Comments on: Myths, facts and suggestions: Asylum seekers in Israel

By: Fredy

Fredy — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:55:33 +0000

Yes, you are right, Zionism dictates Israel a unique country. But in the context of this article, Israel shares responsibility and has capability of other refugee receiving states, thus ” no different from other states” strictly in this sense.

By: Prometheus

Prometheus — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:21:54 +0000

“A refugee, however, is human being who can do what he wants.”
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Human beings have absolutely no right to do what they want – never had and never will.
Prisons everywhere are filled with people who though that they could do what they want.
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“There is absolutely nothing wrong with trying to get to a country where they actually have some hope for a better life.”
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Each and every responsible government knows that it is not truth, which is why only real life threats as war of famine are considered legitimate reasons to seek refuge and only until these threats exists.
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BTW, you are allowing one group of people to do what they want, while denying other the same right – looks like double-standard.

By: wilson

wilson — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:38:11 +0000

do u have the history of ww2 hitlers regime and what hapened the jewish history changed its way men refuggee we will stuggle other ways

By: samsom

samsom — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:22:31 +0000

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By: aristeides

aristeides — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:12:22 +0000

The Jews fleeing the Nazis came across the borders uninvited and unwanted, a fact that their descendants seem to have forgotten.

By: Leila Segal

Leila Segal — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:18:18 +0000

The refugees who arrive in Israel have been through hell – in their country of origin and on their journeys through Africa, gang-raped, shot, tortured; hungry, alone, without husbands, mothers, fathers, children – many will never see their families again — physical and emotional despair. The ones who arrive are the strongest, and many arrive broken, never to be remade.

‘They ask me “how did you get here?” Can’t you see it on my body? The Libyan desert red with immigrant bodies, the Gulf of Aden bloated, the city of Rome with no jacket. I hope the journey meant more than miles because all of my children are in the water. I thought the sea was safer than the land. I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running. I want to lay down, but these countries are like uncles who touch you when you’re young and asleep. Look at all these borders, foaming at the mouth with bodies broken and desperate. i’m the colour of hot sun on the face, my mother’s remains were never buried. I spent days and nights in the stomach of a truck; I did not come out the same. Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body.’ — Warsan Shire, Conversations About Home (at the Deportation Centre).

By: Yossi

Yossi — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:15:40 +0000

There is a difference between people “whose lives are at risk” and asylum seekers. YES, accept people who seek asylum because of religious, tribal, political persecution. Most of the others whose lives are at risk are here because “their lives are at risk” because they have no work. BTW how dos a person whose life is at risk pay smugglers?? Accepting the economic migrants will only make the possibility of the REAL asylum to arrive here harder.

By: Please

Please — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:52:47 +0000

They’re economic migrants. They came uninvited & are not wanted. Israel can do whatever is necessary to remove them.

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:07:34 +0000

@Shaun.Actually Israel cannot do “what it wants” as it has singened the Refugee Convention.

A refugee, however, is human being who can do what he wants. There is absolutely nothing wrong with trying to get to a country where they actually have some hope for a better life. The weakest only make it to refugee camps in neighboring countries (if at all), where conditions can be so bad that their lives are still at risk.

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:02:43 +0000

@Aaron. Reaching Israel is very difficult and involves lots of hardships. People are raped, tortured and abused in Sinai. Only the strongest can make this journey. These are the young men. The weakest refugee populations, especially children, rarely make it so far.