It isn't only European countries and rich Arab Gulf countries that must help Syrian refugees. Israel has a special responsibility for their plight.
When Zionist Haganah militias carried out Operation Yiftach, on May 19, 1948, the aim was to drive Palestinians in the northern Safad District, which had declared its independence a mere five days earlier, outside the border of Israel.
The ethnic cleansing of Safad and its many villages was not unique to that area. In fact, it was the modus operandi of Zionist militias throughout Palestine. Soon after Israel’s independence, and the conquering of historic Palestine, the militias were joined together to form the Israeli armed forces.
Not all villages, however, were completely depopulated. Some residents in villages like Qaytiyya near the River Jordan, remained in their homes. The village, located between two tributaries of the Jordan—al-Hasbani and Dan rivers—hoped that normality would return to their once tranquil village once the war subsides.
Their fate, however, was worse than that of those who were forced out, or who fled for fear of a terrible fate. Israeli forces returned nearly a year later, rounded the remaining villagers into large trucks, tortured many, and dumped the villagers somewhere south of Safad. Little is known about their fate, but many of those who survived ended up in Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria.
Yarmouk was not established until 1957, and even then it was not an ‘official’ refugee camp. Many of its inhabitants were squatters in Sahl al-Yarmouk and other areas, before they were brought to Shaghour al-Basatin, near Ghouta. The area was renamed Yarmouk.
Many of Yarmouk’s refugees originate from northern Palestine, the Safad District, and villages like Qaytiyya, al-Ja’ouneh and Khisas. They subsisted in that region for nearly 67 years. Unable to return to Palestine, yet hoping to do so, they named the streets of their camp, its neighborhoods, even its bakeries, pharmacies and schools, after villages from which they were once driven.
When the Syrian uprising-turned-civil-war began in March 2011, many advocated that Palestinians in Syria should be spared the conflict. The scars and awful memories of other regional conflicts—the Jordan civil war, the Lebanese civil war, the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, and the US invasion of Iraq wherein hundreds and thousands of Palestinian civilians paid a heavy price—remained in the hearts and minds of many.
But calls for ‘hiyad’—neutrality—were not heeded by the war’s multiple parties, and the Palestinian leadership, incompetent and clustered in Ramallah, failed to assess the seriousness of the situation, or provide any guidance—moral or political.
The results were horrific. Over 3,000 Palestinians were killed, tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees fled Syria, thousands more became internally displaced and the hopeless journey away from the homeland continued on its horrific course.
Yarmouk—a refugee camp of over 200,000 inhabitants, most of whom are registered refugees with the UN agency, UNRWA—was reduced to less than 20,000. Much of the camp stood in total ruins. Hundreds of its residents either starved to death or were killed in the war. The rest fled to other parts of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Europe.
The most natural order of things would have been the return of the refugees to Safad and villages like Qaytiyya. Yet, few made such calls, and those demands raised by Palestinians officials were dismissed by Israel as non-starters.
In fact while countries like Lebanon had accepted 1.72 million refugees (one in every five people in Lebanon is a Syrian refugee), Turkey 1.93 million, Jordan 629,000, Iraq 249,000, and Egypt 132,000, Israel made no offer to accept a single refugee.
Israel, whose economy is the strongest in the region, has been the most tight-fisted in terms of offering shelter to Syrian refugees. This is a double sin considering that even Syria’s Palestinian refugees, who were expelled from their own homes in Palestine, were also left homeless.
Not surprisingly, there was no international uproar against a financially able Israel for blatantly shutting its door in the face of desperate refugees, while bankrupt Greece was rightly chastised for not doing enough to host hundreds of thousands of refugees.
According to UN statistics, by the end of August of this year, nearly 239,000 refugees, mostly Syrians, landed on Greek islands seeking passage to mainland Europe. Greece is not alone. Between January and August this year 114,000 landed in Italy (coming mostly from Libya), seeking safety. Around the same time last year, almost as many refugees were recorded seeking access to Europe.
Europe is both morally and politically accountable for hosting and caring for these refugees, considering its culpability in past Middle East wars and ongoing conflicts. Some are doing exactly that, including Germany, Sweden and others, while countries, like Britain, have been utterly oblivious and downright callous towards refugees. Still, thousands of ordinary European citizens, as would any human being with an ounce of empathy, are volunteering to help refugees in both Eastern and Western Europe.
The same cannot be told of Israel, which has alone ignited most of the Middle East conflicts in recent decades. Instead the debate in Israel continues to center on demographic threats, while loaded with racial connotations about the need to preserve a so-called Jewish identity. Strangely, few in the media have picked up on that or found such a position particularly egregious at the time of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
In recent comments Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected calls to admit Syrian refugees into Israel, once more unleashing the demographic rationale, which sees any non-Jews in Israel, be they African refugees, Syrians, or even the country’s original Palestinian inhabitants, as a ‘demographic threat.”
“Israel is a very small state. It has no geographic depth or demographic depth,” he said on September 6.
When Israel was established on the ruins of destroyed Palestine, Palestinian Jews were a small minority. It took multiple campaigns of ethnic cleaning, which created the Palestinian refugee problem in the first place, to create a Jewish majority in the newly-founded Israel. Now, Palestinian Arabs are only a fifth of Israel’s 8.3 million population. And for many in Israel, even such small numbers are a cause for alarm!
While the refugees of Qaytiyya, who became refugees time and again, are still denied their internationally-enshrined right of return per United Nations Resolution 194 of December 1948, Israel is allowed a special status. It is neither rebuked nor forced to repatriate Palestinian refugees, and is now exempt from playing even if a minor role in alleviating the deteriorating refugee crisis.
Greece, Hungry, Serbia, Macedonia, the UK, Italy and other European countries, along with rich Arab Gulf countries must be relentlessly pressured to help Syrian refugees until they safely return home. Why then should Israel be spared this necessary course of action? Moreover, it must, even more forcefully be pressured to play a part in relieving the refugee crisis, starting with the refugees of Qaytiyya, who relive the fate they suffered 67 years ago.
4: Azm: Syrian prime minister in his memoirs
Arab governments called in 1948 to evacuate Israel.
WE MADE THEM LEAVE.
THEN WE EXPLOIDED THEM IN EXUCUTING CRIMES OF MURDER IN SERVICE OF POLITICAL PURPOSES.
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Arabs created the refugees- start many wars and lost – and are revanchist!
When Arabs :
-will take responsibility of their actions
– will give up their quest of revanch
– will start building live and not prizing death
(Unfortunately Arabs narrative is endless war-fight all mankind until they either convert to Islam or accept to live under Islam wings)
Then- maybe the dawn lights of peace will drive away the heavy clouds of endless hate and wars
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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that.
I will light several candles to an shade the truth
Few examples of the recorded Arabs responsibility.
1: ON 1947 the UN resolution recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States.
The Plan was accepted by the Jewish.
The Arabs refused and later attacked the infant defending Israel with 7 armies
2:Secretary General of the Arab League declaration when 7 Arab
armies attacked Israel in 1948:
“This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of
LIKE THE MONGOLIAN MASSACRES ”
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Hassan_Azzam
3:As early as the first months of 1948,the Arab League issued orders exhorting the people to
SEEK A TEMPORARY REFUGE IN NEIBOURING COUNTRIES,
later to return to their abodes and
OBTEIN THEIR SHARE OF ABANDONED JEWSH PROPERTY.
– Refer: Bulletin of The Research Group for European Migration Problems, 1957
5: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Said in Sir An-Nakbah We will smash Israel
Aren’t the Israelis the aliens who savagely invaded, evilly drove nearly a million form their homes, and occupied someone else’s country? It’s amazing that you ignore this and yammer so monotonously about Arab responsibility.
Israel has been Jewish land for thousands of years . The evil Muslims shouldn’t have been there in the first place
Nope, only part of the land was Jewish for only a brief period of human habitation, during which most of land most of the time belonged by genetics of bodies in 10-12,000 year old tombs to the ancestors of present day Palestinians.
The evil European Zionists had no right to invade a people with far more right than they. Many of those Muslims and Christians they flooded with war crimes had one time been Jewish.
Nope, the evil Arab Muslims killed 100 million Hindus and 120 million blacks and 50 million orthodox Christians… That’s all islam is is a satanic death cult. Israel is the Jewish homeland since before Jesus for thousands of years
You’re crazy. You blame those killings you lie about on the Palestinians? No wonder you’re so sick that you support crimes against humanity by the savage European Zionist invaders with no right to Palestine.
You’re so uneducated, you actually think that Arab Muslims invaded India.
You should be careful talking about satanic death cults. There are people who think Judaism is a satanic death cult.
Nope, Palestine was only the Jewish homeland for maybe a thousand years before Christ, much less than the indigenous Palestinians they attacked like the Wehrmacht. Sorry, you’ve presented a fatally unsound case.
There is no such thing whatsoever as a Palestinian. Those people mostly came from Egypt to get good jobs from jews and jews turned desert and swamp into a great tech center of world. Islam is a satanic death cult and yes, both Arab and Persian Muslims did 4 waves of mass slaughter on Hindus all for islam and Allah the satanic death God
Wow! You really don’t read much, do you?
I doesn’t matter what name is hung on them or who rules them, it’s the PEOPLE that count,and those people whose ancestors have been documented to be in Palestine for over 10,000 years are now called, “Palestinians”.
The claim is that the Palestinians mostly from Egypt is Zionist rot, that you can’t possibly document because it isn’t true, and no brainwashed Zionist has be able to provide documentation that it is. Also, the uneducated Zionist nonsense that ” jews turned desert and swamp into a great tech center of world” is more nonsense. The Ottoman rulers counted over 400,000 Arabs living in Palestine before the Zionist invasion began in 1882.
Islam is a death cult? Only to the utterly uneducated and ignorant. “Allah” is the Muslim name for “God”, and “Jesus” is revered as a prophet by Muslims.
Nope, it was the Persians who invaded India. Not Arabs, not Palestinians.
Please go do some reading and get some education.
You are either lying for the fun of it or just incredibly credulous with an appetite for Zionist fairy tales.
Look up the Zionist Jewish Israeli historian. He’s a psychopath, so you will find him very acceptable while you raise yourself from abysmal ignorance to moral delinquency. If you wish to skip the moral delinquency, there is another Jewish Israeli historian. Ilan Pappe you can read.
Oh, you seem to get around?
>Aren’t the Israelis the aliens
Some, others were from the region though.
You’re right. God bless Israel
That’s rather obtuse. The bigoted, vicious primitive sky god the ancient Hebrews worshiped?
Muslims worship satan
Well, you just dumped yourself as an uneducated bigot. Congratulations.
You spew nothing but nazi satanic conspiracy filth against God and all that is good . God is not just in the sky but everywhere. You are filled with evil and hatred and bigotry
Oh, my!
You are a racist bigot
Israel is the Jewish homeland and has been for thousands of years. Jews were kicked out but they had the right of return so the did. Palestinians left Israel so that jews would be slaughtered by Arabs in another holocaust but Israel won the war and now those who left can stay gone
Nope, you don’t get to steal other people’s homes because a few of your ancestors might have lived there thousands of years ago. That’s absurd.
The European Zionist invaders won a war against a peaceful people, unprepared to fight off the long planned, savage seizure of their homeland.
No, Muslims tried to steal everyone’s land and kill everyone in the world and they preferred war to peace. They missed their chance
Again, you dumped yourself out as an educated bigot. Who’s typing these comments for you?
I could not be more educated or less bigoted. You’re the nazi loser making fun of Jewish God. Muhammad got possessed by satan and went and ran away but he was forced to confront the demon. Later he got possessed by satan again and delivered the satanic verses. His followers did like his later revelations so he admitted he got tricked by satan. Also, we know people by their fruits and Muslims have done nothing but murder people and do terrorism so they’re obviously possession by satan
You call me and a Nazi and claim that Muhammad got possessed by Satan? You are crazy and hilarious to boot.
I think that you might not want to be known by your fruits, or the fruits of the monster European Zionists who invaded Palestine with a flood of crimes against humanity, all very well documented. Free on the Internet:
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/08/11/the-battle-for-palestine/
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/23/the-battle-for-palestine-part-two/
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/24/the-battle-for-palestine-part-three/
by William R. Polk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Polk), who taught Middle Eastern history and politics at Harvard
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http://www.1948.org.uk/
http://imeu.org/article/the-nakba-65-years-of-dispossession-and-apartheid
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41864.htm
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/11/11/zionist-crimes-against-the-jews
Looks like av bunch of conspiracy sights for soft brainers. The Jews are the most peaceful smartest people on the planet and the chosen people of God. They are fighting saTanicgroups and terrorism. All situations are started by the Muslims terrorists bombing Israel first. Israel must defend themselves. Those terrorists get what they deserve. They are animals not even human and only listen to force …. Typical arabs
Ridiculous! The Zionists are something else, and so are you! Ever spouting nonsense that you can’t support.
You’re so ignorant that you don’t know that Israel was created by Ashkenazi Zionists savagely invading from Europe with a flood of atrocities against the indigenous population you so absurdly calumniate. Here are the leading Zionist war criminal Prime Ministers of Isreal.
David Ben-Gurion — #1 — he commanded the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Arabs during the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian villages in 1948
Levi Eshkol — #2 — he presided over the ethnic cleansing of 250,000 Palestinians
Menachem Begin — #3 — he was the preeminent terrorist in the Middle East … until Ben-Gurion and Eshkol surpassed him
Ariel Sharon — #4 — a murderous war hawk, he was responsible for massacres at Qibya, Sabra and Shatila
Benjamin Netanyahu — #5 — he was responsible for the deaths and mutilations of thousands of children during Operations Cast Lead, Pillar of Defense and Protective Edge
Yitzhak Shamir — #6 — he had British and Swedish nobles murdered for seeking to have Arabs treated as equals of Jews
Ehud Barak — #7 — a cross-dressing assassin, he participated in death squads that killed women, policemen and a poet known as “The Conscience”
Golda Meir — #8 — she threatened to destroy the world with nukes during a BBC interview and more than once insisted that Palestinians “did not exist” as a people
Shimon Peres — #9 — he aggressively pursued nuclear weapons and succeeded in delivering them
Yitzhak Rabin — #10 — he signed an order for the children of Lydda to be ethnically cleansed “quickly, without attention to age”
Yigal Allon — #11 — he served in Special Night Squads which tortured and killed “without compunction”
Ehud Olmert — #12 — he presided over the 2006 invasion of Lebanon, which killed 1,300 people and displaced more than a million others
Moshe Sharett — #13 — he was a staunch proponent of compulsory population transfer (ethnic cleansing)
http://www.ziombieland.net/2015/07/zionist-thug-life-in-palestine-1946.html
Muhammad committed genocide against the Jews . He was the most evil person in history and worst terrorist
Prevaricator. Let’s see your documentation. Or may continue blaring your ignorance.
All Jewish action was in self defense and none of your information is true. You are an insane conspiracy coo coo bird
Baloney! They invaded from Europe with the open Zionist purpose of conquest and ethnic cleansing. I’ve provide documentation above, and there’s tons more free on the Internet.
All your info is from satanic and nazi and insane conspiracy sights. The Jews always offered peace. Israel is the Jewish homeland for all eternity and they can never be moved. There are endless sights proving the Muslims are satanic terrorists and against all peace. Jerusalem is the capital for the Jews. They bought all the land. It’s rightfully theirs and all the terrorists need to be killed
Baloney again! You’re so utterly confused. You can’t document any of the bull turds you spew. I dare you! or stand revealed an utter fool!
Everything i say is self evident. That’s why Alan Dershowitz has demolished all people be has debated. Also, the Jews are there now because it is their land. And saudi Arabia is now supporting Israel so this whole Palestinians thing will be like talking about free Tibet in the near future. Remember that? Why don’t you go free Tibet . Talk about an invasion and genocide
Ho, ho, ho, self evident to who? sick, brainwashed bigots who have no reluctance for assaulting other people? Okay! That’s who that insane religiosity makes sense to.
Note that you still haven’t documented any of your nonsensical assertions.
You are a brainwashed conspiracy theory nut job obsessed with nazi sources and satanic Muslim sources. You hate God and all that is good
If I keep going, the ASPCA will get mad at me for torturing dumb animals.
Bye.
I have completely dominated you with all the facts and truth and exposed you as a nazi anti Jew conspiracy paranoid schizophrenic loser in the basement
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You can’t even spell “sites” right. How can you possibly interpret a mythological sky god with any credibility?
Just voice recognition…. You show your true saTanic nature and your evil mind in opposing God and all that is good. You support nazis and evil and oppose all that is good. You are an enemy to humanity
Wow! What mental hospital are you in?
You are a crazy conspiracy theory fruitcake in your moms basement
“crazy conspiracy theory fruitcake in your moms basemen”? What a string of silly Zionist cliches! Ha, ha, ho, hee, ha!
All you do is spread nazi satanic hatred and conspiracy theory.. You are a waste of life
They bought the land? The best documentation is 6%. The rest is stolen.
No the documents say all the land is Jewish and given to Jews and bought by jews. No Arab or Muslim has any right to have ever been there in the first place. Muslims only kill everyone who will not convert and spread terrorists
What documents? You ancient mythological lies? You’re so screwed up with savage, ancient bigotry that you know nothing of Islam or documented history. You are a fraud living inside of a fraud.
The United nations gave Israel to the Jews. This comment section started with various documents referring to the satanic evil Muslims resisting all peace efforts … You can’t negotiate with satanic death cult Muslims terrorists
No, they didn’t. Ben-Gurion’s thugs moved first and drove 900,000 people from their homes.
It was the satanic Muslim terrorists who tried to do a war of annihilation and kill all Jews… Jews are 100% peacekeepers and loving intelligence. They only defend themselves
Instead of foaming at the mouth, you should learn something of the truth of the vile Israeli villainy you so nonsensically cover up.
http://www.thenation.com/article/video-living-under-israels-missiles/
Israel was attacked by multiple Arab nations on multiple occasions. The Jews are the greatest people on earth and the most just and kind and have only ever acted in self defense against Muslims saTanic terrorism
Israel was given to Jews by God and they are never leaving again. It’s all their property and no one else has a right to be there
You are clearly a bigot of no education of moral perception. No god gave you or any other group of bigots right to other people’s home.
Sorry, this is a serious publication. I edited out anything that I thought might be inappropriate.
–The same cannot be told of Israel,–
Rightly said since Jewish mind has never been found hospitable. Marlowe was right when he said about the Jews that : “when the offering-basin comes to me/Even for charity I may spit into’t” .
Israel has helped those evacuated to Israel for medical help and many lives have been saved due to this humanitarian aid. However it would not be in Israel’s interest to take sides in this sordid Arab conflict.