I wonder how many people in the Torah world would agree with this? Here are the published words from an Israeli politician and a man I respect:
Sometimes even experienced politicians don’t understand how the government works, especially when the government does not bother to explain what it’s doing, and the echoes of the cries of the people hang in the air, unanswered.
Here we are, after the occupation of the Gaza Strip by Hamas, who used cruel and horrific methods, and has been executing people without trial. Hundreds of people are standing at the gates of our country and begging for their lives and requesting entry to the Palestinian Authority, and we stand like a fortified wall and shoot at them if they dare near the exit.
Our claim is that among those trying to leave are Hamas members, or other terrorists, and the Palestinian committee that used to filter out the people interested in moving no longer functions.
Why can’t we turn to the Palestinian Authority and request that they send a committee from Ramallah to filter out those seeking refuge, and those deemed to be honest will be immediately transported to Ramallah without Israel having to absorb them?
Again, Israel is being portrayed in the international community (which is keeping an eye out for us to commit injustices) as cruel people who don’t take into account the plight of the persecuted.
I can understand that Israel is a small country and is unable to handle the millions of refugees from Darfur. It is more fitting that they find their salvation in the larger Egypt, instead of Egypt sending the Darfur refugees to Israel. It is also unclear to me why the Egyptians don’t do more to save the refugees from Gaza.
Why must the Philadelphi Route serve as a one-way street to smuggle weapons into Gaza and cannot be used as a way to Egypt to absorb the persecuted Gazans?
We live in a cynical and hypocritical world. In a world without justice and without integrity.
But obviously, in my opinion I think that Israel needs –from a humanitarian standpoint and from a political one – to be a bridge for the refugees from Gaza to the Palestinian Authority, for those they are willing to absorb. And those that Palestinians don’t want to absorb, we certainly will be exempt from absorbing them.
