ISRAELI authorities have began a roundup of South Sudanese migrants ahead of their deportation, three days after a court ruled that their lives were no longer threatened in their homeland.

"The deportation operation is getting under way. We are starting the job," Interior Minister Eli Yishai told independent television station Channel Two.

"We told the infiltrators from South Sudan to come voluntarily; whoever doesn't, with the Lord's help we shall get them all... they'll be put on a plane," he said.

The channel reported that that eight South Sudanese were taken into custody and "would be deported soon."

The Jerusalem Post quoted the immigration authority as saying that a total of 22 people were arrested yesterday - eight South Sudanese, three Nigerians, three Ghanaians, two from Ivory Coast, three Sri Lankans and three Romanians.

News of the swoop sent hundreds of African migrants onto the streets of south Tel Aviv in protest, some calling for the United nations to intervene on their behalf, Channel Two said.

In video footage of the march they could be heard chanting: "An African is a human being."

The Post quoted a South Sudanese community worker as saying that his countrymen had expected to have more time to prepare for their departure.

Interior ministry statistics show that approximately 60,000 African immigrants have entered Israel illegally, about 1500 of whom are from South Sudan with which Israel has friendly relations.

____ wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 7:58am:


I dont think New Zealand is safe yet

SOB

____ wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 7:58am:



That will do for a start.

Israel screams about being victims while victimising others.

SOB

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 9:52am:



what a stupid uninformed comment.

Have you been to Israel?

I bet the answer is no and you just guess from thousands of km away.

Until you know about my country, keep your mouth shut.

Hey Avram, your English has improved remarkably. What happened to the stupid broken English.

So by your theory, since I haven't been to Germany either, perhaps there was no holocaust. I haven't been to America since 9/11, maybe the towers are still there?

The trouble is there are too many Israeli organisations that are saying 'we need to stop the way we treat the Palestinians'. See, your own people are saying it.

When you pretend to be from Israel, you should know your sh1t a little better.
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Israeli Interior Minister: “This Country Belongs to Us – The White Man!”

“Mexicans, Asians and Negroes that arrive here do not even believe that this country belongs to us, to the white man!“

Fortunately, neither Duke nor somebody of his ilk is very high up in our government.  In Israel, they aren’t so fortunate.  Here’s that country’s real Minister of Internal Affairs, Eli Yishai, this morning:

    “Muslims that arrive here do not even believe that this country belongs to us, to the white man.”

That is Yishai’s latest response to the increasingly racist events unfolding in Israel having to do with that country’s disturbingly violent reaction to an influx of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.

I’m not quite sure what Yishai’s definition of “white man” is.  His parents emigrated to Israel from Tunisia.    His party affiliation has been with Shas since soon after the party’s inception in 1984.  Under the current government, this is the third time Yishai has held the cabinet post of Interior head, the previous terms being from 2001 to 2003.

It is a post unlike any in the United States:

    The position is often demanded by avowedly religious or secular parties as it allows them to control religious councils and planning (including the building of settlements), as well as religion and state issues such as civil marriage and immigration (which is affected by the Who is a Jew? debate). In recent years it has been held by Shas, an ultra-orthodox party, as well as Shinui and Yisrael BaAliyah, both secularist.

Who is Yishai pandering to with his white supremacist statement that he surely must have known would be picked up by the Israeli press, possibly outside of the country too?  His quote came out early Sunday in a Haaretz article about a new law that came into effect today, regarding detention of migrants:

    A law granting Israeli authorities the power to detain illegal migrants for up to three years came into effect on Sunday, in the wake of widening public controversy over the influx of African migrants who cross into Israel along its border with Egypt.

    The law makes illegal migrants and asylum seekers liable to jail, without trial or deportation, if caught staying in Israel for long periods. In addition, anyone helping migrants or providing them with shelter could face prison sentences of between five and 15 years.

    The law amended the Prevention of Infiltration Law of 1954, passed to prevent the entry of Palestinians as part of emergency legislation. The law is expanded to address migrant workers or asylum seekers who enter Israel without posing a threat to Israel’s security.

    According to the law, migrant workers already here could be jailed for the most minor offense such as spraying graffiti or stealing a bicycle – infractions for which they would not have been detained before.

    So far, all migrants who have been caught by the Israel Defense Forces on the Israel-Egypt border have been transferred to the Saharonim detention facility which holds 2,000 spaces.

I wrote here about the current push in Israel for race-based concentration camps back on May 24th.

read more:

http://my.firedoglake.com/edwardteller/2012/06/03/israeli-interior-minister-this...

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 10:13am:



I would invite you to spend just one week in the West Bank and you will understand what we fight.

Terrorists who would shoot dead a Israeli child because he was Jewish.