By Shahar Ilan, Ruth Sinai, Barak Ravid and Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondents : Olmert: Egypt vowed not to expel Sudan refugees deported from Israel
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Title: What undermines the humanitarian argument Name: Yonatan City: Kefar-Sava State: Israel
is the fact that these so-called "refugees" have travelled from Sudan all the way through Egypt (where they had already received political refuge) and all the way through Sinai to reach Israel. This makes their motives suspect. If such people had reached Spain and crossed through it, then gone through France and reached Germany, would they have been considered political refugees? The correct way of viewing the situation is that of inhabitants of a Third World country rejecting and bypassing another Third World country in order to reach a First World country. The Sudanese are thus to be treated like any other illegal aliens.