Comments on: World Refugee Week: A community deported, in pictures http://972mag.com/world-refugee-week-a-community-deported-in-pictures/49006/ Independent commentary and news from Israel & Palestine Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:13:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Sima http://972mag.com/world-refugee-week-a-community-deported-in-pictures/49006/comment-page-1/#comment-66631 Sima Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:52:54 +0000 http://972mag.com/?p=49006#comment-66631 Residents of the Arab village of Manda this evening expelled 450 Sudanese. The Sudanese or Erithrean called the police who arranged buses to pick them up to another location. Because they speak Arabic, the migrants work mostly for Arab contractors who work them like slaves for 25 shekels an hour. I hope they didn't get rid of them to avoid paying them. Residents of the Arab village of Manda this evening expelled 450 Sudanese. The Sudanese or Erithrean called the police who arranged buses to pick them up to another location.

Because they speak Arabic, the migrants work mostly for Arab contractors who work them like slaves for 25 shekels an hour. I hope they didn’t get rid of them to avoid paying them.

]]> By: Greg Pollock http://972mag.com/world-refugee-week-a-community-deported-in-pictures/49006/comment-page-1/#comment-66383 Greg Pollock Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:31:58 +0000 http://972mag.com/?p=49006#comment-66383 'Eli Yishai, the Israeli Minister of the Interior, arrived at the airport and in front of the departure hall, which only media members and the deported asylum seekers could enter, talked proudly of “Operation Going Home.”' . Your country is very sick now. I am sorry. . A day will come when what you are reporting, photographing will be heard, seen. But not now. ‘Eli Yishai, the Israeli Minister of the Interior, arrived at the airport and in front of the departure hall, which only media members and the deported asylum seekers could enter, talked proudly of “Operation Going Home.”’
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Your country is very sick now. I am sorry.
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A day will come when what you are reporting, photographing will be heard, seen. But not now.

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