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).
