Too bad a million Jews don't want to move here. That's the tragedy.

there is two questions ..why ???and how ??in the last decay in evry fight in israil there is antagonism between both ...if you understand why ??can not understand how //and if you understand how you can not understand why ... sure israil started to aske after the fight not before ..do then understand ......

the haredi? the frumies? the conservatives? the reform? the reconstructionists? the purely heterosexuals? until the religious goyim in israel country are willing to accept the varied colours of judaism... yishai is fighting for a very dangerous form of religious bigotry.

We need to make more kids and so far were doing good at it.

As new immigrant I see very opennly that employers always try to exploit new immigrants and many return to their native lands after bad experiences.But in the parliament they speak steady about ways to increase immigration.What kind of a game is played here ?

I am no one state supporter but neither am I enamoured of free-loaders. I accept that in this day and age of economic migration there must be levels of control. But Yishai is now trying to justify his deportation decision with a later argument - the state's racial character. Where was he when nearly 2 million Russian immigrants, not all of whom could claim 2 Jewish parents arrived here? What does he say about a loyalty oath? What does he think about the most repeated exhortation in the Torah, ‘to love the stranger’? That many Knesset Members and the cabinet support his contention is not a justification for discriminatory legislation or acts that contravene the human and civic rights of people born in this land. Can they all be wrong? Yes. They are a lot of the time currently. With this and with the "Amendment to the Cooperative Associations Bill," about to pass almost unopposed in the Knesset, Israel is looking like a country with Jim Crow segregation and racial discrimination that blackened the USA's inter-racial history. How many Jews would want to support a state that looks and feels like Alabama in the 1960s.

all the people who want to return to the jewish people doing so?

No offense, but the Jewish majority was lost a short time after the establishment of the State of Israel when massive number of Arab Jews, including the family of MK Ely Yishay, were brought to Israel. The religious majority is still Jewish, but the etghnical majority is Arab. MK Yishay is therefore not a part of the solution but a part of the problem itself.

No offense? Plenty of offense. Jews from Arab countries are JEWS. Period. You are right that MK Yishay is part of the problem; a big part. But not for the "reason" you propose.

Why do Jews in Western countries relentlessly push for immigration policies that will reduce Western people to a minority and then advocate racially based immigration policies in Israel?

Most of the Russian immigrants are educated and cultured people who, for the most part, were relatively easily absorbed here, and whose contribution to the state outweighs their consumption of resources. Granted, many of them were not Jews, but their next generations are very likely to be fully assimilated here. All of this cannot be said about the Sudanese and Eritrean refugees, whose only contributions are rising crime rates and consumption of social resources. I agree with you that Yishai is wrong in categorizing the problem as relating to "Jewish character", as I would attribute it more to economic and social concerns, which are even more severe in my opinion. We cannot afford to let in so many refugees, and just like any other western country which defends its borders - we must deport them. "Love the stranger" is a nice sentence, but it should not mean letting in kol dichfin and letting our country get bankrupt and deteriorate to what we see in the immigrant ghettos of Marseilles, Malmo and Amsterdam. Jim Crow? That's demagogic BS. If these Africans were as educated cultured and productive as the Russians, no one would mind letting them in. My tax money should be spent on what is needed for Isrealis, not foreign freeloaders.

And your proof of this "relentless push"? Quotes? Names? Facts please, not diatribe.