Netanyahu says Israel won’t ever stay a Jewish state until jap border is closed – Center East Monitor

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that with no fence alongside the border with Jordan, Israel won’t ever stay a Jewish state. Arab48.com reported on Tuesday. Quote Can 11In keeping with the web site, Netanyahu made his remark throughout a latest assembly of the Council of Ministers.

Following the riots by Eritrean asylum seekers that devastated southern Tel Aviv earlier this month, Netanyahu reiterated his earlier announcement that constructing a fence alongside the jap border would stop the infiltration of refugees.

“Israel is without doubt one of the few international locations that controls its borders nearly utterly,” he mentioned. “Nevertheless, we now have the jap border with no fence. We now have to shut it down.”

Pressured deportation of African asylum seekers by Israel – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]

He claimed that international locations can not deal with the continuing wave of refugees from Africa and Muslim international locations, citing Cyprus for instance. Almost seven p.c of residents at the moment are Muslim, he claimed.

In keeping with Netanyahu, Israel would have turn out to be like such international locations if its southern and northern borders had not been closed.

Arab48.com mentioned Israel plans to construct the fence to cease arms smuggling from Jordan. A number of makes an attempt to smuggle weapons and ammunition have been foiled in latest months.

Israel is the one UN member state that has by no means really indicated the place its borders are. Critics of the apartheid state level to its continued growth inside occupied Palestinian territory as the rationale for this.

OPINION: Israel is anxious that the Jordanian border may very well be a conduit for arms smuggling