Israel will shelter Darfur refugees

Another sort of Zionist immigration: Israel to grant citizenship to hundreds of Darfur refugees  

 

Israel intends to grant citizenship to several hundred refugees from Darfur who are currently in the country, Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit said Tuesday.

According to the minister, Israel cannot ignore the refugees' fate because of the history of the Jewish people. "Just as [former] prime minister Menachem Begin acted to grant citizenship to refugees from Vietnam, the same ought to be done today," the minister said.

 

 But Israel and other countries should be saving all the refugees, not just a few. In the best of all possible worlds, it should be possible for countries to grant a temporary haven for every refugee, until they can return home, or until another permanent home can be found for them, somewhere in the world. After the experience of the Holocaust, Israel should be leading the way.

 

 Ami Isseroff