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Finland refuses EU request to accept critically ill patients from Gaza (yle.fi)
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[โ€“] Viking_Hippie 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are plenty of countries closer by that can handle this

The nearby countries are either already doing their part, themselves being attacked by Israel either overtly or covertly, or both.

It is not surprising that countries in eastern and northern Europe feel the need to focus on refugees from countries on our own continent

Sure, xenophobia isn't SURPRISING at this point. Doesn't justify it, though.

the hundreds of thousands of people that came from MENA during the 2010s are still straining our welfare systems to a degree where it degrades our ability to help both our own citizens and refugees within Europe.

Pure far right propaganda bullshit. Immigrants are on average a net improvement to the economy of the destination, refugees especially so. The vast majority of people making use of social safety nets are native born.

Sincerely, Dane with no foreign ancestry in at least a dozen generations who's sick of all the xebophobic demagoguery from the people pretending to speak for him.