Saturday, January 1, 2011
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
African Migrants to Israel - 'There have been reports over the past week or so of Eritrean and other African refugees attempting the journey to Israel and being held hostage by Arab traders in the Sinai desert. According to the Italian-based human rights organisation EveryOne, the trafficking is under the control of Hamas. Now BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes travels across the Sinai to meet with the people-traffickers and some of their victims. He makes no mention of any Hamas connection, referring rather to Bedouin smugglers...'
