And their fellow Western nations (such as New Zealand, and I *believe Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America) should forthwith follow suit...and do the selfsame...ipso pronto!
*First 'discovered' a couple decades past at a Children's Holocaust Memorial (at what was then the Early Settlers Museum) in my hometown of Dunedin, New Zealand. I.e. at said exhibit (with numerous photographs of such children refused entry to our 'civilized' countries, I believe the kids' photos were) I learnt for the first time in my life that we Westerners were not as lily white in our own oft-celebrated response/approach to the Nazis and their dastardly deeds in Europe as has been so often assumed. No indeed!
And quite frankly, such a standing record of our refusal to permit the immigration of people subjected to such unimaginable (if now well-chronicled) horrors simply beggars belief...of any half-humane soul, anyhow...irrespective of the likelihood that at that time (throughout the nineteen-thirties, that is)
many if not the great, overwhelming majority of 'us' had little idea of just how dreadfully Jews throughout Europe were being treated...for our abject ignorance was absolutely no real excuse.
For 'we' could have known/found out just what was occurring...but chose instead to bury our heads in ye proverbial sand. Shame on us...and credit to the Canadians - for at least acknowledging 'we' did wrong. As Jesus Himself so aptly put matters, whatsoever [we] didn't do to one of the least of these, [we] did not do to [i.e. for] Him. That was/is the verdict of the Master Himself...and He made/ makes no mistakes...whatsoever!
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