Israel reaches deal with UN to deport half the asylum seekers to the west

16,250 African migrants will be expelled to Western countries while the same number are to be granted temporary residency for five years and dispersed across the country.

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Israel announced on Monday that it reached an agreement with the United Nations to allow the deportation of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Israel to Western countries.

According to the announcement, the deal discussed between the Prime Minister’s Office and the UN High Commission on Refugees stipulates that Israel could immediately deport some 16,250 people while granting temporary residency to thousands of others for a period of five years.

The government report said that 16,000 asylum seekers would be deported from Israel, with the assistance and direct intervention of Western countries, and an additional 16,000 would be allowed to stay as long as they meet thus far undisclosed criteria, which are to be determined through cooperation between Israel and the commission.

“The plan is divided into three stages and is spread over five years, at the end of which the reality of life in south Tel Aviv and the neighborhoods will significantly improve,” a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office read. “The agreement was approved by the Attorney General and is consistent with international law and accepted practice.”

Israeli diplomatic sources characterized the agreement as unprecedented as the UN rarely engages in efforts to actively expel asylum seekers from their current country of residence and credit the move to intense deliberations held over the past few months.

Last month, the High Court of Justice issued an emergency injunction instructing the state to suspend its April 1 plan to start deporting single adult male migrants to third-party countries in Africa, believed to be Rwanda and Uganda.

Israel has long maintained that it has signed such agreements, but has yet to present the details either publicly or to the court.

The deportation plan came under severe criticism, with human rights organizations saying Israel was sending the asylum seekers, mostly Eritrean and Sudanese nationals, to their deaths.

The government will also set up a special unit to help rehabilitate the neighborhoods of South Tel Aviv, which were most affected by a massive influx of African migrants in the early 2010’s.

In addition, as part of the agreement, a major effort will be put forth to more evenly distribute the asylum seeker population across Israel and assist with job placement and training for some of the asylum seekers who are to remain in the country.

April 2, 2018 | 5 Comments »

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  1. @ Hugo Schmidt-Fischer:

    Hello Hugo…

    I also think that Bronte meant “In thrall” unless she means that he fell in love with his imprisonment. Maybe it metred better, anyway, for me, an example of poetic licence.

    Or perhaps he was shoved in clink because of some forbidden love of the time, and became resigned to his fate…???

    Perhaps it was the gloom he loved……..In Jackie Mason’s first monologue record “I’m The Greatest Comedian In The World Only Nobody Knows It Yet”, in talking to his psychiatrist, who had told him that he was in love with his umbrella, Mason replied,

    “Well…. , I LIKE my umbrella, it’s a nice umbrella, but I don’t love it…..I LOVE MY GALOSHES…”

  2. @ Edgar G.:
    Thanx!
    An ever so thin distinction, and yes in thrall it is.

    A Prisoner in a Dungeon Deep
    by Anne Bronte

    “No, he has lived so long enthralled
    Alone in dungeon gloom
    That he has lost regret and hope,
    Has ceased to mourn his doom.”

  3. This is a bad, hopeless plan. What we have just done is to acquire 16,250, new, low level, uneducated population with residential rights, which will become 20-25,000 in 5 years, and worse, will be trained to work in and blend with the country, I foresee, that with the usual Israel foul-up where people are concerned, they will make at best, a feeble attempt to deport, but most likely forget all about it. Many will gravitate to the Black Hebrews, and revel in their polygamous manner of living.

    When the time comes for them to leave, assuming (a HUGE assumption) that the govt. will be arranging their deportation, They will fight against the “agreement” . The UN which guaranteed it, may be no longer exist,, that department may have been closed, or at least, will have misplaced the documents, etc.etc. There will be the usual High Court delays, and maybe, about 15 years from now, the case will see some action. By then,there will be 3-4-5-6,000 children whose only country and language since birth has been Israel, and who have made no preparations to ever be anywhere else.

    So we know TODAY, what will happen LATER.

    A VERY BAD DEAL.

    I think Hugo, you meant “in thrall”, not “enthralled”..Otherwise 100% right on, Very well put.

  4. This is a bad agreement. We know the infiltrators assimilate horribly, causing crime and dereliction upon the communities they dwell in. Why are the invaders to be tolerated, while Israel’s own citizens are neglected and ignored?

    The 16’250 infiltrators to be transferred to OECD countries are only a drop in the bucket. And they will select the best ones, if the agreement will be honored at all. Don’t count on the government to inform you of the true statistics.

    Once residency status is bestowed on the remaining illegals residing in Israel, they will be entitled to family reunion. Within a flash second, the number of Africans will triple. Yet the pain afflicted on South Tel-Aviv today by those invaders alone before reunion is already unbearable.

    Israel has enough on its hands integrating refugees of the world’s failed societies. The State of Israel accepted the wretched stragglers of the Holocaust, welcomed disinherited Jews fleeing Arab countries and destitute arrivals of the Soviet Union come crashing down. Next due will be Jewish refugees enthralled by Sharia lawlessness of a dhimmi Europe in decline.

    Other nations and religions are content to let their compatriots rot in foreign countries. Europeans or Christian Churches will barely lift a finger if Copts are persecuted in Egypt.

    In contrast, wherever States are teetering the world over, Israel steps in and takes care of its own while other countries stand by and let their fellow men go under. The people of Israel have taken more than enough responsibility for failed societies from overseas. Israelis cannot be made to suffer more.

    Redistributing the infiltrators throughout the country will not alleviate the problem, it will only overwhelm additional communities. The educational system throughout the country is today not up to its task already.

    Israel should get rid of all the infiltrators.