Muslims seek safe haven in Israel

From the Times:

"Technically the Sudanese are citizens of what Israel deems an enemy state and cannot stay. But their cause has been taken up by Holocaust campaigners and civil rights groups, who argue that Israel, of all countries, should give refuge to people fleeing genocide. "We cannot ignore refugees of the Darfur genocide when they knock on our door," Avner Shalev, the director of Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, said. He has written to Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, comparing their plight to Jews who in vain sought sanctuary from European countries during the Second World War."

In their petitions to the High Court, civil rights cite on their letterheads the Mosaic injunction from Exodus:

"You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt."