Sunday 12 August 2007

Israel has a refugee-problem

Yeah, you might say, there are the Jews, who fled/came to Israel and the Palestinians who fled during the different wars.

But now they have a third refugee-problem with people from Sudan. About 200 Sudanese have fled, crossing the Egyptian-Israeli border. About one Million refugees from Sudan live in difficult condition in Egypt.

Some were killed by the Egyptian army, some clubbed to death. In December 2006, at least 27 Sudanese were killed by Egyptian police trying to brake up a demonstration near the U.N.'s refugee agency office in Cairo.

Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem, the Jewish state's Holocaust museum and memorial, recently wrote to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urging Israel to "show solidarity" with the Sudanese refugees and help find a solution.

Most of the 200 Sudanese are held in jails. Israel wants to be an ethnic-clean Jewish state, also a democracy and has no need for further presumably uneducated Sudanese.

And beside the first point, we in Europe have the same problem. The unemployment rate of uneducated is already high enough. Those jobs we had have long ago been transferred to China.

If Israel gives them the right to stay, thousands more would try to cross the border. And if the ties between Egypt and Israel were worse, the Egyptians just could look the other way. Israel needs Egypt as much as we need Libya.

I believe, that we should stop the right for asylum as it is impossible to grant it to all those that come to our doors and we deny it for some reasons. And we should send those back, which manage to come here. If they don't say from where they come, we should send them back to where we think they came from.

On the other hand I would grant the right to stay to following groups:

A) Workers and their families for jobs which we can't find anyone in Switzerland or the EU.

B) People which were persecuted, because either they were for democratic changes or free speech (not because of religion and not if they were part of an antidemocratic, say Islamic, movement).

C) A contingent of people from around the world, as the Green Card Lottery in the US.

D) A contingent of people from war-zones. Families with young children preferred.

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