Hundreds of Africans, black Africans, have been attempting to get into Israel via Egypt by illegally crossing the Sinai desert and sneaking across the border which, unfortunately, is fairly porous. It's a situation Israel could be addressing better.
Dozens of them have been shot at by the Egyptians, injured and many killed.
Here, from this morning:
10:31 Two African infiltrators caught near Eilat, one hurt by Egyptian border guard (Haaretz)
and from a background report a week ago:
Egypt detains some 1,000 infiltrators since January
Egyptian security authorities have foiled attempts of 999 illegal immigrants who tried to sneak into Israel via the Egyptian border since the beginning of this year, the state MENA news agency reported on Saturday. The Egyptian border with Israel in the Sinai peninsula is the scene of frequent attempts by illegal immigrants of different nationalities to cross into Israel for work or smuggling. Since the beginning of this year, Egyptian border guards have shot dead at least 24 illegal immigrants in a bid to curb the border infiltration.
Now, getting back to the Obama test. Maybe some nice reporter could ask him or ask Rahm Emmanuael if President-Elect Barrack Obama, considering his African roots, would make a plea to Hosni Mubaraek of Egyptian to order his army to at least stop the lethal methods used to halt the illegal activity of these Africans?
That would be a nice gesture, no? Even humanitarian, not political.
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Go out on a limb for ethnic African strangers? Doesn't he force his own African relatives to live impoverishedly? (Isn't his illegal aunt in Boston even on welfare)?
Speaking of examples of rachmonis, what are the chances of Pres. George W. Bush pardoning Jonathan Pollard (since the coming pro-Palestinian administration will let him rot another 4-8 years).
As for Jay, we'll soon know.
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