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Israel to deport 400 foreign kids
Attila Somfalvi
Published: 01.08.10, 18:15
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1. PM BENJAMIN MADE A SAGACITY PRUDENCE :-)
BENJAMIN ,   SINGAPORE   (08.01.10)
IN FUTURE NO FOREIGNERS SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ISRAELIS FREEDOM AND KINDNESS ! IF THEY WANT TO STAY- THEY MUST CONTIBUTE TO THE ECONOMY OR JUST TAKE THE EXIT !
2. rewarding illegal immigration
nadav ,   tlv   (08.01.10)
First of all, the whole argument for those in favor of letting these children stay is disingenuous, intellectually dishonest and based on deliberate disinformation! They talk about "only" 1200 children, but they fail to mention the fact that the parents of these children are illegal. The parents of both legal and illegal children know that their children will Never be citizens of Israel and therefore should be the ones held responsible should they be deported- NOT the government, which is unusually lenient! In Italy, Spain, and Australia, illegals -children and all, are sent to interim camps on remote islands! Israel has been MORE than generous in this instance. Finally, it is nonsense that these children will have a problem adjusting if deported to their family's home country- every one knows that children adapt far more quickly, especially the younger they are, to their environment. Israel itself absorbed tens of thousands of Jewish Olim children who are now fluent Hebrew speakers!
3. Learning from America's Mistakes
blash ,   Jerusalem   (08.01.10)
America has a serious problem with illegal immigration in that it is forced to give citizenship to babies born in America no matter what. Illegal immigrants take advantage of this by having "anchor babies" in the US and then can't be deported because if they were, either the US would be deporting the American citizen babies or it would be dividing up families. By taking a strong position on this now, Netanyahu has prevented Israel from becoming an "anchor baby" nation and thus dropped a major incentive for illegal immigration. Bravo!
4. No human is illegal!
Ich ,   Europa   (08.01.10)
5. SHAME ON YOU!!!!!
Dana Rothschild ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (08.01.10)
let the children, all the children, stay in Israel and make a new law.... but AFTER you let these children, already born in Israel or living here for years, stay!!!!! what a shame!!!!
6. Shame on those who abstained
Bruno ,   Haifa   (08.01.10)
- how can one stand quiet when the fate of a child is in the balance? You are not in the government in order to abstain, but to make decisions and take responsibility. And even more shame on those who voted for deportation. Jewish and democratic - like hell we are.
7. Deport Eli Yishai instead
Avi ,   Israel   (08.01.10)
400 foreign kids are worth much more than 1 Eli Yishai
8. Bogus
The Last Zionist ,   Eilat   (08.01.10)
This is a bogus issue. Adults that are here illegally should be deported!! They should take their children with them. We encourage families with children to be Olim. Their children adjust as can the children of the illegals in their parents homeland.
9. Fair enough
Israel   (08.01.10)
If they don't meet five of the critera then back they go. I don't have a problem with that as long as they go back to the motherland with their mother/father and are not separated. Face it, they don't come here because they love us - they come here for monetary gain.
10. Not enough
Laurent ,   France   (08.01.10)
You should fire all foreign people of your country before being invaded like in France and have public troubles with burnt cars and other. Don't listen leftists.
11. #10 Laurent in france a bit out of touch
Avi ,   Israel   (08.01.10)
Thanks for the advise on how to run our lives here in Israel, bit i think you will find that it is the charideem who set fire to trash cans , throw stones on the cars on the highway, and riot on what has now become a way of life for them, so maybe its the charideem who should be deported preferbly to Tehran where they belong.
12. send them back- to where?
Rahel   (08.01.10)
have the enlightened members of parliament given any thought of WHERE those children are to be sent? Back across the border? back to where the parents came from? The concentration camps? Instead of punishing innocent children, why not clean up the act? With all the closed border crossings and hour long interviews at the airport, - how do illegals come into the country in the first place? Someone is letting them get through, someone is employing them- THOSE are the people that need to be punished- not the children. This is a revolting development unworthy of Israel whose people have a long history of suffering.
13. Why are we importing in 000s of Goyim?
Ronny ,   tlv   (08.01.10)
14. By what right you expel these children?!!
Salma ,   Palestine   (08.01.10)
you're also foreigners ! your cabinet has no shame.
15. Very simple test
oxo ,   USA   (08.01.10)
Citizen of X country: X country has to be responsible for the needs of ITS CITIZENS!!! Citizen of Israel: israel is responsible. Exceptions: Persecution that has the potential of death. Why should one nation be responsible for the citizens of another nations unless that person(s) has legal immigrant status?????
16. Salma, give it up already. Jews weren't invented in Siberia
Brian Cohen ,   Judean Peoples Front   (08.01.10)
You Palestinians will have to get it some day that Jews come from Israel. No, Jews were not invented in Siberia - just ask any Jew from Bagdad. Jews were not invented in Poland - ask any Jew from Hebron. Jews were not invented in Germany - ask any Jew from Ethiopia, or Lebanon, or Damascus. Jews are from Israel. We were invaded and occupied 2000 years ago and were turned into refugees -except for those who managed to stay on despite the invaders. Our temple is indeed in Jerusalem. Our ancestors (and yours) are indeed buried in Hebron.
17. Wow, our government actually grew a brain for a change?
Tahl ,   Ashdod   (08.01.10)
Indeed amazing,. But when will they finally erect that wall on the Egyptian border that should put an end to the migrant plague?
18. Job well done!!
sarah ,   israel   (08.01.10)
At last you have made your decisions and we are proud of you Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and your ministers, more power !!
19. Deporting children
Brod ,   USA   (08.01.10)
This is a bad PR for Israel. On this matter, the government should not cow to fanatics. Fanatics everywhere are like Islamist-Jihadists and Nazis. They are the products of Lucifer.
20. migrants
david ,   ramat sharon   (08.01.10)
Thank you : Now I can leave Israel without any regret and go to country where human being are not consider as Aniamls
21. And you said Kahane was a criminal?
moriah ,   sacto calif   (08.01.10)
22. FINALLY
(08.01.10)
About damn time! But in my opinion it should be ALL the illegals, with ALL their illegal kids, not just 400 of them.
23. What about the tens of thousands on way
DAVID ,   Jerusalem Israel   (08.01.10)
We are worrying about 800 children most who have been here for years & know no other home but what about the tens of thousands just arrived and more on the way will we be having this discussion in 20 years about what to do with 8,000 such children ? like all western countries we are going to pay a very very hard price for our spoiled luxurious lifestyles.
24. #3 - This could be easily avoided
Yaara ,   Israel   (08.01.10)
In Britain when a child is born he is not automatically british citizen unless one of his parents is a british citizen or has an indefinite permition to stay in the UK. This law can be passed in Israel as well. A child cannot be an Israeli citizen unless one of the parents is Israeli or has the permanent permition to stay here. There is no need to break up a family.
25. I won't be making Aliyah to a country that exiles children.
Zachary ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (08.01.10)
Jews are people who know what it is like to flee a country. Where is the compassion in this situation? Who would want to move to the "progressive" country of Israel that throws children to the curb. It's like the Jewish-run parliament forgot their past...
26. They expelled thousands of Jewish Children from Katif
Yos ,   Jerusalem,Israel   (08.01.10)
I did not hear the left libs cry out against that
27. "Israel to Deport 400 FOREIGNERS
marlene ,   Philadelphia, USA   (08.01.10)
Good. Well done, Israel. It's a pleasure reading that you are (finally) doing something in your OWN interests!
28. Ben Eliezer is ridiculous
Frank ,   Canada   (08.01.10)
The point is not what the so-called world will say but the point is to what has to be done. Laborites are not true Zionists because they don't understand that Zionism is not about being a colony of the 'world'.
29. If you're so concerned, Salma,
Linichka ,   Gdynia, Poland   (08.01.10)
ask your scowling, apparently chronically constipated, mustachioed leader to accept these illegal immigrants. There's only so much room and no more in Eretz Israel.
30. A new life in slums next to bus station Sth Tel Aviv.Awesome
Claudia ,   Tel Aviv   (08.01.10)
Things must be really tough for them to go for one slum to another. Sometimes my Jewish homeland really ashames me. But in particular the talkbacks, read worldwide as they are all in the anti semetic language of English. (sarcasm) On one article today you're all slamming the British for something done last century, including actions of 900 years ago. I dont see any difference in those ancient history events from being delighted in sending 400 kids back to god knows what a future they have..
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