NURIT GREENGER: ILLEGALS FROM AFAR
Illegals From Afar
June 17, 2012
Nurit Greenger
I do not live in Israel and thus my perspective on the illegal infiltration of natives from the African continent is based on what I read and see on the screen. However, as my understanding of the situation goes, the way Israel found itself swarmed and swamped by approximately 100,000 people who entered the country without permission requires harsh criticism of the country’s apparatus. It is called leadership incompetence.
I read that some of these infiltrators have been in Israel for over five years. I understand one person enters and is given some legal status, even two, and three. But that is not the case here. The first ones entered and then stayed in Israel with no permission and no background investigation and created a precedent. Probably, people in Israel thought it was kind of cute; the Israelis overlooked the situation and disregarded the fact that it is not at all right for people, who invaded their country without legal consent to stay. Once the first infiltrators “settled” in, the word that Israel is a safe haven for invasion spread like wild fire. And then when the number of the invaders began to grow and the infiltration flood got stronger, Israel should have nipped the phenomenon in the bud, not let it spread out of control as it continues to spread as of this writing.
Now when there are some 100,000 people who entered the country, illegally, Israel is panicking; Israel you have a major problem on hand.
First, it is a matter of security. No well managed country allows people to enter its border illegally. If these people want to work in Israel they need to apply for work permit from the Israeli embassy or consulate in their country, not just break into the country, as a thief in the night, and not be apprehended.
If it was a matter of obtaining a political asylum they could have applied for such status in the legal way: enter the Israeli embassy in their country and ask for political protection and then allow Israel’s authorities to decide if the state wishes to cooperate in the case. But no, they found a sucker country to impose their presences, to invade and stay, no question asked.
Then, there is a matter of health. Since these infiltrators did not go through immigration process, they also did not go through medical check-up and the result, they brought along with them diseases that have been contained and Israel no longer deals with. They have reduced the health standards of the country.
Additionally, with their lack of education, they are bound to reduced the quality of the education standards’ poll.
None of these people were running away from their homeland; it was all planned. These people, claiming hardship, found thousands of dollars, needed to pay for the journey to reach Israel’s border. From where does so much money come into the hands of such poor people? Is it not an enigma? Perhaps Israel’s enemies are paying them these sums to infiltrate the country so they can establish an army from within and in time be able to assist Israel’s enemy to strike the country, as they plan?
The government of Israel appears unfathomably incompetence in addressing this problem.
In 2012 the USA deported at least 400,000 illegals. In Europe the authorities deport such people as well. No one shouts that the USA or the Europeans are racists for deporting people of dark skin. I once stayed in hotel nearby Orly Airport, Paris, France. There, each night, the French authorities were bringing people, appeared to be from African countries, for deportation. These people were kept overnight at the hotel, in an assigned floor under guard, and in the morning they were put on planes bound for the countries from where they came. There was no news coverage, just daily routine of deportation. But when Israel has to do the same, the world is up in arms calling her racist just because these people are of dark skin and Jews are acting to apply the law of order of the their country.
Yes, one can have some empathy when seeing the Israeli authorities rounding people up, especially when we speak about people from the African continent. World’s perception is that suffering in Africa is the order of the day and so these people are seen as victims. But, there is no need to shed a tear, because if we do, then, regardless to color of skin and creed, we need to feel sorry for any and all law breaking people; after all, they broke the law and racked Israel’s sovereignty. If these people really wanted to come to Israel to work and better their life, then why not grab a work permit application, available at the Israeli embassy in their country, and wait for a reply? None of these people were under any immediate danger, as people under immediate danger do not have thousands of dollars to pay for their flee, rather they run as fast as their feet can take them with the shirt on their back.
And what about Israel’s sovereignty? With them so easily infiltrating the country, taking over suburbs in various Israeli cities it only indicates to the world that Israel has no sustainable sovereignty or it has hard time maintaining it.
A U.N envoy found it necessary to comment about the newly applied deportation process of these invaders, asking Israel to give these invaders some formal labor status. The question is, does Israel need the service of these people so she is to issue such status decree? Also, why this U.N pundit does not suggest the same to the EU and USA authorities that have been deporting illegals for decades?
In the conflict the Arabs have with Israel, her deeply seeded quest is to maintain the state of her Jewish nature. When 100,000 non-Jewish infiltrators enter the state, illegally, and that flood continues, how can Israel expect to maintain her Jewish character? This infiltration is projecting to the world an image that Israel has no defensible borders, she has no law against illegal infiltration and is in fact open and free for all, and thus the message is, ‘Shalom to all; welcome to Israel.’ How can Israel expect to prevail as a Jewish state this way? More so, most of these infiltrators are Moslems and Islam sees Israel as their land, so in essence Israel has allowed the enemy invade and slowly to take over.
And then there is the crime factor. People who have no legal status, who work under the radar, at a minimum wage, cannot meet ends and the host country’s survival standards, and thus will, automatically, revert to crime and that is exactly what happened; crime in the towns where they have put foot and stayed went out of control. In essence Israel invited crime into her midst.
Israel has a neck to invite trouble in. In 1993, with signing of the Oslo Accords, Israel invited into her midst terrorist Yasser Arafat and his 10,000 terrorist troops and their supportive families, and thus opened the door to Arab terrorists to embed and operate, at close range, against its citizens.
In 2006, when the first infiltrator entered the land of Israel, illegally, Israel left the phenomenon of people from African countries crossing her borders, unchecked, and today the state is drowning in a 100,000 illegals problem; a problem it never had before and thus has no idea how to handle and deal with, overcome and eradicate.
Israel has made herself a magnate for illegals.
The bible instructs Jews to treat, with kindness, the stranger – and the orphan and widow, sources: Exodus 22:20, Deuteronomy14:28, 16:9-14, 24:17-22; Ruth was a Moabite and the great grandmother of King David; she was a non-Jew, a stranger, who joined the Jewish nation and married the Jew Boaz.
According to the Bible the biblical stranger is the one who comes to live among the local residents for a long period of time. Every humane society is measured by its relations to the weak in her midst. In a society where there is no welcoming of the weak, when the strong “devours” the weak, we can say that the law of the jungle rules. But this is not the case here. These people snuck in and invaded the country without permission and were treated with kindness. In return, with time, they acclimated and became stronger and their thank you gesture to the host country, into which they snuck was to create an intolerable social circumstances; they simply cannot remain to live in Israel.
Comes the time for Israel to recognize and thus separate compassion from her needs for security and social stability. These invaders impede Israel’s security and social stability and therefore, they all, without exception, must be deported. If they really want to come and live in Israel, the doors to the immigration department in the Israeli embassy or consulate in their country are wide open. If Israel has no diplomatic representation in their country, then they need to travel to a nearby country where Israel is diplomatically represented and apply to come to Israel there. Paying thousands of dollars to some Bedouin thugs to bring them to the threshold of the state of Israel and from there just cross the border, illegally, is not the way; such entry is considered illegal by international law and it is unfair to the citizens of the country who wish to preserve their sovereignty.
Illegals from afar needs to stay afar.
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