Nadene Goldfoot
We human have been migrating for various reason ever since we became human! I suppose the grass always looked better to us on the other side of that hill or mountain or stream or river or ocean. We were made to migrate.
Now that we are living in the future, a time we just dreamt about and find it is our generation that live in what we wrote about-that future, we find that the situation has changed. Migrations of people are more like invasions of our privacy, our heaven.
Back in the Bible Days, the Assyrians practiced attacking and then relocating those attacked to other places. They did this to the 10 tribes of Jacob living in the northern section of Israel. That, at least, was better than taking lives. They found then that people were useful, slaves, and put them to work. Abraham joined a group with his family of moving from the Tigris River in Mesopotamia to Egypt. Jacob and his family of 70 moved from Canaan during a drought and also went to Egypt where the Nile River fed all. We became a moving people all over the planet. This is shown in our DNA tests by population geneticists. We are born in one place and die in another; becoming farmers after being hunters and gatherers, then city folk.
Today, there are other reasons for migrations to occur. Usually its in the plans of the nations' leadership. People of one skill are desired in a nation without that skill and people are asked to move there. Or, it's in the plans to take over a nation by overloading it with people from a certain country-taking the place of a war and winning it.
1836 and the Alamo in Texas Mexico at one time mentioned something like that-getting back Texas by overloading it with their Mexican population. That has turned out to be true except not for that reason. Their population has fled due to their mismanagement of people; drug overlords taking over parts of Mexico; a high criminal element frightening the people out of Mexico.
Molenbeek, an immigrant communityBelgium took in Muslims and they took over a city, Molenbeek. It isn't like a China town, inviting to tourists. It's not safe. The Belgium police are afraid to enter. Belgium has produced more jihadi fighters, per capita, than any other western European nation and is estimated to have dispatched around 520 recruits to the Islamic State cause in Syria. Even the idea of visiting the land that is home to the EU parliament is enough to inspire trepidation in some foreigners. As Charles Michel, the Belgian prime minister, put it, "Almost every time there is a terrorist attack, there is a link with Molenbeek."Taki in the Spectator has described the district as a "no-go area" which police are too frightened to enter.
The USA is running out of resources like water. We pay money to have water and now private companies are trying to take that over and they will ask for higher prices. Nothing is free, really, in the USA like education was in Syria. I say this because I don't know what the situation in Syria is now. California and Portland, Oregon are highly taxed so that all can have great benefits, but the taxes have come to the point where people are gasping; they reach a point of being too high, even for them. Gresham, Oregon just said no to more taxes for the police. They'll have to get along on the high ones they already have.
Conditions are bad at the border between Mexico and the USA, even with Biden as President. We're about to face real problems and not receive our Social Security Benefits next month because of it. We owe too much money and haven't made the dent in this debt.
Israel, a country of migrants, has also been faced with a migration problem. Israel was created for Jews who have been homeless for over 2,000 years, having to migrate here and there and exist through the good will of that country that usually turned against them for being who they were. They were 2nd class citizens at best in the Middle East lands. In Europe they were invaded and attacked or killed in pogroms. So Israel is the new reservoir, safety place for Jews, the only Jewish country in the world. When others come in a migration, what do they do? The Jewish motto is to Not do to others that which they don't want to happen to them. In other words, the Golden Rule. That's what Judaism is all about. Can migration survive here ?
As for the Jewish plight, Jews have been forced to migrate from country to country throughout too many ages. Finally, Theodor Herzl, Jewish, wrote a novel about their condition and what to do about it called Altneuland, which presents his Zionist ideas as embodied in a utopian Jewish state in Palestine. He was not orthodox; reformed as much as possible who at one time recommended assimilation, and living in Uganda. He was a Jew who was a Viennese reporter and knew what was happening to other Jews, and thinking of what to do about it. Jews were being referred to as "The Wandering Jew."
2010 :Al Jezeera picture: Surprise invasion from Africa to Israel. Since the detention facility was set up, Israeli immigration police have housed more than 2,500 African asylum seekers under the country’s so-called “Infiltrators Law”, which allows Israel to detain, without charge or trial, migrants who have entered the country without legal documentation.
The mainly Eritrean and Sudanese migrants left the Holot camp facility on June 27 because Israel had not processed their claims for asylum as yet. Since the camp was set up, Israeli immigration police had placed more than 2,500 asylum seekers under what authorities call the "Infiltrators Law". That's how they entered Israel, The Africans and al Jazeera refer to the detention camp as a prison. This is the best a small country, taken by surprise, can do for these new-country seekers who sneak in without right or reason or documentation.. Well, they may have had reason, but not having to do with Israel except maybe seeing it as an easy mark. The Holot Detention Center in Israel holding the Africans After their "grand surprise entrance into the country, really an invasion:: Africans called on UN and Red Cross to intervene. Israel had arrested about 1,000 of them.
Africans migrated and entered Israel in 2010 that became quite problematic. When they entered, the migrants ran amok, grabbing and stealing anything they saw. They themselves chose Israel but had no reason, no connection to Israel or Jews.
Besides that, Israel is one of the smallest teeniest countries in the world. The South Sudanese, whose country was established in 2011 after they fled civil war in Sudan five or six years ago, will be the first to be repatriated, under an agreement between South Sudan and Israel. They number only some 1,500.
“The next stage is the removal from Israel of all the infiltrators from Eritrea and Sudan, whose number comes close to 50,000 people,” said Interior Minister Eli Yishai. Sudan happens to be the 8th most populated Muslim majority country in the world, already having 70% Muslim population. 50% of Eritreans are Muslims and 50% Christians at this time. They were neighbors of Ethiopia, and Israel has already taken in many Ethiopians that were Jewish; people having been attacked by Eritreans. Did they need the Ethiopians' enemies to enter Israel? It's established to be a Jewish haven, one of a kind. 48 other Muslim majority countries welcoming Muslims were awaiting them. “At the moment, we are permitted only to deport from Israel the citizens of South Sudan and the Ivory Coast,” the minister was quoted as saying. “I hear those who say these infiltrators cannot be sent back, but this is an important mission ... saying “No” is tantamount to shelving the declaration of independence, the end of the Zionist dream,” said Yishai, who heads a religious party. As it was, charity food lines were set up in Tel Aviv in 2012 to feed them.
Israel has begun work on a long security fence along its border with Jordan, the only one of its internationally recognized frontiers currently without a physical barrier. Newspaper reports said Netanyah had asked officials to examine whether a fence should now also be built along the boarder ith southern Jordan, in the event that migrants try to cross the narrow Gulf of Aqaba and enter Israel from the Arab kingdom. Israel, a country of 7.8 million at that time, had almost completed a high fence along the border to deter more would-be migrants who are brought to the frontier by Bedouin people-smugglers. Newspaper reports said Netanyahu had asked officials to examine whether a fence should now also be built along the border with southern Jordan, in the event that migrants try to cross the narrow Gulf of Aqaba and enter Israel from the Arab kingdom. The African were job-seekers in hotels, etc.
The Eritrean–Ethiopian War from 1998 to 2000 involved a major border conflict, eventually resolved in 2018. In 2020, Eritrean troops intervened in Tigray War on the side of Ethiopian central government. In April 2021, Eritrea confirmed its troops were fighting in Ethiopia. Eritrea borders Ethiopia in the south, Sudan in the west, and Djibouti in the southeast.
Tell this to the world, though. Reporters have no idea. All they see is Israel returning Africans and not allowing them to stay because they were Africans. Their appearance was more of an invasion than a group appealing for help. "How terrible", they write, "that Israel returns them".
African immigration to Israel is the international movement to Israel from Africa of people that are not natives or do not possess Israeli citizenship in order to settle or reside there. This phenomenon began in the second half of the 2000s, when a large number of people from Africa entered Israel, mainly through the then-lightly fenced border between Israel and Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula. According to the data of the Israeli Interior Ministry, 26,635 people arrived illegally in this way by July 2010, and over 55,000 by January 2012. In an attempt to curb the influx, Israel constructed the Egypt–Israel barrier. Since its completion in December 2013, the barrier has almost completely stopped the immigration of Africans into Israel across the Sinai border.
As of January 2018, according to the Population and Immigration Authority (PIBA) there were 37,288 African migrants in Israel, not including children born to migrants in Israel. Most African migrants are regarded to be legitimate asylum seekers by human rights organizations, but the Israeli government says most of them are job seeking work-migrants. There was even a group of Blacks from the USA.
This was a different situation from the Ethiopian Jews and those few from Kenya who found they carried the Cohen gene and were Jewish.
I know of one person who is a lawyer, who traveled every year to do his stint
(milueem in the IDF, and has finally moved his family and himself to Israel.
The Palestinians want to enter Israel with their huge population that would flood the Jewish population. Right now it's been staying at 80% Jewish and 20% Arab population. There are 48 other Muslim majority countries that they could enter, but they are being conjoled to enter Israel. This is the plan of a Palestinian State next door to Israel. They want to bring in the total population into Israel; thus taking Israel.
Israel was established by Jews for Jews in 1947. By that time, in the 1930s Israel was still Palestine and being considered to become the Jewish Homeland. There was a 1,467, 000 Arab population there while Jews only numbered 475,000 native Palestinians. By 1948, there were 750,000 Jews; the number that entered Canaan with Joshua was 601,730. This lopsided number did present a problem, and at the time, Jews were fearful for their very lives in the world as they were living the worst of lives; 2nd class citizens under heavy duress, anti-Semitism everywhere because they wouldn't comply to the dominant religion. Judaism itself told them where they were meant to live--and that was in Palestine (Judea and Samaria), their ancient land.
The Arabs, (for all were called Palestinians who lived there), were under no stress for their lives. They just lived there, Bedouins that moved about. Joan Peters (book-From Time Immemorial) has made a study of their origin and found that many had recently moved there when Jews started returning and building. They were indeed job seekers. For example, Jews came in large groups by 1881 from eastern Europe; mostly fleeing. Tel Aviv was founded by 1909 by Jews as a garden suburb of Jaffa.
Yes, our migration started with the first Aliyah of 1881, over 100 years ago. There were about 5 Aliyote at different years.
Because Israel has the Right of Return for Jews, the Palestinian Arabs expect it also. "The Palestinian right of return is the political position or principle that Palestinian refugees, both first-generation refugees (c. 30,000 to 50,000 people still alive as of 2012) and their descendants (c. 5 million people as of 2012), have a right to return, and a right to the property they themselves or their forebears left behind or were forced to leave in what is now Israel and the Palestinian territories (both formerly part of the British Mandate of Palestine), as part of the 1948 Palestinian exodus, a result of the 1948 Palestine war, and due to the 1967 Six-Day War. The fact is that they had their chance in 1947 and turned it down. They turned the offer down because it didn't include every inch of Israel and held out for taking all of it.
Today, Israel's population amounts to 9,044,541.
With nearly 6.8 million Jews, Israel is the only Jewish-majority country and the only explicitly Jewish state.
The Arab population is about 1,957,270.
I see the ratio between Jews and Muslims in Israel as 7: 2. not 80% to 20%.
- The total land area is 21,640 Km2 (8,355 sq. miles), said to be about a large as Texan rancher's driveway. Israel's area is approximately 20,770 km2 (8,019 sq mi), which includes 445 km2 (172 sq mi) of inland water. Israel stretches 424 km (263 mi) from north to south, and its width ranges from 114 km (71 mi) at its widest point to 10 km (6.2 mi) at its narrowest point. Notice that while the population has grown, the size of the land has not. That's why every almost must live in high rise apartment buildings, and another reason why people want to move out into Judea and Samaria where they may build homes.
- It has an Exclusive Economic Zone of 26,352 km2 (10,175 sq mi).
- At the end of 2020, the population of Israel stood at approximately 9,289,760, including 1,957,270 Arabs, representing 21.1% of the total. This figure includes almost 362,000 Arab residents of East Jerusalem who hold “permanent resident” status, but not full citizenship. Thus, the number of Arab citizens of Israel was 1,595,300 at the end of 2020, constituting some 17.2% of the total population. To continue being a Jewish State, a refuge for Jews, this 80:20 % has been the acceptable percent of Jews and Arabs. As it is, Jews themselves run the gamut from Left to Right beliefs anyway. Any further beliefs and Israel can not continue being a really Jewish State and maintain Judaism. It faces the fate of becoming Hellenized as it is. Israel cannot take in anymore Muslims and remain Jewish. But is it really 80:20? Going away party at my mom's home
- In 1980, my husband and I made aliyah to Israel from USA. 20,428 immigrants came that year. 175,000 immigrants entered in 1991. Things were getting worse in the world for Jews. Some 70,000 new immigrants from 95 countries made aliyah in 2022 with the assistance of the Jewish Agency and the Aliyah and Integration Ministry, the agency said in a special report published on Thursday.
- For that matter, the Muslims have ordained already that their land of Palestine, the new Palestine, will be devoid of Jews. They won't be allowed in at all. So that takes care of that. Proof of their intentions and belief system.
Jews had a life there over 3,000 years ago that lasted until 70 CE when the Romans burned down Jerusalem and their Temple. Jerusalem was their capital. The Palestinians do not have this claim; only that their Mohammad landed on his flying horse on a Temple on the Temple Mount on a trip and then they flew back to Arabia. The Jews' claim is the whole "Old Testament." Jerusalem is not mentioned at all in the Koran. It's in the bible 700 times. The League of Nations recognized this and so did the United Nations. They gave the nod to the creation of Israel as the Jewish Homeland.
Resource:
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/molenbeek-belgium-no-go-zone
Tanakh, the Stone Edition
The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters
Fact About Israel from Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-africans/out-of-israel-back-to-africa-idUKBRE85B0J420120612
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country#:~:text=With%20nearly%206.8%20million%20Jews,the%20only%20explicitly%20Jewish%20state.
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, p. 186, 203
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Israel
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