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WORLD NEWSTuesday 17 November 2015

Anti-migrant mood deepens in Europe after Paris Gunfire, clashes
with Israeli troops

Serbian police officers trying to organise migrants queuing to get registered at a refugee center borders since World War kill 2 Palestinians
in the southern Serbian town of Presevo, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015. Refugees fleeing war by the II. Some say they fear that
tens of thousands fear the Paris attacks could prompt Europe to close its doors, especially after the same Islamic State ex- M. DARAGHMEH
police said a Syrian passport found next to one attacker’s body suggested its owner passed tremists they are fleeing will Associated Press
through Greece into the European Union and on through Macedonia and Serbia last month. infiltrate the masses of mi- RAMALLAH, West Bank
grants, carry out more at- (AP) — Clashes between
(AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) tacks and create greater Israeli forces and Palestin-
distrust of legitimate asy- ian demonstrators erupt-
VANESSA GERA The shifting mood could losing two-thirds of its terri- lum-seekers. ed in a West Bank refugee
Associated Press threaten European ef- tory after World War I, and “Europe made a big mis- camp overnight Monday
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — forts to find unity on the nations across the region take. They should not allow after Israeli forces arrived
Even before the Paris at- migration crisis. A new subjected to Soviet control all the people,” said Emile to demolish the home of a
tacks, the mood in Central anti-migrant government during the Cold War — all Tarabeh, a customs offi- Palestinian militant, leav-
Europe was decidedly an- in Poland already is cast- factors seen as contribut- cer from Syria at a migrant ing two Palestinians dead.
ti-migrant, with fences go- ing doubt on whether it ing to anxieties over na- center in Presevo, Serbia, It was the latest bloodshed
ing up on borders, a Syrian will take all 7,000 refugees tionhood. That one of the who is hoping to reach in a two-month wave of
beaten on a Polish street the previous government suicide bombers appears Sweden. “It will be more violence between Israelis
last week and the rhetoric agreed to accept. to be a Syrian who passed difficult now” for the real and Palestinians.
sharp across the region. Poland, Hungary and other through Greece in Octo- refugees, he said. Amid the unrest, Israel re-
Now the bloodshed un- countries across the region ber is also deepening a be- Joanna Fomina, a migra- cently renewed a policy
leashed by Islamic extrem- — many of them multicul- lief among many that the tion expert at the Polish of demolishing homes be-
ists is deepening fears of tural lands in the past — refugees should be seen as Academy of Sciences, said longing to Palestinians ac-
Muslims and threatening have been largely mono- potential terrorists. expressions of anti-Muslim cused in deadly attacks.
to create an atmosphere ethnic Christian societies “All of Europe should now sentiment have exploded Israel says the policy de-
even less welcoming for since the mass killings and be opposed to the mi- online since the Paris at- ters attacks, but critics say
those fleeing war in the expulsions of World War grants,” said Cristian Albu, tacks, with some people the tactic amounts to col-
Middle East. II, and resistance there a legal expert in Romania. essentially saying “I told lective punishment.
On the Slovenian-Austrian has been especially stiff “We have to prevent what you so” or saying Muslims In Monday’s violence, the
border over the weekend, toward Muslims, who are happened in Paris hap- should be gassed liked Israeli military said troops
the armies of both nations largely seen as threats to pening elsewhere.” Jews during the Holocaust. entered the Qalandiya
strip-searched migrants national identity. Many Even some of the migrants “This attack will increase refugee camp on the
on their westward march of these nations faced themselves are worried public and political po- outskirts of Jerusalem to
amid heightened secu- threats to their very nation- about the security gaps larization over the issue of demolish the home of Mu-
rity, causing large numbers hood in the past, with Po- that have come with the refugees, convincing those hammad Abu Shaheen, a
to build up at a refugee land wiped off the map in largest movement of refu- who are already preju- Palestinian who the army
camp. the 19th century, Hungary gees across European diced that their fears are says fatally shot an Israeli
well-grounded,” Fomina motorist in the West Bank
said. “We also can expect this summer. Abu Shaheen
more Euroskepticism — is now in an Israeli prison.
negative attitudes towards After the troops arrived,
the EU and migration go hundreds of Palestin-
hand in hand.” ians gathered and many
On Monday, Hungarian threw firebombs and
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, rocks as the Israeli forces
who has taken a promi- demolished the home,
nent anti-migrant stance, and troops fired rubber
criticized the EU as “adrift.” bullets, tear gas and stun
“It is weak, uncertain and grenades to disperse the
paralyzed,” he told the protesters, the military
Parliament in Budapest. said.
“In Brussels they continue According to Palestinian
to say that immigration is Health Ministry spokes-
good, even while we get man Mohammed Awaw-
new evidence every day deh, a 21-year-old and a
that immigration is a bad 28-year-old were killed in
thing.”q a shootout.q