Untitled - orsam

These people do not have many alternative routes of escape. It was not by choice that
they came here and will continue to do so. Rather, it was due to an existential necessity -
a situation over which they had no control and which could not be deterred. It isn't the
force of attraction that compelled them to grab onto us, but the force of repulsion: The
fear of death pushed them away.
Thus, Netanyahu and company will not be able to stop them in their tracks. They'll just
succeed in making these people's lives more miserable. Malice of the heart - and a
particularly inadequate brain - gave birth to this decision. Nobody can threaten people
sentenced to death with a "detention center."
The refugees know that Israel is not a haven for them, but neither is it the hell from
which they've fled for their lives. At the very least, Israel does not shoot "the infiltrators,"
which is to its credit. That is a disgraceful task which it leaves to its neighbor, Egypt, while
playing the role of deaf and blind. Israel doesn't see those who are shot and killed on its
border, it doesn't hear the screams of terror let out by those tortured, robbed and raped.
And already there have been instances recently in which soldiers have refused orders to
launch a "hot pursuit" - namely, to chase men, women and children back over the border
and to their deaths - simply because they did not have the stomach for it.
Physicians for Human Rights yesterday issued a statement which described the decision
as "the mark of Cain." But the mark was given to Cain not to imprison him, but to save
him. (Hareetz)
A 2009 American government cable released Sunday by the WikiLeaks website quotes
Defense Minister Ehud Barak as telling visiting American officials that a strike on Iran's
nuclear facilities was viable until the end of 2010, but after that "any military solution
would result in unacceptable collateral damage."
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