Israel general discussion

[ingemann]

since the issue of Syrian refugees has come up, a poll has been done about with very definitive results:

Do you support or oppose accepting refugees in Israel?

Oppose: 80%
Support: 11%
Don't know: 9%


Bibi is definitely with most Israelis on this issue.

Good. very glad to see most Israelis are sensible on this.

Sane! Not accepting war-torn refugees is the f*king sane person.

Not accepting them in Israel almost certainly is. Decisions don't occur in moral vacuums distinct from reality. An employee of Wal-Mart is not evil because he fails to donate $100,000 to help a Syrian family or any less moral than a billionaire.

That said, Israel should probably donate to help resettle the refugees elsewhere.

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How does Isreal, as well as other countries, get a pass for not taking in refugees. Especially Isreal, which gets the coddlement of the US and most western countries, and the highest military aid from the US, get the pass of not taking the humane position of taking in refugees

Israel is at war with Syria. So, I guess, it could be validly claimed to be a special case.

Now, the much more serious issue is that the situation highlights the need for a Palestinian state. At the very elast, there are hundreds of thousands of people of Palestinian origin in Syria who would have been happily accepted into Palestine - if a Palestinian government would be free to make such a decision. That is even without considering the fact that Palestine may have accepted Syrians as refugees as well.

I would give Israelis the pass on accomodating refugees inside Israel proper. But what should be requested is Israel letting PA to admit, at the very least, Palestinian refugees from Syria and Iraq. And, of course, PA should be helped accomodating the resettlement - I am sure even Danes would be quite happy to pay their share for this

I don't care to pay for the illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, if Israel want to keep its two puppet regimes of Quislings in place, they can pay for itself.

[ingemann]

You would be paying for ending Israeli occupation, not for prolonging it. Extra half a million Palestinians in the West Bank makes it so much less likely for Israel to keep the land.

That was how they suckered us into funding their Bantustans the last time, and now the peace process (no matter how much of a zombie it is by now) and the Palestinians are kept as hostages to keep us funding them.