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Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S

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Re: Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S

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Post by Quarrelsome »

akjainaj wrote: post #39
redsummer wrote: post #38

Number of Syrian refugees let in to Israel: ZERO And it's right next door.

They know a thing or two about basic security and cultural hygiene, unlike most of Europe. I suppose Europe will only learn that after hundreds of rapes and dozens of trucks running over innocent people. Talk about self-destructive behaviour...

ewwww.

Cultural hygiene? _really_? What exactly do you mean by that sentence? Do you mean that if I am culturally abnormal then I should be purged from my homeland much like they should not enter?

Re: Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S

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Post by PietdeVries »

siculars wrote: post #7
dwightgunning wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also read the same regarding minority religions. Although the price I saw was only citing a draft of the executive order. I wonder when, they haven't already, publish the final version. The countries to which the bans apply are all majority Muslim, so the exemption would apply to non-Muslims.

Had similar exemptions been applied in war-time Europe the Franks may well have been saved.

And interestingly, Germans that were at that time not even considering to migrate to the US (Werner von Braun anyone?) were just forced...

Re: Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S

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Post by akjainaj »

Quarrelsome wrote: post #41
akjainaj wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They know a thing or two about basic security and cultural hygiene, unlike most of Europe. I suppose Europe will only learn that after hundreds of rapes and dozens of trucks running over innocent people. Talk about self-destructive behaviour...

ewwww. Cultural hygiene? _really_? What exactly do you mean by that sentence? Do you mean that if I am culturally abnormal then I should be purged from my homeland much like they should not enter?

If you're culturally abnormal for a certain country you shouldn't be allowed to enter it unless you're willing to integrate.

Re: Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S

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Post by pavelmelnichuk »

siculars wrote: post #2

Among other folks as well [0]. Of note, the US was not the only country to turn away refugees during WWII. Also of note, from what I've read, refugee immigration has been temporarily halted from certain countries with the exemption being refugees from minority religions in those countries. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis

This comment has the funny smell of a, "you too," [0] argument fallacy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

Re: Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S

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Post by dublinclontarf »

davidf18 wrote: post #34

Under the British Mandate of The League of Nations Britain was obligated to allow Jewish immigration to what is now Israel. In fact originally Hitler wanted European Jews to go there. But the British broke their mandate with "The White Paper" in 1939 which severely limited Jewish immigration to their land. If America had run the mandate instead of the British there probably would not have been The Holocaust and many…

If only Britain, France or the US had stopped Germany with force when it invaded the Rhineland, then the war may never have happened.

Re: Anne Frank and her family were also denied entry as refugees to the U.S

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Post by siculars »

dublinclontarf wrote: post #47
davidf18 wrote: post #34

Under the British Mandate of The League of Nations Britain was obligated to allow Jewish immigration to what is now Israel. In fact originally Hitler wanted European Jews to go there. But the British broke their mandate with "The White Paper" in 1939 which severely limited Jewish immigration to their land. If America had run the mandate instead of the British there probably would not have been The Holocaust and many…

If only Britain, France or the US had stopped Germany with force when it invaded the Rhineland, then the war may never have happened.

Similar perhaps to a "red-line" that was touted by the Obama administration but never enforced.
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