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Human ping-pong

[ by Charles Cameron – reports from the twitter-stream — and this is only the game as played at sea ]
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In more detail:

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Meanwhile, in the Mediterranean:

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2 Responses to “Human ping-pong”

  1. Duke of Qin Says:
    May 18th, 2015 at 9:01 pm

    These people are not refugees, but rather benefits seekers. There are plenty of adjacent countries where they could go if immediate safety were their primary concern, but they are generally as poor and dysfunctional as their homelands so they strike for richer pastures. The “Rohingya” could of course go back to Bangladesh, i.e. their 19th century urheimat, but they choose to make for much wealthier Malaysia and points beyond.

    Ms. Tsurkov’s comment is telling though for all the wrong reasons. It is a sterling example of dishonesty in rewriting history. It was more Jewish fickleness than American callousness that caused the deaths of the Jews who returned to Europe on those ships. They didn’t have to go back, but the countries that were willing to take them in such as the Dominican Republic, were too poor and “beneath” them so they chose to return to prosperous Europe rather than settle.

  2. Grurray Says:
    May 19th, 2015 at 1:30 pm

    “The “Rohingya” could of course go back to Bangladesh”
    Of course they could go there but they would starve, contract deadly diseases, be sold into slavery, or just killed for any variety of reasons regardless of the language they speak.
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    “They didn’t have to go back, but the countries that were willing to take them in such as the Dominican Republic, were too poor and “beneath” them so they chose to return to prosperous Europe rather than settle.”
    Eventually Jewish refugees came to settle in the DR when it was clear there was little other choice. However, for the MS St. Louis in 1939, it didn’t look like a good option because of the brutal nature of the regime
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Trujillo#Oppression

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    If you’re going to make a difficult journey like that, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to go from the frying pan into the fire.

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