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'Did you participate in genocide?': Australia stonewalls Israeli siblings' visa application over IDF service

www.ynetnews.com 'Did you participate in genocide?': Australia stonewalls Israeli siblings' visa application over IDF service

Omer and Ella Berger planned to visit their 100-year-old great-grandmother in Australia but were denied entry and asked to complete a 13-page form due to their IDF service; 'Decision reflects government’s increasingly hostile stance against Israel,' relative says

Israeli siblings Omer Berger, 24, and Ella Berger, 22, faced delays in obtaining Australian visas after being asked to complete to complete a 13-page document typically required for military personnel involved in war. The siblings had planned to visit their 100-year-old great-grandmother, a Holocaust survivor.

According to Berger, six family members applied for Australian visas two months ago. While all were promptly approved, Omer and Ella were told to submit the extended form. The questions included whether they had participated in physical or psychological abuse, served as guards or officials in detention facilities or engaged in war crimes or genocide.

Ella, who had received a week’s leave from her military service to attend the celebration, gave up waiting and returned to Israel. Omer, a reservist, remains in Thailand, hoping for a resolution. Berger expressed the family’s heartbreak, fearing they may never see their great-grandmother again. “We just want a clear answer, yes or no,” he said.

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Oh the sweet irony of serving in a military committing genocide and wanting to visit your relative whom is a holocaust survivor.
- On land unceded to the colonizers by genocided peoples.
  
  Found the vegan at the party.
faced delays in obtaining Australian visas after being asked to complete to complete a 13-page document typically required for military personnel involved in war

Well, they were involved in war, no matter how much lipstick this article wants to put on the pig.
- Reservist = Military Personnel
  
  Am i missing something here or why is that even mentioned?
  
  Reservists don't necessarily go fight in a war. A lot of their work is voluntary rather than forced.
- Not a war; a belligerent invasion.
"Stonewalled", no, that's 13 pages of routine paperwork. I had to do more to see the doctor.
being asked to complete to complete a 13-page document typically required for military personnel involved in war

Being part of the illegal occupation force known as the IDF should DEFINITELY qualify you for that, plus more.
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- You have the world's tiniest violin, but can you play it?
- For whatever reason that's not coming through for me without clicking.
  
  For others who might have the same issue:
  
  What did you post?
Good fuck these war criminals.

Make Israelis feel unwelcome everywhere besides their shiti apartheid shit hole.
- No, you got it all wrong, make Israel feel welcome everywhere but there (provided they don't have a problem with the applicable immigration forms, ofc).
“We just want a clear answer, yes or no,”

So... DID you participate in genocide?
“We just want a clear answer, yes or no,” he said.

Well they also just want a clear answer, yes or no. We already know which one it is tho...
If traveling is that important maybe don't participate in genocide then?
- You don't understand, the government told them to! If you think about it they're the real victims.
  
  Yeah, they were just following orders
I guess seeing her grandma wasn't as important to her as not telling the truth. How hurtful for her grandma. At least she won't have to greet any more genocide enactors.
The bare fucking minimum so that the Australian government can argue that they aren’t complicit
I'm pretty sure centrelink forms are routinely longer than 13 pages.

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