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Israeli lawmakers urge the West to accept refugees from Gaza, in WSJ op-ed
All Israel News ^ | November 15, 2023 | All Israel News Staff

Posted on 11/18/2023 2:26:11 PM PST by Angelino97

In a jointly penned opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal, two Israeli Members of Knesset recently urged Western nations to welcome Palestinian refugees from Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Israeli Knesset Member Danny Danon of the Likud party and opposition lawmaker, Knesset Member Ram Ben-Barak from the centrist Yesh Atid party stressed that the Hamas terrorist organization is ultimately responsible for civilian casualties and suffering among both Gazan residents and Israelis...

“Hamas’s unprovoked terrorist attack on Oct. 7 has endangered not only Israel but the more than two million people who live in the Gaza Strip. Although Hamas won 2006 elections in Gaza and took control of the area from the Palestinian Authority the following year, the group has said that it bears no responsibility for the people living there,” the two lawmakers wrote...

“Europe has a long history of assisting refugees fleeing conflicts. The wars in the former Yugoslavia displaced millions, most of them from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Germany, Austria and Sweden accepted large numbers. When the Kosovo war erupted, hundreds of thousands of Kosovar Albanians fled to neighboring Albania and the country now called North Macedonia.”...

“European countries including Germany, Sweden and France have provided refuge to Syrians since the civil war started in 2011. Between 2015 and 2016, Germany alone admitted more than 1.2 million refugees and asylum-seekers, about a quarter of whom were Syrian.”

Danon and Ben-Barak urged “countries around the world to accept limited numbers of Gazan families who have expressed a desire to relocate.”

Many Israeli right-wingers appear to support the relocation of some Gazan families overseas. However, some Arab countries have argued that Israel ultimately is seeking to expel the Arab population from the Gaza Strip.

(Excerpt) Read more at allisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events
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To: Angelino97

N.O.! W.E. A.R.E. T.O.O. D.A.R.N. F.U.L.L. N.O.W.@!


141 posted on 11/18/2023 7:11:12 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Angelino97

We’ll take 1 MILLION Gazans but Israel will have to take one MILLION blacks.


142 posted on 11/18/2023 8:00:08 PM PST by euram (allALL)
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To: cowboyusa
They made themselves refugees by electing Hamas.

For the record, Hamas received 44% of the vote in 2006 and formed a coalition government with the runner up political party, Fatah, who received 42% of the vote.

Hamas quickly tore up the coalition agreement and took total control of the government. Gazan Prime Minister Haniyye announced in September 2012 the formation of a second Hamas government, without elections.

No election has been held in Gaza since 2006.

143 posted on 11/18/2023 9:05:02 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia ( )
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To: Chicory
Israel is only asking the west because no Muslim nations will accept them.

The refugee status should end

Israel should annex the strip and people living on it or cut both free so they can join with the West Bank and form a Palestinian state.

144 posted on 11/18/2023 9:22:18 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia ( )
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To: Angelino97

No. We have too many malcontents and whiners that want to burn down the country now. We don’t need more.


145 posted on 11/19/2023 2:28:20 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Right_in_Virginia

Israel tried to cut Gaza free in 2005.


146 posted on 11/19/2023 3:10:54 AM PST by Chicory
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To: Angelino97

Anyone want this vermine living next door?


147 posted on 11/19/2023 1:59:09 PM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 )
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To: Angelino97

Somalia has the climate of California and the population density of Colorado. House all the trailer trash of the Arab world in one place.


148 posted on 11/19/2023 7:57:14 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Alberta's Child
It's not Muslims that are the problem here. It's white suburban dingbats.

Suburban and inner city. Once upon a time, Minneapolis was a fairly nice city. You could fly over and see large suburban homes adjacent to lakefront property even in the city.

Ole, Lena and the ELCA decided it would be nice if Minneapolis was a little more diverse. They couldn't imagine nice people from Somalia coming here to freeload, because Scandinavians didn't do that.

149 posted on 11/19/2023 8:02:57 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Angelino97

It’s true. You don’t. People don’t yet know enough to stop sympathizing with them. You need an extra dose, for folks whose brains are comatose—a Gutfeld would say.


150 posted on 11/19/2023 10:21:54 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Chicory
Israel tried to cut Gaza free in 2005.

No, they did not.

151 posted on 11/23/2023 12:16:22 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia ( )
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To: Right_in_Virginia

In what way did they not? (Sincerely askonv)


152 posted on 11/23/2023 2:44:26 PM PST by Chicory
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To: Right_in_Virginia

Oh, I didn’t remember writing that and I looked back to see why I had written that, and you seem to have picked up a quote from someone else. 4


153 posted on 11/23/2023 2:46:19 PM PST by Chicory
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To: Chicory

Never mind—i did write that un response to your saying Israel should set both the WB and Gaza free. So my question, still sincere although slightly embarrassed, still stands 🙂


154 posted on 11/23/2023 2:49:37 PM PST by Chicory
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To: Chicory

It’s your exact post. See #146.


155 posted on 11/27/2023 5:22:01 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia ( )
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To: Angelino97

Send then to Canada.


156 posted on 11/27/2023 5:23:43 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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