Notice how few rabbis are calling for Israel to weaken itself by taking in Syrians who hate it. They only prescribe that for the goyim.
France is ready to take in 24,000 refugees as part of European Union plans to welcome more than 100,000 in the next two years, French President Francois Hollande said on Monday, dismissing opinion polls showing public opposition to the move.
Hollande said he and German leader Angela Merkel wanted the 28-country EU to back a “permanent, mandatory system” under which each country would be obliged to take its fair share of a total of 120,000 migrants.
“This is a crisis, and it is a grave and dramatic one. It can be brought under control and it will be,” he told a news conference.
Asked about polls showing 55 percent of French people oppose admitting more refugees or easing asylum procedures to cope with the EU’s migration crisis, Hollande said public opinion was fickle but asylum was a constitutional right and a moral duty.
France’s image and standing in the world were at stake, he said…
France’s chief rabbi joined Pope Francis in urging followers to open their hearts and homes to the refugees.
French volunteers are collecting clothing and individual offers of accommodation, and more than 60 celebrities including actress Isabelle Adjani published an appeal on Sunday urging the French to open their arms to the refugees.
“Have we learned nothing from the comfortable cowardice of the past and from tragedies that we preferred to look away from?” they asked.
