Sri Lanka agrees to send 10,000 farm workers to Israel (en.globes.co.il)
from pleasemakesense@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 06 Nov 2023 19:59
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xmunk@sh.itjust.works on 06 Nov 2023 20:13 next collapse

Oh gosh, if only there was a more conveniently located population willing to work in agriculture… that announcement is seriously fucking ridiculous.

HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works on 07 Nov 2023 13:48 collapse

There’s like 50 Thai farm workers that are still hostages

ShroOmeric@lemmy.world on 06 Nov 2023 21:08 next collapse

Displacement and replacement. If it doesn’t sound old school ethnic cleansing this I dont know what else…

mwguy@infosec.pub on 07 Nov 2023 06:23 collapse

Well the difference is that Israel has invested in desalination at a widespread level. They’ve been able to irrigate the desert and turn inhospitable land into arable farmland with that investment.

While 10,000 visas may seem like a lot, it actually doesn’t go all that far for the sort of crops that must be picked by hand.

ShroOmeric@lemmy.world on 07 Nov 2023 13:46 collapse

They have invested in land grabbing. And ethnic cleansing.

mwguy@infosec.pub on 07 Nov 2023 16:22 collapse

The land that’s farmland was previously inhospitable.

ShroOmeric@lemmy.world on 07 Nov 2023 19:10 collapse

And it wasn’t previously their.

mwguy@infosec.pub on 07 Nov 2023 20:52 collapse

It’s been there’s since 1967.

ShroOmeric@lemmy.world on 07 Nov 2023 22:18 next collapse

The land? Pretty sure it’s way longer than that.

mwguy@infosec.pub on 07 Nov 2023 22:32 collapse

Parden their’s

Squizzy@lemmy.world on 07 Nov 2023 23:39 collapse

And as we all know they haven’t moved an inch since then…even though that in itself was an illegal land grab.

mwguy@infosec.pub on 08 Nov 2023 02:52 collapse

Since 2004 Israel has respected every inch of the 1967 borders in Gaza. The disengagement was designed to prove to the Israeli people that a pull back to the 1967 borders on their part would lead to peace.

CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net on 07 Nov 2023 16:11 collapse

Since October 7, some 8,000 foreign agricultural workers have fled Israel out of 30,000 foreign workers in the farming sector

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some 20,000 Palestinian agricultural workers have been banned from entering the country

I’m no mathematician, but their ethnic cleansing project may be getting too big for its britches. Ask the right-wing Zionists who they expect to pick their crops after they banish all the scary people; then ask a Trump supporter the same about migrants, you’ll get the same vacant stare as they attempt to grok that actions have consequences.