Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to take in Syrian refugees saying the country is 'too small'

• Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was 'not indifferent' to the migrant crisis
• But said it must control its borders, against 'illegal migrants and terrorism'
• Went on to say it will start building a fence to seal off frontier with Jordan
• His political opponents said he had 'forgotten what it is to be Jews'  

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country is 'too small' to take in desperate Syrian refugees. 

The leader of the right-wing Likud Party said Israel was 'not indifferent' to the migrant crisis but resolutely claimed his country must defend its borders. 

It comes as Europe struggles to deal with the greatest refugee crisis since World War Two. 

The harrowing image of three-year-old boy Aylan Kurdi - his lifeless and limp body pictured lying face down on a Turkish beach - sparked an international outcry over the human cost of the crisis.

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Tough stance: Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country cannot take in refugees from war-torn Syria

But speaking today at a cabinet session, Mr Netanyahu said Israel was a 'very small country that lacks demographic and geographic depth'.

He added: 'Israel is not indifferent to the human tragedy of the refugees from Syria and Africa. 

'We have already devotedly cared for approximately 1,000 wounded people from the fighting in Syria, and we have helped them to rehabilitate their lives.

'We must control our borders, against both illegal migrants and terrorism.'

Far from welcoming refugees from war-torn countries, he said Israel would soon begin the first 18-mile phase of a secure border fence to seal off the country's frontier with Jordan.

This is in addition to the 143-mile barrier along the Egyptian border that was completed in 2013.

The Jewish state already has fences on the Lebanon border and along the line between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Syria.  

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The Greek island of Lesbos has been overwhelmed by the vast number of asylum seekers arriving every day, leaving local authorities struggling to cope - Israel has now said it will not take in any more migrants 

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Scores of migrants wait in the port in the hope of winning a coveted space on one of the few ferries taking people to mainland Greece

His comments were strongly criticised by political opponents who claimed they had a 'moral duty' to take in more migrants.  

Isaac Herzog, head of the main opposition Zionist Union party, alluded to the Jews' history of seeking safe haven from persecution, saying: 'Our people experienced first-hand the silence of the world.

'You have forgotten what it is to be Jews. Refugees. Persecuted.' 

He appealed to Mr Netanyahu to 'absorb refugees from the fighting in Syria', a northern neighbour Israel considers an enemy state. 

He added: 'The prime minister of the Jewish people would not shut his heart and the gates when people are fleeing for their lives, with babies in their arms, from persecutors.'

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The haunting image of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi found dead on a Turkish beach led to an international outcry 

The Jewish state, home to around eight million people, was largely founded by refugees after six million were murdered by the Nazis in World War Two. 

The country has been torn in recent years between those who want to retain its Jewish character and others who believe they have a right to accept non Jew refugees from war-torn regions.

It is still struggling to decide how best to deal with tens of thousands of African migrants who crossed the border from Egypt before the barrier was installed two years ago. 

It is further complicated by the Palestinian issue, where refugees who fled or were expelled in 1948 following the creation of Israel want to return to their former homes.  

The EU is facing intense pressure to adopt a cohesive policy towards the migrant crisis. 

After days of increasing chaos, Hungary opened its borders with Austria and sent thousands of migrants by bus to the frontier. 

Many, exhausted, barefoot and with young children, had started to walk along a section of the motorway towards Austria in the searing heat.   

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3224394/Israeli-Prime-Minister-rejected-calls-opposition-leaders-Syrian-refugees-saying-country-small.html#ixzz3kzPJB1dU

PETER HITCHENS: We won't save refugees by destroying our own country

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Bad signs: Posturing politicians including Yvette Cooper brandished their 'brave' slogan

Actually we can’t do what we like with this country. We inherited it from our parents and grandparents and we have a duty to hand it on to our children and grandchildren, preferably improved and certainly undamaged.

It is one of the heaviest responsibilities we will ever have. We cannot just give it away to complete strangers on an impulse because it makes us feel good about ourselves.

Every one of the posturing notables simpering ‘refugees welcome’ should be asked if he or she will take a refugee family into his or her home for an indefinite period, and pay for their food, medical treatment and education.

If so, they mean it. If not, they are merely demanding that others pay and make room so that they can experience a self-righteous glow. No doubt the same people are also sentimental enthusiasts for the ‘living wage’, and ‘social housing’, when in fact open borders are steadily pushing wages down and housing costs up.

As William Blake rightly said: ‘He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.’

Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can’t get to. Most of the really successful civilisations survived because they were protected from invasion by mountains, sea, deserts or a combination of these things. Ask the Russians or the Poles what it’s like to live without the shield of the sea. There is no positive word for ‘safety’ in Russian. Their word for security is ‘bezopasnost’ – ‘without danger’.

Thanks to a thousand years of uninvaded peace, we have developed astonishing levels of trust, safety and freedom. I have visited nearly 60 countries and lived in the USSR, Russia and the USA, and I have never experienced anything as good as what we have. Only in the Anglosphere countries – the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – is there anything comparable. I am amazed at how relaxed we are about giving this away.

Our advantages depend very much on our shared past, our inherited traditions, habits and memories. Newcomers can learn them, but only if they come in small enough numbers. Mass immigration means we adapt to them, when they should be adapting to us.

So now, on the basis of an emotional spasm, dressed up as civilisation and generosity, are we going to say that we abandon this legacy and decline our obligation to pass it on, like the enfeebled, wastrel heirs of an ancient inheritance letting the great house and the estate go to ruin?

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Every one of the posturing notables simpering ‘refugees welcome’ should be asked if he or she will take a refugee family into his or her home for an indefinite period. Above, well-wishers greet migrants off a train in Frankfurt

Having seen more than my share of real corpses, and watched children starving to death in a Somali famine, I am not unmoved by pictures of a dead child on a Turkish beach. But I am not going to pretend to be more upset than anyone else. Nor am I going to suddenly stop thinking, as so many people in the media and politics appear to have done.

The child is not dead because advanced countries have immigration laws. The child is dead because criminal traffickers cynically risked the lives of their victims in pursuit of money.

I’ll go further. The use of words such as ‘desperate’ is quite wrong in this case. The child’s family were safe in Turkey. Turkey (for all its many faults) is a member of Nato, officially classified as free and democratic. Many British people actually pay good money to go on holiday to the very beach where the child’s body was washed up.

It may not be ideal, but the definition of a refugee is that he is fleeing from danger, not fleeing towards a higher standard of living.

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Migrants walk towards the M1 motorway in Budapest 

Goodness knows I have done what I could on this page to oppose the stupid interventions by this country in Iraq, Libya and Syria, which have turned so many innocent people into refugees or corpses.

But I can see neither sense nor justice in allowing these things to become a pretext for an unstoppable demographic revolution in which Europe (including, alas, our islands) merges its culture and its economy with North Africa and the Middle East. If we let this happen, Europe would lose almost all the things that make others want to live there. 

You really think these crowds of tough young men chanting ‘Germany!’ in the heart of Budapest are ‘asylum-seekers’ or ‘refugees’?

Refugees don’t confront the police of the countries in which they seek sanctuary. They don’t chant orchestrated slogans or lie across the train tracks.

And why, by the way, do they use the English name for Germany when they chant? In Arabic and Turkish, that country is called ‘Almanya’, in Kurdish something similar. The Germans themselves call it ‘Deutschland’. In Hungarian, it’s ‘Nemetorszag’.

Did someone hope that British and American TV would be there? I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: spontaneous demonstrations take a lot of organising.

Refugees don’t demand or choose their refuge. They ask and they hope. When we become refugees one day (as we may well do), we will discover this.

As to what those angry, confident and forceful young men actually are, I’ll leave you to work it out, as I am too afraid of the Thought Police to use what I think is the correct word.

But it is interesting that this week sees the publication in English of a rather dangerous book, which came out in France just before the Charlie Hebdo murders.

Submission, by Michel Houellebecq, prophesies a Muslim-dominated government in France about seven years from now, ushered into power by the French Tory and Labour parties.

What they want, says one of the cleverer characters in the book, ‘is for France to disappear – to be integrated into a European federation’. This means they’d much rather do a deal with a Muslim party than with the National Front, France’s Ukip equivalent.

If any of this sounds familiar to you, I wouldn’t be surprised. It’s amazing how likely and simple the author makes this Islamic revolution sound.

Can we stop this transformation of all we have and are? I doubt it. To do so would involve the grim-faced determination of Australia, making it plain in every way that our doors are open only to limited numbers of people, chosen by us, enduring the righteous scorn of the supposedly enlightened.

As we lack the survival instinct and the determination necessary, and as so many of our most influential people are set on committing a sentimental national suicide, I suspect we won’t.

To those who condemn reasonable calls for national self-defence as bigotry, hatred and intolerance (which they are not), I make only this request: just don’t pretend you’re doing a good and generous thing, when you’re really cowardly and weak.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3223828/PETER-HITCHENS-won-t-save-refugees-destroying-country.html#ixzz3kumWCOJ0

Thousands of cancer patients to be denied life-extending drugs due to NHS funding cuts

• More than 5,500 patients will miss out on life-extending cancer treatment
• This is due to cuts to the NHS Cancer Drugs Fund, formed in 2011
• Charities hailed the cuts a 'hammer blow' to desperately ill patients 

Thousands of cancer patients were dealt a devastating blow today after several life-extending drugs were cut from the NHS budget.

More than 5,500 patients will miss out on life-extending cancer treatment as a result of cuts to the Cancer Drugs Fund, charities warned today. 

Among the drugs de-listed are those to treat breast cancer, multiple myeloma, bowel cancer, pancreatic cancer, cervical cancer and leukaemia.

Abraxane to treat pancreatic cancer has been removed, alongside Kadcyla for breast cancer and Avastin for cervical cancer, breast cancer and bowel cancer.

The Rarer Cancers Foundation said the decision by NHS England to remove more than a dozen drugs from the list dealt a 'hammer blow' to desperately ill patients and their families

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More than 5,500 patients will miss out on life-extending cancer treatment as a result of cuts to the Cancer Drugs Fund, charities warned today

The Cancer Drugs Fund was launched in 2011 by Prime Minister David Cameron, who said patients should no longer be denied drugs on cost grounds.

Due to demand, the fund has continuously gone over its initial £200 million annual budget.

The Government pledged extra cash in January to make the fund now worth £340 million a year.

According to the pharmaceutical company Roche, 2,000 patients every year have been receiving Avastin for bowel cancer, as have 300 patients for breast cancer and 300 for cervical cancer.

The Rarer Cancers Foundation said almost 1,800 patients with blood cancer would also now not receive treatment - and it is estimated that around 800 women a year will now no longer receive Kadcyla.

Andrew Wilson, chief executive of the Rarer Cancers Foundation, said: 'These cuts will be a hammer blow to many thousands of desperately ill cancer patients and their families.

'It is deeply disappointing that NHS England has pressed ahead with knee jerk cuts to the Cancer Drugs Fund before introducing the reforms to Nice that are so urgently required.

'Ministers told us they wanted to work with charities to develop a solution but now the NHS has announced big reductions in access to existing life-extending treatment, with no action to make available the newest game-changing drugs. This is a complete breach of faith.'

A Department of Health spokeswoman said the fund had helped more than 72,000 people access drugs.

She said: 'Advances in medical science mean that new treatments are emerging all the time - so expert clinical decisions mean the fund focuses on those drugs offering the greatest benefit to patients.

WHAT IS THE CANCER DRUGS FUND

The Cancer Drugs Fund was launched in 2011 by Prime Minister David Cameron, who said patients should no longer be denied drugs on cost grounds.

Due to demand, the fund has continuously gone over its initial £200 million annual budget.

The Government pledged extra cash in January to make the fund now worth £340 million a year.

'The Government has protected the NHS as part of the long term economic plan - this allows important initiatives like the Cancer Drugs Fund to exist.'

But many charities today reacted with anger to the funding announcement.

Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive at Breast Cancer Now, said: 'This is a dreadful day for breast cancer patients.

'Kadcyla is a one-of-a-kind drug proven to extend life, and the fact is that because Government, the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry have failed to agree realistic prices for new drugs, some women will die sooner.

'Despite many families relying on it, the CDF has unfortunately failed, and today's de-listing will further reduce the NHS's ability to keep pace with Europe in the treatment of breast cancer.'

Samia al Qadhi, chief executive of Breast Cancer Care, said: 'This devastating decision will mean shattered hopes for thousands of women who could have been helped by these drugs.

'It is completely unacceptable that, in 2015, this inflexible system is blocking access to life-extending treatments like Kadcyla.

'(These are) treatments that could give people valuable extra time with their loved ones, and help them continue to contribute to society for many months or even years.'

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The cuts mean that around 800 women a year will now no longer receive Kadcyla for breast cancer (pictured)

Mark Flannagan, chief executive of Beating Bowel Cancer, said: 'This is a deeply disappointing day for bowel cancer patients. Yet again we will see more and more patients being denied proven, clinically effective, internationally recognised standards of treatment.

'Nothing has changed in terms of the clinical effectiveness of these treatments.

'They remain as clinically effective now as they were when they were added to the list of funded drugs.

'We understand the financial pressures that the NHS is under, but these changes will restrict patients' ability to choose treatments that we have seen extend lives and will reduce a clinician's ability to prescribe treatments according to a patient's clinical need.' 

Myeloma UK chief executive Eric Low said: 'Myeloma UK has consistently argued that the Cancer Drugs Fund does not address why drugs are not being approved by Nice, and that the fund is not a long-term solution to underlying access issues.'

These cuts will be a hammer blow to many thousands of desperately ill cancer patients and their families

Andrew Wilson, chief executive of the Rarer Cancers Foundation

Alison Clough, acting chief executive of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI), said the announcement was 'extremely disappointing'.

She added: 'We have long voiced the view that the Cancer Drugs Fund is a sticking plaster, albeit one that has enabled thousands of patients to access new and innovative medicines.

'We believe that the de-listing process, which we recognise will be distressing for cancer patients, could have been avoided if Nice and NHS England had transitioned earlier to a more appropriate, sustainable solution for evaluating and approving cancer medicines for routine use.'

Dr Daniel Thurley, medical director of Roche Products Limited, said: 'Although only two of our medicines were selected for re-review, Roche offered NHS England £15 million of savings, including on medicines not considered for the review, to protect all patients at risk of losing access.

'Nothing in the clinical effectiveness of our medicines has changed since NHS England last reviewed them in January. 

'No matter how much of a saving we offer, some medicines will not be retained on the Cancer Drugs Fund list from November due to NHS England's review criteria.'

Labour's shadow health minister Andrew Gwynne said: 'At the election, the Tories promised they would continue to invest in cancer drugs.

'This is yet another broken promise from a Prime Minister who can no longer be trusted on the NHS.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3222588/Thousands-cancer-patients-denied-life-extending-drugs-NHS-funding-cuts.html#ixzz3koQ6BEKV

NWN: But the Bilderberger and Zionist Rothschild agent Cameron doesn't care about British people. He is more interested in giving British money to these migrants. £1 + billion plus, and opening the floodgates AGAIN for  even more immigrants.

Guardian Writer: If Burned Falklands Hero Knew Anything, ‘He’d Still Have His Face’

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by Raheem Kassam2 Sep 20156,853

A Guardian contributer, Richard Seymour, has sparked outrage today after dismissing a British war hero’s comments on the Falklands Islands, in which he attacked Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn for planning to “surrender” to Argentine demands. Seymour slammed war veteran Simon Weston on Facebook, claiming, “If he knew anything, he’s still have his face”. Weston was horrifically burned in the Argentine attack on the RFA Sir Galahad in 1982.

Seymour, who is the author of the Lenin’s Tomb blog was responding to the article published by the Telegraph, posted by a Facebook friend of his. In the article, Weston noted of Mr Corbyn’s plans: “It is a repugnant idea. I don’t see why it should happen given that the Argentines never had the islands. They have no right to them.

“It could cause civil war again by emboldening the Argentinians. It frightens me enormously because he claims to be such a supporter of democratic freedoms while what he is suggesting throwing the Falkland islanders right to democracy out.

“I don’t ever see him winning an election because his policies and his attitudes just won’t wash with the British public.”
Seymour didn’t quite see it that way. But instead of responding to Mr Weston’s points, he wrote beneath the article: “Seriously, who gives a shit what Simon Weston thinks about anything? If he knew anything he’d still have his face.”

Seymour’s crass comments on Facebook

The Guido Fawkes blog notes that while Seymour was a fortnightly contributor to the Guardian, he claims to have only had a freelance contract for three years. His latest article for the paper was published in December 2014.
Mr Weston suffered 46 per cent burns while fighting for his country during the Falklands War. He recalls his memories immediately after the Sir Galahad was bombed: “My first encounter with a really low point was when they wheeled me into the transit hospital at RAF Lyneham and I passed my mother in the corridor and she said to my gran, “Oh mam, look at that poor boy” and I cried out “Mam, it’s me!” As she recognised my voice her face turned to stone.”
Mr Seymour seemed unapologetic for his comments on Twitter, responding to critics simply with the fact that he opposed the Falklands War.
“Why would I want to go and fight for an empire I don’t believe in? What would be remotely heroic about that? It’d be stupid.” he said.
Seymour has appeared on the Iranian state broadcaster Press TV on George Galloway’s television programme.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/09/02/guardian-writer-if-burned-falklands-hero-knew-anything-hed-still-have-his-face/

Syrian boy drowned because his Father wanted new teeth 

 

 

Greek Communists (KKE) Enraged Over Golden Dawn Support by Citizens of Kos Island.

Based off translated article by Antioxos, written by George of Golden Dawn New York division.

The Greek Communist Party, also known as KKE, is furious about Golden Dawn’s recent visit to the island of Kos. For years, the Greek Communist Party has had a stronghold on islands like this. These islands were for years very wealthy and affluent, with little negative effects from illegal immigration and taking advantage of cheap labor by undocumented workers in the summertime. The voters on these islands were widely supportive of all kinds of leftists including the Greek Communist Party and the radical leftist SYRIZA party.
They were widely supportive, until they recieved the “cultural enrichment” plan from the “radical left”.
The island of Kos in particular was especially hit hard this summer and tourism was decimated and destroyed. The locals saw their usual profits diminished drastically when thousands upon thousands of illegal immigrants flooded the island scaring away tourists and causing crimes all over the place.
As was shown in previous videos,  the locals are now begging Golden Dawn to save them. Now suddenly more and more of them have decided that radical leftism is not all it’s cracked up to be.
This development has sent the Greek communists into a state of hysterical fury, and their local chapter office on Kos released a statement: 
“We urge you to intensify solidarity with refugees and immigrants, to turn your back to the xenophobic calls on Kos, to isolate the well known racist, fascist views of the Golden Dawn, who have found an opportunity to show their inhuman, repugnant, murderous face. “
They then went on to blame everyone for Golden Dawn being welcomed to the island,  Nato, the EU, The Municipal Dodecanese Authority, the current coalition government etc. Despite the Greek Communists on Kos urging for solidarity with the illegal immigrants, not one of them has as of this writing, opened their homes to the immigrants,  nor has even the local office of KKE let the illegal immigrants use their office space as a shelter. Greek communists were never known for their honesty or practicing what they preach, but now their 1950s audio tape they play to the Greeks no longer is taken seriously, even by those who used to give them the most support.
This could spell the end of one of the oldest mummy parties from the Soviet era, not just because of this,  but also because SYRIZA is splitting into more varieties than there are flavors of Lays potato chips, further diluting their pool of young leftist voters which they need to replace their nursing home bound core audience.

https://xaameriki.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/greek-communists-kke-enraged-over-golden-dawn-support-by-citizens-of-kos-island/