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UN Refugee Official: Deportation of Africans Unlikely

Posted on May 29, 2012 by 972 Magazine
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This article is reprinted with permission of the author and first appeared on 972mag.com Last Friday, a couple of days after the south Tel Aviv riot, I interviewed William Tall, representative in Israel of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and came away thinking that there is a way to settle the crisis decently, which I didn’t think there was before. Not that I believe Israel will settle it decently, just that there is a solution that would be fair to the African refugees, to the …

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The Tragedy and the Threat of African Refugees in Israel

Posted on May 29, 2012 by 972 Magazine
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This article is reprinted with permission of the author and first appeared on 972mag.com On Friday, with the headlines screaming of Eritreans raping a 15-year-old Israeli girl, I went with a photographer friend to the Hatikva neighborhood in South Tel Aviv to get a sense of how the Jewish residents were feeling toward the Africans, and vice versa. I was surprised to see no hatred on the faces of the Israelis nor fear on the faces of the Africans. Everyone looked calm, doing their Friday …

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