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Arab-Israeli business owners split over illegal Palestinian workers
Hassan Shaalan
Published: 16.11.13, 10:06
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1. Authorities should make these business owners
barbara ,   Haifa Israel   (11.16.13)
criminal accomplices to the murders if they insist on using illegal workers. What is more important - your money or your lives ?
2. What did Eden do or fail to do that caused HaShem not to pro
Rivkah   (11.16.13)
tect him? Was he eating a clean foods diet? Was he following the Commandments and confessing it as sin when he fell short? In his youth, Ariel Sharon was protected in battles and from snipers while 23 of his childhood friends were not and died at the hands of enemies of the Jews. What he did to please HaShem needs to be studied and copied by the IDF for others to be protected. He found HaShem's supernatural protection or he would have died from enemies attacking or from the hole in his heart that was a birth defect that was never corrected surgically.
3. It is not a border fence.
trump   (11.16.13)
4. ONLY ONE SOLUTION FOR PEACE
Monique ,   Paris   (11.16.13)
Move ALL Arabs AND their families and businesses out of Israel.... Israel will only be peaceful when it is Arab FREE. Abbas demands the same for Palestine. No Jews.
5. Illegals
tom ,   new york   (11.16.13)
Illegal Arab workers should be treated as enemy infiltrators and spies under the Geneva Convention. Israel should realize that it's at war with the Arabs.
6. And This ain't Apartheid?
Khloe McAllister ,   San Francisco, Ca.   (11.16.13)
Israel has a long way to go and she has come a long way. The lessons of S.A. hatred are not enough? The lessons of U.S. racial hatred is not enough? Arabs born in the Land of Canaan/Israel and can't move about the land freely,,, I wish like hell someone would tell I could not travel, enter the 50 plus U.S. states here on this land. This sh-t is apartheid plain and simple and what G-d would accept these HUMAN rights violations. Very sad about the loss of life but this young man looked liked an Arab or was a Semite as the youth that killed him, self hatred? One state, one vote, citizenship for all,,,,,, "And This ain't Apartheid"?
7. #1 Obviously money or they wouldn't hire illegals.
A ,   Belgium   (11.16.13)
They will probably lose a lot of Jewish customers now, and rightfully so.
8. #6 You are extremely sick in the head
A ,   Belgium   (11.16.13)
First of all, Jews are the majority in Israel, including Judea and Samaria. They are NOT a minority of immigrant descendents oppressing the native majority, as was the SA apartheid. Arabs born in Israel can AND do move about freely. Have you ever even BEEN to Israel? You would see for yourself. And the "young man" was in IDF uniform when he was murdered, he was killed because he was a Jew, nothing resembling self hate involved. You "wish like hell someone would tell I could not travel" etc. I'll tell a place you CAN travel to and stay there permanently, you even named it in your sentence.
9. Tighten the process and heavily fine the businesses
William ,   Israel   (11.17.13)
if they violate the rules. 3 violations and your business license is revoked. There is no racism involved here. A Jewish business in Iran cannot hire a Jew from Israel. It's a nationality issue and the "Palestinians" have unfortunately made it a life-or-death issue...as they have been doing around the region for the past 90 years.
10. #8 - she's not sick, she's from SF, CA
William ,   Israel   (11.17.13)
which is pretty much a festering puss-hole anyway. Probably came from a BDS flash mob and was pissed off no one attended...had to take her grief out on someone. She claims she can travel the 50 states without a problem. Let her try to cross into Mexico or Canada, another sovereign nation, and see what happens. Same thing that happens when people cross into the sovereign nation of Israel. Sadly, she is the face of America's future - under-educated, full of entitlement, and intellectually lazy. Question is - who will destroy America first, the liberals is the govt who exploit and feed these young losers, or the loser generation themselves?
11. "Arab-Israelis had nothing to do with these attacks."
(11.17.13)
Yeah, you did. Every time you harbor an illegal Arab who has the potentially of committing an attack. Every time you remain silent when YOUR leaders incite Arabs to dehumanize Jews and even condone attacks. Every time you remain silent in the face of your obligations as an Israeli citizen for the whole population, not just yourselves, while still demanding full rights equal to the whole population. Until Arab-Israelis see themselves as Israelis and equal partners in protecting the Israeli society, rather than trying to undermine it, will anyone believe you.
12. To: No. 6
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (11.17.13)
No, it isn't apartheid. Why don't you look up the meaning of the word? You'll make less of a fool of yourself. By the way -- does herding native Americans onto reservations and keeping them there constitute apartheid? Did you know that native Americans were not considered citizens of the United States or granted the right to vote until the 1920s? Well after the franchise was extended to women. Did you know that Israeli Arabs have had the right to vote since modern statehood was established? And Israel didn't have poll taxes or literacy tests, either. Can't say the same for the United States -- until well into the 1970s. And they are making a comeback. Why don't you clean up your own house before worrying about anyone else's?
13. The issue is quite clear-cut
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (11.17.13)
There are no "dilemmas." Israeli Arabs are well aware that ersatz "Palestinian" intruders from Judea and Samaria represent a clear and present danger. Those who choose to employ these illegals nevertheless obviously do not have the best interests of the State of Israel, and the security of the State of Israel and the welfare of its citizens (at least its Jewish citizens). Arab businessmen in Israel who are governed more by the desire to hire cheap labor than by the desire to protect the sovereign state of which they are citizens enjoying all the rights of citizenship (though not all of its obligations) should decamp to the areas controlled by the ersatz "Palestine" Authority. Obviously, they have no problem flouting the law and they are willfully endangering the safety and security of their fellow citizens. They should therefore immediately renounce their Israeli citizenship. There really is no halfway, here. If you flout Israel's laws and, in so doing, compromise Israel's security, then you do not deserve to hold Israeli citizenship, and should be stripped thereof. Arab Israelis want the best of both worlds -- a prosperous existence in the State of Israel and an ability to hire cheap, illegal, labor. It is time for them to choose. They have straddled the fence for far too long, and gotten away with it. There are more than enough documented incidents of terrorism perpetrated by undocumented Arabs illegally employed in the State of Israel. Isn't it time we said "Enough!?"
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