[Peace-discuss] Israel turning away Darfur refugees

[Robert Naiman]

why so glum? "we'll never make it - we're doomed..."

Here's the upbeat-we-can-do-it-version:

This week, in a remarkable reversal, the national ADL was forced to
reverse its position on the Armenian genocide, following a grassroots
rebellion of Armenian-American and Jewish-American activists. The
drama included the recantation of a regional ADL director who got
tired of trying to defend the national line against a firestorm of
local opposition, and who was promptly fired by the national office,
which only fueled the rebellion.

P.S. The rebellion was sparked not only by the refusal of national ADL
to use the term "genocide," but by the fact that it was actively
lobbying against the Armenian genocide resolution in Congress. So far
to my knowledge the ADL has not clarified its position on the bill.

On 8/25/07, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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