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Yishai: Deporting foreign children preserves Israel's Jewish identity
By Yair Ettinger
Tags: Shas, Jewish, migrant workers 

Interior Minister and Shas Party chairman Eli Yishai plans "to muster all of Shas' political power on the issue of the foreign workers," he told Haaretz on Tuesday.

During a conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, Yishai warned that if the cabinet rejects his demand that children of foreign workers not be given residency or citizenship in Israel, he will abdicate responsibility for the Immigration Authority, which is currently in his ministry's purview, to the Prime Minister's Office, and foment a coalition crisis to boot.

He also reminded Netanyahu of a similar case in 1986, when then-Shas chairman and interior minister Yitzhak Peretz resigned from the cabinet after the High Court of Justice ordered the ministry to register people who underwent Reform conversions overseas as Jews.
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Yishai does not object to Monday's decision to postpone deporting the children and their parents until the end of the school year, saying this was for "humanitarian reasons." But he stressed that he will not agree to any further postponements and will vehemently oppose granting the children citizenship or residency.

Allowing these children to stay in Israel "is liable to damage the state's Jewish identity, constitute a demographic threat and increase the danger of assimilation," he said.
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  1.   Nearly every day produces a new 05:13  |  kiwi girl 14/10/09
  2.   Ah yes, Racial Purity is the most important thing 05:38  |  Mark Lincoln 14/10/09
  3.   Zionism = racism 06:01  |  SRSabbah 14/10/09
  4.   Eli Yishai should resign 06:38  |  Hilton 14/10/09
  5.   Foreign workers 06:50  |  arieh zimmerman 14/10/09
  6.   It is a racist identity 07:02  |  Yossi normal Jew 14/10/09
  7.   what about the russian non-jews 07:18  |  ilan 14/10/09
  8.   yishai-the supper jew?? 07:42  |  gadot 14/10/09
  9.   KOL HAKAVOD 07:56  |  Samy 14/10/09
  10.   Jewish Idenity Of Children Not For You To Decide Rabbis! 08:06  |  Yosemite 14/10/09
  11.   Hey Shas - erm, hello... 08:26  |  Ben Adam 14/10/09
  12.   in some.... 08:39  |  rm 14/10/09
  13.   Deporting children 08:43  |  Paul 14/10/09
  14.   A monster, a corrupt politician 08:52  |  Boris 14/10/09
  15.   deportations 08:53  |  Frank 14/10/09
  16.   Deportation - part of the jewish psyche? PART 1 08:54  |  ZORRO 14/10/09
  17.   But millions of openly Chrstian Russians and secular............. 08:55  |  Yaakov 14/10/09
  18.   Deportation, part of the Jewih Psyche? PART 2 09:11  |  ZORRO 14/10/09
  19.   he should be ashamed of himself 09:13  |  SWeis Melbourne 14/10/09
  20.   A bunch of racist pi*s 09:28  |  Avi 14/10/09
  21.   The Nuremberg laws 09:32  |  Axel 14/10/09
  22.   Hitler: Deporting Jew children preserves Germany`s Aryan identity 09:35  |  Michael 14/10/09
  23.   Demographic Threat 09:49  |  Gideon 14/10/09
  24.   kinder a danger of assimilation 09:55  |  Zion Segal 14/10/09
  25.   deporting Children THREATENS JEWISH VALUES 10:08  |  meir gush etzion 14/10/09
  26.   Jewish Identity, and the lack thereof ? 10:12  |  HAL 14/10/09
  27.   #10 10:30  |  johnathon 14/10/09
  28.   Foreign Workers -do work .Israeli`s dont like to work hard. 10:41  |  HAL 14/10/09
  29.   I`m surprised how many people are shocked here...... 10:42  |  Swiss (Dino) 14/10/09
  30.   rasism 10:56  |  mihaeli feldman 14/10/09
  31.   Jewish Identity??? in Gaza throughout January 11:06  |  Shadi 14/10/09
  32.   Deporting foreign children preserves Israel`s Jewish identity 11:08  |  Chuck 14/10/09
  33.   when something is racist and when it is not 11:10  |  Henon 14/10/09
  34.   Danger of assimilation? 11:11  |  Avi 14/10/09
  35.   Demographic Threat 11:17  |  Zion Segal 14/10/09
  36.   Reply to #9 and #10 11:20  |  Yossi 14/10/09
  37.   Neanderthals actually walk among us 11:20  |  allang 14/10/09
  38.   The Nazi Comparison Doesn`t Fly 11:28  |  Steve of Mevaserret 14/10/09
  39.   Owners of the Truth... 11:55  |  Albert Edelson 14/10/09
  40.   Racism 11:56  |  jake 1948 14/10/09
  41.   yossi 11:56  |  ion 14/10/09
  42.   All that Yishai is trying to preserve is his own bigotry... 12:01  |  Esther 14/10/09
  43.   DEPARTING Shass would preserve Israels dignity 12:11  |  PETER SM 14/10/09
  44.   Jewish Identity??? 12:11  |  Ovy 14/10/09
  45.   Steve #28... an utterly false comparison... 12:18  |  Esther 14/10/09
  46.   They are illegal: Canada Deported 13,000 this year 12:40  |  Ben-Da 14/10/09
  47.   can`t believe i agree with SHAS! 12:45  |  michelle 14/10/09
  48.   Eli Yishai created this situation in the first place 12:57  |  SJ 14/10/09
  49.   citizenship 13:50  |  lola 14/10/09
  50.   To Chuck in Ma`ale Adumin 13:59  |  lola 14/10/09
  51.   If we deported the children of Israeli Jews 14:10  |  Chris Linthwaite 14/10/09
  52.   israeli obsession with racial purity and anti-assimilation 14:14  |  mehmet 14/10/09
  53.   Forcibly changing the demographic of a territory is genocidal 14:21  |  Tarik 14/10/09
  54.   Steve 38. It`s the racial and religious purity thing 14:22  |  Michael 14/10/09
  55.   THIS ISNT ABOUT CHILDREN ITS ABOUT THEIR PARENTS 14:47  |  zionist forever 14/10/09
  56.   This statement is the best amunition for 14:58  |  TOMY 14/10/09
  57.   Deporting children who love Israel?a shas theology? 15:01  |  ZORRO 14/10/09
  58.   It is like any other nationally dominated 15:06  |  TOMY 14/10/09
  59.   End proportional representation 15:19  |  W 14/10/09
  60.   identity, identity, identity.... 15:26  |  christoph 14/10/09
  61.   Nothing to do with it. Just Legality of it all. 15:32  |  JO 14/10/09
  62.   Reply to #51 Racial purity 15:37  |  Sherlock Holmes 14/10/09
  63.   Reply to #52 Tarik and genocide 15:40  |  Danny 14/10/09
  64.   "preserves", he must have meant `exposes`. 15:42  |  Singer 14/10/09
  65.   Reply to #53 15:44  |  Yossi 14/10/09
  66.   Poles in London 15:54  |  Ben Azzai 14/10/09
  67.   re 10-yes the Torah Does! 16:34  |  Golem 14/10/09
  68.   What`s so "Jewish" about deporting children? 16:42  |  Sarah G 14/10/09
  69.   The Voice of Jewish "Purity" 17:22  |  Yaakov Sullivan 14/10/09
  70.   Do onto others..... 17:24  |  Kevin 14/10/09
  71.   Linthwaite 50 - knock it off! 17:28  |  ChanahS 14/10/09
  72.   Deport Eli Yishai to preserve Israel`s moral identity. 17:33  |  God 14/10/09
  73.   Chris Linwaite: Take Iran as an Example, or Morrocco 17:35  |  Yaakov Sullivan 14/10/09
  74.   Steve of Mevasseret: That Is A False Comparison 17:47  |  Yaakov Sullivan 14/10/09
  75.   I Disagree with Shas but Just a Question To Those Like Me 17:50  |  Eli 14/10/09
  76.   well, I guess these kids did finish cleaning his house 17:54  |  Matan 14/10/09
  77.   michelle the flower of zionism 18:02  |  Yaakov Sullivan 14/10/09
  78.   What a disgusting notion! 18:10  |  Maskil 14/10/09
  79.   No it doesn`t, it destorts Jewish values 18:15  |  Jack Rubin 14/10/09
  80.   Canada deportations 19:34  |  dp 14/10/09
  81.   Some don`t know what word "racism" means 20:13  |  Gene 14/10/09
  82.   deporting children to preserve Jewish identity 20:38  |  gerda 14/10/09
  83.   # 56 chanahs 20:46  |  Axel 14/10/09
  84.   How does Shas define Jewish identity 20:52  |  Brian 14/10/09
  85.   foreign children no danger ,Yishai just populist 20:56  |  rafiq 14/10/09
  86.   #58 Does this guy know anything about Morocco? 21:42  |  ARTH 14/10/09
  87.   Eurika a humane solution 22:15  |  Mike 14/10/09
  88.   #58 Yaakov Sullivan 22:23  |  Mike 14/10/09
  89.   Deporting children 22:27  |  Gershon Ron 14/10/09
  90.   #56 ChanahS, not what I said 22:51  |  Chris Linthwaite 14/10/09
  91.   german party wants to deport jewish non-german children 23:41  |  anon 14/10/09
  92.   israel wake up from ur racist dream 00:18  |  l 15/10/09
  93.   Deportation unwise & inhuman 00:30  |  Les Lyshkov 15/10/09
  94.   what typical jewish orthodox self-righeousness 06:27  |  gawain 15/10/09
  95.   To gush etzion 08:32  |  harvey 15/10/09
  96.   Immigration in the US 15:25  |  Rachael 15/10/09
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