Israel's interior minister has risked further inflaming public
sentiment against African migrants by saying that the area of Tel Aviv
in which they are concentrated has become "the country's garbage can"
and suggesting many of them are infected with HIV.
Eli Yishai, who said he was speaking out of "love for my country",
repeated earlier calls for all migrants to be imprisoned "without
exception". His comments, in an interview with Israel's Maariv
newspaper to be published on Friday, followed a demonstration in Tel
Aviv last week in which migrants were attacked and abused. Eleven
youths appeared in courton Thursday accused of racially motivated
attacks.
"Southern Tel Aviv has become the country's garbage can," Yishai said.
"I'd suggest to all those bleeding hearts who speak out against me to
take a few dozen infiltrators and house them in their neighbourhoods.
Let them see them every day; let their children try to play in the
playgrounds they're in.
"Yesterday, a woman called me. Two Sudanese men chased her in the
alleyways of Jerusalem. It could have ended in rape. Did you know that
there are a lot of women in Tel Aviv who have been raped but are
afraid to complain so that they don't get stigmatised as Aids
carriers?"
According to a health ministry spokesman quoted by Maariv, "99.9% of
the migrants who come to work in Israel are not infected with any
unique disease whatsoever".
Yishai said that "infiltrators", along with Palestinians, were
threatening the "Zionist dream". "There isn't another country that is
as sensitive as we are to human rights," he said.
He called for more detention centres and camps in which to hold
migrants. "We need to transform military bases in which we can
imprison all of them without exception." Non-dangerous prisoners could
be released early pending deportation to make room for "infiltrators
who pose a far greater risk to public safety".
He said the army would be deployed to track down the migrants. "The
infiltrators are going to reach the promised land but they aren't
going to see it at all, only through bars ... they are going to be
deported from here, either pleasantly or forcibly," he said.
He dismissed accusations of racism. "I sound like a racist, a
benighted man or a xenophobe, but I'm motivated by love for my country
and the knowledge that I don't have another country."
A second member of the government, deputy health minister Yakov
Litzman, said Israel was spending more than 50m shekels ($13m) a year
on health care for African migrants "at the expense of the weak
population". "This must be stopped ... there is no reason for Israelis
to pay such a dear price," he said.
Official data presented to a parliamentary committee this week showed
the crime rate among foreigners was significantly lower than among
Israelis. In southern Tel Aviv, which has become a flashpoint for
racial tensions, the percentage of crimes committed by foreigners was
13.5% although they make up 28.5% of the population.
According to the population and immigration ministry, there are 62,000
migrants in Israel, the vast majority from Eritrea and Sudan. It said
that 2,031 migrants entered Israel via Egypt this month, compared with
637 last May. The country's population is 7.8m.
Israel granted asylum status to one applicant out of 4,603
applications in 2011, according to the US state department, which last
week criticised Israel for its routine use of the term "infiltrators"
to describe migrants.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/31/israeli-minister-racial-tensions-infiltrators
All black civil rights 'leaders' have warned their troops about the
jew, including the late Michael King.
"Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever
they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in
which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God
and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them."
- Martin Luther King
". . . You declare, my friend, that you do not hate the Jews, you are
merely 'anti-Zionist.' And I say, let the truth ring forth from the
high mountain tops, let it echo through the valleys of God's green
earth: When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews--and God bless
them for it. Wear your disdain for the Jew as a badge of honor."
- Martin Luther King