Israel Rejects Christian Refugees

Clearly, one can reject refugees. But, given the amount of complaining various leading Jewish organizations do about past rejection of Jewish Refugee's this does strike as hypocritical, to say the least.

And obviously room would have been found for these refugee's if they were Jewish.

Offer to help Christian asylum seekers facing deportation from Israel
BEN LYNFIELD

A CHRISTIAN group has offered to relocate about 1,000 Christian Sudanese asylum seekers in Israel to the West to rescue them from planned expulsion to Egypt by the government.

Faced with a growing number of refugees and economic migrants crossing the border from Egypt, Israel has said it would allow 500 refugees from Darfur already inside Israel to remain in the country.

But it also made it clear that the southern Sudanese, who number twice as many, will be deported to Egypt. Human rights activists say they have previously faced racism and maltreatment in Egypt.

There are also fears Egypt will expel them onward to Sudan, where they would face life imprisonment or execution for entering Israel.

Charmaine Hedding, of the Christian Embassy in Jerusalem, a pro-Israel group representing churches worldwide, said churches in North America and elsewhere have agreed to welcome Sudanese Christians now in Israel. "Let us relocate these people; 1,000 people is manageable," she said.

However, Mark Regev, of the Israeli foreign ministry, responded that it is Israel's right to expel the Sudanese. "People who cross into Israel illegally can be sent back. That is part of international law," he said.

Activists say Israel violated international law at the weekend by expelling about 50 Africans without hearings to determine if their lives were in danger or they faced persecution.

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