Re: [Int-koordination] [pp-eu] "We need to talk" - Continuence from "Asylum" with "Migration" - 19.07.2016 20:00 CEST

[Thomas Gaul <thomas.gaul AT piratenpartei.de>]

Hallo!

Es gab eine Reaktion auf den Aufruf schon mal etwas einzutragen in das
Pad. Ich danke hier der Piratenpartei Isreal! (Ich hatte das schon
persönlich getan)

Da ich aber den eingestellten Text sehr interessant und wirklich
Lesenwert empfinde, stelle ich ihn hier unten ein. Wer im Pad mal
nachlesen möchte: <https://ppeu.piratenpad.de/WNTT-2016-04-13>

Gerne darf auch darüber diskutiert werden :) - wir wollen ja schließlich
am 19.07. international darüber diskutieren.

LG Thomas

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Pirate Party Israel


Migration and Israel

Migration is a natural and healthy human behavior. However, migration
can also render debilitating effects, especially when under duress of
forced migration. Our country knows many sad and happy stories, almost
every family has one.

Israel is no stranger to migrants, who come (and go) under a variety of
motivating factors. Waves of migration have come with very different
visions: Yemenite Jews believed that the Zionist’s planes were holy
incarnations, Ethiopians Jews believed that all Jews were black, and
Russian Jews believed that Israel would be less corrupt. Unfortunately,
all of these visions were proven to be largely myths. On the other hand,
waves of emigrants have left for many different reasons: Palestinians
left believing they would never have a country of their own, many left
because of the political, economic, and violent dangers, and many
international people have come and gone for so many different reasons.
Unfortunately, there do remain many problems that we wish to resolve.

It is very difficult to mitigate the justice and injustice that the
state of Israel represents. Many in Europe and beyond identify Israel as
the state that was founded by the Holocaust. However, it is important to
remember that Israel is a state of many different ethnic and religious
groups, a diverse state that represents Arabs, Yemenites, Ethiopians,
Russians, Germans, and people from all over the world. Israel is a
beautiful, ancient, and holy place that all people deserve to visit and
live if they so choose. We sincerely hope that all people in Israel will
recognize each other as equals and live peacefully such that Israel is
not recognized as such a controversial place.


The Israeli Refugee Crisis

Prior to the year 2005 there were only a few hundred sub-Saharan African
asylum seekers in Israel. In that year word spread rapidly that there
was a way to walk to Israel, that you would risk everything, that the
chances of death were high, that if you were a woman you would probably
be raped on the way – and for that reason there are very few women – but
if you made it to that fence they called the Israeli-Egyptian border,
and climbed to the other side, they would not shoot you. They would give
you water, take you to a prison cell, interrogate you for a while, but
eventually let you go free (sort of) and live in their society as the
lowest class resident, who might at any moment be deported back to your
home state. However, even this was better than the terror and perhaps
certain death that awaited you back in Darfur where organized mass
killing was taking place or Eritrea where you had escaped a lifetime of
military service and would be shot on site.

A decade later Israel remains with a legitimate sized refugee
population, perhaps over 100,000. They remain named asylum seekers. Many
were sent back to places like South Sudan after its independence when it
suddenly became the safest place in the world, including many from
Darfur and Eritrea who were made stirring offers to leave.
Unfortunately, many of them, people we knew in Israel, died soon after
returning. Those that remain in this country have differing takes on
their lives. Many have integrated into Israeli society, at least as much
as the society would let them. There are still many problems, but
perhaps the biggest problem is that the fence that they were able to
cross before is now too heavily guarded and it just makes more sense to
go to Europe or elsewhere.

The European Refugee Crisis

Europe has witnessed its own share of economically motivated migration.
While supposedly there would be a constant rapid rate of European
integration, nationalism and isolationism appear to be rendering their
ugly heads again. Making matters worse, Europe has been dealt a steady
stream of forced migrants from primarily Africa and the Middle East. And
in the past few years, the majority of Syria is spilling out of Turkey
and the Balkans – those feeling excluded from EU membership- who are
ushering them towards Germany and those other western European countries
who had voted against their inclusion. While Europe now tries to play a
game of making deals with the devil in an effort to stop or relocate
these refugees, there seems less interest in tackling the problem.
Whether under the duress of war, famine or poverty, many migrants are
arriving to Europe’s shores with potentially good will. In order to stop
them from coming, we need to ensure that they have a home that they do
not want to leave. The wealth of European nations, and hopefully all
nations at some point, will be affected the most by the poorest nation
that disrupts its balance. In order to alleviate the problems we have to
treat the cause and the symptoms.

While solving the cause may be extremely difficult and daunting,
something we probably will never be satisfied with in our lifetimes, the
symptoms are something that we can work with. Symptoms are when people
can’t find a place to live or work, become disgruntled with the
political system in the host country, or refuse friendship because of
ethnic background. The task of integrating refugees and disadvantaged
minorities falls largely on educators. People must be taught how to get
along, how to respect each other, and how to integrate into society.
Society should let anyone feel welcome, regardless of where they come
from and why they came. Proactive support networks are necessary. While
pragmatically, government policy will inevitably restrict immigration
and hopefully never promote emigration, we must work towards opening
national borders, aspiring for greater levels of integration and
acceptance of minorities. The traditional cultural dividing lines, which
many have written in stone with their finger on the button to destroy
everyone with them should those lines be crossed, must be erased.

Israel Policy Positions

We respect the rights of all people, regardless of religion, ethnicity,
or home country, to be equal. We will promote the intake of migrants,
especially when they arrive under duress. We recognize that we are bound
to both receive and integrate migrants.

We will integrate migrants while respecting their multicultural
differences. However, we do recognize the importance of language as a
melting pot device, and we will promote the education of all residents
in both of Israel’s national languages: Arabic and Hebrew. We will also
promote cultural events and the arts. All residents should be given the
opportunity to participate in the educational system, regardless of
their background or age. Special programs must be developed to
facilitate the integration of migrants.

We will work to ensure that forced migrants are provided a safe route to
reach us. We will ensure that labor migrants and all migrants will have
the same employment rights, rights to shelter, legal representation,
political representation, and freedom from discrimination. We will
provide free education for residents and all migrants. All residents
should have the right to citizenship, which they can obtain after an
extensive history in the country, and which they should not be forced to
relinquish prior citizenships to obtain.

All citizens should have the right to participate in elections and to
have representation that meets their interests in government. All
citizens should have a platform to voice their concerns without
suspicion of coercion or backlash.



Am 31.05.2016 um 20:48 schrieb Thomas Gaul:
> Dear fellow pirates,
>  
> The very last meeting had been visited only by a very few people. So we
> postponed it to a new date. 
> 
> The meeting on Migration will take place on
> 
>>>>  July, 19th 2016, 20:00 CEST on NRW-Mumble <<<
> 
> As always you are invited to prepare a collection of you views and positions
> beforehand by sending it to cep AT ppeu.net or putting it into
> <https://ppeu.piratenpad.de/WNTT-2016-04-13> .
> 
> Please spread the message about the meeting. Thank you!
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Thomas Gaul
> on behalf of the German team
> 
> 
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