Haaretz: The Epstein Files and Israel: Ehud Barak's Preference for 'Quality' Immigrants and Belarusian Girls
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Haaretz: The Epstein Files and Israel: Ehud Barak's Preference for 'Quality' Immigrants and Belarusian Girls
'"Many people will apply to come to Israel," he said, adding: "We can control the quality much more effectively, much more than the founding fathers of Israel did." Those founders took in hundreds of thousands of Mizrahim – Jews with roots in North Africa and the wider Middle East. "They took whatever came. They had to save people. Now, we can be more selective." Then comes a shocking bonus comment: "We need, dramatically, the million Russians. I see that many prefer to be Belarusian, or maybe young, handsome girls will come."'
'Barak doesn't say "I don't like Mizrahim," but he proposes something far more effective: a language in which some people are declared members of quality groups, and the government becomes a sorting mechanism. Not racism but "control." Not "human beings" but "quality." There's no real disparity between the remarks at the Labor Party convention and the conversation with Summers. It's the same request for forgiveness in two different situations. In front of an audience, there's a microphone, so there's conciliatory theater. In front of a VIP, there's truth, namely: Immigrants from Arab countries weren't a choice. They were the people the country "absorbed" when it had to.'
'Barak's office responded for this essay: "The attribution of racism is a distortion via fragmented phrases gleaned from a conversation with Larry Summers about Israel's handling of the demographic challenge in the short run, in light of a situation that was drifting toward a 'one-state' solution. The idea is that making conversion [to Judaism] easier, combined with a policy of 'voluntary emigration,' is likely to constitute a solution.'
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