Comments on: Israeli children deported to South Sudan succumb to malaria

By: Mareli

Mareli — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:11:58 +0000

The children in this story were born in Israel. Doesn’t that make them Israeli citizens? If not, then where is their country? I know Jews who are ashamed of this action by the Israeli government because of the command of God to be kind to the stranger because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

By: Mitchell Cohen

Mitchell Cohen — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:08:29 +0000

My heart goes out to this family. It REALLY does. With that, I have a question. Can Israel save the world? How many refugees should Israel take in? 100,000 500,000 1,000,000
If you say a million, then what if these four children were refugees number one million and 1, 2, 3, and 4? I’m sure you all know that there are committees that need to make decisions all the time, like which medicines are included in the health fund basket and which are not. For some people, not including a medicine in the health care basket can be a death sentence. This is not to say, that for THIS family provisions could not have been made. Israel cannot save the whole world though and there will be some refugees who will be left out in the cold.

By: aristeides

aristeides — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:24:03 +0000

“What we have done is send German Jews back to Germany. That they were killed there is not our problem nor our responsibility.”

You slap in the face every member of the righteous.

By: Tomer

Tomer — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:10:39 +0000

Another brilliant Leftist Idea here – Bring in millions of Non Jews into the country.

By: Kolumn9

Kolumn9 — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 05:39:37 +0000

Why, are there Nazis in South Sudan waiting to kill those deported?

By: Greg Pollock

Greg Pollock — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 05:12:22 +0000

LS, if I am Jewish, I know not; my family background is mostly unknown on one side. I was saying I think Dimi right that there is a purity populism growing in Israel, but that it is being steered top down, as in the South Tel Aviv incident. It is up to you living Israel to change that. K9 is right that legally there was no reason to stop their deportation. But there is justice of the moment. I believe the occupation is hobbling justice of the moment for non Jews in Israel, a change in world view, a purity populism. I think this populism had causes (the bombings), but it is now morphing into something quite general. I don’t know how you–Israelis–stop it. The case of migrants trapped within the two border fences for several desert days is bad too. You have to decide not to do this anymore. And that somehow must resonate with the people. How? I don’t know.

By: Lisa K.

Lisa K. — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:59:23 +0000

There’s a lot of sad news coming out of Israel these days, but I found this story to be the most depressing. I’m thinking of the righteous Gentiles who risked their own lives to save my father from the Nazis. And I can’t help but wonder: where are the righteous Jews?

By: Kolumn9

Kolumn9 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:43:30 +0000

Yes, Israel is a foreign country which deals with the government of South Sudan. The job of caring about the people of South Sudan is that of the South Sudanese government.

By: Kolumn9

Kolumn9 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 20:41:08 +0000

What we have done is send South Sudanese back to South Sudan. That some of them died there is not our problem, nor our responsibility.

This seems like the kind of shameless guilt trip according to which someone dying somewhere must be ‘our fault’ because there was something we could have done or not done to prevent it.

No, I don’t accept this. The South Sudanese were not our responsibility, and they did not turn into our responsibility by illegally crossing the border. They were temporarily allowed to stay on the basis of compassion, and now you are trying to use that compassion as a means of forcing permanent responsibility on all of us for the lives of people whose sole claim to our concern is their illegal entry into the country.

You feel that responsibility personally? Fine. Get on a plane and go help them. Or does your responsibility for them end the moment they have left the country and that it was only their temporary presence in the country that caused you to feel any concern for them as people?

By: LS

LS — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:08:54 +0000

Greg, I don’t know whether you are Jewish or not, I also can make only limited sense of what you have said (I lay the blame for that at both our doors) – but I do know that whatever the reasons and justifications for these deportations every Jew should hang his or her head in shame to know that we have sent children to their death. This is what we have done, regardless of “socio-politics” or anything else.