From Batya Medad's blog on Arutz Sheva:
Israel's Interior Minister Shitrit wants Israel to be "like every other country."
Isn't it enough that we have prostitution, drug addicts, murderers, alcoholics and every other crime and personality disorder?
That statement of Shitrit's reminds me of the ancient Biblical national crime at the time of Shmuel Hanavi, Samuel the Prophet. G-d had been waiting for the Hebrew People to ask for a king to obey the mitzvah of establishing a King, but instead, they asked for a king "like all other nations." And we got King Saul who, sounds familiar?, fought David instead of Amalek and the Philistines.
Now Shitrit wants to limit/restrict/change immigration, forget about the mitzvah of aliyah, to "good people," no crooks and no protexia to someone just because he may be Jewish.
Shlomo HaMelech, King Solomon was right, as he repeated many times in Kohelet, Ecclesisastes, "Nothing's new."
We sure live in Biblical times...