[Peace-discuss] Israel turning away Darfur refugees

[David Green]

It's been a particularly rough week in terms of glaring hypocrisy in relation to Israel and Jewish affairs, what with this and with the row within the ADL over recognition of the Armenian genocide http://www.forward.com/articles/11470/. The question becomes whether when hypocrisy is the norm, it's still hypocrisy. Sorry to sound jaded, but nothing here is new or surprising, except that it's finding it's way into the fringes of the mainstream media.
   
  DG

Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com> wrote:
  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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