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Posted By admin on March 5, 2022

The country that did the most to look after its citizens in Ukraine, and the Jews there, is also the country that shut its gates and to a certain extent its heart to all the other victims.

The country whose ethos is based on a scathing indictment of the world that kept silent, looked away and locked its gates is doing the exact same thing in this moment of truth.

'Holocaust distortion': Israel's Yad Vashem fights its own Ukraine war

The country that so deftly leveraged the worlds guilt to achieve its political goals could find itself facing a new outlook around the world, a world that may not forget its silence and hesitations and will one day settle the score with it.

And finally, the country that has gotten away with its endless occupation could find itself facing a new world that maybe, just maybe, will no longer agree and no longer remain silent.

Its touching to see Israeli diplomats go out of their way to free from the inferno every Israeli passport holder, including those who hardly ever set foot in Israel, even though for weeks they were urged to get out and didnt give a damn. In a country whose citizens seek a second passport for safetys sake, the Israeli passport was suddenly discovered as an insurance policy.

The concern for Jews to whom it never occurred to move here might just excite aficionados of Yiddishkeit. But when war refugees are stopped at Israels airport, deported or required to deposit huge sums they dont have in order to taste freedom and security, its clear that something in Israels moral compass is warped, even pathological.

To look after your own poor is fine, but to look after them alone is monstrous. Concern for your own people is understandable, but concern for them alone is perverted.

Is there really a difference between a Ukrainian child fleeing for his or life, someone who doesnt have a Jewish great-grandmother, and a Ukrainian child who does? Whats the difference? The difference is called racism. This rummaging in blood, at a time of war yet, is called selection.

As the European Union slowly wakes up, revealing itself to be far more united and ideological than we thought, the ugly face of the country of refugees and the Holocaust emerges. Decades of selection at Ben-Gurion Airport, including the turning away of refugees from all over the world, have made their mark; the decades of dispossession and occupation that have gone unpunished by the international community are also bearing fruit.

In this hour of darkness that has descended on the world, Israel is emerging as the land of darkness unto the nations. Nobody should have expected it to be a light unto the nations. Why on earth light, why? But at least we could have expected it to be like everybody else.

How great it would have been if Israel had acted like dark Poland or grim Hungary, let alone Sweden or Germany, which are now the true light unto the nations, and opened our gates like them.

Israel has a commitment to refugees not only because of its past its also obligated to the Ukrainian refugees mainly because of the large community of Ukrainian workers in Israel. A country that forbids the devoted caretakers of its elderly and cleaners of its homes to invite in their relatives to save their lives is clearly an immoral country. The welter of shabby excuses about Ukraines conduct during the Holocaust only makes the picture worse, punishing the grandchildrens grandchildren for the sins of their fathers and mothers.

Galina, a house cleaner living in this country for years, is prohibited from bringing her children to her new home only because theyre not Jews. This is really happening and apparently is even accepted by most Israelis.

No, its not fear of Russia. Fear of Russia is only the excuse. Its also not the government, the current one or another. This crisis finally proved that theres no moral difference between the current government and its abominable predecessor.

Theyre both equally obtuse and hard-hearted. Naftali Bennett is the same as Benjamin Netanyahu, Miri Regev is the same as Ayelet Shaked, and Merav Michaeli is also a partner.

Its something buried deep in the national DNA, amid years of brainwashing about the need to be strong, only strong, amid tall tales of the Chosen People and the only victims in history, allowed to do anything. And this image is accompanied by a cultivation of xenophobia in dimensions illegal in any other country. All this is now coming to light in a particularly ugly display.

Maybe its the original sin of a country that was established on the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of refugees, maybe its the Zionist religion that advocates Jewish supremacy in every facet. Whatever the reasons, none of this justifies requiring a deposit of a single shekel from a war refugee at Ben-Gurion Airport.

And darkness was upon the face of the deep.

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Israels rejection of Ukrainian refugees shows that its the darkness unto the nations - Haaretz

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