Over a hundred people were injured, including some critically, after a violent riot broke out in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday between warring factions of African illegal immigrants.
The two groups of Eritreans, some of which support and some of which oppose the small nation’s ruling dictator, clashed in the streets, throwing rocks and beating people with sticks. Several police officers were caught up in the fighting and suffered injuries as well.
The street fights erupted between supporters and critics of the Eritrean regime, with video footage showing them pelting each other and the police with stones and beating opponents with sticks. Several cars and shop fronts were vandalized, windows were smashed, and the event hall for the independence celebration was wrecked.
Reading that paragraph leaves me dumbfounded. Why are there asylum seekers in Israel who support the African dictatorship they supposedly fled from? The world’s asylum systems have become so abused that almost nothing makes sense at this point. How many people are actually fleeing from political persecution compared to how many are just taking advantage of other nations in search of economic opportunity? Certainly, when a large group of illegal immigrants start a riot in support of the very thing they claimed to be fleeing from when they arrived, that calls into question their claims of asylum.
R&I~Smit
DGM