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By Jonathan Pollard
(SEPTEMBER 26, 2023 / ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS) It was reported several weeks ago that the ambassadors of Canada, the EU and Australia requested that Israel allow their Palestinian Arab citizens the same right of free entry into Israel that the U.S. is demanding for its Palestinian American citizens.
For those of us opposed to the U.S. Visa Waiver deal, all we could say was: “We told you so”. Although our Foreign Ministry quickly rejected the requests of the three governments, it’s likely that Israel will eventually accede to this latest attempt to use a Visa Waiver program as a means of flooding our country with hostile visitors.
At first glance, the U.S.-Israel Visa Waiver deal seems rather innocuous. After all, what could be wrong with the free movement of people between two allies?
But the hyphenated Americans this agreement is meant to cover are some of the most vicious antisemites one could imagine.
Indeed, if you ask any American Jewish college student, they’ll tell you that, apart from the usual assortment of woke progressives, Palestinian American students are the most rabidly anti-Israel elements on their campus.
Not surprisingly, these hate filled Arab “students” represent a significant percentage of the Palestinian Americans that the Biden administration wants covered by the U.S. Visa Waiver agreement. So, what are the potential consequences of letting an unchecked number of them into our country?
For one thing, it’s a potential security risk. Although the Shabak has apparently signed off on the Visa Waiver Program, it’s likely that American pressure will cause our border control agents to be extremely reluctant to bar a significant number of Palestinian Americans who would ordinarily have been refused entry out of fear of angering the U.S. Indeed, according to published reports, we will only be permitted to stop around 3% of Palestinian Americans for security reasons before we will be forced to admit the remaining visitors regardless as to our concerns about them.
Just to underscore how determined the Americans are about this particular issue they went to the extraordinary step of demanding permission to station observers at Israeli ports of entry to ensure that we weren’t “discriminating” against their Palestinian citizens. The fact that the U.S. demanded this gross violation of our sovereignty was less shocking than was our immediate surrender to such imperial behavior by Washington. It was as if our so called “leaders” forgot that no foreign government, even one that claims to be an ally, has the right to dictate how we guard our borders from people we consider to be potential security threats.
Exactly who we’ve been forced to let in so far can only be imagined, but judging by the number of prominent BDS activists who have suddenly appeared brazenly roaming around both Israel and Judea and Samaria, a significant threat to our security has definitively resulted from our craven willingness to accommodate the Americans. Not surprisingly, there hasn’t been a peep about this from our own government.
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