Arab Gulf States Close Doors to Syrian Refugees

Arab Gulf States Close Doors to Syrian Refugees
~by Raheem Kassam
Breitbart
March 31, 2016

If you all pay attention to the latest news you would notice the generosity of Arabs one towards the other.
I really do not blame anyone so far as the gulf States have so much money and do not know what to do with it but channel it towards terrorism endeavors... HB

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Originally published under the title "Gulf Countries Have 'Closed The Doors' To Syria's Real Refugees – So Now UN Chief Ban Ki Moon Is Lecturing Britain And America."



In this cartoon from the Saudi daily Makkah, a man in Arab Gulf attire points a refugee to a door with an EU flag, shouting, "Why don't you let them in, you discourteous people?!"

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has surfaced, once again to lecture the Anglosphere and the Western world about its "duties" to hurriedly absorb nearly half a million more Syrian migrants. The war-torn country's surrounding nations, he argues, have done the heavy lifting already. Now the U.N. chief wants you and your communities to do more.

There is a misconception that all Syria's neighbours have shrugged their shoulders towards their Muslim brethren, scorning the Ummah out of rugged self interest. It's not strictly true. But the dichotomy presented – that it is us or them – is a false one, and one that European and American leaders should not be afraid to reject outright.

The New York Times reports that the Sec. General opened a conference in Geneva today, demanding "an exponential increase in global solidarity", insisting that "Neighboring countries have done far more than their share" and imploring "Others [to] now step up." And, of course, the stress was on European Union member states and the United States of America to do more.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon wants the West to absorb nearly half a million more Syrian migrants.

The news follows quickly on the heels of Oxfam – one of the world's most political charities – demanding that France, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, and Denmark all take in more "refugees" and faster.

Of course, of the nearly 5 million fleeing Syria, most remain in the Middle East, with countries like Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan inundated by refugees. In part, this is what has spurred Turkey on to shipping their problems off into Europe – especially the Kurdish one.

It is noteworthy too, that Oxfam and Ban Ki Moon's criticisms were levelled at Western nations not because we have the infrastructure or capability to deal with the influx (we don't) – but because we are, apparently, "rich". (We'll just casually ignore our gargantuan debt crisis for the moment, shall we?)

But while the United Nations lumps the responsibility onto the West, you might ask why countries like Saudi Arabia, which claims to have absorbed around half a million Syrians, do not provide any data to support their statements. Indeed, in 2013, net migration of those deemed to be Syrian nationals stood at around just 20,000, with criticism aimed at the country for only accepting Syrians who already have families in the Kingdom.

In fact countries that could take more, and haven't remain free of criticism, presumably because they aren't signatories to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. This isn't a sign that we are better. It's a sign that we are dumber. We as Western nations afford moral and political equivalence for almost all other countries around the world nowadays (most recently, Cuba and Iran) but we don't make the same demands of these countries as we place upon ourselves.

What about Malaysia? Why can't they take more migrants and refugees?

Indonesia? India? China? Argentina?

Has Ban Ki Moon lobbied his home nation, South Korea?

It's almost as if there's a whole world out there.

But the onus is, apparently, on Britain, France, and America. We are destined to follow Germany's lead, a country now inundated with migrants not just from Syria, because Mrs. Merkel stupidly threw her doors open and declared, "Come one, come all!"

Perhaps we should look to the words of Batal, a Syrian refugee who spoke to Bloomberg, for why the pressure is being placed on Western countries and the Anglosphere: "In Europe, I can get treatment for my polio, educate my children, have shelter and live an honorable life... Gulf countries have closed their doors in the face of Syrians."

Raheem Kassam is a Shillman-Ginsburg fellow at the Middle East Forum and editor-in-chief of Breitbart London.

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You haven't heard the whole story until you read what Kuwait has in store for Lebanese

http://www.theisraelproject.org/kuw...ill-deepens-between-u-s-gulf-allies-and-iran/

Kuwait to expel dozens of Hezbollah supporters as chill deepens between U.S. Gulf allies and Iran

Iran Supreme Court issues literal eye-for-eye ruling: Convict to have eye gouged out

Dutch initiative raises the curtain on Israeli artists


Kuwait announced Monday that it would be annulling the residency visas of more than 60 Lebanese individuals who were accused of having ties to the terrorist organization Hezbollah, in the latest move by Gulf Arab States targeting the group. The residency visas were in most instances converted into temporary visas of two months’ duration, per a Kuwaiti security official, although in more drastic cases, individuals were issued 48-hour visas. When these visas expire, they will be expelled from the country. Last week, 11 Lebanese and three Iraqis were deported from Kuwait for alleged ties to Hezbollah.

Earlier this month, Bahrain deported several Lebanese residents due to their Hezbollah membership. Saudi Arabia, which is leading the anti-Hezbollah drive among the Gulf states, announced in February that it was cutting off $4 billion in military and security aid to Lebanon over what the Kingdom called “the seize” by Hezbollah of the “state administration.” The Gulf Cooperation Council as well as the Arab League both recently designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization. Hezbollah, alongside its patron Iran, has supported Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war and has fought alongside the Houthi rebels, who overthrew the internationally-recognized government of Yemen in February 2015. Hezbollah has been complicit in the systematic starvation of Syrian civilians. Earlier this month, the House of Representatives passed a resolution accusing Bashar al-Assad of war crimes and urged President Obama to direct the U.S. mission at the UN to promote the establishment of a war crimes tribunal to prosecute the Assad regime along with its allies, Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia.

This comes at a time when Hezbollah is busy building its terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanon, mostly within civilian areas. At a House hearing last week, Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said that in building this infrastructure, “Hezbollah has essentially painted a big target on the back of all of Lebanon.” Badran continued that the placement of more missiles in southern Lebanon “as well as Hezbollah’s entrenchment in Syria and its expansion into the Golan along with the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps], creates a situation for Israel that will…accelerate upcoming future conflict which…is going to be far bloodier than we’ve ever seen on both sides.” Israeli officials have warned that by moving most of its military infrastructure into Shiite villages in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah is placing Lebanese civilians at risk and using them as human shields. Yaakov Amidror, former Israeli National Security Advisor, has stated, “At the end of the day, it means that many, many Lebanese will be killed.”



The Iranian Supreme Court sentenced a man to have his eye gouged out in accordance with the country’s strict retribution laws, The Independent reported on Tuesday.

The convict, identified only as 28-year-old Saman, brawled with his then-25-year-old victim Jalal in 2011. Saman said that he unintentionally blinded Jalal during the altercation with a metal rod, according to the Norway-based organization Iran Human Rights.

Victims may inflict the same injuries they suffered on their attackers under Iran’s penal code, which includes a literal interpretation of the Sharia principle of an “eye for an eye.” A man who attacked another with acid in the city of Qoms had his left eye forcibly removed last year. The victim, who has the authority to determine whether the blinding will be carried out, decided to suspend the removal of the right eye until a later date.

The Iranian penal code also mandates harsh penalties for capital offenses including adultery, sodomy, fraud, possessing or trafficking drugs, insulting religious prophets, “waging war against God,” and “corruption on earth.”

According to United Nations rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed, there were at least 966 executions in Iran last year, the highest total in ten years. The number of executions in Iran has climbed over the past decade, and reached record yearly highs in each of the three years of President Hassan Rouhani’s tenure.

Shaheed said in October that the high rate of executions under Rouhani is an “unprecedented assault on the right to life in Iran.” At least 73 juveniles were executed by Iran between 2005 and 2015, while 160 remained on death row as of January, according to Amnesty International.

While Rouhani has often been characterized as a moderate, human rights advocates say his term in office has been marked by a steady increase in repression, including the suppression of free speech, oppression of women and gays, government-sanctioned discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities, and the imprisonment and torture of dissidents. Shortly after his election in 2013, Rouhani appointed Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, known as the “Minister of Murder” for his role in thousands of summary executions in the 1980’s, to the post of justice minister.

Former Italian foreign minister Giulio Maria Terzi wrote in Politico in January that the nuclear deal Iran signed last year would not lead the country to moderate its behavior. “European governments are willing to talk with Rouhani about oil deals and trade partnerships even if it means actively ignoring Iran’s worsening human rights situation, its sponsorship of terror, and its destabilizing activities in the Middle East,” he wrote. (via TheTower.org)



Don’t be surprised if you visit a museum, concert hall, music festival or dance venue in the Netherlands and find Israeli artists on the bill. Holland’s events calendars are brimming with Israeli culture. And it’s not by chance. KUNSTENISRAËL (Dutch for “Art and Israel&#8221 is an independent foundation that encourages Dutch culture venues to show the work of Israeli artists “so that the Dutch public can experience and appreciate the full diversity of Israeli art.” “Israeli art is world class and not enough people know about it,” Ken Gould, director of KUNSTENISRAËL, says. “Israel has very strong connotations — religion, conflict. Like any country it’s pretty much only in the news when there’s bad news. And there’s so much bad news coming out of Israel. The artists are much too good to be victim to Israel’s PR problems.” Thanks to the foundation, musicians Tiltan, Avishai Cohen and Maureen Nehedar recently performed in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Delft. Choreographer Itamar Serussi recently took the stage in The Hague, Nijmegen, Tilburg and Utrecht. And Israeli visual artists Sigalit Landau, Yael Bartana and Eyal Assulin recently exhibited at Museum Beelden aan Zeeand the Jewish Historical Museum. KUNSTENISRAËL’s goal is to create a broader basis for understanding Israel and its population through cultural projects. To do this, the five-year-old organization brings leading arts professionals – museum directors, curators, presenters and journalists – to Israel to get a first hand taste of the cultural scene here. (via Israel21c

 

The Saudi kingdom has been receiving Syrians ever since the Syrian tragedy began. An official I spoke with estimates their number at half million. These Syrians, however, have not been registered as refugees, as Saudi Arabia is not a country neighboring Syria and these people have not arrived as refugees, but have entered via a visit visa.

Saudi Arabia welcomed them over all this time and it did not force them to leave or detain those whose visa expired – however, another country that is supposedly a brotherly country of Syria actually did that. Some Syrians in Saudi Arabia found jobs, others didn’t.

The government allowed them to send their children to public schools but this does not mean they are happy. My Syrian friend has seen the occupants of his tiny apartment in Jeddah double; there’s nothing he can do, but be patient.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/vie...-camp-in-Saudi-Arabia-They-want-a-future.html

 

We had a wonderful example in the past re so called <Palestinians> in Saudi Arabia, they were all thrown out as unreliable and not pro the host country...
Time will tell.

 

Refugee populations are always a problem.. Often impoverished and angry they sometimes foment conflict in their host country.. like the Jewish refugees to Palestine.

The Gulf States have taken in a lot of Syrians and they aren't in tent cities or called "refugees"... nor are they counted by and registered with the UN Refugee Convention.. The Gulf States like Israel are not signatories to the convention.

 

I want you to know 'Cook Book' Writer that the Jews are in Israel by right of ownership and the Arabs notwithstanding your 'Cook Book's are <SQUATTERS>
Not indigenous, but opportunists who smell money when money could be earned.

 

Most of the Jews are in Israel by force of arms, the murdering of peaceful people and the theft of land. But even so they should not have to pay for the sins of there fathers.

 

Oh please ... that old lie is so tiresome.

 

Just plain <baloney> go open a book and read history... You prefer listening to an uneducated blabber mouth and repeat nonsense... Go learn something!

 

So who knew the Gulf States were Trump supporters?

 

Palestine 1920

But the Syrian province of Palestine, about one hundred and fifty miles long and fifty miles broad, largely mountainous and sterile, contains at present a population of more than 650,000, divided as follows: Mohammedan Arabs, 515,000; Jews, 63,000; Christian Arabs, 62,000; nomadic Bedouins, 50,000; unclassified, 5000.

Of these the Mohammedans and Christians are to a man bitterly opposed to any Zionist claims, whether made by would-be rulers or by settlers. It may not be generally known, but a goodly number of the Jewish dwellers in the land are not anxious to see a large immigration into the country.

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/bookauth/zionism/mackay.htm

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You must have a reading comprehension problem.

 

They can oppose the Mandatory Powers until blue in the face....
The trick is they do not make international decisions they JUST ABIDE BY THEM!!!

 

Muslims and Bedouin were the majority in Palestine in 1870 when it was still part of the Ottoman Empire.. and they were still the majority in 1920.

Your mistake was to flood into Palestine and abuse the people who had lived there for 2000 years.. before Islam, before Christianity.

I understand how the Jews were abused in Europe and Russia ... how damaged they were, but Zionism is a pernicious ism..

 

We returned home <BY RIGHT> and take this to he bank!!!

 

No I never listen to you and certainly do not repeat your nonsense.

 

What right ? You dont have any right or claim to the region at the time

Thats like saying americans got right to half of europe because the ancestors came from here

 

This would not be a problem if the European Zionists hadn't abused the Palestinians.

Truman's letters to Eleanor Roosevelt despair that the "abused had become the abusers" in Palestine.

 

Sucked from the thumb!

 

This is so inconsistent, I want to regurgitate my lunch. The original people of the region (the Jews) were dispersed by Hadrian ... and because the place became empty some loony kazoonies came over to squat with impunity... Now, the Jews are returning home to reclaiming it!!! That is all in a nut shell.
Open a book of history of the region and shed these spider webs that have taken over the place called knowledge in your Medulla Oblingata...

 

The Ottoman Empire allowed Jewish immigration, did you forget?

Arabs lived until the 7th century in Arabia, andonly in 7th century that started to move away from Arabia and to conquer other areas, like Egypt. Until the end of the 7th century the Arabs reached until Morocco, and in 711 AD the Arabs conquest reached till southern France, until 736, Pepin the Short in Poitou fought against the Arabs and his son, Charles Martel, finally won against the Arabs and his victory made them retreat back to Spain.

According to you, does the territory of Spain is an Islamic/Arabic territory, because of the Arab conquest?

 

That's absolute nonsense... but part of the big lie..

There were more Jews living outside of Palestine than in it by the birth of Christ.. They lived all over Anatolia, Damascus, Rome, Alexandria, Elephantine Island. Babylon and all around the Med Sea.

Palestine was poor with rocky soil and insufficient water... couldn't support a large population. That's why they never had horses.

 

sounds like Saud propaganda

 

Arabs began leaving the Arabian peninsula in waves 10,000 years ago as the peninsula became more arid.. They settled in the hill country of Canaan, southern Iraq around Basra and the Marshes.. The Marsh Arab speak the same dialect as Bahrain and Eastern Saudi Arabia.

Sargon 2 settled 4 Arab tribes in Samaria in 700 BC..

Ezra talks about Arabs in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile.

Jewish history leaves everyone else out of the narrative.

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Read the Arab newspapers.. Their kids are in school and they have free healthcare.. They have been granted permanent residency status and they aren't living in refugee camps.

 

So the prehistoric man was an Arab?

The Samaritans were not Arabs. We alaredy disscused about it.

What I wrote earlier is part of the world history, part of the counrties history. According to you the hisory of Frence is a Jewish hisotory? The history of Spain is a Jewish history? The hisotory of Egypt is a Jewish history?

 

When the Jews were exiled to Babylon Sargon 2 settled 4 Arab tribes in Samaria. I haven't said a thing about the history of Spain, Egypt or France.

The Samarians who had agreed with a hostile king]... I fought with them and decisively defeated them] ... carried off as spoil. 50 chariots for my royal force ... [the rest of them I settled in the midst of Assyria]. ... The Tamudi, Ibadidi, Marsimani and Hayappa, who live in distant Arabia, in the desert, who knew neither overseer nor commander, who never brought tribute to any king--with the help of Ashshur my lord, I defeated them. I deported the rest of them. I settled them in Samaria/Samerina. (Sargon II Inscriptions, COS 2.118A, p. 293)