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Reluctant Acceptance: Responding to Afghanistan’s Refugees

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Reluctant Acceptance: Responding to Afghanistan’s Refugees

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Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark

Do not for a minute think that this is a kind, heart-felt thing in the aftermath of Kabul’s fall. True, a number of Afghans will find their way to Germany, to Canada, to the UK, US and a much smaller number to Australia.  But this will be part of the curtain act that, in time, will pass into memory and enable countries to return to their harsh refugee policies.

Britain’s Home Secretary, Priti Patel, is none too enthused about welcoming high numbers of Afghan refugees.  “We have to be realistic in terms of those that we can bring to the country and resettle in a safe and secure way while giving them the right opportunities going forward in resettlement.”

This waffly formulation has yielded the following formula: the UK will accept a mere 20,000 staggered over five years.  Only 5,000 will be admitted in the next year, after which, presumably, the situation will resolve itself.  “What are the 15,000 meant to do,” asked Labour’s Chris Bryant, “hang around and wait to be executed?”

However inadequate Britain’s response has proven, Australia’s approach remains without peer. Every excuse has been made to delay, to obstruct, to prevent an orderly transfer of Afghan interpreters and former security personnel out of the country.  The Morrison government has become a specialist prevaricator, waiting for the horse to bolt before even finding the barn.  Instead of bothering to use strategic common sense and see the writing on the wall for the Afghan government based in Kabul, it waited months before deciding, abruptly, to close the embassy at the end of May only to then suggest it would need to put in Australian personnel to assist in the evacuation.

The number of humanitarian visas currently being offered is a paltry 3,000.  This is sharply lower than the number of Vietnamese accepted by the Fraser government after the fall of Saigon in 1975, which one estimate puts at 60,000.  In 2015, 12,000 places were offered for Syrians fleeing their country.  The Morrison government, in contrast, finds expanding Australia’s resettlement program beyond the current 13,750 places something of a heresy.

Behind the compassion argument, one constipated at best, is a marked reluctance to actually open the doors to the Afghans.  A good deal of this can be put down to the fact that Afghans have made up a sizeable complement of those maritime arrivals Australian politicians so detest as “illegals” deserving of indefinite detention in its system of Pacific concentration camps.  Many actually fled the Taliban to begin with, but that did not make immigration authorities any softer.

As the Saturday Newspaper appropriately described it, Australia’s antipathetic refugee policy has induced “a kind of moral numbness that puts decisions outside the reach of logic or decency.”  Prime Minister Scott Morrison could never be said to have been taken by surprise: “he was already in the grip of indifference”, one “necessary to live with the refugee policy he has spent years shaping.”

Despite the fall of the coalition-backed Afghan national government, Australian government officials did little to reassure the 4,200 Afghans already in Australia on precarious temporary protection visas that they would not be sent back when the time came.  Australian foreign minister Marise Payne offered an assessment on national radio that was far from reassuring. “All the Afghan citizens who currently are in Australia on a temporary visa will be supported by the Australian government and no Afghan visa holders will be asked to return to Afghanistan at this stage.”

One dark reminder of the brutal, and distinctly non-honeyed approach of Australia’s authorities to Afghan refugees comes in the form of a refugee and former member of an Afghan government security agency who aided coalition forces. For doing so, he was attacked by the Taliban.  He arrived in Australia by boat in 2013 after having suffered a grenade attack on his home and being the recipient of various warning letters from the militants. For his efforts, he was sent to Manus Island, where he was formally found to be a refugee in 2015.  In 2019, he was moved to Australia for treatment during that brief window of opportunity under the now repealed medevac legislation.

In total, he has spent eight years in detention, desperate to help his family out of the country.  He had previously asked no fewer than three times to be returned to Papua New Guinea.  “Every day Afghanistan is getting worse,” he writes in an email to his case manager from the behemoth that is the Department of Home Affairs.  “My family is in a dangerous place and I need help now please.  If you wait I will lose my family.  Why do you wait?  The Taliban want to kill my family.”

The email, read in open court, forms part of a case the plaintiff, given the pseudonym F, has taken against the Australian government, seeking his release.  He argues that his detention prevents him from “moving my family out of Afghanistan to a safe country to save them from the Taliban.” The nature of his detention prevented him “from doing anything to help” his family.

On August 3, 2021, the Federal Court judge Rolf Driver dismissed F’s claims that his detention was unlawful and refused an order “in the nature of the writ of habeas corpus requiring his release from detention forthwith”.  Judge Driver did find that the man was “a refugee and requires resettlement”, ordering mediation between him and the home affairs minister.  While Australia was not an option for resettlement, the applicant should have his request to return to PNG “acted upon”.

Morrison’s ministers are full of excuses about Australia’s unimpressive effort.  Defence minister, Peter Dutton, has constantly reiterated the idea that processing the paperwork is a difficult thing indeed, because some of the visa applicants cannot be trusted.  Having aided Australian and other coalition forces in the past, they had proved flexible with shifting allegiances.  “I’m not bringing people to Australia that pose a threat to us or that have done us harm in Afghanistan.”  With such an attitude, shutting the door to the suffering, even to those who were part of the coalition’s absurd state building project in Afghanistan, will do little to trouble an unformed, unimaginative conscience.

Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge.  He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne.  Email: bkampmark@gmail.com

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Marco Polo

This was by no means “reluctant”, this is population replacement.

https://odysee.com/@ApollonianGerm:a/the-you-know-who-fears-the-rabbit-hole:8

https://odysee.com/@ApollonianGerm:a/ignorance-causes-fear-causes-hate:d “Debunking this nonsense explanation of “prejudicial opinions”. Sorry about the sound quality, I actually bought an app to reduce background noise that helped a little but still…”

https://odysee.com/@TheTruthWillSetYouFree:a/Jews-Push-For-White-Genocide:4 “49 Jewish groups including the ADL demand a “pathway to citizenship” for illegals but not in Israel.”

https://odysee.com/@censoredvideos:8/TheJewishDriveforOpenBordersAndWhiteGenocide:a “A well edited montage of clips showing the Jewish agenda towards open borders and white genocide.”

https://odysee.com/@martinezperspective:2/based-nigga:a

https://i.imgur.com/ZdC3N50.png

https://i.imgur.com/AiErvb7.png

https://i.imgur.com/aiRemtZ.jpg

Last edited 3 years ago by Marco Polo
Marco Polo

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=58426

"Israel" is a terrorist NATO settler colony

“Israel” needs to accept back every Palestinian refugee.

The reason why refugees are coming to Europe, is because “Israel” created those refugees by trying to attack Muslim countries and trying to get NATO on board.

Destroy Israel and your problem is solved.

Marco Polo

The vast majority of Muslims in Europe, North America and Oceania are not Palestinians; they are Turks, Arabs, Sub-Saharan Africans, et cetera.

What about non-Muslims the Indians, Mestizos, and east Asians? Destroying Israel would not solve the migrant crisis, the only reason they flock to the West is for a better economic life as welfare parasites.

And you neglect to mention that jews and their puppets admitted to deliberately planning to carry out White genocide with mass migration as their weapon of choice.

Last edited 3 years ago by Marco Polo
Icarus Tanović

All those cpuntries that Nato destroyed. So shut the f up.

Marco Polo

Hypocritical jews Push Open Borders for Us and Closed Borders for israel http://www.renegadetribune.com/hypocritical-jews-push-open-borders-for-us-and-closed-borders-for-israel/ https://i.imgur.com/tpdGcMV.jpg

Last edited 3 years ago by Marco Polo
Marco Polo

Jul 10 , 2014 | Putin: “I support the struggle of Israel” https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182754

[Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met with a delegation of rabbis, led by Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar, and rabbis of the Rabbinical Center of Europe (RCE).

“I follow closely what’s going on in Israel,” said Putin during the long meeting, which was held in Moscow.

“I support the struggle of Israel as it attempts to protect its citizens. I also heard about the shocking murder of the three youths. It is an act that cannot be allowed, and I ask you to transmit my condolences to the families,” added the Russian president, in referring to the abduction and murder of three teens in June by Hamas terrorists.]

Last edited 3 years ago by Marco Polo
Jim Allen

That won’t solve the problem, or even make a perceptible difference. Not to say that’s a bad idea.

Jim Allen

“Population replacement” ? Yeah…..NO !!! That is contradictory to the the City of London’s current objective’s. What rock have you been living under ? Or, is it a severe case of anal-cranial inversion that’s prevented you understanding the prevailing conditions worldwide ?

Marco Polo

Jewish Rabbi Defending Sucking Bloody Baby Dicks – Metzitzah B’peh https://worldtruthvideos.website/watch/jewish-rabbi-defending-sucking-bloody-baby-dicks-metzitzah-b-039-peh_tKf2U8sXmUdR4fN.html

Sex with Children by Talmud Rules http://www.come-and-hear.com/editor/america_2.html

Jewess Sings About How ‘Gender Identity’ Insanity Comes From the Talmud https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/080/152/058/original/c133964f37abb9ef.mp4

Six Sexes of the Talmud: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/196414?lang=bi https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2015/the-6-genders-of-the-talmud

Androgynous: hermaphrodite – Hermes/Aphrodite (having some aspects of both male and female genitalia). 149 references in the Mishna and Talmud (1st-8th centuries CE); 350 in classical midrash and Jewish law codes (2nd-16th centuries CE).

Ay’lonit: literally “little ram”; a female who has not shown physical signs of typical sexual maturity by the age of 20 (some say 18); presumed infertile; often possessing masculine characteristics. 80 references in Mishna and Talmud; 40 in classical midrash and Jewish law codes.

Ish: a man/eligible husband; one whose fertility is not in question and has shown some secondary sex characteristics by around age 13.

Ishah: a woman/eligible wife; one whose fertility is not in question and has shown some secondary sex characteristics by around age 12 and is clearly developing by age 12.5.

Saris: a male who has not shown signs of typical sexual maturity by the age of 20; a eunuch. 156 references in Mishna and Talmud; 379 in classical midrash and Jewish law codes.

– Saris Chama: congenital sterility in a male (e.g., atesticularity) – Saris Adam: a castrated male; one made sterile intentionally or via accidental injury.

Tumtum: a person of indeterminate gender; one whose genitals are obscured or not clearly male or female. 181 references in Mishna and talmud; 335 in classical midrash and Jewish law codes.

Last edited 3 years ago by Marco Polo
Marco Polo

Integration implies demographic replacement through mixing.

https://worldtruthvideos.website/watch/the-slow-painful-death-of-germany_JVX1ISJMJR5aOeN.html

https://worldtruthvideos.website/watch/stasi-preschools-now-in-germany-to-ferret-out-quot-racists-quot_x61tBd938l9jN1s.html

Last edited 3 years ago by Marco Polo
block

When Afghani people make deals with the american, british, zionist devil’s, do not expect support or sympathy. They are not in the business of charity or humanitarian efforts.

The west was always in Afghanistan with the expectation to exploit mineral resources, (considered in the trillions $). To poison neighboring nations with their heroin. To install their front corporations like exxon, chevron, citibank etc.

Marco Polo

Brits and Americans are controlled by international jewry. Israel is not a colonial outpost of the “Anglos” nor the Americans, they are jewish controlled colonies of Israel.

Last edited 3 years ago by Marco Polo
block

Yet they bow down to rome. Political zionism is not even 150 years old.

Marco Polo

https://worldtruthvideos.website/watch/all-of-putin-039-s-achievements-in-15-years_zeaijsVRg1QrDPb.html

Marco Polo

Did you know that PNAC (Project for a New American Century) was saturated with American-israeli jews?

block

Actually I have commented on “PNAC” before. You only see one side of the equation. A poor troll attempt.

Last edited 3 years ago by block
Icarus Tanović

Yes, buddy that’s right.

Icarus Tanović

Hundreds of trillions of dollars.

Albert Pike

To do this all in chaos mode was the only way how the western leaders could push their havy tax burdened populations into accepting anybody. Remember there were peace talks in Doha, where they all came together and the result was that the Taliban took over, and got billions in arms from the Americans as payment. This was all done to get new weapons of mass migrations against their own indigenous people, for a new round of replacment migration, to change voter rolls and the ethnicities of their populations, to make them more pliable for their fascist new world order. That’s why they are doing it, and for no other reason…

Last edited 3 years ago by Albert Pike
Jim Allen

It should be pointed out US, and Western countries aren’t a desirable destination for refugees, and returning US citizens, currently. These countries are engaged in the UN Agenda 21 Sustainability Development Guidelines de-population plans. It’s a worldwide agenda signed on to by 190 countries and has been underway since 1992. The efforts have been greatly accelerated in the last decade, and currently the pace is blisteringly fast. US is scheduled to be depopulated 81% by 2025. Or, 280(+/-) million people. EU countries, UK, and some other’s are scheduled for completion by 2025, at varying percentage’s to be killed. It may well be less risky to stay where they’re at, than come to countries that are practicing genocide on their own population’s.

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