Israel Doesn't Know What to Do With Sudanese Refugees

Israel has its own immigration dispute. From Morning Edition:

About 350 refugees from Sudan have been intercepted entering Israel illegally over the past two years, with about a third of them coming from the conflict zone of Darfur.

All the refugees have been jailed in Israel, many for more than a year. Israeli officials say they have to be cautious about Sudanese because Sudan is an enemy state.

But Israeli human rights groups say a nation built in part by genocide survivors has a special responsibility to help other victims. The Sudanese government has been accused of waging genocide in Darfur. . . .

As a temporary solution, Bavli and several Israeli human rights groups negotiated a deal with the Israeli government to release more than 100 of the refugees -– al-Bakr among them — into the custody of kibbutzim, collective farming villages.

But what really struck me about this story was the last sentence:

Bavli says the U.N. has been unable to get any third country to agree to accept [the refugees], either.

Why isn't anyone willing to accept 100-150 refugees from Darfur? Is the entire world so callous that we won't reach out to people desperately running for safety? As many more refugees flee the region, will we continue rejecting them? This may call for a letter to the President.