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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that an electronic fence along the Israel-Egypt border has saved the Jewish state from jihadist attacks or what he believes would be worse — a tide of African migrants. … The interior ministry says there are currently some 42,000 African migrants in Israel, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea,… Read more.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel can be forgiven for bemoaning that no good deed goes unpunished. Recall that she made quite a show last summer of welcoming as many refugees as could make it to Germany. But she soon had just cause to rue her open door policy – as reports of assimilation woes and spikes in crime… Read more.
The flak Israel is getting for repatriating Africans who entered the country illegally is as unfair as it is uninformed. Israel has launched a forced repatriation of Eritrean migrants that amounts to a grave violation of their human rights because of the risk of persecution in their reclusive homeland…. (Reuters, July 16, 2013) Human rights… Read more.
