Americans love Israel, the birthplace of our Jesus, the brave Jewish warriors fighting against the infidel Muslim, protecting our great Christian religious sites, its compassionate desire to deport children that are not of pure birth.
Hold on…what was that last one…doesn’t that sound a bit…well…Mein Kampfish.
Yes it does…and here is exactly what Israel’s Interior Minister Eli Yishai said:
“Migrant workers bring with them a profusion of diseases – hepatitis, measles, tuberculosis, AIDS and drug addiction: Our critics can be as sanctimonious as they like, but unless we stop the wave of migrant workers, the whole character of the State of Israel, its Jewish character, will be under threat.”
That is the latest outburst in an increasingly heated public debate about the fate of migrant workers whose permits have been revoked because they had children while working in Israel.
Israelis support this view and like their interior minister, they believe that the Jewish character of the state should be the prime existential matter.
Arguments against allowing the children to stay range from that offered by one caller to a radio phone-in show that “first we should look after our own children”, to the dismissive comment of a middle-aged bystander at a recent demonstration on behalf of the foreign children, “If we allow them to stay, they’ll become a fifth column – we have to rid ourselves of them.”
In July, the Israeli interior ministry set up a special ‘Enforcement Unit’, called Oz (Hebrew for strength), to track down and summarily deport “illegals”.
The government charged the enforcement unit with the goal of reducing by 20,000 the number of illegal foreign workers in the country, and by 100,000 at the end of 2013. Next thing you know the government of Israel is going to be setting up detention camps. Can the ovens be far behind?
In addition to the more than quarter million “illegals”, some 150,000 foreign workers are in the country on special work permits (that represents more than 5 percent of Israel’s population which stands at a little over 7 million).
Workers are brought into the country under contract by specialized Israeli firms for jobs in construction, agriculture and as care-givers. In contrast, most “illegals” work in hotel and restaurant services and as domestic cleaners. Jobs Israelis consider beneath them and when those people have children the Israelis start screaming using all the old code words to avoid saying the ones they really want to say…you know…racial purity. Are these people really deserving of our support?
I don’t think so….Jim Walrod at Newspirates.com