Classy.

I gave about $3000 cash this year towards education of non-Jewish children.

You are all talk, Vicky. Your mouth runneth over.

In Christianity there is a prohibition on telling everyone about your giving (Matthew 6:4). I take that rule seriously. Other people’s need is not something anyone should ever use to justify themselves to others – it’s not exactly great for the dignity of those who need help, no better than using a child with Down’s Syndrome as a means to belittle the suffering of these Eritreans. So you’ll never know what I’ve given or not given, but nor do you need to. Perhaps start looking for reasons to be kind instead of excuses not to be.

One does not need to appeal to fairy tales to justify Hebrew sovereignty between theriver and the Sea; the physical evidence is dug up from time to time.

> you aren’t interested in helping Rimsha Masih

ok; I will match every shekel YOU send. Show us some evidence of transferring funds. Not rhetoric – evidence.

In other words, you aren’t interested in helping Rimsha Masih. I knew that already, but it’s good you’ve made it explicit. And that makes you absolutely no different from people in Pakistan who tell nuns like Sr Aziza to get out of Karachi and go and work with victims of Hindu extremism in India – not because they actually care, but because they don’t like criticism in their own backyard.

As to mandating the West Bank as your natural homeland, your only warrant is the Bible, sort of outdated unless you are religious, which you say you are not; and 2.4 million people already live there. You have a UN deliniated State, so the issue of a “Hebrew Republc” is really not in play.

As “to leaving for the first time,” that is an issue upon cry for asylum, determined after the cry is heard.

Nice try Greg…. perhaps illiterate people will believe you.

A “Port of Entry” is by definition, a place where ==legal== entry may be certified by the receiving country.

You’re the one who is mis-directing. Your side CONTINUOUSLY ignores the frequently mentioned legal fact that Eritreans are lawful asylum seekers ONLY when they’ve crossed out of their country of origin ===for the first time===.

Look…. you can’t have it both ways. You can’t dream up international laws to state that repatriated Hebrews are NOT allowed to enter and build homes in the eastern zone of the Hebrew homeland – and then appeal to the same authority to state that Eritrean nationals must be allowed in.

Vicky: Read the fine print. My offer was for Sr Aziza’s use. If you think the named NGO is worthy of support… perhaps the United Church of Canada is standing by to help.

My money is still in its segregated account. Ok…. it’s actually an envelope in my desk draw. But it’s there. Ten Green Stamps with a nice picture of Ben Franklin.

The silence from Noam & the 972 circle is rather deafening.

These lives aside, the rule of law is also at stake. If Israel will not meet its obligation to provide asylum hearing upon presence of port of entry (and, once in Israel, you are in that port), there is little reason to believe it will uphold the law for its minorities or resident noncitizens. Will the law limit the actualized power of the word “infiltrators?” The Court delay allows the State to reverse itself or toss the trapped elsewhere. It also keeps the trapped in the desert without resources.