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Gillerman 'ashamed' of deportation plan
Yael Branovsky
Published: 07.09.10, 20:11
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1. Deportation
Poppy   (09.07.10)
DONT BE ASHAMED, THEY HAVE FAMILIES WAITING FOR THEM HUSBANDS, CHILDREN, MOTHERS AND FATHERS WHAT IS SO BAD TO GO HOME... ISRAEL IS NOT THEIR HOME THEY ARE THE CRUEL ONES,
2. Get a grip!
Cowboy Joe ,   Calgary, Canada   (09.07.10)
This is abolute nonsense! I was watching a very interesting documentary on PBS (Public Broadcasting) less than a week ago. It was about a Jewish family in the U.S. who adopted an eight-year old girl from China, who spoke no English and only Cantonese. It was a traumatic experience for her to leave her foster family and her Chinese environment and move with strangers (her new adoptive parents) to the U.S. NOW HERE IS THE POINT: Inside of 12-18 months, this eight-year old girl was speaking fluent English, had American friends, dressed as an American girl and had lost so much of her Cantonese, that even though her Jewish parents enrolled her in a Cantonese weekend school, when they were communicating with her former foster parents in China by Internet (video and audio communication), the girl ended up asking an adult visitor, who spoke Cantonese, to translate her English words because she was too embarrassed to speak an imperfect Cantonese. Clearly she had lost much of her Cantonese vocabulary and was fluent in English. THAT IS TO SAY: Young children's minds are like sponges. They can learn a new language in no time, especially when enrolled in school. And they adapt to their surroundings in no time when they play with children in their new environment. Especially so if they look exactly like the children in their new environment. Furthermore, I can almost guarantee that the illegal immigrant children can speak their mother's tongue and do so in their homes - Filipino, for example. So, what is your problem with illegal immigrants and their children being deported? Not just the 400 should be deported but all 1200. Israel is sending them to their native lands NOT to concentration camps!!!
3. illigal immigrant use their children...
Anna maria sedda ,   Italy   (09.07.10)
and in Italy -france -Europe also childrean are use by illigal immigrant for their ideology..and illigal activities..they do not care about their childrean...that is wrong... they have to learn that people have rights and lots of duties too...
4. More true to say that...
A Jerusalemite ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (09.07.10)
"One cannot remain silent in the face of..." the deportation of innocent children.
5. Israel isn't alone in trying to deal with illegals.
Raymond in DC ,   Washington, USA   (09.07.10)
Yes, Gillerman, Israel will "look bad". But whatever Israel does, it will be held to a unique standard such that it looks bad. But Israel isn't alone in trying to deal with illegals. France right now is deporting Romas, and most of Europe is struggling to deal with illegal immigration (mostly Muslim, but also from Asia). Gill, what would you have Israel do? How many is "too many", and what would you propose Israel do once that number is breached? Traveling from Denmark to the Czech Republic in 1998, our train in the middle of the night pulled into an Austrian rail yard. Police with dogs went car to car looking for folks trying to smuggle themselves into the EU. So yes, illegals are everyone's problem. But only Israel's actions to deal with it are held to scrutiny.
6. A jewish state....
Shalom ,   U.S.A.   (09.07.10)
The government of Israel should do everything to preserve the jewish character of Israel. The jewish people paid a high price to have a national homeland; it is going to become a shelter for jewish refugees in the not too distant future. Shana Tovah to every jew.
7. Gillerman is right
Brod ,   USA   (09.07.10)
The PM should overule the extremists in his administration that seem to have no sympathy for innocent children born in the Land of Israel. These children will be loyal citizens of Israel who will fight to defend their homeland-Israel in 10 years. Israel's great PM Begin would definitely defend these children to live in Israel.
8. US Immigration deports
Yanke ,   USA   (09.07.10)
illegal residents who are children all the time .
9. Israeli Lefties ,open Savion and Ranaana for them!
ab   (09.07.10)
Show how really humane you are instead of pushing problems on the rest of populations and disappearing for vacations to Saint Tropez .
10. Nobody is calling to deport these kids all alone
Ezrach   (09.07.10)
The call is to deport illegal foreign workers. Their kids go with them- obviously. To frame it as "deporting the kids" is a cynical lie.
11. These are children of foreign workers.
Robert Haymond ,   Israel/Canada   (09.07.10)
not welfare recipients. They speak Hebrew, go to school in Hebrew and associate with Jews. The foreign workers want to reside here and have already shown that they will be upstanding and productive citizens. In the meantime, our own laws have been vague with respect to foreign workers, residence and citizenship. Let's clean up the laws and explain them to every new foreign worker, sign an agreement in their native language and in Hebrew so that there are no misunderstandings. In the meantime, let's allow these children and parents to dwell amongst us. In the long run, it will be to our advantage.
12. No.11 - they are more Israeli than the children...
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (09.07.10)
...of the Haridim. That's for sure.
13. the children are going back to their homes
pinchas ,   boston   (09.07.10)
and extended families, with their parents. Why this fake emotional gush and these manipulative pictures, as if Eli Yishai is sending them to a death camp? In a sense, these are "anchor babies", which America, especially in the great southwest, has such a problem with. Too bad Israelis don't have the same emotional fervor for freeing Jonathan Pollard, rotting in a U.S. prison while Bibi hosts his MK bum kissers at a fancy pre-Rosh Hashanah reception.
14. sorry sir but circular logic is profound
Roland ,   miami beach, USA   (09.07.10)
in the argument against adoption and adaptation. I think that if the President of Israel can say that he supports the children then he can also set the terms in a Zionist fashion to make them a part of the Jewish neighbourhoods and Tzahal after 12th grade. They can't even apply for conversions until after age 13. What is a boy or girl to do.
15. This whole debate is absurd!
adam eliyahu   (09.07.10)
Every country in the world deports illegal aliens, especially America. DId these people protest against Gush Katif? Legal Citizens were kicked out of their legally purchased homes and entire communities were uprooted. Here, illegal aliens are being asked to return to their communities.
16. Ynet it's a Joke!!!!!
Phoenix ,   Israel   (09.07.10)
The same useless so called news of this Ynet leftist Site. All the Ilegals most go. They are ilegals they do not belong, they enter our country breaking the our law and planing to stay. This is the law and leftist Ynet can just Stop publishing this garbage already!
17. It was MORE SHAMEFUL that 10,000 Jews were EXPELLED
Shalom   (09.07.10)
from their homes in their own country and their livelihood destroyed. Where were you then? Hypocrites!
18. Gillerman
Israel Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (09.07.10)
As someone write before, Israel won't look better or worse. Israel haters will jump on the news. Normal people think deporting illegals is an internal issue and won't care. This article is really about Gillerman taking his first step to join Meretz or Kadima. He was always a Leftist, why is this news?
19. WHAT WILL THE GOYIM THINK OF US?
LAWRENCE RAP ARTISTE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (09.07.10)
Dear oh dear ,we must be seen to be fair .And let us kick another ten thousand jews from their homes. Gillerman is dumb .These children are here ILLEGALLY .Enough with the fake bleeding heart routine.
20. saying foreign workers are diluting Jewish state is racism
observer   (09.07.10)
In Saudi Arabia, foreign workers transfered 1,200 billion RS in the last10 years, 1$=3.75 RS. If Israel is the only Jewish Democracy in the ME, Saudi Arabia is the only Global Socialist Democracy in the Middle East; facts speak.
21. shame on israel...casting aside children...how evil
Shmeul ,   Billings, USA   (09.07.10)
no matter what your argument may be...to toss out children of ur slaves is revolting...it is like abortion...there will be a price to pay for this unbelievable act...how many nations of the world treat children in this manner.....none i know of....religious bigotry knows no bounds
22. No.11 - they are more Israeli than the children ...
Cowboy Joe ,   Calgary, Canada   (09.07.10)
of those Jews in S'dom al yad HaYam (aka Tel Aviv). And that is REALLY for sure! REALLY!
23. "TO SHOW ISRAELS' POSITIVE SIDE"
LAWRENCE RAP ARTISTE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (09.07.10)
If Gillerman wants Israel to be viewed favorably ,he should encourage Israel to not give away its land to enemies. To stand up to american political pressures and to live a Torah lifestyle,NOT a religious lifestyle but one based on fairness. Israel abandoned its principles at Oslo ,has also abandoned Shalit and Pollard and the jews of Gush Katif. Try doing what is right in the eyes of Hashem and the nations will view you favorably .
24. Dan, I respect the work you did, but...
Israel   (09.07.10)
The deportation of these children cannot sway world opinion any further from the anti Israel stance it already holds. We are being boycotted left right and center and pretty much no-one has anything positive to say about us. There isn't a country in the world that would not do the same. Our country is unique, it's enough we have thousands of non Jewish Russians that have altered the demograhical balance, we don't need these children to upset the balance even more. They are not going back to a country that has threatened to kill them, they are not asylum seekers, they were born here and now they can return, with their parents. Nothing wrong with that.
25. Pity we can't get Gilad back as fast
Talula ,   Israel   (09.07.10)
as these are being deported. Charity begins at home.
26. #15 and #16: First of all, there is a huge
Robert Haymond ,   Israel/Canada   (09.07.10)
debate about deporting illegal Mexicans in the USA and the current law passed in Arizona about the police having the right to stop any citizen and asking for identification has been found illegal (unconstitutional) although Arizona will appeal this ruling. And in the USA, we're not even talking about Mexican children. And in many countries, such as Japan, you cannot become a Japanese citizen unless you have at least one Japanese parent. So the restrictions in Israel are neither onerous nor, by comparison to other nations, cruel. Still, I stand by what I wrote in post #11. Poster #16 equates all those who believe that the children of foreign workers born in Israel should be allowed to stay has also been supported by two (female) MKs, one representing Likud and the other representing Yisrael Beiteinu. This was just reported in Ynet. I, too, support the notion. I am a longtime rightist and semi-conservative poster here on Ynet and a member of Yisrael Beiteinu which I volunteered for during the last national election. This is a situation which cuts across party lines and the political spectrum and not an easy left/right division as you suggest.
27. This is SHAMEFUL!!! What a sad, sad tragic story for these
RichinBoston ,   Boston USA   (09.07.10)
kids and families. Make an apeal and find a better way. I'd rather give than see them deported. So, so sad.
28. Poor, Rich,Smart, Perfidious, What the Heck
Dav Lev ,   Burbank.CAUSA   (09.07.10)
The real problem is why they are in the country to begin with? If their parents understood their being in Israel, and the future consequences ( children are not, unlike the US, anchor babies),I cannot pity them and fault the UN ambassador. If there is fraud here..that is something else. As far as Israel's PR, it cannot get any worse..from the fence (wall) to E. Jerualem, to the flotillas, to the overall peace talks. Nothing that Israel does can circumvent 1.4b angry Muslims. Even the Catholic churches are biased. 5.5m Jews just cannot prevail..and your disunity doesn't help. We Jews (USA) are accused of all kinds of perfidy and mischief ( see Boesky/Levine/Enron/Madoff, etc.) AND of being smart. Rich Jews we all are? Poor Jews in the Pale were also criticized for being poor. Ask any Romanian. I have.
29. GILLERMANS' GHETTO MENTALITY
LAWRENCE RAP ARTISTE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (09.07.10)
Gillerman has no heart for these poor children,and they are poor unfortunate children .All that concerns this man is "what will the goyim say??" The goyim will say the same thing they said when they were deporting jews to the concentration camps....not a lot.
30. HUMANITARIAN ISSUE UNIMPORTANT
LAWRENCE RAP ARTISTE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (09.07.10)
The human issue does not worry Gillerman in the slightest .What only seems to concern him is WHAT WILL THE GOYIM SAY ?? One can take a jew out of galus but one can not take galus out of the jew.. By the way ,normal gentiles despise illegal immigrants and would thoroughly understand Israels deportation .Gillerman cares but for the wrong reasons.
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