[Peace-discuss] Israel turning away Darfur refugees

[n.dahlheim at mchsi.com]

No surprise there.  That self-serving Never Again stuff makes me want to vomit.  Ben Kiernan's new book 
Blood and Soil lays bare just how frequently human societies have resorted to henious mass murder and 
genocide.  While I completely sympathize with the anguish over the Holocaust, I don't think Jewish people 
have moral authority on the issue of genocide that makes them spokespeople for movement entitle "Never 
Again."  This action of refusing refugees from a well-documented genocide in their backyard puts an 
exclamation point on this fact.  


----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
From:    Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>
To:      peace discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Israel turning away Darfur refugees
Date:    Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:28:22 +0000

> We remember as one of the nastier moments in US
> history the turning away of Jewish refugees from the
> "Hitlerzeit" holocaust.
> 
> I just saw a photo, by AFP, of Sudanese refugees
> demonstrating in Jerusalem against the Israeli govt's
> policy of turning away refugees from the war-torn
> Darfur province, which has I believe surpassed Sierra
> Leone in number of UN peacekeepers.
> 
> Apparently "never again" can have a very narrow
> meaning for some in the statecraft profession who
> benefit from the sentiment when it suits them.  I'm
> not the first to point is out, but I thought I'd share
> the particularly glaring example.
> 
> It might also be interesting to ponder how often the
> "international community" is willing to send in troops
> to "knock heads together" but not accept the civilian
> sufferers into their/our midst.
> 
> Ricky
> 
> 
> 
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