Israel has decided to expel 400 native-born children of non-Jewish foreign workers to help safeguard the country's Jewish identity. They have to leave by the end of the month. Announcing the decision, Prime Minister Netanyahu said there were "Zionist considerations" and said it was about "ensuring the Jewish character of the state of Israel.'' The Israeli cabinet voted 13 to 10 in favour.
Industry Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer of the Labour Party said:
''This isn't the state of the Jews that I know, that expels children''
Rotem Ilan, chairman of Israeli Children, said:
"They are the children of people who came to Israel legally to work... We brought these people here to plough our fields, build our houses and take care of our grandparents... The obligation to act with kindness and compassion to foreigners is the most frequently repeated commandment in the Torah"
I guess Netanyahu and his fellow Right-wingers missed that part.
What is it with the Right that, which ever country they're in - mine included - they feel it's their patriotic duty to steal its soul and trash its reputation?
Of all countries to issue laws for human purity; Isn't that what Hitler did?
ReplyDeleteI would not make that comparison at all, Tom.
ReplyDeleteAs you can probably tell, I don't like Netanyahu one bit, but he's not in that gold class of evil.
Many so-called liberal democracies pursue a quiet policy of cultural exclusion by default. It's all in the manner of their residency or citizenship tests, quotas, job descriptions, financial requirement...etc. But never more so than when they have conservative governments. That's the point I'm making.
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