U.S. bans Syrian refugee--Israeli helps.

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Tuesday May 16, 2017 · 5:00 PM PDT

2017/05/16 · 17:00

Trump’s twisted hatful worldview doesn’t even help people who are fighting for freedom, people struggling against brutal dictators.

People from Syria are not welcome in the United States right now, under President Donald Trump’s executive order. But Israel is welcoming some in – saving their lives

Amir Yarchi can tell you about them, these Syrians who have been injured in the civil war that has laid waste to their country. Yarchi is CEO of Friends of Galilee Medical Center, a non-profit organization supporting the 722-bed hospital in the northwest corner of Israel near the border with Lebanon.

But Israel knows the price of freedom and is willing to even help people it’s

at war with.

The hospital has treated more than 1,500 Syrians who come across the border in the past 4 years, even though Israel and Syria technically remain at war with each other.

Trump only needs to look to Israel to see how real democracy acts.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2017/02/02/while-us-bans-syrian-refugees-israeli-hospital-has-taken-1500-injured-syrians/97281448/

Ed Koch, passionately Jewish.

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Wednesday February 20, 2013 · 5:29 PM PST

2013/02/20 · 17:29

I was deeply saddened by the passing of one of the great mayors and Democrats of all time…

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