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**** Israel's government in turmoil over failure to deport African migrants
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Asylum seekers in Tel Aviv, Israel, protest against deportation on 24-Feb (AP)
Israel's government is in turmoil after a major policy for dealing
with African migrants collapsed within a few hours.
On Monday morning, Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
announced a major new policy for dealing with 16,250 of what it
considers to be illegal immigrants from African nations, mostly
Eritrea and Sudan.
The policy was reached as a deal with the UN Human Rights Council
(UNHCR) which is the agency that handles issues with refugees and
migrants. Under the deal between Israel and UNHCR, 16,250 African
migrants under threat of being either jailed or deported to another
African country, would instead be absorbed and resettled into a
Western country. The deal also specifies that another 16,250
similarly threated migrants would be permitted to remain in Israel as
"temporary residents." According to UNHCR, Israel is home to about
40,000 asylum seekers including 27,500 from Eritrea and 7,800 from
Sudan. The deal left 7,000 unaccounted for.
Netanyahu originally said that the agreement was a "landmark
achievement," allowing 16,250 migrants to be taken to "developed
countries like Canada, or Germany and Italy."
Human rights organizations were pleased with the deal, since migrants
would be resettled in Western countries. However, other officials
objected to the fact that 16,250 migrants would be resettled in
Israel. A city councilman in Tel Aviv, where many of the migrants
would be resettled, called the agreement a "disaster that will
reverberate for generations and cause irreversible damage to the
country."
A Canadian minister said that Canada was already in contact with UNHCR
and Israel about accepting more refugees. However, Italy quickly
issued a statement saying that they were not a part of this agreement,
and had not even been consulted. Germany issued a similar statement.
The Prime Minister’s Office then clarified that Netanyahu had just
named those countries as examples of Western countries.
By late Monday evening, Netanyahu wrote on Facebook that he was
suspending implementation of the agreement for the time being.
YNet News and Canadian TV and BBC and
Haaretz
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**** Netanyahu: We fell into a 'trap' with failed deportation plan
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The previous deportation plan was announced in January. Each migrant
would be given a choice to be jailed, or to receive a check for $3,500
and a plane ticket to another country. Migrants received the
following letter in January:
<QUOTE>"We would like to inform you that the state of Israel
has signed agreements allowing you to leave Israel for a safe
third country that will absorb you and give you a residency visa
that will allow you to work in that country, and promises not to
remove you to your country of origin."<END QUOTE>
The "third safe countries" were not named, but they were known to be
Rwanda and Uganda. The deadline to leave or be jailed was to be April
1.
According to a poll in late January, 66% of Jewish Israelis, and half
of Arab Israelis, who make up 20% of Israel's population, favored the
deportation plan. However, the plan received a huge backlash from
human rights organizations, both internationally and within Israel.
Due to international pressure, both Rwanda and Uganda announced that
they wouldn't take part in the deportation plan. On Monday, Netanyahu
explained in a Facebook post why the whole plan had to be canceled:
<QUOTE>"In the past two years I have been working with Rwanda
so that it will serve as a third country' that absorbs
infiltrators who will be deported without their consent. This is
the only legal way for us to deport infiltrators without their
consent, after the rest of our moves have been legally
disqualified. Rwanda agreed to this and began the deportation
operation.
In recent weeks, under tremendous pressure on Rwanda by the New
Israel Fund and elements in the European Union, Rwanda withdrew
from the agreement and has refused to absorb infiltrators from
Israel who are forcibly removed.
From the moment that it became clear in the last few weeks that
the third country as an option does not exist, we in effect
entered a trap that meant all of them would stay."<END QUOTE>
Falling into this "trap" represented a danger to Israel, according to
education minister Naftali Bennett:
<QUOTE>"[G]ranting legal status to 16,000 infiltrators will
turn Israel into a paradise for infiltrators and is a surrender to
the false campaign spread in the media in recent months.
The original outline was moral and just, and we must follow it,
alone. Refugees from dangerous places will be absorbed in Israel,
work migrants will be sent back. In the new plan, work migrants
who didn’t even apply to be refugees will be absorbed. By signing
this agreement, we are sending a dangerous message to the whole
world: Whoever succeeds in infiltrating Israel illegally will get
a prize of legal residence here or a Western
country."<END QUOTE>
He added that that the government must "proceed to a new roadmap will
remove the illegal infiltrators from Israel." Reuters (3-Jan) and The Atlantic (30-Jan) and Al Jazeera (4-Feb) and Jerusalem Post
Related Articles:
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu,
Eritrea, Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, UN Human Rights Council, UNHCR,
Canada, Italy, Germany, Naftali Bennett
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Israel's government in turmoil over failure to deport African migrants
- Netanyahu: We fell into a 'trap' with failed deportation plan
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**** Israel's government in turmoil over failure to deport African migrants
****
Asylum seekers in Tel Aviv, Israel, protest against deportation on 24-Feb (AP)
Israel's government is in turmoil after a major policy for dealing
with African migrants collapsed within a few hours.
On Monday morning, Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
announced a major new policy for dealing with 16,250 of what it
considers to be illegal immigrants from African nations, mostly
Eritrea and Sudan.
The policy was reached as a deal with the UN Human Rights Council
(UNHCR) which is the agency that handles issues with refugees and
migrants. Under the deal between Israel and UNHCR, 16,250 African
migrants under threat of being either jailed or deported to another
African country, would instead be absorbed and resettled into a
Western country. The deal also specifies that another 16,250
similarly threated migrants would be permitted to remain in Israel as
"temporary residents." According to UNHCR, Israel is home to about
40,000 asylum seekers including 27,500 from Eritrea and 7,800 from
Sudan. The deal left 7,000 unaccounted for.
Netanyahu originally said that the agreement was a "landmark
achievement," allowing 16,250 migrants to be taken to "developed
countries like Canada, or Germany and Italy."
Human rights organizations were pleased with the deal, since migrants
would be resettled in Western countries. However, other officials
objected to the fact that 16,250 migrants would be resettled in
Israel. A city councilman in Tel Aviv, where many of the migrants
would be resettled, called the agreement a "disaster that will
reverberate for generations and cause irreversible damage to the
country."
A Canadian minister said that Canada was already in contact with UNHCR
and Israel about accepting more refugees. However, Italy quickly
issued a statement saying that they were not a part of this agreement,
and had not even been consulted. Germany issued a similar statement.
The Prime Minister’s Office then clarified that Netanyahu had just
named those countries as examples of Western countries.
By late Monday evening, Netanyahu wrote on Facebook that he was
suspending implementation of the agreement for the time being.
YNet News and Canadian TV and BBC and
Haaretz
****
**** Netanyahu: We fell into a 'trap' with failed deportation plan
****
The previous deportation plan was announced in January. Each migrant
would be given a choice to be jailed, or to receive a check for $3,500
and a plane ticket to another country. Migrants received the
following letter in January:
<QUOTE>"We would like to inform you that the state of Israel
has signed agreements allowing you to leave Israel for a safe
third country that will absorb you and give you a residency visa
that will allow you to work in that country, and promises not to
remove you to your country of origin."<END QUOTE>
The "third safe countries" were not named, but they were known to be
Rwanda and Uganda. The deadline to leave or be jailed was to be April
1.
According to a poll in late January, 66% of Jewish Israelis, and half
of Arab Israelis, who make up 20% of Israel's population, favored the
deportation plan. However, the plan received a huge backlash from
human rights organizations, both internationally and within Israel.
Due to international pressure, both Rwanda and Uganda announced that
they wouldn't take part in the deportation plan. On Monday, Netanyahu
explained in a Facebook post why the whole plan had to be canceled:
<QUOTE>"In the past two years I have been working with Rwanda
so that it will serve as a third country' that absorbs
infiltrators who will be deported without their consent. This is
the only legal way for us to deport infiltrators without their
consent, after the rest of our moves have been legally
disqualified. Rwanda agreed to this and began the deportation
operation.
In recent weeks, under tremendous pressure on Rwanda by the New
Israel Fund and elements in the European Union, Rwanda withdrew
from the agreement and has refused to absorb infiltrators from
Israel who are forcibly removed.
From the moment that it became clear in the last few weeks that
the third country as an option does not exist, we in effect
entered a trap that meant all of them would stay."<END QUOTE>
Falling into this "trap" represented a danger to Israel, according to
education minister Naftali Bennett:
<QUOTE>"[G]ranting legal status to 16,000 infiltrators will
turn Israel into a paradise for infiltrators and is a surrender to
the false campaign spread in the media in recent months.
The original outline was moral and just, and we must follow it,
alone. Refugees from dangerous places will be absorbed in Israel,
work migrants will be sent back. In the new plan, work migrants
who didn’t even apply to be refugees will be absorbed. By signing
this agreement, we are sending a dangerous message to the whole
world: Whoever succeeds in infiltrating Israel illegally will get
a prize of legal residence here or a Western
country."<END QUOTE>
He added that that the government must "proceed to a new roadmap will
remove the illegal infiltrators from Israel." Reuters (3-Jan) and The Atlantic (30-Jan) and Al Jazeera (4-Feb) and Jerusalem Post
Related Articles:
- Tens of thousands of migrants to Israel protest in Tel Aviv (07-Jan-2014)
- Israel to expel tens of thousands of illegal African immigrants (12-Dec-2011)
- Israel prepares to absorb refugees from Syria (11-Jan-2012)
- Russian migrants to Israel form closed ultra-nationalist community (29-Apr-2013)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu,
Eritrea, Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, UN Human Rights Council, UNHCR,
Canada, Italy, Germany, Naftali Bennett
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