Netanyahu says Israel too small
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ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin netanyahu rejects a call by Israel’s opposition leader to provide refuge to Syrian refugees, saying the country is too small.
Images of thousands of refugees herded on and off trains in have struck a chord in Israel, a state created three years after the nazi holocaust.
Isaac herzog, head of the main opposition Zionist Union party, appealed to Israeli leaders to “absorb refugees from the fighting in Syria,” a northern neighbor that is considered an enemy state. he said netanyahu had a moral duty to accept refugees.
Netanyahu said Israel was “not indifferent to the human tragedy” of refugees from Syria and noted that Israeli hospitals have been treating wounded from its civil war.
“However, Israel is a very small state. It has no geographic depth or demographic depth,” he said, suggesting that taking in Arab refugees would upset the demographic balance.
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