Israeli intelligence agency Mossad will help Bulgaria with the Syrian refugees, it became clear from the words of Interior Minister Tsvetlin Jovchev in a TV program on Nova TV, Standart daily reports.
The Deputy Prime Minister was on a week-long visit to Israel a few days ago and confirmed that the Middle Eastern country will help Bulgaria in securing the refugee situation, due to Israel’s experience in the area.
Jovchev also noted that he hopes that the forecast of 200,000 immigrants in Bulgaria will not prove true. “We have over 10,000 illegal aliens now. Part of them – more than 1,000 – have not sought refuge and will have to be expelled out of the country. About 8,000 of them declared that they seek protection. Around 3,000 of the applicants will not receive such because they have no reason to want it “explained Jovchev.
Keeping the jihadists out of Europe!
Jovchev confirmed the information that there are jihadists in Syria, who aim to return to Europe – perhaps through Bulgaria. However, he assured that the government uses all its resources to keep the terrorists out of the country.
We have written much on Bulgaria’s plight, click here for our complete archive.
That is the title of yet another story blasting Arab countries for mistreating their fellow Arabs—Palestinians. Our earlier post on the same topic is here.
Arab countries do not “welcome” Palestinians!
Author Sameh Habeeb, an activist and journalist, writing in the Palestine Telegraphis not unexpectedly critical of Israel, but the gist of his report is that Palestinian refugees are treated like c*** in Muslim countries!
Habeeb begins:
Palestinian communities around the world, especially in the Arab states, have suffered forced exile or onward migration time and time again.
Most recently, Palestinian refugees living in Syria have had to flee the fighting in that country, and have fled to many parts of the world including neighbouring Arab countries like Jordan and Lebanon. In Jordan, Palestinian refugees are not given many of their rights as refugees and this even if they are able to get into the country. Many are denied entry. In some cases whole families are separated across the border because they are Palestinian refugees with a Syrian travel document.
Habeeb then goes on to list all the Muslim countries which mistreat Palestinians.
So much for that Muslim charity the UNHCR was bragging about here in 2009—1400-year-old Islamic tradition of “welcoming” the persecuted—what a joke! And, it isn’t just Palestinians, rich Arab countries like Saudi Arabia take NO refugees.
Israel is planning another major border fence project to thwart a possible “invasion” of Syrians from Jordan via the West Bank (and for other reasons). According to Albawaba.com :
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he intends to build a separation barrier between the West Bank and Jordan after completing walls on the Egyptian and Syrian borders, according to a report by the Israeli newspaper Maariv on Sunday.
Netanyahu plans to construct the wall in order to send a message to Palestinians who oppose Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley, the report says.
The wall will also guarantee continued Israeli control of the border crossing, Netanyahu reportedly said.
He added that the thousands of Syrian refugees in Jordan pose a threat to Israeli security, the article continues. The wall would protect Israeli settlements from possible invasion.
A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Ma’an that new construction plans are a clear message from the Israeli government to the United States “declaring the failure of the peace talks.”
As we have reported many times on these pages, Israel was being invaded by Africans coming across its border with Egypt, but a sturdy fence has slowed that migration to near zero.
See our entire category on ‘Israel and refugees’ by clicking here.
Palestinian refugees from Syria protest AGAINST UNRWA in Gaza!
We learned recently that many Palestinians fleeing Syria died attempting to reach Europe via the Mediterranean. So this first article from last week was interesting as Palestinians blamed their own factional leadership for their seeming lack of concern for the average Palestinian. One has to read through 16 paragraphs before the word ‘Israel’ (the usual scapegoat) even appears.
Palestinians face misery in Arab countries as refugees!
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The sinking of a boat carrying Palestinian refugees from Syria off the Malta coast on Oct. 11 resulted in the death of dozens. It also sparked angry reactions from Palestinians who considered the incident yet another chapter in the continuing suffering that Palestinians endure in and outside the occupied territories.
They directed their ire toward the Palestinian leadership for its failure to take action and assist those fleeing from Syria, or assuage the misery they face in Arab countries as refugees — a situation that has these refugees attempt maritime crossings toward Europe and risk their lives to flee the harsh conditions that they endure in host countries.
Interviews conducted by Al-Monitor with a number of Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and abroad have revealed the extent of frustration with the Palestinian leaders’ inability — regardless of political affiliation — to protect, defend and provide them with a dignified life.
Ramallah resident Mohamed al-Arkoub affirmed his conviction that Palestinian factions were unable to provide their people with a minimum level of services, both locally and abroad.
“I don’t think that anyone is interested in protecting us; neither the Palestinian Authority (PA) nor any organization or faction. Their primary concern revolves around their own partisan interests, and they pay no attention to the concerns of Palestinians,” he said in a phone interview with Al-Monitor.
Read it all!
But, consider the possibility that the ‘leadership’ wants to see them continue to suffer for media consumption in the West!
Syrian Palestinians protest UNRWA!
UNRWA stands forUnited Nations Relief and Works Agencyand is the UN body specifically designated to take care of one “refugee” group—Palestinians. The controversial agency, created in 1949, now receives millions of dollars annually from you—US taxpayers—to take care of Palestinians. All other refugees in the world come under the purview of the UN High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR). If you go to our ‘Israel and refugees’ category, Judy has written a lot about UNRWA and its critics and the fact that all other refugees from the period have long been resettled, but not the Palestinians.
Now this: Palestinian refugees from Syria protest UNRWA in Gaza!
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinian refugees from Syria demonstrated Monday in front of UNRWA headquarters in the Gaza Strip, protesting against the agency’s “delay” in fulfilling its responsibilities towards Palestinian refugees from the conflict.
Protesters called upon UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees displaced by the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, to provide a “good and dignified life” through the provision of housing and employment for Palestinians fleeing the 31-month-old conflict in Syria.
Head of the Committee of Refugees affairs in Gaza, Mahmoud al-Shawish, said that around 1000 Palestinians who fled the conflict in Syria now endure a “difficult situation” in Gaza, where they sought refuge.
Every time I see a story like this one, I get annoyed all over again about the UNHCR telling us that Islamic tradition (of kindness to strangers) has had the greatest positive impact on international refugee law. See my 2009 post here. Then tell us why (again!) Saudi Arabia takes no refugees!
This is more about the on-going controversy surrounding African ‘asylum-seekers’ who got into Israel before their border fence was complete. The Israeli high court has ruled that Africans imprisoned in Israel must be given a trial.
African men stand in charity food line in Tel Aviv. Obviously all African migrants are not in Israeli prisons.
One political leader who is vehemently opposed to the decision, said what so many people haven’t the nerve to say to liberal promoters of refugee resettlement—-why don’t you take one to your neighborhood? Better still go one step further and open your own homes to them? Indeed that would be true Christian or Jewish charity!
Here is the story in the Failed Messiah (as always emphasis is mine):
On Monday, Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled that the government is not allowed to imprison African refugees years without trial. Until now, the government has detained some African refugees for as long as three years under the Knesset’s Prevention of Infiltration Law amendment, even though they have not been charged with crimes and have not had trials. The court ruled 9-0 that the Prevention of Infiltration Law amendment amendment is unconstitutional.
There are reportedly currently 1,750 African refugees imprisoned without trial. Most of those are Sudanese and Eritrean.
The government has 90 days to comply with the ruling.
The High Court’s decision infuriated right wing Knesset members, Yeshiva World reported, and also enraged many Israelis living in South Tel Aviv where large numbers of African refugees congregate.
MK Eli Yishai of the Sefardi haredi Shas Party lashed out at the court’s justices yesterday in an interview with Israel Radio.
“[The justices and left wing refugee advocates should] take one [African refugee] home to their own area and then talk to me,” Yishai reportedly fumed.He also insisted that African refugees have destroyed southern Tel Aviv with crime and with their lifestyle and said he would continue his efforts imprison all of them, despite the High Court’s ruling.
Yishai justified his open defiance of the High Court of Justice by claiming that his first loyalty is to the citizens of Israel and the State of Israel – not to the African refugees he refers to as “infiltrators.”
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said the court’s ruling forces her and her Knesset colleagues to find another solution to the problem.
“Most of them are not refugees as they wish us to believe…If there is no solution we will have to find one. There is the issue of addressing the border and preventing infiltrations and then the matter of how we deal with those already in the country,” Livini reportedly said, indicating that deportation may have to be that answer.
Under international agreements signed by Israel and international law, deporting many of these refugees would be illegal.
The Knesset’s Interior Committee Chairwoman MK Miri Regev was even more blunt than Livni.
“[the court’s decision] is the Garden of Eden for the infiltrators and hell for southern Tel Aviv residents,” Regev reportedly said. She wants to pass a bill immediately to overrule the High Court’s ruling so the “infiltrators” can be kept locked up.
And, the Mossad has promised to help the besieged European nation on the border with Turkey to weed out the terrorists among the “refugee” flow.
