re: #261 Nyet

Xenophobia knows no boundaries. Frankly, I get why Israel wouldn’t want to shoulder a burden with refugees given that its economy is kinda shaky, but if Jordan can do it, so too can Israel.

There’s a security situation that Israel has to address that Jordan may not, but the long term benefit of showing these refugees that Israel isn’t as bad as Arab/ME media makes them out to be is incalculable - it’s one of the reasons that Israel frequently sends out disaster assistance teams to far reaches of the globe - to show that Israel is more than what the media makes them out to be.

I think Bibi’s decision is a poor one - but entirely predictable.