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Chinese workers in Israel sign no-sex contract

 
 
Reply Sat 15 Oct, 2005 11:43 am
Chinese workers in Israel sign no-sex contract

Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
Wednesday December 24, 2003
The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1112442,00.html


Chinese workers at a company in Israel have been forced to agree not to have sex with or marry Israelis as a condition of getting a job.
According to a contact they are required to sign, male workers may not have any contact with Israeli women - including prostitutes, a police spokesman, Rafi Yaffe, said.

He said there was nothing illegal about the requirement and that no investigation had been opened.

An Israeli lawyer who did not want to be named said while the contract might appear legal, it would be rejected if challenged in court. "The point is that a Chinese worker will agree to anything and then will not have anyone to help them if there is a problem," he said.

The labourers are also forbidden from engaging in any religious or political activity. The contract states that offenders will be sent back to China at their own expense.

About 260,000 foreigners work in Israel, having replaced Palestinian labourers during three years of fighting. When the government first allowed the entrance of the foreign workers in the late 1990s, ministers warned of a "social timebomb" caused by their assimilation with Israelis.

More than half the workers are in the country illegally. Israeli police have increased efforts to deport those working without permits because of rising Israeli unemployment, which has reached 11% in recent months.

Advocates of foreign workers, who also come from Thailand, the Philippines and Romania, say they are subject to almost slave conditions, and their employers often take away their passports and refuse to pay them.

Analysts say there is much division within Israeli society over immigration and status, although the conflict with the Palestinians has given it an appearance of unity. Recent immigrants such as Russians and Ethiopians are disliked by older immigrants, and there is much resentment among secular Israelis at the privileges given to ultra-orthodox Jews. The foreign workers are at the bottom of the pile.
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Reply Sat 15 Oct, 2005 04:32 pm
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spectacles wrote:
About 260,000 foreigners work in Israel, having replaced Palestinian labourers during three years of fighting. When the government first allowed the entrance of the foreign workers in the late 1990s, ministers warned of a "social timebomb" caused by their assimilation with Israelis.

More than half the workers are in the country illegally.

A "social timebomb"? Rolling Eyes Huh?

So, what do you call countries like the United States, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, etc, who all have significant immigrant population within their countries?

After all, wasn't Israel formed mainly by Jewish populations from all around the world to begin with, or am I mistaken?

Maybe they should just learn to get along with "foreigners" like the rest of the world. Mad
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Reply Sat 15 Oct, 2005 04:44 pm
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Reyn wrote:


After all, wasn't Israel formed mainly by Jewish populations from all around the world to begin with, or am I mistaken?
The Jewish populations from around the world that Israel is comprised with were basically of Jewish descent to begin with.

"I am not an American citizen of Jewish faith. I am a Jew. I have been an American for sixty-three years, but I have been a Jew for 4000 years." - Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (1933)


"Let us recognize that we Jews are a distinct nationality of which every Jew, whatever his country, his station, or shade of belief, is necessarily a member." - Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Ct. Justice


"A Jew remains a Jew even though he changes his religion; a Christian which would adopt the Jewish religion would not become a Jew, because the quality of a Jew is not in the religion but in the race. A Free thinker and Atheist always remains a Jew." (Jewish World, London December 14, 1922)


"We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them." (Goldwin Smith, Jewish Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, October, 1981)
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Reply Sat 15 Oct, 2005 04:56 pm
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Reyn
 
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Reply Sat 15 Oct, 2005 05:25 pm
So, why is it that peoples from the aforementioned countries that I listed previously, have somehow (for the most part) managed to live side by side?

In BC here, for example, we have large populations of Asian and East Indian peoples. We seem to manage okay. Sure, like anywhere else, there are occasional problems, but small compared to the numbers we have here.

In my own community, the percentage of Indo-Canadians is high. We co-exist. It doesn't matter what religion you are, or are not.

Ticking timebomb? We should worry more about global warming.
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