The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change, never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.

Hi, everybody.

Welcome, this is the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show, and I'm delighted to have the opportunity of sharing some time together with you,

particularly since the papers lately have been absolutely jam-packed with heart-rending photographs

of refugees trying to get into Europe.

Now, you might wonder what the date of this podcast is.

And the truth is that it simply makes no difference, because what I'm saying now has been true for a long time.

Refugees have been dying, drowning in the Mediterranean.

They've been dying in trucks and trains, struggling to get from the meaner countries,

Middle East, North Africa, into Europe.

And they get packed onto tiny, rickety, overloaded little boats that are supposed to take

them to Lampedusa, the Italian island that's nearest to the North African coast or to Sicily,

and in many cases, into Italy or even into France directly. Others have

been going overland. And whether they're going from Syria or Sudan or Somalia or from Nigeria

or Libya.

The bottom line is that they are pouring into Europe.

And they're all coming from the same areas, North Africa, Middle East.

And the photographs that the papers show and that you can see on television are tragic.

They're painful. They evoke feelings of deep sorrow and mournful sympathy, particularly when the news media displaying absolutely no reticence whatsoever, even show photographs of corpses and even those of women and children.

And so obviously any normal sensitive human being becomes

emotionally overwhelmed by those images and any thought of rational policy making, any

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