"What you need to get citizenship in the Jewish state is strong muscles and good lungs" | Israel today

The naturalization of Maccabi Haifa player, Ali Muhammad, together with Maccabi Tel Aviv's request for residency for the Spanish defender, Enrique Saborit, and Hapoel Beer Sheva's desire for Eugene Ensa to receive permanent residency, are causing a stir in the world of sports and outside of it. 

Saborit, photo: Ami Shoman

Israel Hayom learned for the first time that the social activist against immigration, Shafi Paz, from the Front for the Liberation of South Tel Aviv, sent a sharp letter to Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked this morning, in which she demands that she no longer approve the granting of residency to foreign actors and stop the proceedings against the power of three. 

"We are following with astonishment the new trend of granting status and citizenship to foreign athletes, illegal immigrants and infiltrators," Shafi Paz began her letter, "on the face of it, it seems that all you need to obtain citizenship in the Jewish state is strong muscles and good lungs, because the Jews are under the auspices of the ministry The interior outsource their sporting achievements and prefer to sit in an armchair and let the mercenaries sweat for them."

Paz continued: "For years we fought together against the transformation of the Jewish state into a state of free immigration. Years of demonstrations and protests and attempts to legislate and establish procedures and speeches in the Knesset and interviews in the media, which in the end come down to who kicks the goal better?"

"Because you didn't have time to declare status for the Maccabi Haifa player and his family members, and Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Be'er Sheva are already jumping in, and tomorrow more and more teams will come. This is the State of Israel. Once you open a door, you will never be able to close it."

Finally, Paz wrote to Sarah Shaked: "A person lands in Israel with a work contract. Not with a promise of citizenship. Someone who knows how to play soccer is no better than anyone else, and the principle of a Jewish state is stronger than this or that sporting achievement. And you know, no less than me, Because already now the children of the infiltrators and the Shabam are training en masse in the sports associations and are preparing for their moment of glory, which will prompt the next Minister of the Interior to give them a medal and citizenship.

You know that the leftist organizations are just waiting for this breakthrough, and that every precedent is just waiting for a petition to the High Court, and that every player like that (white or black or yellow), is an opening for dozens of other players, and for hundreds and thousands of children and tens of thousands of children.

"You know you shouldn't blink and you blink. I hope you will consider this step again."

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