I agree with Alessan. It would create more problems than it would solve for Israel to take in Syrian refugees. Herzog is simply trying to score political points; he knows it is a bad idea, and he knows Bibi will manage to come across as unnecessarily offensive when he rejects it.
Israel and the Assad regime are enemies. What does that make refugees from the Assad regime?
It doesn’t matter. Israel is a de facto apartheid state, of course it won’t accept refugees that aren’t ‘it’s kind’. In fact, it’s stae policy has been for 70 years to create refugees.
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And goodness knows they know how to build fences and walls.
Israel and *Syria *are enemies. Wars are between nations, not regimes; Israel and Syria were enemies long before both the Likud and Baath Party were founded.
Besides, we can’t afford to open the border between the company. Most of the refugees will be innocent refugees, but Assad and Hezbollah would be utter idiots not to take advantage of a breach - and they’re not idiots. We have too much respect for them to trust them.
Couldn’t Israel take in a relatively small number of refugees – something like a few thousand families with small children – with negligible risk? I believe that all the nearby mostly stable countries should do something like this.
So when dead Syrian children - refugees from Assad’s regime - start washing up on Israeli beaches, will that also constitute a “breach”?
Maybe small amounts, but not so much as to rock the boat too much. You understand how precarious the situation is. Anything that gets Israel involved in a shooting war will be horrible for absolutely everyone.
One possibility would be to take in Druze refugees. The local Druze community has a generally good relationship with the Israeli government, and the Syrian Druze, while mostly aligned with the Assad regime, are kept out of both Hezbollah and DAESH due to their religion. I’d be in favor of a plan letting a number of them in.
Why would they be coming by sea? Look at a map.
Jesus Christ.
If Lebanon can take in 2 millions refugees, presumably the UK can too… 
I wasn’t concentrating on your grammar, it was the incoherence of your posts.
You said "In the minds of the British troops that are training the fighters against ISIS and some of them are fighting ISIS.
This is indeed a red herring."
You didn’t mention at the time it was concerning British military advisors training some of the opposition to ISIS.
I’ll be delighted to continue this conversation when either you learn to post coherently (i.e. not assuming that everyone else knows what you’re thinking), or I I learn how to read minds.
Why should we? Just because France rolls over like a poodle for Merkel doesn’t mean we have to.
Merkel says Germany welcomes refugees and then demands that other EU states take their share of them.
Imagine Saint Bob Geldof, after inviting to house refugees in some of his homes, demanding that his neighbours house some of them.
Because Israel’s land-border with Syria is more heavily guarded?
You left out your quote:
“Where were the photos of British holidaymakers when they were machine gunned in Morocco last month?”
So then the reply was me thinking: What?!? “Where were those photos?” Does this poster think that minds of the British troops that are training the fighters against ISIS and the ones fighting ISIS are not aware of that?
And indeed talking about unrelated terror incidents is only made to distract from the fact that the governments in Europe are not buying what you are claiming.
Talking about those terror incidents was indeed a red herring.
No need to read minds, you were wrong on what you claimed and you were wrong on what I was saying.
Well, yes, they are not forced to follow Geldof example; but that is the reason why “shame” exists as a concept.
Shame? Emotional blackmail would see a more suitable term.
It’ll be interesting to see how the refugees get on at Saint Bob, Yvette Cooper and Nicola Sturgeon’s homes.
Assuming, of course, that they are serious about taking refugee families in.
Is English your first language? Just wondering…
The Aegean Sea is part of The Mediterranean Sea.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to leave the “Bullshit” part of your post in my reply.
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No, it is not, just a warning though, many have told me in the past that regarding the English language I do better than many natives.
In any case I continue to find that opponents that press on grammar issues do not want to deal with how wrong they are with the matter at hand.
You were indeed using a distraction, a red herring, that shows that you cannot deal properly with what is happening with the refugees, you attempted to change the subject to what terrorists are doing in Europe; problem is that regarding this subject of the refugees, those terrorists in Europe have the same ideas as the terrorists the refugees are fleeing from right now.