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'Israel not responsible for Gaza refugees'
Efrat Weiss
Published: 17.06.07, 10:22
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1. Nursing Mothers and under age children LET THEM IN but
ben ,   singapore   (06.17.07)
SUBJECT TO FULL SECURITY CLEARANCE. Those pending clearance, give them bread and water SUBJECT TO THE CONDITION CO-OPERATE with the IDF OFFICER ON/ AT THE CHECK POINTS . SET UP EMERGENCY CLINICS near the CHECK POINTS especially geriatric and gynaecology.Burden or detrement just do it Israel. Just Do IT ! ; - 0 ~
2. Go to Egypt
Tom ,   Uk   (06.17.07)
your friends waiting there.. ha ha
3. Help Them.
EM ,   Ra'anana   (06.17.07)
We must help them. Surely we have the resources to check who is connected to terrorist activity - otherwise what have our security forces been doing over the past years? This is an opportunity to show the Palestinians, ourselves and the world that our "problem" is NOT with the Arabs, but terrorism. That we want to live in peace and work with them. Are we a "LIGHT" among the nations - or a wall?
4. let them cross into egypt via the smuggling tunnels.
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5. we are LIGHT among the Nations ; - )~
ben ,   singapore   (06.17.07)
Time to apply mercy on the Suffering PA's. Yisrael Do it even if it is burdensome, DO It : -) ~ Where are the various Religious Groups in Israel ? Go to the ground and give them your helping hands. Put all the resentment aside and do it . Rabbis go in help them ; - ) ~ Call to all Jews what ever your diffrences- HELP THEM !
6. "Give us occupation so we can kassam you to death"
jw ,   ny   (06.17.07)
Israel is still supplying Gaza w/ water & electricity, now they want refuge to change the demographic in Judea,too. In return, they Kassam Sederot.. . occupation" on Pali terms, only. They voted for Hamas, so it's not Israel's problem. Israel should defeat the terrorists of both Fatah & Hamas first. Let the 22 Muslim countries give the distraught Palis refuge, not Israel. Israel should focus on their own Gush Katif refugees.
7. Egypt is the way to go
sean ,   jerusalem   (06.17.07)
People keep conveniently forgetting that gaza also borders egypt. Palestinians are proclaimed enemies of all jews, so let them go to their brothers in egypt.
8. I have the map of Israel in front of me right now!
Keren ,   SP-Israel   (06.17.07)
And I see gazans have plenty of options not to be confined:they can leave to Egypt-their place- by land and by sea! They can leave to Lebanon,by sea too ,and afterwards to Siria and to Jordan,or to Iran ,their best friend. Why do they have to pass through Israel? Besides,there is an organization created to help and take care of them:UNWRA!Where are they by now? And besides,there are no more Jews there,so why are they refugees? And besides again,why don't they build their power plant?There is a lot of water from the sea,to do so.If it is not possible with salty water,they can always desalinisize it. And besides once more,why USA don't do something to resolv their problem(the proplem of USA)since they are so nice in sending arms to their friend fatah,they should be as friends now and give a hand to fatah to resolv the problem. What have Israel to do with this all? Its part was done,and ,besides,there are Jews refugees in Israel who were uprooted from Gaza waiting for a solution.Israel must take care of its owns already! The only problem is if Israel has workers living there;if yes,please,fire them once and for all!
9. Mercy is wasted on them.
Ben Wolf ,   NYC USA   (06.17.07)
When a man comes to strike you, get up and strike him first. When an enemy shoots at you, and his weapon blows up in his face, he has no right to ask you for help healing -- to come back and shoot at you again. The Palestinian "people" voted for Hamas, now let them live under Hamas. We cannot save them from themselves.
10. Apparently all refugee situation Palestinian selfmadeproblem
KMR ,   Middle East   (06.17.07)
11. its a shame
paulo2005 ,   lisbon,portugal   (06.17.07)
It looks Israel never looses a chance to make more ennemies. After the withdrawal from lebanon in 2000 , people from the South Lebanon Army ( that were Israel Allies ) were abandoned. Israel lost the oportunity to ensure the allegiiance of lebanese that in the future might be useful since they knew the terrain in south lebanon and had contacts there. An oportunity lost. Now Israel is loosing the oportunity to make some pali friends and to help people that tomorrow might be in positions of power. The more pali israel did save from hamas the better. Such people would be grateful to israel and might have a positive impact in future negotiations. But Israel never looses an oportunity to make more ennemies so it did abandon pali to their fate. Another oportunity lost
12. strange
john ,   Haifa   (06.17.07)
Israel is the most hated country in the world, worse than Sudan and Iran. Israel is endlessly condemned by the UN and an endless list of human rights groups for genocide. Israel is the one country where there are serious discussions whether it should exist or not. The Arabs danced in the streets and the world was silent at the murder of the pregnant Tali Hatuel and her daughters Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7) and Merav (2). Sderot has become a ghost town due to the indiscriminate shelling of the Arabs. Now Israel treats the Arab wounded in its hospitals and provided aid to the refugees. Soon, the UN will condemn Israel for something. Makes you sick.
13. Our sages taught us: "He who is merciful to the cruel...
Dani ,   Tel Aviv   (06.17.07)
will end up being cruel to the merciful." Give them nothing.
14. Israel's responsibilities are first and foremost
John   (06.17.07)
to the Jews of Gaza who were so brutally expelled from their rightful Jewish homes and still don't have jobs nor proper homes to live in - as the government had promised them 2 years ago.
15. GIVE THEM NOTHING,THEY SPIT IN ISRAEL'S FACE ANYWAY.
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16. Not sure if I will?
Bert ,   Singapore   (06.17.07)
Both teens and older folks look pitiful to our eyes. Photographers captured most of their sorrowful scenes for the world to comment. But am I going to put forth my vote to Israel to let them in. It is a 'big' question ?? mark !! Pals are still having their deep scar of hatred in their heart, bitterly against Israel at all cost. They will remember your kindness and says thanks to you today but they will murder you and dig your heart out to call their 'victory' by tomorrow. Now, should I help? No way! The risk is too high. They should find their arab brothers. Go to Eqypt now.
17. RE: Mercy wasted
tre T ,   United States   (06.17.07)
From safe inside the US you deny humanity to Palestinians ("people" you call them.) We have a two-term president who more than 50% of the population did not vote for. Would you lump all together to be held responsible for his party's actions? They did not ALL vote for Hamas. This is such an incredible chance for Isreal to gain the good will of the world and of Palestinian moderates, but guys like you, old, unthinking bigots, will blow it just like Bush blew the good will of 9/11. Fool.
18. This Is Definitely Not Our Problem.
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (06.17.07)
I don't think we should even let the foreign NGO people cross over. They're not exactly our friends either & they deserve a taste of Islamic hospitality from Hamas. We should never have allowed Fatah members to escape Gaza either. The border should be closed, period.
19. Don't blame Israel for Palestinian Incompetence
ilya ,   givat shmuel   (06.17.07)
Anyone who needs surgery, or food, or anything should turn to Hamas, they elected their own F$#k*&g leadership, turn to them for help! Don't cry or blame israel. You f%c&ed up, you deal with it, we left; leave us out of it! - and stop selling them electricity!
20. You asked for it, you got it, HAMAS now live with it
Shlomo W ,   Woodmere, NY   (06.17.07)
21. Palestinians in Gaza are NOT refugees, if they're 'occupied'
can't have it ,   both ways   (06.17.07)
Palestinians claim that Gaza is their homeland. That's how they justify their propagandized overuse of the term "occupation" in order to blame Israel for everything and avoid personal accountability for any of their problems. If it's their homeland, they cannot be called refugees while they're still in Gaza, only if we let them into Israel.
22. Talk with Egypt abou this refugee problem
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You cant just leave them there. There should be an alternative.
23. 11 - Fatah and SLA are nothing alike
historian ,   USA   (06.17.07)
I agree that the treatment of the South Lebanon Army was a mistake. But this is because Israel abandoned an avowed ally in distress. The Palestinians are not Israel's allies. Fatah's military wing continued planning armed attacks against Israel up until a few weeks ago. Fatah-affiliated schools glorify 'shahids'. In terms of the average Palestinian, even alleged Fatah sympathizers, there is no allegiance to Israel. Given the moves Israel has made in the past to try and warm itself up to the Palestinians (giving them guns, gifting them greenhouses, etc) and the way that such gifts were treated with contempt, there is no precedent whatsoever to suggest that letting in refugees unchecked will win the allegiance of Palestinians. In fact, precedent shows that they will take any kindness by Israel for granted and use their access to the nation to undermine it.
24. Gaza refugees
Michael Cohen ,   Jerusalem, ISrael   (06.17.07)
Now is the time for UNRWA to fulfill its mandate and help the "refugees' whom they have been so U.N.-helpful to for nearly 60 years. UNRWA has chosen to ignore the UN's own charter on Refugees and re-write it specifically so that they have not had to help the Arabs in Israel, but have perpetuated the problem with their hypocritical policies. This is NOT ISrael's problem, we withdrew from Gaza and gave Arafat some of the land he had been screaming for, and what happens? We now see the raw evil of Arab brothers killing Arab brothers, Muslim against Muslim, as in Iraq: we see Hamas red in tooth and claw murdering with a blood lust not seen since Fatah did the same in Ramallah and Bethlehem to Hamas'niks! Let the Arab countries and their oil rich sheikhs finally do what they should have done 60 years ago, and open THEIR borders to their Arab brothers, and let the UNRWA be disbanded, and so close one of the darkest chapters in the UN's clouded history!
25. are we insane?
Mike ,   Jerusalem   (06.17.07)
we are a sick society letting our emotions rule over our brain! Will what the world thinks about us bring us security and safety? How can we even think about letting more terrorists enter ?Every gazan is a potential terrorist, men women, babies!You see how even pregnant women are willing to commit genocide in th ename of hating Jews1 Send them south to egypt, they have the rat holes they dug to smuggle weapons. Let Saudi Arabi send them food, let Iran and Syria worry about them! would they do the same for us????? NO, not even the great powers of the world gave a damn about us in the holocaust. They voted hamas in let them swear allegiance to hamas and live happily ever after. I am sure that when they looted Arafat and Abbas's homes they got a lifetime supply of loot!
26. Refugees
Rebecca ,   Modiin   (06.17.07)
Who is this Ibarahim Habib that he demands things. Israel has already let in humanitarian cases - why are there suddenly "hundreds" more. Israel has already said it will not stop water and electricity so why is he sugesting we already have. Why is it only us he is making demands of - sounds fishy to me
27. They hate Israel and now they're running to Israel?
Israeli   (06.17.07)
they chose Hamas they want the distruction of Israel but they will still use Israel for their own needs! They should go to Egypt!
28. you can not force Gazans to leave Without fighting
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murdering crowded civilians in a narrow strip? you couldn't offer but a humiliating defeat in South Lebanon, with conditions much favorable than that in Gaza.
29. No Way
rj ,   england   (06.17.07)
are these the same rufugees who voted in hamas under the illusion of destroying Israel.....send them back home to their masters hamas and to suffer the same fate that got them into this trouble...these are the same men that arm themselves to kill Israelis these are the same women that hide and support their men in striking terror in Israel and these are the same children home go to hamas schools to be brainwashed into their only purpose in life is ti destroy Israel...KEEP THEM OUT SEND THEM HOME...NO WAY..
30. Obviously I am extremely stupid
Lednah ,   Europe   (06.17.07)
Obviously I am extremely stupid because I don't understand something. Those pals are the same which voted for Hamas. Now why they want to flee? It seems to me they have to rejoice, not to flee!
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