Not one of you people have even bothered to refer to the Implications of Israel'sw admiration of the world's most dangerous and unstable leader - your attempts at appeasement to ethic cleansing are somewhat pathetic Joe
Isreal ceased to speak for the Jewish people as a whole when, after the massacre of 3'500 unarmed refugees at Sabra-Shatila, it elected the man its own enquiry deemed responsible Prime Minister
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/01/11/israel-ariel-sharons-troubling-legacy
This article in this morning's Times, sums up for me what has happened to Modern Israel; the one ray of hope is the humanity displayed by Jewish people in the face of the inhumanity of the Regime
Jim Carroll

HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS HELP SAVE MIGRANTS FROM REMOVAL
Israel
Anshel Pfeffer Jerusalem
A plan to deport 38,000 migrants from Israel to Africa was on the verge of col?lapse last night amid growing domestic opposition and a failure to agree terms with Rwanda.
Holocaust survivors have criticised the plan and Israeli pilots have refused to fly the migrants out of the country. Yesterday Yehuda Bauer, a survivor and renowned Holocaust historian, compared the migrants' plight to that of Jews who escaped to Israel after the Second World War.
The deal with Rwanda was developed after Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, ordered the National Security Council to speed up the deportation of migrants, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, who had entered the country illegally from Egypt.
The migrants were to be given the option of receiving $3,500 in cash and being resettled in Rwanda, or being jailed indefinitely. Most of those targeted in the scheme said they had escaped warfare and repression but Israel's government defines almost all of them as economic migrants.
Of the 4,000 migrants whose requests for political asylum had been processed, only ten had been approved, refugee organisations said.
Mr Netanyahu responded to critics, saying that "the infiltrators can co-operate and leave in a respectable and humane way or we will use other methods. What we are doing is totally legal and necessary.
Israel's prison service has informed
the government that it does not have space to incarcerate migrants who refuse to be deported. Legal opinions obtained by the government have raised question marks over whether deportation to a third country is lawful.
Rwanda, the 'third country' to which the refugees were to be deported, seems to have gone cold on the deal.
"The government of Rwanda wishes to inform that it has never signed any secret deal with Israel regarding the re?location of African migrants," the government's Twitter account announced.