UN: Israel to send its illegal aliens to Western
countries (oops! cancel that), by Ann Corcoran 4/3/18
This is what Israel has been contending
with for years. Some of these migrant activists are already coming to the US!
It
seems that Israeli Prime Minister nixed his own deal with the UN before the ink
was dry on the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society (aka HIAS)‘s crowing e-mail to its
followers.
I
received Mark Hetfield’s e-mail at 3:28 p.m. yesterday, but sometime later yesterday
the New York Times reported
that the deal was off.
I
was planning to post on the Hetfield e-mail anyway this morning, but now the
story gets even juicier. My
focus would have been on the outrageous idea that 16,000 Africans who broke in
to Israel over the years would be resettled as refugees in WESTERN COUNTRIES.
Which countries? The US! Surely Europe can’t handle one more needy
African! Update Canada
in the cross hairs, see here.
(Readers need to know that we
(the US) are already bringing rejected asylum seekers from Israel to be placed
in Anytown, USA. 71 arrived between Oct. 1, 2017 and February, 28, 2018.
Hundreds more have come in recent years probably all resettled by HIAS.)
Below
is Mark Hetfield, CEO of the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society yesterday. We previously questioned why HIAS, one of nine major
federal resettlement contractors,
was mucking around in Israel’s business in the first place.
Then here is the New York Times sometime after that e-mail went out. By the way,
after the original flood of illegal aliens entering Israel, the Israelis built
a very successful wall.
JERUSALEM
— In a head-spinning turnaround, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel
announced on Monday that he had reached an extraordinary deal with the United
Nations refugee agency to resettle thousands of African asylum seekers in
Western countries. Within hours Mr. Netanyahu suspended the deal after coming
under heavy criticism from his coalition partners.
The flip-flop appeared to reflect Mr. Netanyahu’s fear of losing
support from those partners or from his right-wing constituency, who call the
asylum seekers infiltrators and want them gone. His opponents on the left described
the prime minister’s behavior as an embarrassing and cowardly surrender under
pressure.
Mr.
Netanyahu, who is battling for his political future under the cloud of multiple
corruption scandals and faces possible charges of bribery, had apparently
failed to consult with most of his own conservative Likud Party colleagues or
coalition allies before announcing the migrant deal.
The
agreement with the United Nations was meant to replace a contentious Israeli
plan that had offered the migrants a stark choice: forced deportation to Africa
or prison. That plan fell through after Rwanda, the African country meant to
receive the deportees, announced that it would accept only those who left
Israel voluntarily.
In
the afternoon, in a televised news conference, Mr. Netanyahu triumphantly
announced the new deal, under which the
office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees committed to
persuading countries in the West to take at least 16,250 migrants over five
years, while Israel would grant official status as temporary residents to most
who remained.
Estimates of the population of African asylum seekers in Israel, mostly
from Eritrea and Sudan, range from 35,000 to 39,000.
But
the agreement to let many stay in Israel drew harsh criticism from some of Mr.
Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition allies, who were taken by surprise. Naftali
Bennett, the education minister and leader of the far-right Jewish Home party,
said the deal would “turn Israel into an infiltrator’s paradise.”
Mr.
Netanyahu backtracked. The
plan was to be carried out in three phases, with the first 6,000 migrants
expected to leave over the next 18 months.
William Spindler, a spokesman for the United Nations refugee agency in
Geneva, said there was no agreement in place with other countries to take any
of them. He said that the agency would need countries to come forward with
offers, but that “we are confident we will be able to find places for these
16,000 people.” More here.
The UN is confident! I’m not! A major part of the deal requires
WESTERN COUNTRIES to take 16,000 —- which countries?
And, why should Israel’s, or Malta’s, or Australia’s illegal aliens be
our problem!
Refugees, asylum seekers, migrants are the problem of the country they
have escaped to—-they are not the US’s problem—and if the President is serious
about reforming the UN/US Refugee Admissions Program, simply disallowing
resettlement from first world countries is something he can do at the State
Department level!
See
my category, ‘Israel and refugees’ with
169 previous posts archived here. I’ll try to remember to put this at the end of every
post….Contact the President
by clicking here.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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