The Ripper
07-05-2011, 02:55 PM
By LAHAV HARKOV
06/30/2011 16:35
Likud MK and Australian MP discuss "humane solution" for thousands of 'Muslim infiltrators' in Israel: Send them to live down under.
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MK Danny Danon (Likud) asked Australian MP Michael Danby on Wednesday to propose, in parliament in Canberra, sending African migrants from Israel to Australia.
Danon and Danby discussed the issue during the Australian politician’s visit to Israel for the World Jewish Congress’s International Conference of Jewish Parliamentarians.
“The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state’s Jewish identity,” Danon told The Jerusalem Post.
“The refugees’ place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.
“On the one hand, it treats the refugees and migrants in a humane way. On the other hand, it does not threaten Israel’s future and our goal to maintain a clear and solid Jewish majority,” he explained.
Danon said Danby enthusiastically agreed to present the idea to the Australian Parliament.
Danby was not available for comment, however, as he was in-flight on his way back to Australia.
According to the Knesset’s Research and Information Center, there were 35,638 migrants in Israel as of May.
Fewer than 1 percent are recognized by the UN as refugees.
Some 61% of the migrants – 21,748 people – are Eritrean, however, and categorized as members of a “temporary humanitarian protection group” by the UN, because they cannot be returned safely to their home country due to internal strife.
“Since Australia has a policy of accepting refugees and groups under protection, I would appreciate it if you could promote a solution in which Australia would accept those who seeking refuge,” Danon wrote in a letter to the MP from Melbourne following their meeting.
Jerusalem Post (http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=227332)
Naturally, Michael Danby, the Australian, is an ardent anti-racist. ;)
From wikipedia:
From 2008 to 2010 Danby was chair of the Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Migration.[4] He was Chair of the Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade throughout the 42nd Parliament and was again chosen for this position in the 43rd parliament.[5] He is also Chair of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for the United States,[6] and the Parliamentary Group for Tibet.[7]
In 2008 and 2009 the Migration Committee completed three major reports.[8] These reports made numerous recommendations in relation to Australia’s immigration detention system, several of which of have been adopted by the Australian Government, including the recommendation that ‘detention debt’ should be abolished.[9] Danby gained some media attention in late 2009 following his criticism of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's use of the term 'illegal immigrants' rather than 'asylum seekers'. Regarding use of the term 'illegal immigrants' he stated "I don't find these sort of populist expressions helpful in this debate."
Danby was the only Jewish member of the Australian Parliament until 2007, when Mark Dreyfus, also from the ALP, was elected. He has frequently spoken in support of Israel and in opposition to antisemitism and other forms of racism. In 2005 he was critical of a book by a Sydney Jewish atheist journalist, Antony Loewenstein, about the Australian Jewish community and its attitudes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which he regarded as anti Israeli propaganda.[14] In a letter to the Australian Jewish News, Danby called on the book's publisher, Melbourne University Press, to "drop this whole disgusting project." He also called on the Jewish community to boycott the book. "I urge the Australian Jewish community, and particularly the Australian Jewish News, to treat it with dignified silence," he said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Danby
06/30/2011 16:35
Likud MK and Australian MP discuss "humane solution" for thousands of 'Muslim infiltrators' in Israel: Send them to live down under.
Talkbacks (15)
MK Danny Danon (Likud) asked Australian MP Michael Danby on Wednesday to propose, in parliament in Canberra, sending African migrants from Israel to Australia.
Danon and Danby discussed the issue during the Australian politician’s visit to Israel for the World Jewish Congress’s International Conference of Jewish Parliamentarians.
“The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state’s Jewish identity,” Danon told The Jerusalem Post.
“The refugees’ place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.
“On the one hand, it treats the refugees and migrants in a humane way. On the other hand, it does not threaten Israel’s future and our goal to maintain a clear and solid Jewish majority,” he explained.
Danon said Danby enthusiastically agreed to present the idea to the Australian Parliament.
Danby was not available for comment, however, as he was in-flight on his way back to Australia.
According to the Knesset’s Research and Information Center, there were 35,638 migrants in Israel as of May.
Fewer than 1 percent are recognized by the UN as refugees.
Some 61% of the migrants – 21,748 people – are Eritrean, however, and categorized as members of a “temporary humanitarian protection group” by the UN, because they cannot be returned safely to their home country due to internal strife.
“Since Australia has a policy of accepting refugees and groups under protection, I would appreciate it if you could promote a solution in which Australia would accept those who seeking refuge,” Danon wrote in a letter to the MP from Melbourne following their meeting.
Jerusalem Post (http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=227332)
Naturally, Michael Danby, the Australian, is an ardent anti-racist. ;)
From wikipedia:
From 2008 to 2010 Danby was chair of the Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Migration.[4] He was Chair of the Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade throughout the 42nd Parliament and was again chosen for this position in the 43rd parliament.[5] He is also Chair of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for the United States,[6] and the Parliamentary Group for Tibet.[7]
In 2008 and 2009 the Migration Committee completed three major reports.[8] These reports made numerous recommendations in relation to Australia’s immigration detention system, several of which of have been adopted by the Australian Government, including the recommendation that ‘detention debt’ should be abolished.[9] Danby gained some media attention in late 2009 following his criticism of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's use of the term 'illegal immigrants' rather than 'asylum seekers'. Regarding use of the term 'illegal immigrants' he stated "I don't find these sort of populist expressions helpful in this debate."
Danby was the only Jewish member of the Australian Parliament until 2007, when Mark Dreyfus, also from the ALP, was elected. He has frequently spoken in support of Israel and in opposition to antisemitism and other forms of racism. In 2005 he was critical of a book by a Sydney Jewish atheist journalist, Antony Loewenstein, about the Australian Jewish community and its attitudes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict which he regarded as anti Israeli propaganda.[14] In a letter to the Australian Jewish News, Danby called on the book's publisher, Melbourne University Press, to "drop this whole disgusting project." He also called on the Jewish community to boycott the book. "I urge the Australian Jewish community, and particularly the Australian Jewish News, to treat it with dignified silence," he said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Danby