Israel tells refugees to go back to Africa or to prison. We didn't do that to Jews fleeing Hitler.

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Anonymous wrote:Israel has immigration laws like any other country. When those laws are broken, there are consequences. Such as deportation. What is the issue here? African immigrants are overwhelming Europe. Israel is giving them money to start somewhere else. To get from Nigeria to Israel you have to go through Chad and Egypt. Why don't they stay there if they are escaping prosecution?

Agreed. And why choose 'horrific' Israel? I mean, Israel is a terrorist nation according to DCUM.

The issue is the hypocrisy of being a country created to take in political refugees, and then deporting political refugees. In the 80s I worked for student groups that met with congress to persuade them to pressure the Soviets to release Jews to migrate to Israel. I felt bad for those Soviet Jews. So for me, the hypocrisy is apparent. It was never about whether these people were deserving of a peaceful place to live, or whether they were oppressed. It was all about raising the number of Jews vs. Muslims.

You'd feel even worse if you were one of these Soviet Jews on the receiving end of Israeli propaganda through the aliya outreach that sold them the notion of "land without people, people without land, y'all come". The existence of Palestinians and their claim to the land was never acknowledged except in passing as "these animals to whom we give jobs". The Soviet Jews were all enamored with the country that invited them to come in, gave them housing, jobs, schools - oh, by the way, these houses are likely to be in the occupied territories, but it doesn't matter, the land is all ours anyway. This is why former USSR Israelis are some of the most rabid right-wingers. The idea of Israel they've been sold simply does not include Palestinians, and they are fighting to preserve this idea. Feel sorry for them.

It was a country created for Jews hence to take in Jewish refugees. It was not created for Soviet Jews. Let's not pretend that the reason these African migrants are choosing Israel has nothing to do with the fact that Israel is the most economically secure and tolerant in the region. What other country gives $3500 to illegal immigrants? Israel is tiny there is no way it can welcome everyone who comes.

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Anonymous wrote:Israel has immigration laws like any other country. When those laws are broken, there are consequences. Such as deportation. What is the issue here? African immigrants are overwhelming Europe. Israel is giving them money to start somewhere else. To get from Nigeria to Israel you have to go through Chad and Egypt. Why don't they stay there if they are escaping prosecution?

Agreed. And why choose 'horrific' Israel? I mean, Israel is a terrorist nation according to DCUM.

The issue is the hypocrisy of being a country created to take in political refugees, and then deporting political refugees. In the 80s I worked for student groups that met with congress to persuade them to pressure the Soviets to release Jews to migrate to Israel. I felt bad for those Soviet Jews. So for me, the hypocrisy is apparent. It was never about whether these people were deserving of a peaceful place to live, or whether they were oppressed. It was all about raising the number of Jews vs. Muslims.

You'd feel even worse if you were one of these Soviet Jews on the receiving end of Israeli propaganda through the aliya outreach that sold them the notion of "land without people, people without land, y'all come". The existence of Palestinians and their claim to the land was never acknowledged except in passing as "these animals to whom we give jobs". The Soviet Jews were all enamored with the country that invited them to come in, gave them housing, jobs, schools - oh, by the way, these houses are likely to be in the occupied territories, but it doesn't matter, the land is all ours anyway. This is why former USSR Israelis are some of the most rabid right-wingers. The idea of Israel they've been sold simply does not include Palestinians, and they are fighting to preserve this idea. Feel sorry for them.

It was a country created for Jews hence to take in Jewish refugees. It was not created for Soviet Jews. Let's not pretend that the reason these African migrants are choosing Israel has nothing to do with the fact that Israel is the most economically secure and tolerant in the region. What other country gives $3500 to illegal immigrants? Israel is tiny there is no way it can welcome everyone who comes.

France, Germany, Canada, Italy.

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It's not about what the US did. It's about the fact that Israel should really be more understanding instead of self-serving as they generally are.

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All of you, pls read about the refugee convention that came out of WWII and international obligations to protect people fleeing persecution. Asylum seekers and refugees are different than economic migrants; states' obligations are different.

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America did do this to the Jews during the Holocaust. As did many other countries. Doesn't make it any better of course but still the US fucked up royally there.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you, pls read about the refugee convention that came out of WWII and international obligations to protect people fleeing persecution. Asylum seekers and refugees are different than economic migrants; states' obligations are different.

True. And, this is why the Obama administration tries to label everyone crossing our southern border as “refugees.”
Perhaps this is why the concept of a refugee holds little meaning now.

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Anonymous wrote:Israel has immigration laws like any other country. When those laws are broken, there are consequences. Such as deportation. What is the issue here? African immigrants are overwhelming Europe. Israel is giving them money to start somewhere else. To get from Nigeria to Israel you have to go through Chad and Egypt. Why don't they stay there if they are escaping prosecution?

Actually, most are coming from Eritrea and Sudan by sea. They don't have to go through any other countries. Look at a map.

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Anonymous wrote:America did do this to the Jews during the Holocaust. As did many other countries. Doesn't make it any better of course but still the US fucked up royally there.

It was the racist right wingers in this country then and it is the racist right wingers in Israel doing it today.

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Anonymous wrote:America did do this to the Jews during the Holocaust. As did many other countries. Doesn't make it any better of course but still the US fucked up royally there.

Oh please, without American doughboys running into machine gun nest after nest of the wehrmacht there wouldn't be 90% of the jews in israel there are now.

This is precisely what I mean by a lack of appreciation.

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Anonymous wrote:Israel has immigration laws like any other country. When those laws are broken, there are consequences. Such as deportation. What is the issue here? African immigrants are overwhelming Europe. Israel is giving them money to start somewhere else. To get from Nigeria to Israel you have to go through Chad and Egypt. Why don't they stay there if they are escaping prosecution?

Agreed. And why choose 'horrific' Israel? I mean, Israel is a terrorist nation according to DCUM.

The issue is the hypocrisy of being a country created to take in political refugees, and then deporting political refugees. In the 80s I worked for student groups that met with congress to persuade them to pressure the Soviets to release Jews to migrate to Israel. I felt bad for those Soviet Jews. So for me, the hypocrisy is apparent. It was never about whether these people were deserving of a peaceful place to live, or whether they were oppressed. It was all about raising the number of Jews vs. Muslims.

You'd feel even worse if you were one of these Soviet Jews on the receiving end of Israeli propaganda through the aliya outreach that sold them the notion of "land without people, people without land, y'all come". The existence of Palestinians and their claim to the land was never acknowledged except in passing as "these animals to whom we give jobs". The Soviet Jews were all enamored with the country that invited them to come in, gave them housing, jobs, schools - oh, by the way, these houses are likely to be in the occupied territories, but it doesn't matter, the land is all ours anyway. This is why former USSR Israelis are some of the most rabid right-wingers. The idea of Israel they've been sold simply does not include Palestinians, and they are fighting to preserve this idea. Feel sorry for them.

It was a country created for Jews hence to take in Jewish refugees. It was not created for Soviet Jews. Let's not pretend that the reason these African migrants are choosing Israel has nothing to do with the fact that Israel is the most economically secure and tolerant in the region. What other country gives $3500 to illegal immigrants? Israel is tiny there is no way it can welcome everyone who comes.

Gifted is the more accurate term.

And lets be brutally honest here - it was created for lightly swarthy and "white" jews. As it is well known and has been mentioned, Israelis HATE ethiopian jews.

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Anonymous wrote:Israel has immigration laws like any other country. When those laws are broken, there are consequences. Such as deportation. What is the issue here? African immigrants are overwhelming Europe. Israel is giving them money to start somewhere else. To get from Nigeria to Israel you have to go through Chad and Egypt. Why don't they stay there if they are escaping prosecution?

Agreed. And why choose 'horrific' Israel? I mean, Israel is a terrorist nation according to DCUM.

The issue is the hypocrisy of being a country created to take in political refugees, and then deporting political refugees. In the 80s I worked for student groups that met with congress to persuade them to pressure the Soviets to release Jews to migrate to Israel. I felt bad for those Soviet Jews. So for me, the hypocrisy is apparent. It was never about whether these people were deserving of a peaceful place to live, or whether they were oppressed. It was all about raising the number of Jews vs. Muslims.

You'd feel even worse if you were one of these Soviet Jews on the receiving end of Israeli propaganda through the aliya outreach that sold them the notion of "land without people, people without land, y'all come". The existence of Palestinians and their claim to the land was never acknowledged except in passing as "these animals to whom we give jobs". The Soviet Jews were all enamored with the country that invited them to come in, gave them housing, jobs, schools - oh, by the way, these houses are likely to be in the occupied territories, but it doesn't matter, the land is all ours anyway. This is why former USSR Israelis are some of the most rabid right-wingers. The idea of Israel they've been sold simply does not include Palestinians, and they are fighting to preserve this idea. Feel sorry for them.

It was a country created for Jews hence to take in Jewish refugees. It was not created for Soviet Jews. Let's not pretend that the reason these African migrants are choosing Israel has nothing to do with the fact that Israel is the most economically secure and tolerant in the region. What other country gives $3500 to illegal immigrants? Israel is tiny there is no way it can welcome everyone who comes.

Don't kid yourself. Most Eritreans are going elsewhere. It's not like Israel is their #1 destination.

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Anonymous wrote:America did do this to the Jews during the Holocaust. As did many other countries. Doesn't make it any better of course but still the US fucked up royally there.

Oh please, without American doughboys running into machine gun nest after nest of the wehrmacht there wouldn't be 90% of the jews in israel there are now.

This is precisely what I mean by a lack of appreciation.

And Jews and Israelis will be forever grateful to the United States and the allies of winning the war and (together with the Russians) liberating the camps. If you think there is a lack of appreciation, I'm afraid you are mistaken.

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Anonymous wrote:America did do this to the Jews during the Holocaust. As did many other countries. Doesn't make it any better of course but still the US fucked up royally there.

Oh please, without American doughboys running into machine gun nest after nest of the wehrmacht there wouldn't be 90% of the jews in israel there are now.

This is precisely what I mean by a lack of appreciation.

And Jews and Israelis will be forever grateful to the United States and the allies of winning the war and (together with the Russians) liberating the camps. If you think there is a lack of appreciation, I'm afraid you are mistaken.

We go by what you do not what you say. We learned that a long time ago.

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Anonymous wrote:America did do this to the Jews during the Holocaust. As did many other countries. Doesn't make it any better of course but still the US fucked up royally there.

Oh please, without American doughboys running into machine gun nest after nest of the wehrmacht there wouldn't be 90% of the jews in israel there are now.

This is precisely what I mean by a lack of appreciation.

And Jews and Israelis will be forever grateful to the United States and the allies of winning the war and (together with the Russians) liberating the camps. If you think there is a lack of appreciation, I'm afraid you are mistaken.

I left the Russians out because post WW2, Stalin killed shit load of jews during his purges. The UK and US are the equivalent of Moses for modern jews.

The UK gifted you the land and the UK and US are the direct parents of the existence of modern jewry.

But there is no appreciation - there is just whinging about 'anti-semitism', spying, not acting in good faith, having jewish leaders chide America, etc.

Sorry - appreciation would be an immediate full commitment to the two state solution and pulling out all settlements and listening to your de facto parents (the US and UK) on all matters.