Israel to build internment camp for African refugees

Al Jazeera reports that Israel’s cabinet has voted to create a detention center in the Negev desert to house thousands of illegal immigrants who arrive each year, mostly from Africa.

Israeli officials have not said how many migrants already in Israel would be sent to the facility, which is expected to be built at or near the site of a former prison camp for Palestinians.

“We aren’t jailing or distancing them,” [Eyal] Gabai [the director-general of Netanyahu’s office] said. “They can have a good time, eat and drink. Not everyone who arrives in Israel must be allowed to work here.”

“Coming up with an asylum and immigration policy may mean having to absorb tens of thousands of non-Jewish refugees, threatening the character of the Jewish state”

He said Israel was seeking to avoid “unreasonable action” such as deporting migrants, which could put their lives in danger.

“This is a huge issue here and one that is getting bigger month by month,” Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros, reporting from Jerusalem, said.

“On one hand, [Israel] can’t be sending refugees and asylum seekers back because of their legal obligations under international conventions.

“On the other hand, coming up with an asylum and immigration policy may mean having to absorb tens of thousands of these non-Jewish refugees, threatening the Jewish character of the state.”

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4 thoughts on “Israel to build internment camp for African refugees

  1. Ian Arbuckle

    “…to absorb tens of thousands of non-Jewish refugees, threatening the character of the Jewish state”

    What is wrong with Jewishness that it cannot stand beside any other culture without being threatened. When they figure that one out they will be able to see the world with a bigger perspective than this pathetic dichotomy of “them” and “us”; they will be able to solve their differences with the Palestinians and others from whom they have stolen life and land, and they will grow up from the band of Zionist terrorists, which they still are today and graduate to become a legitimate member of the international community of nations.

    A Jewishness that cannot stand on its own in the diversity of human ethnologies without recourse to an illegally nuclear and biologically armed rogue terrorist state entity built in its name on the back of ethnic cleansing, apartheid and terror to protect it, must brings into question its basic legitimacy and that of the state that needs such a theology or tribalism for its its “raison d’etre” and identity.

  2. Norman

    This starts to give meaning as to why the American Jews live in the U.S. instead of Israel & why the U.S. government continuously provides aid. It’s because they don’t want the Zionist’s here in the U.S., so they pay protection money to keep them out. Once the leaders of Israel figured out that they could Blackmail the U.S. and the rest of the Western countries, by having the undeclared Nuclear bomb, the game was lost for the World. No one is willing to call its bluff. If they do have the bomb, and there’s no reason to believe they don’t, then it’s easy for them to incinerate the Middle East, rendering Millions of deaths & the destruction of the oil producing countries. The rhetoric that Israel is the U.S. Allie, is being shown to be just that, rhetoric. The so called settlements in the Negev desert where once a Palestinian prison was located, because of the threat to the Jewish purity, then it will again become one for the Palestinians also. The rosy picture of the refugees being able to eat & drink & have a good time, will the same showers be there also, like the ones the Nazi’s installed in the concentration camps? The U.S. officials are acting just as Chamberlain did, when Britain appeased Hitler. When American Jews visit Israel and are harassed, beaten up, even killed by the native Israeli youth, then who is going to contain those members of the Israeli population? Time to unhitch the wagon from Israel by the U.S.A if it’s not too late.

  3. Renfro

    “This starts to give meaning as to why the American Jews live in the U.S. instead of Israel & why the U.S. government continuously provides aid. It’s because they don’t want the Zionist’s here in the U.S., so they pay protection money to keep them out'”

    Er…..it’s the US Jewish zionist already here in the US, that have been here since Truman’s time, that are responsible for the holocaust racket and Israel and the US-Isr ponzi scheme.

  4. DrTim AdamsThD

    These Allegations need Further Attention!

    We often See the U. S. Act in FAVOR of MONEY, Racial and Ethnic FAVORITES and Special Interests that DO NOT Provide for EQUAL or FAIR Treatment of the

    Majority of People in Countries Such sa HAITI, or in the Carribbean or AFRICA!

    We United States Citizens are MADE to PAY Billions of Dollars to Countries Such as ISRAEL, While ISRAEL SEEKS today, November 29th, to PLACE only

    African Immigrants in Ghetto Slum Holding Cell Areas Called Sttlements where Starvation, Poverty, Illneses of all kind will kill the Immigrants from the SUDAN and Similar WAR ZONES in AFRICA! These RACIST ACTIONS are RAMPANT among our Brothers and Sisters around the Globe at the HANDS of So-CALLEd ALLIES; who feed from our African American TAX DOLLARS!

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