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Israel Returns Illegal African Migrants to Egypt
By ISABEL KERSHNER

JERUSALEM, Aug. 19 — Israel sent approximately 50 African migrants, many reported to be Sudanese refugees from war-torn Darfur, back across the border to Egypt late Saturday night, a move that drew the condemnation of Israeli human rights advocates when it became known on Sunday.

The migrants had illegally crossed the Israeli-Egyptian border earlier Saturday and were sent back the same day, as Israel instituted a new policy of instantly deporting such illegal migrants, regardless of their status, an Israeli government spokesman said.

The spokesman, David Baker, announced that Israel was prepared to absorb the 500 refugees from Darfur already in Israel, whose status had been the subject of growing debate here. But from now on, he said, Israel would send back all illegal migrants crossing the border from the Egyptian Sinai, regardless of their status or origins, under a recent agreement with the Egyptian authorities.

About 2,500 African asylum seekers have entered Israel over the past two years. Most are considered economic migrants and face deportation. But they include the 500 from Darfur, now considered refugees, and about 900 others from elsewhere in Sudan, according to the Hotline for Migrant Workers, an Israeli advocacy organization.

The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, reached an understanding with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt almost two months ago that the illegal migrants would be returned.

An Israeli human rights organization, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, issued a statement expressing its “strong” condemnation of the government’s decision “to deport African refugees and asylum seekers to Egypt without following the internationally recognized procedures for determining whether they are refugees.” Mr. Baker and other officials could not immediately confirm whether any of the migrants returned Saturday were refugees from Darfur, but the Web site of the newspaper Haaretz cited unidentified military officials saying that the majority were.

Previous Sudanese asylum seekers in Israel have complained of maltreatment in Egypt and have said that they feared that if they were deported the Egyptians would send them back to Sudan, a country hostile to Israel. Government officials said that Israel had received commitments from the Egyptians that refugees from Darfur would not be sent back to Sudan.

Romm Lewkowicz, a spokesman for the Hotline for Migrant Workers, accused Israel of violating a provision of the Geneva Conventions regarding obligations toward refugees from an enemy state. He said that it was Israel that had promoted the clause after World War II, remembering that German Jewish refugees had been sheltered in Britain.

This month, 63 members of the 120-seat Parliament signed a petition initiated by student activists opposing the refugees’ deportation. The document said in part, “The refugees need protection and sanctuary, and the Jewish people’s history, as well as the values of democracy and humanity, pose a moral imperative for us to give them that shelter.”

Aliza Olmert, the wife of the Israeli prime minister, has also expressed sympathy for the refugees and became active on their behalf. She intervened in one case in which a small girl was left in Egypt after her parents dashed across the border into Israel. Mrs. Olmert appealed to President Mubarak’s wife for help, and the girl was reunited with her parents in Israel.

In an article in the newspaper Yediot Aharonot this month, Mrs. Olmert wrote, “The mercy we can give these broken people is to quickly identify those who are eligible for refugee status and speed along their absorption in Israel.”

“As for the wave of economic migrants,” she added, “we cannot handle it. We must be compassionate, but also firm. What we must not do is send them packing back to Egypt without receiving assurances that they will be treated fairly.”

Also on Sunday, Prime Minister Olmert agreed to pay needy Holocaust survivors in Israel who came out of the camps and ghettos an average monthly stipend of about $279, up from a $20 stipend proposed two weeks ago, which the survivor groups had rejected.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/wo...gewanted=print

[MossadConspiracy]

so many messed up things in that article

ws

[AmroodWaala]

Also on Sunday, Prime Minister Olmert agreed to pay needy Holocaust survivors in Israel who came out of the camps and ghettos an average monthly stipend of about $279, up from a $20 stipend proposed two weeks ago, which the survivor groups had rejected.

Survivors' children to sue German government for therapy
By Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent

An unprecedented lawsuit will be filed in Tel Aviv District Court on Sunday on behalf of thousands of children of Holocaust survivors demanding that the German government pay for therapy needed to help them cope with their suffering.
Survivors' children to sue German government for therapy - Haaretz - Israel News



Agent Orange legal case dismissed

In a brief filed... it said opening the courts to cases brought by former enemies would be a dangerous threat to presidential powers to wage war.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Agent Orange legal case dismissed

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...[The US] has rejected claims for compensation from alleged Agent Orange victims, maintaining that there is a lack of proof that the chemical caused people's disabilities.

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hahahaha, of all the aspects of the article to fixate on...

[kamuzrana]

sick racist country. at least it's good to know that some of the students aren't that terrible, they tried to keep them in the country. but blahhhhh.

[Aryan_]

Deporting war refugees to a second undemocratic third world country? If that happened here it would be the jewish controlled leftist groups that would be screaming racism.

Israel should give these Africans should full residency rights, entitlement to free health care, and be allowed to set up their own cultural organisations and be given socialist handouts to help them "integrate".

[kamuzrana]

Originally Posted by Aryan_

Deporting war refugees to a second undemocratic third world country? If that happened here it would be the jewish controlled leftist groups that would be screaming racism.

Israel should give these Africans should full residency rights, entitlement to free health care, and be allowed to set up their own cultural organisations and be given socialist handouts to help them "integrate".

they would need to do that for Palestinians first.

[Aryan_]

Originally Posted by kamuzrana

they would need to do that for Palestinians first.

Insh'allah