The other day I posted on the Israel-bashing by American Jewish elitist Leftwingers here. Now I see that a WaPo reader from Maryland has some good questions for the pair of refugee advocates.
This letter to the Post is from Melvin Farber of Silver Spring:
In reading the Aug. 4 op-ed “Strangers in Israel,” I wondered what point authors Eric P. Schwartz and Mark Hetfield were making. The column wasn’t a call to action by the United Nations, the United States or the world to help Eritreans. Except for two sentences about Sudanese refugees in Egypt, it didn’t ask why Eritreans weren’t seeking asylum in the Arab world, on the African continent or in the Muslim and Christian worlds. The point seemed to be to single out Israel for criticism.
The authors singled out Jews for not living up to the authors’ view of Judaism, as mentioned in the Bible or as promoted by Israel in general terms about refugees. There are more than 190 countries in the United Nations, representing 7 billion people, living on nearly 58 million square miles of land. Israel has a population of about 7 million, living on 8,300 square miles of land. Why are these authors not criticizing the world, the United Nations, the United States, the Arab League, the European Union, the African League, the Christian world or the Muslim world for the tragedy in Eritrea and elsewhere and the plight of their refugees, rather than criticizing Israel?
Yes! I’ve never heard this pair say boo! about Saudi Arabia for instance when that country sends asylum seekers packing! I repeat: Why do they hate Israel so much? Or, like good hypocrites everywhere on the Left, are they just using the refugee issue to bash Netanyahu?