Netanyahu Suspends the Insane “Infiltrator” Agreement Hours After Announcing It

The Trump Administration gives and it takes away . . .

–We would be greatly remiss not to thank the Trump Administration for standing up for Israel in the U.N. Security Council on Saturday.

It was the U.S., and only the U.S., that blocked the one sided resolution proposed by Kuwait to investigate what is happening on the Gaza border.

In thanking the U.S., Israel’s Ambassador the U.N. Danny Danon remarked:

“I was shocked to see the extent of such hypocrisy, and hear European representatives equating the State of Israel with a terrorist organization and calling on both sides to show restraint. That is hypocrisy. In another country there would have been hundreds dead, not a dozen. We don’t need to abide with any inspection, we know how to inspect ourselves.”

—On the other hand, we would also be remiss not to severely criticize the Trump Justice Department for arguing for Palestinian terrorists before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Back in 2015, a federal court ordered the PLO to pay 11 American families whose relatives had been killed by Palestinian terrorists between 2002-2004 some $655 million dollars. The decision was made under the provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

That decision was subsequently overturned at the U.S. Court of Appeals on the bizarre basis that the terrorist attacks occurred outside the U.S. and were not specifically directed at Americans.

Believe it or not, lawyers from the Trump Justice Department argued in favor of the Palestinian position that the PLO should not be held responsible, and yesterday the Supreme Court declined to overturn the Appeals Court decision—thereby letting the PLO off the hook.

So now we have the ludicrous situation in which unless a terror group announces that it is targeting Americans and carries out the attack on U.S. soil, it cannot be held financially responsible.

Nitzana Darshan-Litner, the lawyer who fought for compensation for the families had this to say after the ruling:

“The Supreme Court’s decision not only harms the rights of the victims to be repaid from those responsible for their losses, but also in the entire war on terror system . . . [Nevertheless] we will not rest until the terror victims receive the compensation they deserve.” 

TODAY’S BLOG:

Netanyahu Suspends the Insane “Infiltrator” Agreement

Hours After Announcing It

Living here in Israel, we often feel that we careen from one crisis to another. Just four days ago it was the Gaza border; this morning it is the African infiltrators; tomorrow it will probably be the Gaza border again. Or the Lebanese border, or the Syrian border, or who knows what?

Yesterday afternoon came the blockbuster news that Israel had agreed to an “infiltrator compromise” with the loathsome United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Basically put, the compromise seemed to be that the UNHCR would agree that Israel could deport 16,000 single, African infiltrators currently living in Israel to various European countries, notably Germany. In return, Israel would agree to give visas to the approximately 23,000 infiltrators remaining in Israel, try to find work for  them, and even disperse them proportionately around the country.

Everything seemed to be set, and the announcement was made.

And then the earthquake hit.

Virtually every member of the Netanyahu coalition accused the prime minister of selling out. Naftali Bennett proclaimed that Netanyahu was turning Israel into a “paradise for infiltrators”; Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked who should have been involved in the negotiations said she had no idea they had even taken place; Interior Minister Deri intoned that “Israel had caved into the extreme left”, and on and on.

Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel weighed in declaring that no one had told her about any infiltrators coming to Germany– amidst angry German newspaper columns condemning any such move.

By 10:00 pm last night, the earthquake had hit seismic proportions and Netanyahu was forced to suspend the agreement for the time being–at least until he has a chance to talk with the residents of south Tel Aviv (where most of the Africans live) who are infuriated over the possible agreement.

The truth is that every Israeli who cares anything about Israel as a Jewish state should be mortified by the Agreement.

In the first place, why in the world did Israel feel obliged to negotiate with the UNHCR–the most anti-Israel organization in the United Nations?

In the second place, why did Israel allow the UNHCR to dictate terms to us? Not only did Israel agree on how many to deport, but we also incredibly agreed to where the UNCHR told us that the undeported should live. 

In the third place, this Agreement is the direct result of George Soros and his friends at the New Israel Fund–all of whom brought as much pressure as they could on Rwanda to stop taking African deportees from Israel. To go along with the UNCHR nonsense is to lie down in the face of Soros and the NIF.

In this latter regard, let’s review the infiltrator situation.

There is no evidence that there was any concerted attempt on the part of any group to push Muslim African migrants toward Israel. But once they were here in the tens of thousands, the situation dramatically changed.

Suddenly, “humanitarians” the world over piled on Israel for attempting to deport them.

Why?

Because these so-called “humanitarian” and “human rights” groups, along with Soros and the NIF want a non-Jewish Israel. To put it more bluntly, they seek the end of the Jewish state of Israel.

In this instance they seek to do it demographically by keeping a large foreign Muslim population into the country which happens to have an extraordinarily high birthrate. They want these Muslims spread out over the entire country in order to undermine the government whenever and however possible.

It is an appalling situation, and one can only hope that Netanyahu will come to his senses. There is no evidence that any of these infiltrators face persecution back in the home countries of Sudan, Eritrea, and the like.

They should be sent back home forthwith.