In a Saturday commentary, Moshe Ashkenazi argued that Israel narrowly avoided a demographic disaster due to mass infiltration through the Egyptian border, blaming previous governments and the Supreme Court for blocking removal efforts. He credited Prime Minister Netanyahu's Sinai border fence for preventing a worse outcome.
Commentator Moshe Ashkenazi published a lengthy analysis Saturday warning that Israel came within 'a hair's breadth of violent woke madness' due to a series of what he described as negligent decisions, primarily the failure to prevent mass infiltration from Africa through the Egyptian border. He argued that the Olmert government allowed tens of thousands of African Muslim men, all of military age, to reach central Tel Aviv. Ashkenazi further criticized the Supreme Court for blocking successive government attempts to remove the infiltrators, citing 'reasonableness' standards on detention duration and deportation frameworks. He credited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to build the border fence with Sinai as the key factor preventing a worse outcome. The commentary also warned against current political efforts to grant citizenship or driver's licenses to infiltrators, calling for a full revision of immigration and deportation policies. Ashkenazi's piece joins a broader debate in Israeli politics over immigration and border security, following similar warnings from former IDF chief Gadi Eizenkot in late July about unchecked Palestinian workers and illegal residents.
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