Photo: Jillian Kestler-DAmours/IPS Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the "swift deportation" of 25,000 so-called illegal immigrants after demonstrations targeting immigrants in Tel Aviv.
During a recent cabinet meeting Netanyahu ordered ministers to speed up efforts to deport immigrants from South Sudan, the Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Ethiopia.
However, he admitted that it is not possible to deport immigrants from Eritrea and Sudan who have fled persecution in their home countries, as Israel is a signatory of the 1951 convention that prevents refugees from being repatriated in such conditions.
The government is speeding up the building of a detention centre in the Negev desert to accomodate refugees who cannot be deported.
Tel Aviv has seen weekly violent demonstrations purporting to be against immigration and the homes of African immigrants in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem have suffered arson attacks.
On Sunday, Member of the Knesset Aryeh Eldad attempted to diffuse reactions to a statement he made during a tour of the site of a border fence being erected along Israel's Egyptian border that anyone seen attempting to breach the fence should be shot.
The southern Sinai border is the main port of entry for migrants from places such as Sudan and Eritrea.
Out of the 1,500 requests for asylum registered with the Israeli government between 2009 and 2011, two were accepted. It also has taken measures to prevent companies from employing anyone classified as an illegal migrant.
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OMG!!! Another Belzec extermination camp in todays world? Benjamin Netanyahu mimicking Adolf Hitler? Why are the Zionists crying wolf of Holocaust?
Africans should hold their tyrant leaders accountable for such inhumanity. Billions of African economy is pumped into the Middle-East yearly on ostentatious tourism called pilgrimage. These money should better be used on building infrastructures to engage people on economic activities that will earn them living.
African leaders should sanction Israel and Saudi-Arabia indefinitly (like IDI AMIN of Uganda would have done) and impose ban on pilgrimage. Deport all Jews and confiscate their assets in Africa. Any country that supports Israel should be met with equal sanction. That will deter further maltreatment of Black people all over the world
Africans are always going to be vulnerable as a corollary of the maxim, beggars can't be choosers.
Corruption is the biggest obstacle Africa faces at the top, this in turn deprives the middle of any flexibility and the bottom is faced with absolute desperation, leading to Africans leaving their countries and seeking help from others. When these citizens then run into difficulties, they can't expect the very same Government that rendered them destitutes to now come to their rescue because their is no money is preventing racial discrimination.
Africa and Africans are therefore caught in a never ending trend unless Africans make Africa habitable. New generation of Africans don't have the patience of the old generation especially with the Internet and Telco age. They can see the quality of life Briton and the West have and as a result the Corruption that deprives them of a basic human life is going to be questioned one day and will give rise to the African intellectual revolt against corruption.
At www.developedafrica.com we hope to start off this intellectual revolution of the mind by commercialising Africa's developmental needs on a massive scale in order to achieve the results of a developed Africa in our life time.