DARFUR: Holocaust descendents imprison holocaust survivors.

The holocaust underway in southern Sudan continues to be ignored by the world's shakers-and-movers; oh they know of Sudan, of Darfur, of the thousands who've perished, the tens of thousands who may perish, and even hold diplomatic missions to discuss the region and the problems.

Yet, just like with Rhwanda a few years back, they can't even agree if the genocide is in fact a genocide, when any moron can see that it is. The diplomats talk and jesture, meet to jesture some more, and then agree to get together as soon as it's convenient, to talk and jesture some more.

Now a couple hundred victims of the Darfurian genocide and suffering have come to the land of the descendents of the Jewish holocaust seeking help ... and have been succored imprisoned by those who should know best the horror of such an existence!

In almost perfect English, Sanka clearly states what his dream is: to build a life in Israel, learn Hebrew and become a filmmaker.

But Sanka is not a Jew seeking a new life in Israel. He is a 29-year-old Muslim refugee, one of more than 200 Sudanese - both Muslim and Christian - who have illegally made their way from Egypt's Sinai into Israel in the last 18 months.

All came to seek asylum in the Jewish state. Instead, most, including Sanka (who for legal reasons does not want to use his real name), find themselves imprisoned as enemies because of the Sudanese government's hostility towards Israel.

Some are worried, on the one hand, about the security risk of receiving refugees from a Muslim nation; on the other hand, they are worried about the potential 40 million refugees hold for a nation no larger than an airmail stamp.

Such statements have sparked a bitter reaction. Avner Shalev, the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum, has written to prime minister Ehud Olmert, urging him to "show solidarity" with the Sudanese refugees.

"As members of the Jewish people, for whom the memory of the Holocaust burns, we cannot stand by as refugees from the genocide in Darfur hammer on our doors," Shalev wrote.

Israelis, "citizens of a nation itself ravaged by conflict," are divided about the moral obligation to provide a home to Sudanese refugees.

One can understand the issue quite easily, except their placement in an Israeli prison ... that I cannot understand. It's one thing to be conflicted about the ultimate policy, but it's quite another to chose such an outrageous interim solution.


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