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Israel reaches deal with UN to send 16,000 African migrants to West
The Globe and Mail ^ | April 2, 2018 | Reuters

Posted on 04/02/2018 8:09:52 AM PDT by WisconsinRep

Israel said on Monday it has cancelled a plan to deport African migrants to Africa and reached an agreement with the U.N. refugee agency to send more than 16,000 to Western countries instead.

Other migrants, many of whom are seeking asylum, will be allowed to remain in Israel for at least the next five years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.

The fate of some 37,000 Africans in Israel has posed a moral dilemma for a state founded as a haven for Jews from persecution and a national home. The right-wing government is under pressure from its nationalist voter base to expel the migrants, while others are calling for them to be taken in.

In February, Israel started handing out notices to 20,000 male African migrants giving them two months to leave the country or risk being thrown in jail.

(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Germany; Israel; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: africanmigrants; benjaminnetanyahu; immigration; israel; israelmigrants; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem; waronterror
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To: WisconsinRep
Israel reaches deal with UN to send 16,000 African migrants to West

Methinks Israel has outsmarted the UN and has afforded Western Nations an educational opportunity.

I'm sure they'll fit right in.

21 posted on 04/02/2018 8:34:08 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: WisconsinRep

How did those Africans get into Israel in the first place? It’s not easy to get to Israel from sub-Saharan Africa, and Israel is strict about who they let into the country.


22 posted on 04/02/2018 8:35:50 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: WisconsinRep
Great...so now they can be our problem rather than Israel's.

If helping these refugees is such a priority for the UN, why doesn't the UN set up protected camps for them in their home countries, and take on the responsibility of feeding and guarding them?

23 posted on 04/02/2018 8:38:54 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: VietVet876

-——I wasn’t aware that Israel started growing cotton.——

Me either but.......

Cotton in Israel
Statement of the Israeli Delegation
to the
60TH Plenary Meeting
of the
International Cotton Advisory Committee
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Cotton Production in Israel
Planted acreage in 2001 was 15,000 Hectare. 85% were planted extra-long staple
cotton – Pima, and 15% were planted upland cotton - Acala.

https://www.icac.org/Meetings/Plenary/60vicfalls/documents/statements/statement-israel.pdf


24 posted on 04/02/2018 8:41:42 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WAzSP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: WisconsinRep

UN said you can’t deport them and worked out a deal to send them to Europe


25 posted on 04/02/2018 8:46:48 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: WayneS

Because the UN consists of the other countries?


26 posted on 04/02/2018 8:47:27 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: WisconsinRep

I thought Israel was our friend? Maybe not...


27 posted on 04/02/2018 8:54:20 AM PDT by CatQuilt (Lover of cats =^..^= and quilts)
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To: miss marmelstein

Figures. Prime Minister Toosie Pop never heard of an illegal immigrant that he didn’t want in Canaduh.

Monday, October 21, 2019 cannot come soon enough!


28 posted on 04/02/2018 9:14:20 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: WisconsinRep

How about running them through boot camp, arming them & THEN returning them to their country to deal with whatever is the issue.


29 posted on 04/02/2018 9:26:35 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: WisconsinRep

If they are not good enough for Africa, why should the West take them?


30 posted on 04/02/2018 9:30:34 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Sorry about that.


31 posted on 04/02/2018 9:33:16 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: odawg
I thought the United States was in charge of our immigration policies, not the UN.


32 posted on 04/02/2018 9:35:42 AM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: CatQuilt

CatQuilt: I thought Israel was our friend? Maybe not...

Israel is basically dumping trash in our yard. Not cool, Israel.


33 posted on 04/02/2018 9:36:07 AM PDT by WisconsinRep
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To: babble-on

Does the UN have control over the immigration policies of all its member countries?


34 posted on 04/02/2018 9:37:56 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: WisconsinRep

They’re not going to Europe?


35 posted on 04/02/2018 9:45:05 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: WayneS

They sure seem to think so. Somali has the population density of Kansas, the climate of California and 2000 miles of coastline abutting one of the world’s busiest trade routes. It would be the perfect location for the UN to set up its multicultural utopia and show the rest of the world how it should be done.


36 posted on 04/02/2018 9:46:39 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: WayneS

Of course not.


37 posted on 04/02/2018 10:07:12 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: Vigilanteman

U R right. Saw the final scene in Blackhawk Down. Beautiful place. Plenty of room for these ‘folks’ but WE, not the UN would have to oversee the relocation process with OPEC footing the bill.


38 posted on 04/02/2018 10:10:17 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: babble-on

Well then I still don’t have the answer to my original question.


39 posted on 04/02/2018 10:12:20 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: miss marmelstein
Hopefully, enough Canadians have awakened out of their malaise, to realise what a waste of skin our current Prime Minister is. An IPSOS poll, the details released on March 26, 2018, suggests that a majority of Canadians (60%) think it is time for a change of government. Out with the Lieberals.

The most concise and accurate description of Dustbin comes from a University of Toronto Professor, Jordan Peterson. He calls Turd-owe a 'Peter Pan', a spoiled little rich boy, who never grew up. Very true and very accurate. He is even more of an 'empty suit' than Bathhouse Barry was. Get back to teaching drama class, Dustbin.

40 posted on 04/02/2018 11:05:11 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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