African asylum seekers injured in Tel Aviv race riots

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16. Your reading needs practicing

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To say that the rioters are Israelis in no way implies that all 8 million Israelis took part in the violence. Jesus, playing dumb won't help you (and Israel) in here.

And yes, a country can decide whom it will let in. But if it was Germany -- or any other country in the world -- that was saying it wouldn't accept dark-skinned people of non-German ancestry into the country, only on account of their ethnicity, I doubt you, Lefty, would be displaying such an indifferent attitude towards the racist laws.

And by the way, it isn't even Israel's laws that I'm discussing on here. It's Israelis' attitude. Threatening and beating up immigrants, even illegal immigrants, is never right. It is not an attitude expected of citizens from a self-proclaimed civilized, Western country. African refugees make up about 0.5% of Israel's population. The US has a much larger immigrant population, but I'm yet to see pogroms and government agitation against them. Why can't Israel treat its much smaller immigrant population better, like other Western countries do?