In 1948, the complicit Western world turned its collective back on 750,000 Palestinians fleeing a Nakba inflicted on their nation. It took the radically chic Western left another 20 years to notice that the Nakba was a monstrous evil. In 2013, the complicit Western world is doing the exact same to millions of Syrians and Palestinians fleeing another Nakba inflicted on the neighbouring nation. Perhaps if these refugees wait another 20 years, the monstrous evil of this Nakba will also be noted and the cause of Syrian freedom will also become fashionable among the radically chic Western left currently supporting Assad... 01-12-2013: The Syrian exodus has become one of the gravest global refugee crises of recent decades. More than two million people have fled Syria’s civil war, most resettling in neighboring Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon. But since this summer, refugees have also started pouring into Europe in what became for many weeks a humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean. Over five months, Italy’s Coast Guard rescued thousands of Syrians, even as hundreds of other migrants, including many Syrians, died in two major shipwrecks in October. For many, reaching Europe was merely the beginning of another difficult journey. Having risked their lives in hopes of settling in prospering Northern Europe, many Syrians found themselves trapped in the south, living illegally in Italy, hiding from the police, as they tried to sneak past border guards and travel north to apply for asylum. One Syrian man set himself on fire in Rome in October as a protest. In Milan, the financial capital and a transit hub near Italy’s northern border, Syrians began arriving in August, and kept coming as late as November, as refugees took shelter in the central train station, presenting local officials with a dilemma: help them or arrest them? “This is a humanitarian emergency,” Pierfrancesco Majorino, a Milan council member, said in late October.
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 02:28:51 +0000
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