are fleeing persecution in their own countries.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently described African migrants as "infiltrators" who had come here for economic reasons and who were a problem that had to be "solved".
The new law will allow immigration authorities to detain illegal migrants for up to three years, without trial or deportation.
An interior ministry spokesman said it would hopefully stem the flow of Africans entering Israel illegally across the vast desert border with Egypt.
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The article may be found at the following link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18322416
Interesting bits from the article:
Graffiti found at the scene read: "We want the foreigners out."
There is increasing argument and dissent in Israel over what to do with the 60,000 Africans who have entered the country illegally in recent years.
On Sunday, a new law came into force allowing immigration authorities to detain illegal migrants for up to three years.
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In south Tel Aviv, in particular, African-run businesses have been attacked and many migrants have been abused in the streets, our correspondent adds.
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The police spokesman said that of the 60,000 illegal immigrants living in Israel, an estimated 35,000 of them lived in the Tel Aviv area and about 5,000 in Jerusalem.
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In a newspaper interview on Friday, Interior Minister Eli Yishai referred to African migrants as a demographic threat who could "end the Zionist dream".
"We don't need to import more problems from Africa," Mr Yishai, leader of the religious Shas party, told Maariv.
"Most of those people arriving here are Muslims who think the country doesn't belong to us, the white man."
One politician from the governing Likud Party recently compared asylum seekers to "a cancer."
While such language has been deplored by human rights groups, politicians from right-wing parties in the governing coalition say something has to be done about illegal immigrants who are mainly from Sudan, South Sudan and Eritrea, our correspondent says.
They blame the migrants for a rise in crime and say they could eventually undermine Israel's Jewish majority.
The Israeli government also dismisses claims that the migrants, who cross the Sinai desert at the rate of 2,000 a month, are fleeing persecution in their own countries.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently described African migrants as "infiltrators" who had come here for economic reasons and who were a problem that had to be "solved".
The new law will allow immigration authorities to detain illegal migrants for up to three years, without trial or deportation.
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A new law allowing immigration authorities to detain illegal migrants for up to three years, without trial or deportation?
Reminds me of the American law allowing arrest of anyone suspected of terrorism to be detained indefinitely without trial. ;-0
Will Africans one day end up the largest prison population in Israel? Kind of like America's current prison population? ;=0
Human rights my aZZ. ;-0
African migrants a threat to the "Zionist dream"?
Is this a new "I have a dream" speech?
I have a dream, an Israel free of Africans? ;-0
The Africans are mainly from Sudan, South Sudan and Eritrea?
Wasn't it Israel's client state, America, the one who destabilized Sudan as a part of her war on terror, at the behest of her mostly Jewish neo-con faction, in the first place?
Blowback?
It sure would be ironic if their actions eventually lead to Israel no longer being a Jewish-majority state.
The African asylum-seekers are a "cancer" with most of them being Muslims who think the country doesn't belong to the white man?
Jews are white? I thought Semitic people were more tanned than that. ;-)
Besides isn't the land of Israel the land god promised the Jews?
I remember someone posting that the Abrahamic religions are teaming up to surround the Dharmic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism. ;-0
Didn't the Muslims get the memo from god? ;-0
The Israeli government dismisses claims that the migrants, who cross the Sinai desert at the rate of 2,000 a month, are fleeing persecution in their own countries? Saying they're economic migrants?
Kind of reminds Kobo of China and the North Koreans. ;-0
The Chinese say the North Korean are economic migrants escaping poverty. The US & South Korea say that they are asylum seekers escaping political persecution. ;-0
Will the US and South Korea go to bat for these Africans in Israel? ;-0
I remember how when Obama was elected president, people in Africa rejoiced. They thought he would turn his attention to the continent and help alleviate the suffering. ;-0
Will he step up and advocate for these African asylum seekers? ;-0
Will Senator Lieberman who recently criticized China on the South China Sea along with Senator McCain speak out for these Africans?
Kobo-Daishi, PLLA.
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