(THIS ARTICLE IS MACHINE TRANSLATED by Google from Norwegian)
Nearly 1000 refugees on their way across the Mediterranean were drowned – while Jonas Gahr Støre declared that the Labor Party would allow 10 Syrian refugees into Norway. Boat people heading from Libya had a dream of getting out of poverty. Instead, they sank to the bottom or ended up in corpses in Malta and Italy. The 20-meter-long boat was in distress at sea on Sunday morning when a ship approached to help. The refugees on the boat deck ran over to the other side and waved and waved, then stayed where they hung over the side of the ship – after which the boat tipped over the end into the sea that swallowed almost everyone. Many were locked under the deck. These "slave ships" are overcrowded and intertwined. The smugglers also speculate that boats will be rescued, so they won't even fill up with enough fuel. Hundreds of thousands from Africa and the Middle East risk life with the hope of a better life. They have nothing to return to. They travel from war zones and deep poverty. Among these are also Syrians on the run, most often in the eastern route from Turkey across the sea to Greece, as the road has too many fences. So Støre has followed Venster's previous proposal of 10 Syrians to Norway, and SV and Sp are included. Krf is also positive, so it speaks for the Storting majority. But for many of us here in the country, it's all pretty embarrassing. Whistle because politicians have held back so long. Flute because this country has no greater ambitions. It is a shame that there are no politicians who dare to challenge the opinion of the people anymore. Well, Norway has a little generous people, which reflects both our xenophobia and our elected government. Most Norwegians – the 85 percent who rarely care – are not generous enough to those who are far worse off than themselves. Instead of calling for action, the attitude – as with Frp – is that there are just too many out there ... Well helped by newspaper campaigns against the Others, against the Strangers, against possible "terrorists". And the Norwegian left is not exactly characterized by the idea that workers in all countries should unite. It has become more important to say no to streets filled with beggars; no to loud-voiced Arabs; no to handsome Southerners who charm too much. The majority of Norway wants Norway for itself. Norwegian politics also has few visions for the refugees other than to stow them in and out, or to send them back. Will the government now be softened by the majority, or do they say they are happy to send some boats into the area to help with the corpses? From Frp-hold we hear that our asylum reception is already too blasted. Norway's unwillingness to help shows in stark contrast if you look across the border to the Swedes. The country, which has only twice the population, has received almost 20 times as many Syrians as us – 53 Syrian refugees have escaped the horrors of war by coming to Sweden. Well, we have sent some money down to Syria's neighboring countries to help, but considering Lebanon and Turkey's 1,2 and 1,7 million Syrian refugees respectively, the limit of 10 is closest to symbolic politics. Perhaps not so different from the United States' 700 Syrian refugees, where they now want to increase this by 2000. Does the United States need to constantly remind them that they are a country of immigrants? One can well expect that the Conservatives and the FRP, like the Republicans in the US Congress, will slow down the flow of refugees with demands for guarantees that the Syrians are not "terrorists". There are currently between half and a million people waiting to move on in Libya. Like the Syrians, they are desperate. They have been poor for a long time. Last year, 230 made their way across Europe to the Mediterranean – 000 failed and died at sea. 130 have been rescued from drowning by Italy's rescue program Mare Nostrum (which means "our sea"). But since Mare Nostrum was closed down last fall and replaced by the pan-European rescue program Triton, more and more people are dying. Unfortunately, Triton has only one-third of the same resources, moving only 30 nautical miles from the coast. Many say they now want to do something about this. Europe does not just want to be a cynical business empire. Europe is also thought of as a humanistic joint project with critical traditions of Greek drawing. Europe, which in its Greek etymological meaning means "broad face", cannot discriminate on the basis of skin and appearance. give it tenth, that is, give 10 percent of the oil wealth to those who really need it. Today, this would make up 700 billion for humanitarian programs. We can be visionary enough to treat immigrants as an inspiring resource, rather than treating them hostilely. Politicians and people who think soul must be able to invite immigrants to activity and work, rather than letting them sit passively in asylum reception centers. But just as important, we must be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with people who for political and war-related reasons are fleeing. It is not enough just to shudder with your shoulders and rush home nervously for pleasure and welfare. After all, we were born just by chance here in the welfare state. Many of those who do not feel well on their journey, so to speak, we can afford to help as much as possible – the reality is that we could have helped hundreds of thousands. Then it would not have been embarrassing anymore. truls lie
