Israel – Charedi Press Praises Kids’ Deportation

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    Thousands participated in a rally for a stop to the deportation of 1,200 foreign workers' children, calling the Israeli government to grant them Israeli citizenship, in Tel Aviv. May 25, 2010. Photo by Ben Kelmer/ Flash 90Israel – Many members of the ultra-Orthodox community praised a government decision made Sunday on the deportation of hundreds of foreign workers’ children.

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    United Torah Judaism’s three magazines published articles on the issue Monday, some of them relating to new conversion laws and hatred of haredim.

    An editorial carried by Hamevaser (The Herald) explained, “History teaches us that foreign elements that come to countries offering them work are destined to destroy the absorbing country, or to take it over.”

    The article added that “hundreds of thousands of Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, and Hindu foreign workers (together with hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish immigrants) place the state’s Jewish character in danger”.

    Of those opposed to the deportation the paper says, “More than they have love for all people, they possess an abysmal hatred for Judaism. This animosity towards Jewish values is also apparent in all decisions made lately on the right of return, Jewish identity, and non-halachic conversion.”

    It adds that the government’s move was not nearly satisfying, but that it is “a step in the right direction”.

    Yated Newspaper published an article by A. Yitzhaki, who said that “usually there is a parallel between these sympathetic people (i.e: those who opposed the deportation) and those who encourage the starvation of haredi children”.

    Referring to Education Minister Gideon Saar’s vote against the decision he wrote, “Finally no haredi children are involved and there is no fear that they will vote for ultra-Orthodox parties and endanger the secular hegemony in Israel.”

    Yitzhaki added that the government now fears the growth of the ultra-Orthodox population more than it does the growth of the non-Jewish population. The haredim, he wrote, “are the ones against whom a battle needs to be waged in order to stop growth in any way possible, especially by starving their children.”

    Hamodia also published a pessimistic editorial claiming that the foreign kids allowed to remain in Israel endanger the state. The article called the opposition to deportation “demagoguery of delicate souls”.

    It was especially critical of the timing, just a short while after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prevented the Conversion Law from passing, thereby preventing the possibility of “fortifying Israel’s Judaism”.

    Thanks to these moves, the paper says, in the future the state will not be considered Jewish “but for a few islands of haredim”.

    “The Zionist movement has been pursued by a rolling stone for some time, and now it has been buried without a coffin,” it adds. “Even the most delusional Zionists never dreamt of a state in which Sudanese, Russian, Thai, Ukrainian, Eritrean, and Romanian people get citizenship.”


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    I would say deport only those who can be mistaken in their looks as yiddin but the asians could never fool us into marriage unless they. Became real geirim kehalocha. I use cleaning help and baby nanny help from the asian immigrants and also here in Arzei we use two orientals for shabbps needs such as turning on ac in shuls in hot weather. If you want to deport then there are plenty of kids from terrorists in jail that should be deported.

    shredready
    shredready
    13 years ago

    some yiddin sound like raciest fanatics

    Lets get the foreign element out of Germany. Sound sthe same to me

    dlp312
    dlp312
    13 years ago

    One step closer to goyimfrei.
    Sounds like the nazis with all this racial purity talk.

    David18
    David18
    13 years ago

    Apparently some peoples’ memory is faulty of our own past. This is what happens when you don’t teach Shoah studies in religious schools.

    Secular
    Secular
    13 years ago

    ‘Referring to Education Minister Gideon Saar’s vote against the decision he wrote, “Finally no haredi children are involved and there is no fear that they will vote for ultra-Orthodox parties and endanger the secular hegemony in Israel.”

    Yitzhaki added that the government now fears the growth of the ultra-Orthodox population more than it does the growth of the non-Jewish population. The haredim, he wrote, “are the ones against whom a battle needs to be waged in order to stop growth in any way possible, especially by starving their children.” ‘

    I find this rhetoric disturbing…It is not the government who is starving Chareidim, it is people who refuse to work to feed their own families who starve their children.

    The fact that foreign workers are imported to Israel is simply a result of the native population not wanting to perform certain jobs (just like in the US).

    In the US for example you have ~10% unemployment (20% in the inner-cities)
    yet illegal immigrants come to the US in droves and manage to find work. Eventually the illegals will obtain amnesty or have legal children and will marginalize the native population because of their superior work ethic…

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    They are “Illegal” immigrants, No civilized country in the world except the US grants citizenship to ‘anchor baby’s’

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    When did we become like this? Doesn’t anyone in the charedi leadership have any seichel? Ve vill now make Israel Goyim-rein. Ve can put ze concentration camps on ze Negev vere no von vill zee zem.

    The Torah calls this concept “ger toshav”.

    shredready
    shredready
    13 years ago

    Anonymous Says:

    They are “Illegal” immigrants, No civilized country in the world except the US grants citizenship to ‘anchor baby’s’

    nobody says they are illegals

    13 years ago

    #1 ’s comments are astounding. I suppose this person considers themselves to be a good and frum Jew. All human beings are G-d’s creatures, but this person considers himself to be above certain humans – particularly Asians. They are good enough to clean his house and nothing more. What a sad comment on a sorry state of affairs. The children in question belong to those with legal work permits.
    This doesn’t seem to matter to #1 . I suppose that he would be able to spew out a long tirade about anyone that isn’t exactly like him. If we don’t daven like him or practice Judaism just like him – watch out. He probably has a pre-printed rant about MO, Conservative and Reform Jews – because they are not exactly like him.
    Yet they are all Jews. All I can say is that the amount of lashon hora demonstrated on VIN continues to amaze me. A truly frum person is one who davens daily, gives tzedakah to the best of their ability, performs mitzvahs and DOES NOT engage in lashon hora – no matter where and how he worships.

    Anon Ibid Opcit
    Anon Ibid Opcit
    13 years ago

    Hmm. I think see a precedent.

    1:8 A new king who did not know of Joseph, came into power over Egypt.
    1:9 He announced to his people, ‘The Israelites are becoming too numerous and strong for us.

    1:10 We must deal wisely with them. Otherwise, they may increase so much, that if there is war, they will join our enemies and fight against us, driving [us] from the land.’

    1:11 [The Egyptians] appointed conscription officers over [the Israelites] to crush their spirits with hard labor.

    1:12 But the more [the Egyptians] oppressed them, the more [the Israelites] proliferated and spread. [The Egyptians] came to dread the Israelites.

    1:15 The king of Egypt spoke to the [chief] Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shifra and Puah.

    1:16 He said, ‘When you deliver Hebrew women, you must look carefully at the birthstool. If [the infant] is a boy, kill it; but if it is a girl, let it live.’