“Almost all of the asylum seekers who Israel deported on Sunday to Egypt had escaped the genocide in Darfur, according to figures given to Haaretz by Israel Defense Forces officials.”
What has Israel come to as a nation? Not only is this a gross act of international law, but Israel is in effect possibly sending these people back to imminent death in Sudan. More than 200,000 people have been killed in Darfur already, and if the genocide is not halted, many more will perish. The State of Israel has a moral obligation to give asylum to refugees seeking to escape genocide. Imagine what the Jews in the S.S. St. Louis, who were so joyful that they would have a chance to come to America, thought when their boat was not allowed into any country (including America). Feeling alone and rejected by the entire world, the passengers returned to Europe in June 1939. To send refugees back to a country in which they may be killed, is an act of not only hypocrisy, but an act of disregard towards the founding principles in which the State of Israel was created.
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Do you have a link?
Israel was not born in the ashes of the Holocasut, but rather 3500 years earlier. You negate our greatest argument with statements like that. was poland born in 1919?
Also Never Again was meant concerning Jews because of the largely apathetic American Jewish community that ignored the Holocaust-Bergson Group and Orthodox Rabbis notwithstanding.
Jewish atheist, I'm sorry but I am unable to find the link to the original story now. However this link verifies the quote in my blog post:
"The government on Sunday said it would turn away refugees fleeing Darfur and seeking asylum in Israel, after it deported to Egypt for the first time almost 50 refugees that escaped the war-torn region."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/894800.html
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Daniel, oh really? The State of Israel was born over 3,000 years ago? I'm afraid that is not true.
The State of Israel (I.e. Medinat Yisra'el) was created in 1948. The United Nations would have never approved Resolution 181, partitioning the land, if the holocaust and the refugee crisis that came along with it did not occur.
Now here are a few points to consider:
1.) I never said that the Jewish people never were in Israel and there was no such thing as a "Kingdom of Israel" before the holocaust. However, the modern state of israel is a product of a United Nations resolution.
2.) I'm afraid "never again" is not what you defined it as. "Never again" was a phrase coined to remind humanity that persecution and genocide will never be allowed to happen at all.
3.) You wrote: "You negate our greatest argument", which I am afraid is untrue. The greatest argument for the State of Israel is that it is a functional democracy and free thinking society in an ocean of persecution and brain washing (i.e. the rest of the middle east.)
Begin said the same thing as I -albeit more articulately- in his victory speech in '77.
from wiki
Never Again (hebrew: לעולם לא שוב) is a common phrase used in relation to The Holocaust, coined by Rabbi Meir Kahane. The phrase is also used in reference to the Armenian Genocide and, less commonly, the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I would expect that 'relation to the Holocaust' would mean that the saying is telling us that nothing like the killing that happend during wwII can happen again.
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