print“Israel’s legislature,” writes John Derbyshire, “passed a law against illegal immigration “that allows indefinite imprisonment without trial for illegal aliens and 15-year sentences for those who assist them. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supported the legislature and called the African illegals ‘a national scourge.’ Israel is also building a 150-mile fence to seal the Sinai border.”
A good candidate for the title of World’s Most Dysfunctional Region is the belt of six sub-Saharan African countries from Somalia through to Chad, total population 153 million. People who live there often want to live somewhere else. They trek north into Egypt and Libya. But those nations were no better than semi-civilized even before the past few months’ ructions. The nearest functioning state the East Africans can get to by land is Israel. They have to go through Egypt and then the Sinai Desert, but what took Moses forty years is a lot easier now.
The Israeli government estimates 50,000 came in the past seven years, most from Sudan and Eritrea. That 153 million figure I quoted is close to Mexico and Central America’s combined population, which is around 156 million. East Africa’s failed states are to Israel what our southern neighbors are to us, except the USA has 307 million citizens while Israel has fewer than eight million.
Hence the law the Israeli legislature passed last week.
As a nation, Israel will probably outlive America. Into the Cannibal’s Pot examines the issue.
(“The Titan Is Tired” was my last meditation on Israel and The National Question.)
“Not only is a highly selective immigration policy an effective, non-aggressive tactic against terrorism—it is also the perfect complement to a peaceful foreign policy, predicated on the negative, leave-me-alone rights of the individual, and not on the positive, manufactured right of humanity to venture wherever, whenever.” (“Ron Paul Should Take the Lead on Immigration”)
Thou Shalt Not Be Selective – it being one step removed from prejudice, itself a step away from bigotry. The gnostic has always believed the ‘chosen’ people were chosen unwisely. Not for nothing was God deposed.
Bloviating Newt was also on TV advocating “bracero-coolie” status for millions to come over the American border and work for cheap (why is it the business of government to go out of its way to boost labor rates OR to keep them down??) while America has 10% – 20% unemployment/underemployment!! Of course, to Obama, they are future voters.
Israel is taking a step in the right direction. The next thing they need to do is to outlaw the welfare state. And my grandnephew (age 40 – father of seven) might have to do the revolutionary thing and GET A JOB! There is no reason to import Kwami Lamumba when there is an able bodied Ariel Pasternak who can WORK!
At < 0.001 of the world's population, Israel cannot afford to be demographically re-scattered.
So Israel is doing the right thing. Good for them ! But what distresses me is that many of its supporters here will advocate open borders for us in the US and Canada, and will scream ‘racism’ to high heavens when they hear people advocating the same kind of policy the Israeli state sensibly enforces.