Το Ισραήλ παίρνει αποφασιστικά μέτρα εναντίον των παράνομων
Ο υπ. Εσωτερικών του Ισραήλ Eli Yishai επαίνεσε την δικαστική απόφαση λέγοντας « είναι το πρώτο βήμα για την απέλαση όλων των λαθραίων (από το Ισραήλ)».
Σύμφωνα με το δημοσίευμα, η διαδικασία θα είναι χρονοβόρα και δύσκολη, υπάρχουν δυσκολίες στην απέλαση των Αφρικανών αυτών το 40% των οποίων προέρχεται από την Ερυθραία όπου τα Ηνωμένα Έθνη υποστηρίζουν ότι απέλασή τους θα θέσει σε κίνδυνο τη ζωή τους και το 30% προέρχεται από το Σουδάν, η οποία είναι εχθρική χώρα.
Σύμφωνα με τον υπ. Εσωτερικών της χώρας και όπως μεταδίδει η Jerusalem Post, υπάρχουν περίπου 35,000 μετανάστες από την Ερυθραία και 15,000 από το Σουδάν. Παραδέχθηκε ότι δεν μπορούν να απελαθούν όλοι, όμως, είπε, μέχρι που όλοι οι μετανάστες φύγουν από το Ισραήλ, θα συνεχίζει να υποστηρίζει την ανέγερση περιφραγμένης πόλης με διευκολύνσεις για την κράτησή τους, ούτως ώστε να μην σκορπιστούν στις πόλεις παντού στο Ισραήλ.
«Αυτός δεν είναι πόλεμος εναντίον των λαθραίων, αλλά πόλεμος για την διατήρηση του Ζιονιστικού και Εβραικού ονείρου στη γή του Ισραήλ».
Ο δε πρωθυπουργός του Ισραήλ Benyamin Netanyahu σε υπουργική σύσκεψη μετά την δικαστική απόφαση, ανακοίνωση ότι παίρνονται μέτρα για να ξεκινήσει η αντίστροφη μέτρηση και το ξεκίνημα για τη λύση του προβλήματος με τους παράνομους μετανάστες.
Η απόφαση της κυβέρνησης του Ισραήλ είναι όπως οι παράνομοι κρατούνται σε συγκεκριμένο μέρος μόλις περάσουν τα σύνορα της χώρας και να μην τους επιτρέπεται η πρόσβαση σε καμία πόλη του Ισραήλ. Και το πρώτο βήμα της πολιτικής αυτής είναι όπως τιμωρούνται οι εργοδότες που δίνουν δουλειά στους μετανάστες αυτούς.
Ο Netanyahu, γράφει το δημοσίευμα, είπε ότι ο υπ. Εσωτερικών ετοιμάζει το υπουργείο του για τις απελάσεις και παράλληλα άλλα υπουργεία θα συνεργαστούν με την Αστυνομία των Συνόρων για να συλληφθούν οι εγκληματίες μεταξύ των μεταναστών στο Τέλ Αβίβ, ενώ ο υπ. Άμυνας θα αρχίσει την ανοικοδόμηση των διευκολύνσεων χωρητικότητας 20,000 Αφρικανών μεταναστών ενόψει της απέλασής τους. Παράλληλα επισπεύδεται το τοίχος στα σύνορα με την Αίγυπτο, το 95% του οποίου αναμένεται να τελειώσει μέχρι τον Οκτώβριο. Μέχρι στιγμής έχουν κτιστεί τα 170 από τα 240 χιλιόμετρα του τοίχους.
Φανούλα Αργυρού - Λονδίνο 10.6.2012
http://geopolitics-gr.blogspot.com/2012/06/blog-post_2757.html
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=273137
Διαβάστε καί εδώ / Read also this:
Israel to African immigrants: ‘You’re not welcome here’
Written by: La'Kitgum on
28th May 2012
Simon Allison, Daily Maverick, May 28, 2012
Israel: The one country with a Western economy Africans can reach on foot is is telling them they are not welcome,
There’s a problem in Israel, and for once it doesn’t have much to do
with Palestine. Instead, right-wing Israelis have found a new target:
black African immigrants, otherwise known as the ‘cancer’ that threatens
to “destroy our country”.
Tel Aviv is known as Israel’s liberal capital. But it’s not that
liberal, though parts of it are wildly left-wing compared to the rest of
the country. Thousands of people marched in Tel Aviv demanding that
Africans return to Africa, and their views are being echoed at the
highest levels. Here you’ll see gay couples walking hand in hand,
beaches where no one even attempts modesty and a proliferation of
non-kosher restaurants. Strolling along the city’s Red Sea promenade,
it’s easy to forget that all those big issues that would define modern
Israel: Palestine, Zionism, religion, the Holocaust.
But, perhaps befitting a city that prides itself on its European
rather than Middle Eastern feel, Tel Aviv is experiencing a distinctly
European phenomenon: A vicious, visceral backlash against immigrants and
immigration, aimed squarely at the black Africans who once found refuge
in Israel.
On Wednesday, thousands of people attended a rally with a simple
message: Immigrants, get out. Haaretz journalist David Sheen reported
that demonstrators chanted “The people demand the expulsion of the
infiltrators”, “We have come to expunge the darkness”, and “Tel Aviv is
for Jews. Sudan is for Sudanese.”
Sudanese immigrants came in for particular abuse. Mostly from
southern Sudan, tens of thousands of Sudanese fled to Israel to escape
the long and brutal civil war in their own country. But now their place
of refuge is turning against them, and against the Eritreans and
Ethiopians who together make up the bulk of African immigration into
Israel.
Almost inevitably given the potent mix of fear and hate, the
demonstration turned violent, and at least 12 black men and women were
attacked by the crowd. A grocery store servicing migrants was trashed,
and one white, Jewish woman, who bravely disagreed with the
demonstration’s sentiments, was told she deserved to be raped.
This
kind of response to immigration is not unique to Israel. As Kevin Bloom
pointed out in the Daily Maverick on Wednesday, xenophobia and
anti-immigrant feeling is rife across Europe, North America and here in
South Africa. But Israel, he argues, gets into more trouble because
established media tends to view everything Israel does with suspicion.
He has a point; the rhetoric about immigrants stealing jobs, bringing
down property prices and in general being a drain on society is familiar
no matter where the problem arises.
But there is a subtle difference to Israeli complaints about
immigrants, one that is enunciated even at government level. Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warned recently that “illegal infiltrators
flooding the country” posed an existential threat to Israel itself: “If
we don’t stop their entry, the problem that currently stands at 60,000
could grow to 600,000 and that threatens our existence as a Jewish and
democratic state,” he said.
Interior minister Eli Yishai, told an audience in April “There is no
place in the world as good for foreign workers as the state of Israel”.
This comment is not intended positively; he says foreign workers are
treated too well, arguing that they should be denied maternity leave and
forced to return to their own country to have babies. Because –
obviously – foreign babies jeopardise national security. As he explained
in a previous comment from 2009, immigrants’ children are “liable to
damage the state’s Jewish identity, constitute a demographic threat and
increase the danger of assimilation”.
The underlying theme in all this is a fear that Israel’s identity is
being diluted and that the country’s Jewishness – the identity that
defines the state itself – will be fatally undermined. There are
parallels to this in Israel’s relationship with Palestine and
Palestinians. A recent court decision denied Israeli Arabs the right to
live in Israel with their spouses from the Palestinian territories, with
one of the judges describing the consequences of allowing such
cross-border cohabitation as akin to “national suicide”.
Israel’s fear of immigrants, be they Palestinian or African, is
intrinsically linked to their fears for the future of Israel. In this
it’s not unlike apartheid South Africa, where – according to blogger Ben
White, who dug up some old headlines – the ‘national suicide’ line
about protecting the purity of the governing race was used. Read the
National Party’s 1948 statement justifying apartheid: “…either we must
follow the course of equality, which must eventually mean national
suicide for the white race, or we must take the course of separation”.
If this sounds eerily similar to the phrasing used by Israeli
politicians today, it’s because both apartheid South Africa and Israel
are countries founded on a specific identity – whiteness in South
Africa’s case, and Jewishness for Israel. Any threat to this identity
through assimilation, integration and dilution is more than just a
cultural or social challenge. Instead, it is an attack on the state,
which must respond.
Israel’s response so far has been to up the pace and scope of
deportations and to begin construction on the world’s largest detention
centre for asylum seekers and illegal immigrants. Some politicians would
have the country opt for more extreme measures, such as fencing off all
its borders and physically preventing people from entering its
territory – a measure already in place on the border between Israel and
the Palestinian West Bank. But the experience of countries such as the
US, Italy, France and Britain shows there is not much anyone can do to
stop a determined immigrant, fleeing poverty or conflict for the dream
of a better, safer life.
Instead, Israel should probably work on a solution that doesn’t
involve trying to dam the flood or turn back the river. As Steven Klein
wrote for Haaretz: “The best way forward is to accept our new burden as a
reality and learn from the lessons of Europe’s failed detention
facility policies. The sad reality is Israel’s leaders are too
xenophobic to see that their policy is the true long-term threat to the
effort to manage the migrant issue.” DM http://str8talkchronicle.com/?p=23223
