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To: Boundary Rider
6000 plus people die in a terrible tragedy and some people are more outraged about a small group of people being refused entry (if they were actually refused)into a sovereign nation in the midst of terrible grieving and chaos.

You are missing the point. The outrage isn't that Israel was snubbed. Heck, they're used to that. The outrage is that a nation whose people just suffered an unimaginable tragedy are are on the precipice of an even worse one (from disease) would turn away valuable aid just to make a political statement. That is the hierarchy of suffering: bigotry trumps lifesaving aid.

gitmo

80 posted on 12/28/2004 4:54:43 AM PST by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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To: gitmo

If it was really about that, they would have rejected the blankets and everything else like Iran did for that earthquake. Was it Iran? I think so.


88 posted on 12/28/2004 5:03:18 AM PST by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: gitmo

Well said, gitmo.


114 posted on 12/28/2004 5:34:32 AM PST by misharu (I've been here a while . . .you just haven't noticed me.)
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