let’s project the right of return on to the Haitians, the Russians, the Americans, anyone but who we expelled

by on February 1, 2010 1

I suppose one ought to celebrate this Ynet poll as showing the opening of Israel's heart to the Haitians, but who cannot read the words "absorb devastated families," which was in Ynet's headline, without thinking of the hundreds of thousands of families devastated by the Nakba and the ongoing Hebronization of Jerusalem (as Avraham Burg put it last night at a New Israel Fund event) and wonder at the failure of charity:

participants were asked whether Israel, as a Jewish state, should take in families who have lost everything in the earthquake. Some 60% replied yes (44% unconditionally and 16% in a partial way so as to promote Israel's image) while the remaining 40% replied negatively.

Some 24% claimed that Israel must take care of its own poor first and 16% feared that the Jewish majority in the country would be compromised. The poll indicated that seculars and traditionalists were more inclined to answer positively (66% and 57% respectively) while the haredim and religious opposed (86% and 63% respectively).

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Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
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  1. America First says:
    February 1, 2010 at 11:20 am

    Another salient characteristic of Criminal Thinking is the inability of the antisocial to register empathy. The skillful can mimic it in circumstances that do not directly affect them or when it may direct scrutiny away from them or their activities or when it may help them keep people confused about their nature or intent. A competent evaluator who understands Criminal Thinking can unravel this manipulative behavior by redirecting focus onto the actual victims of the predator to reveal the logical contortions that exclude empathetic response by this type of offender. A good example of empathetic displacement as a tactic would be how our ruling class is beside itself with empathy for the suffering people of Darfur, a situation where there is no reasonable theory of their responsibility and that, happily, they cannot be expected to do anything about.

    link to amconmag.com

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