[fugazifan]

oh historic irony you are so silly....
http://972mag.com/asylum-seekers-tra...ut-food/55182/

Asylum seekers trapped on Egypt-Israel border go 6 days without food

A group of some 20 Eritreans has been trapped for six days between the Israeli and Egyptian fences in Sinai. Soldiers have been ordered to give them some water but no food. Activists who went there last night and this morning were driven away by soldiers.

 

Israeli fence along border with Egypt. (Yuval Ben-Ami)


UPDATED: IDF Spokesperson has responded that it will start providing the group of Eritreans with food. (See bottom of post for official comment.)
The group fled from Egypt to Israel, crossed the Egyptian fence into Israeli territory, and was then stopped by the fence Israel has been erecting precisely in order to stop asylum seekers such as these (in addition to the illegal smuggling of arms and drugs) from entering Israel. As Haaretz reports, soldiers have been ordered to prevent the group from crossing the new fence, and for six days now have only given the asylum seekers little water and fabrics for protection from the sun – but no food. Two of the women who reached the fence were pregnant, and one of them has reportedly already suffered a miscarriage during the long stay in the sun.
According to Haaretz, Interior Minister Eli Yishai said Wednesday that “every day there are people stuck there. If there were no fence, and if we weren’t steadfast, there would be a million people here. Don’t ask what we would do with a million refugees here – excuse me, migrant workers.”
A small group of Israeli activists took a car from Tel Aviv to the border Tuesday night, carrying substantial amounts of food for the asylum seekers. Upon arrival the activists were able to contact some Egyptian soldiers on the other side, who confirmed the asylum seekers’ presence in the area. Egyptian soldiers have been known in the past to shoot at asylum seekers near the border, and Egypt is notorious for having returned refugees, including from Eritrea, to their countries of origin.
The activists moved on, only to run into an IDF patrol. Soldiers confirmed the earlier reports that they were only allowed to give the people behind the fence water, not food. None reported disobeying the order. The commander of the force showed the activists a closed military zone order, and sent them away after taking the food they brought and promising to check with his superiors if he is allowed to bring the food to the starving people. A second group of activists went to the border this morning and was also turned away. The IDF spokesperson unit has not yet responded to the question of whether or not the food was transferred. (See UDPATE below)
Meanwhile the International Committee of the Red Cross is starting to get involved, and Israeli experts on international law warn that stopping asylum seekers from entering the country and making their claim for asylum is a breach of binding treaties to which Israel is a signatory. Israeli NGOs are now preparing to file an urgent petition to the High Court demanding the asylum seekers be allowed into the country.
My own estimation is that Israel will not let the asylum seekers die in the absurd prison in which they are caught. Eventually they will be let in. The cynical point of this extremely cruel behavior echoes what Interior Minister Eli Yishai continues to emphasize: that the aim of Israeli policy is to make life unbearable for the asylum seekers, who cannot be deported due to a severe risk to their lives in their countries of origin – mainly Sudan and Eritrea – and therefore should be dissuaded from attempting to enter Israel in the first place.
As the majority of asylum seekers in Israel come from Eritrea, and as the state offers them collective protection from deportation without checking their individual refugee claims while at the same time forbidding them from working, it is worth mentioning that the global recognition rate for Eritreans as refugees stands at 93 percent. Those making the journey from Egypt to Israel are at serious risk of being kidnapped by a sophisticated smuggling network for ransom, torture, rape, organ harvesting and death. Just today, Human Rights Watch published a detailed account of the atrocities committed by the smugglers, and called on Egypt to crack down on the networks.
As Eritrean activist and asylum seeker Isayas Teklebrhan recently said in a demonstration outside the newly built desert jail for asylum seekers: “We did not go through all this to find a job in Tel Aviv. We took on all this suffering and anxiety to find dignity and life. To find hope. Because once hope is dead you die with it as a human being… We plea for your mercy, we plea for your protection, we ask you as humans to humans – for dignity.”
[UDPATE 20:32: IDF spokesperson unit response:

Following the directives of the political branch and the the decisions of the Israeli government IDF forces are working to prevent illegal entry into the Israeli territory on the Western border. Construction of a fence along the border is in these days being completed. On the Western side of the fence, facingEgypt, stays in recent days a group of foreigners whose entry intoIsraelis prevented thanks to this fence. For humanitarian reasons IDF forces are offering the foreigners water through the fence."

An IDF source also added that as of today asylum seekers will also be offered food.]

Here is a a video report by Lia Taranchansky for The Real News.

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Zionism killed Judaism's soul.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by fugazifan

oh historic irony you are so silly....



Zionism killed Judaism's soul.

Agreed. The worst part? This is clearly racial. Ask around how the Bete Israel Ethiopian Jews have been treated in Israel? They are the Israeli niggers

So when the Eritreans, black folks similar to the Ethiopians, try to get in, what does Israel do? Something even more callous, heartless, and racist than even America would do

Netanyahu, fuck you punk ass bitch! We smell you shitty ass

[fugazifan]

let's not say anything that we will later regret and claim that america is incapable of such things as well

[Pookie]

"...a breach of binding treaties to which Israel is a signatory."

Israel in breach of a binding treaty? Surely not.

[Keeping It Simple]

Why are the psycho-left SO obsessed with Israel?

[fugazifan]

why are the psycho right so obsessed with israel?

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by fugazifan

why are the psycho right so obsessed with israel?

Simply put, there are most Christian Zionists in evangelical America then there are citizens of Israel period. That is the problem. Their vision of Israel is not quite the same is honest Israelis like yourselves. Their purpose for Israel is not exactly conducive to Israel's own needs. These assholes are the problem, and their Zionist zeal is far more mean-spirited and blind than any ultra-Orthodox rabbi or settler.

[fugazifan]

i know ...i know.... i was just providing a sarcastic reply to KIS's post...

[tesla69]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

Simply put, there are most Christian Zionists in evangelical America then there are citizens of Israel period. That is the problem. Their vision of Israel is not quite the same is honest Israelis like yourselves. Their purpose for Israel is not exactly conducive to Israel's own needs. These assholes are the problem, and their Zionist zeal is far more mean-spirited and blind than any ultra-Orthodox rabbi or settler.

Are you referring to the functionally insane disguised as religious people who actively promote nuculur war to Bring It On! it being armageddon...the red calf people and so on?

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by tesla69

Are you referring to the functionally insane disguised as religious people who actively promote nuculur war to Bring It On! it being armageddon...the red calf people and so on?

Those are the extreme fringe, but there are millions and millions of less extreme albeit firmly Zionist in their beliefs. Most Christians in America in one way or the other have been brainwashed to believe that it is their Christian duty to blindly support Israel with the divine right to rule arrogance they only shared with former-President Nixon. Thankfully the Catholic and Orthodox Churches I am part of have a more nuanced opinion

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by fugazifan

i know ...i know.... i was just providing a sarcastic reply to KIS's post...

 

Don't feed the troll!

 

[gast30]

i think on many places the population expands and makes people go to otherplaces world wide
this is not the end for that movements of people




just go over/beyond the clichés of invasion politics
the people that live in a sertain place are the best and they deserve everthing and the others are the bad people
always looking for a difference while the dna sez we all come from africa


i don't know how else to have a fast way to teach
or call this phenomenon

stay free from these lifedestroying thoughts that create a basic for violence and hate



it is not the end for the movement of people
what i see as a solution is a balance to be voluntairly followed
to reduce the overpopulation
or else people will feel attackt in their world if they understand the message wrong



start to solve the world overpopulation
make no childeren
if you want childeren adopt childeren


i see no other way out and hopefully life is still enjoyable if you think of the foodchain that is heavely reduced

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by fugazifan

why are the psycho right so obsessed with israel?

I understand this was sarcastic. However:

English Defence League Officially Announce Ties To Zionist State of Israel.

[gast30]

there has just been an obsession wave for everthing
smoking sigarettes
gay marriages
smoking pot
immigrants


like humans try to seek for 'perfection' or the perfect world
or blame those who are not part of the perfect world

the basic i see in this is escapism
running from the true reality, mortality of life, desiseas, natural disasters
and waking up in the inperfectworld
the destruction done by previous generations or recent generations

[fugazifan]

Originally Posted by Pookie

I understand this was sarcastic. However:

English Defence League Officially Announce Ties To Zionist State of Israel.

Islam is the new Jew. so israel has made a lot of allies with other Islam fighting entities without realizing or caring that when the muslims are gone jews will be next, again.

[gast30]

Originally Posted by fugazifan

Islam is the new Jew. so israel has made a lot of allies with other Islam fighting entities without realizing or caring that when the muslims are gone jews will be next, again.

what it comes down to is troubeling people who want to have nothing to do with it at all
like you can watch a sort of fight
and then it goes up and down the political hierarchy
this and that

the fight makes themself sick and brings other peoples lives also in danger or death
because of the creation of more stress in an already turbulent economy, poverty
this is only good to be abused by people who want to make some kind of profit
from this happening
i would not call it a show

people have to learn that the information what we have today about the earth and humans is BETTER then the information of the past

[Keeping It Simple]

Originally Posted by fugazifan

why are the psycho right so obsessed with israel?

There's no such thing.