{"id":81398,"date":"2015-12-06T10:37:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T18:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81398"},"modified":"2015-12-06T10:38:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T18:38:06","slug":"israel-shows-us-how-to-deal-with-unwanted-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81398","title":{"rendered":"Israel Shows Us How To Deal With Unwanted Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is a light unto the nations with its serious commitment to its survival. Part of that commitment means keeping out people who are incompatible with a Jewish state. Would that America was similarly pragmatic.<\/p>\n<p>Black Africans are incompatible with a Jewish state. The influx of over 100,000 Ethiopians claiming to be Jewish has been a <A HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beta_Israel\">disaster<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-News\/Politics-And-Diplomacy\/NGOs-urge-Supreme-Court-to-strike-down-state-policy-for-migrants-denied-refugee-status-435759\">From the Jerusalem Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>NGOs lodge appeal over policy for migrants denied refugee status<\/p>\n<p>The legal decision over how to handle the issue of around 45,000 African migrants who crossed into the country illegally, but claim refugee status, is somewhat up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The Supreme Court also essentially validated the state\u2019s goals of trying to deter future African migrants and shrink their current population size via detention and pressure to self-deport.<\/p>\n<p>This paved the way for Beersheba District Court Judge Rachel Lavi-Barkai to uphold the part of the state\u2019s policy that depended on giving certain migrants the choice to self-deport or be indefinitely detained&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Around 33,000 of the 45,000 migrants are Eritrean, and the state has recently taken the position that most Eritreans in Israel are not refugees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel is a light unto the nations with its serious commitment to its survival. Part of that commitment means keeping out people who are incompatible with a Jewish state. Would that America was similarly pragmatic. Black Africans are incompatible with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=81398\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12477,161,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-immigration","category-israel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81400,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81398\/revisions\/81400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}