A serious country would not want immigrants that are difficult to assimilate. Israel is a more serious country than America.<\/p>\n
Chaim Amalek: “Nebech, how can they continue to deny themselves the benefits of diversity that such immigrants bring? And aren’t they only cheating themselves?”<\/p>\n
Lil: “How do they even get to Israel? Security is supposed to be tight to not let in any terrorist. Yet these people just walk right in.”<\/p>\n
Chaim: “Yeah, it seems to me that if you are desperate to leave Sudan, you should be willing to stop and ask for asylum at the border of the first land you reach: Egypt. These are mostly economic immigrants. Let them immigrate to Korea or Japan.”<\/p>\n
From Human Rights Watch<\/a>: If you are an Eritrean or Sudanese asylum seeker waiting to hear your fate, statistics suggest that in most countries you\u2019ll get a positive reply: 83 percent of Eritreans and 67 percent of Sudanese going through asylum screening are accepted as refugees.<\/p>\n In Israel, however, your chances are close to nil.<\/p>\n Government statistics just released show that of 3,165 Sudanese asylum applications lodged since 2009, Israel has recognized a grand total of zero. Almost 2,200 of them are still waiting for an answer. Of 2,408 Eritreans who lodged asylum claims, 4 have received positive decisions. Another 1,000 requests have been denied and 1,335 are stuck in limbo awaiting a decision.<\/p>\n So what explains Israel\u2019s foot-dragging and bottom ranking for Eritrean and Sudanese refugees?<\/p>\n A clue might be found in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s response to Africans arriving in Israel, calling them \u201ca threat to the social fabric of society, our national security, our national identity \u2026 and \u2026 our existence as a Jewish and democratic state.\u201d The vast majority of the 63,000 Africans who entered the country before the end of 2012 \u2013 when a five-meter steel fence sealed off Israel\u2019s border with Egypt \u2013 were Eritrean and Sudanese.<\/p>\n The authorities have steadily developed a range of coercive measures to \u201cmake their lives miserable\u201d and \u201cencourage the illegals to leave,\u201d in the words of former Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai and current Israeli Interior Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar, respectively.<\/p>\n They include indefinite detention in remote desert centers \u2013 a policy that Israel\u2019s High Court has struck down twice as unconstitutional [but which the Netanyahu Government continues to do anyway \u2013 FailedMessiah.com] \u2013 and obstacles to accessing Israel\u2019s asylum system: Israel started to allow Eritreans and Sudanese to lodge asylum claims in significant numbers only in 2013. The obstacles also include ambiguous policies on work rights, severely restricted access to healthcare, and, yes, the rejection of a whopping 99.9 percent of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum claims.<\/p>\n As Human Rights Watch documented in a report, these policies have coerced thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese to return to their home countries. This breaches the international legal principle of nonrefoulement by forcing asylum seekers to choose between indefinite detention and returning to a place of feared persecution. As of mid-February 2015, about 8,000 had left, the vast majority Sudanese. Human Rights Watch found that on return, some have faced torture, arbitrary detention, and \u2013 in Sudan \u2013 treason charges for having set foot in Israel.<\/p>\n As the new shameful asylum statistics were released, the authorities confirmed that almost 2,000 Sudanese and Eritreans are still languishing in the Holot \u201cResidency Center,\u201d the legality of which is being challenged in the High Court for a third time as detention in all but name.<\/p>\n As the Israeli authorities tie themselves in legal knots trying to justify what amounts to a shredding of their responsibilities under international refugee law, Eritreans and Sudanese struggle to survive in Israel\u2019s parallel \u201casylum\u201d universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A serious country would not want immigrants that are difficult to assimilate. Israel is a more serious country than America. Chaim Amalek: “Nebech, how can they continue to deny themselves the benefits of diversity that such immigrants bring? And aren’t … Continue reading