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To: Nifster
Be sure and tell us all abut how kind the Chinese Communists are to their citizens

I'm not Chinese, but that's actually a relevant point, but not necessarily in the way you've stated. Where was the outcry from Jews for millions of Chinese to be admitted to these shores when China's Great Leap Forward killed tens of millions? How many Chinese did Israel take in during that period? The same point can be repeated by filling in the names of any number of other nationalities facing mass death.

Again, every nationality in the world thinks we owe it a refuge, but nowhere has this special pleading been twisted into some kind of moral principle as has the fate of Jewish refugees during WWII. There were plenty of refugees everywhere, and the US had no more of an obligation to admit them than any of the Latin American countries or European-ruled African colonies.

Weirdly enough, they would probably have been accepted with open arms in Latin America or the European-ruled African colonies, but they had to pick the Ritz Carlton of destinations, these United States. Instead of settling in Latin America, South Africa or Rhodesia, they opted to stay in Europe, which became one vast hunting preserve for the Nazis when they overran the Low Countries and France. They bet it all on one roll of the dice and lost. It wasn't neither FDR's fault nor theirs (although their bad judgment turned what would have been a descent into penury abroad into a death sentence) - it was Hitler's.

93 posted on 04/08/2013 4:16:40 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Again, you don’t have a clue what you are talking about. The Jews tried to go any and everywhere. No one would take them.

South Africa, one of your examples where Jews supposedly declined to go, passed a series of laws to strictly prevent Jewish immigration - the Quota Act in 1930 and the Alien’s Act in 1937.

Why do you keep claiming that no should have taken in Jewish refugees, that Jews had all kinds of places to go but opted to stay, and that they are somehow deserving of their fate because at a later point in time you don’t think Israel accommodated enough Chinese refugees?

Why don’t you just shut up and stop pushing your agenda.


97 posted on 04/08/2013 7:19:53 PM PDT by dervish (either the vote was corrupt or the electorate is)
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