The “ever sanctimonious”* Israeli president Shimon Peres was interviewed by CNN:
CNN: What will happen if Syrian refugees try to cross the Israeli border? Will you help them?PERES: No.CNN: Will you stop them by force?PERES: First of all, until now, none of them asked to come in.If they will come in by force, we shall stop them by force. If they will come in without force, we shall stop them with the way any country defended her border, with civilian means.I mean, if it will not be refugees, but a military invasion, we shall stop it.CNN: Well, we’re not talking about a military invasion. We’re talking about Syrians who are trying to escape bloodshed in their own country.PERES: If they want to escape, they have to first appeal, ask for permission. None of them did it. I don’t anticipate that any of them will do it.
*Wait, who called Shimon Peres “ever sanctimonious”? Sasha Polakow-Suransky, in his wonderful book The Unspoken Alliance, in which he describes Peres’s support for apartheid in South Africa even while publicly condemning it.
Polakow-Suransky now works at the Times Op-Ed page. Will his view of the Israeli president be reflected in the pages of the New York Times?
Will the Syrian refugees go back to their land..the Golan Heights? Will Israel use white phosphorus to stop them. You know like the chemical weapons Israel used on the Palestinians
Those nasty Syrians have over a million Iraqis refugees living in Syria, sunni and shia, while the kindly Peres will not allow any refugees into Israel, probably because although not cancerous like the Africans, they have terrorist sounding names.
And why did the British turn away Jewish refugees from Palestine in the 1940s?
First of all, until now, none of them asked to come in.
If they will come in by force, we shall stop them by force. If they will come in without force, we shall stop them with the way any country defended her border, with civilian means.
“we shall stop them with the way any country defended her border”
Please don’t insult half of the world’s population. It, people, it. Israel is an “it.”
” It, people, it. Israel is an “it.””
I’m glad you brought it up, Roya. I really have no idea how and why this nonsense about assigning a gender (feminin) to Israel came about. I find it nauseating every time I read it.
This illegal border?
link to bbc.co.uk
“. Will his view of the Israeli president be reflected in the pages of the New York Times? ” Don’t hold your breath. Justice needs you
This might be of interest as well:
SYRIA: REGIME CHANGE AND SMART POWER – The rise and fall of Turkey’s Erdogan @ link to atimes.com
Here is Peres on Dutch television, explaining why so many Palestinian children were killed during Cast Lead (takes him just one minute):
link to youtube.com
Need one say more on this Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Here’s a summary of the interview.
Peres: “We shall position our soldiers along the ceasefire line of the occupied Golan Heights [After all, the current 'border' is not an internationally recognized border. It is a ceasefire frontier]. Should anyone from the Syrian side, whether child, woman or man, attempt to approach our positions we shall shoot them on sight, whether they will be carrying a white flag — like women in Gaza did when we shot them — or whether walking toward our positions in their underwear and their hands up in the air.”
Reporter: “Yikes. It sounds like this is going to be a turkey shoot”.
Peres: “Excuse me, we are a civilized country. We do not do those things”.
This is very wrong. Israel should let in a large number of Syrian refugees. Especially Allawites.
Israel, you are a good, honorable, just people. You are better than this. Be true to yourself.