African migrants to Israel, ‘We are human beings too’

January 9, 2014

by Scission

The scene should hugely embarrass all Israelis and supporters of Israel: tens of thousands of African immigrants demonstrating, demanding to be treated as human beings within a state that claimed to be created as a safe haven for immigrants. The lie is exposed for all to see.

All across Israel, African refugees are protesting and marching, setting up camp in public squares and in front of embassies and government offices striving to receive attention from the international community in hopes that it might help push Israelis to do what they have not done, hoping it will provide them the opportunity to live in peace within Israel.

The African Globe, however, points out:

“Israel does not want them, and last year it completed a formidable fence on the Egyptian border that’s doing an effective job of keeping what Israelis call ‘illegal infiltrators’ from reaching the Promised Land.
“If Israel acted according to its obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention – which, as a freshly minted nation of refugees, Israel played a significant role in creating – the government would review the individual claims of refugees and either designate them officially as refugees or send them back home, provided they do not face persecution there.

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