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Religions > Atheism |
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"J Young" |
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19 Aug 2007 11:16:14 PM |
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Israel to turn away Darfur refugees |
How soon they forget.
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/ap/article.html?mi=D8R4EVUO0&apc=9002
Israel said Sunday it will no longer allow refugees from Darfur to stay
after they sneak across the border from Egypt, drawing criticism from those
who say the Jewish state is morally obliged to offer sanctuary to people
fleeing mass murder.
Israel has been grappling for months over how to deal with the swelling
numbers of Africans, including some from Darfur, who have been crossing the
porous desert border.
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J Young
younginsights@aol.com
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Israel to turn away Darfur refugees |
20 Aug 2007 12:56:23 AM |
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On 20 ao=FBt, 06:16, "J Young" <younginsig...@aol.com> wrote:
How soon they forget.
Who "they"?
What has your country done for Darfur?
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| User: "Vlad the accountant" |
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| Title: Re: Israel to turn away Darfur refugees |
20 Aug 2007 06:54:10 AM |
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On 20 Aug, 06:56, wrote:
On 20 ao=FBt, 06:16, "J Young" <younginsig...@aol.com> wrote:
How soon they forget.
Who "they"?
What has your country done for Darfur?
israel is probably waiting for an aid package from muslim and arab
states for dafur like the aid package the arabs came up with for the
palastinians...could be a while then.
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| User: "Matt Silberstein" |
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| Title: Re: Israel to turn away Darfur refugees |
20 Aug 2007 09:22:43 PM |
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On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:16:14 -0400, in alt.atheism , "J Young"
<younginsights@aol.com> in <fab4nf02gd6@news5.newsguy.com> wrote:
How soon they forget.
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/ap/article.html?mi=D8R4EVUO0&apc=9002
From this article:
"About 400 of the Darfurians who reached Egypt have driven and trekked
through desert sands to cross the unfenced frontier with Israel,
according to the refugees' advocates in Israel."
Wow, Egypt is so nice to these refugees that they trek through the
Sinai desert to find some place better.
"Although the case of the Darfur refugees is unusual, the late Prime
Minister Menachem Begin set a precedent in 1977 when he offered asylum
to nearly 400 Vietnamese boat people."
What was that about forgetting? As a % of population Israel let in one
of the highest number of Vietnamese boat people.
"In July, Egyptian police shot and killed a Sudanese woman who was
trying to cross into Israel, the first confirmed death of its kind.
And earlier this month, Israeli media reported that Egyptian border
guards beat to death two Sudanese men in front of Israeli soldiers.
Egypt neither confirmed nor denied the incident."
And yet the headline was that Israel was turning the refugees away,
not that Egypt was killing them. Can we say "double standard"
children?
Israel said Sunday it will no longer allow refugees from Darfur to stay
after they sneak across the border from Egypt, drawing criticism from those
who say the Jewish state is morally obliged to offer sanctuary to people
fleeing mass murder.
Israel has been grappling for months over how to deal with the swelling
numbers of Africans, including some from Darfur, who have been crossing the
porous desert border.
How many Darfuri refugees have you helped? How many has the U.S. let
in? How about Iraqi refugees?
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Matt Silberstein
Do something today about the Darfur Genocide
http://www.beawitness.org
http://www.darfurgenocide.org
http://www.savedarfur.org
"Darfur: A Genocide We can Stop"
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