Those bars are currently being constructed in southern Israel’s Negev Desert as part of a massive detention facility and adjacent “tent city” designed to hold an estimated 11,000 such infiltrators, most of whom are Eritrean and Sudanese. With construction expected to be completed in a few months, the giant desert prison will be the world’s largest such holding facility.
An Israeli defense minister was careful to point out that the giant sandy Alien Detention Spa will feature hair salons and basketball courts. (…)
On May 23 at an Israeli protest against illegal African immigrants in south Tel Aviv, Likud parliament member Miri Regev took things up a notch: “The Sudanese are a cancer in our body,” she told the crowd. “We will do everything to send them back where they came from.”
Although 52% of Israeli Jews agreed with her statement, Regev apologized—not to the Africans, but to cancer patients and any Holocaust survivors who may have been offended by the metaphor.
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