The Arab world’s wealthiest nations are doing next to nothing for Syria’s refugees
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/04/the-arab-worlds-wealthiest-nations-are-doing-next-to-nothing-for-syrias-refugees/The world has been transfixed in recent weeks by the unfolding refugee crisis in Europe, an influx of migrants unprecedented since World War II. Their plight was chillingly highlighted on Wednesday in the image of a drowned Syrian toddler, his lifeless body lying alone on a Turkish beach.
A fair amount of attention has fallen on the failure of many Western governments to adequately address the burden on Syria's neighboring countries, which are struggling to host the brunt of the roughly 4 million Syrians forced out of the country by its civil war.
Some European countries have been criticized for offering sanctuary only to a small number of refugees, or for discriminating between Muslims and Christians. There's also been a good deal of continental hand-wringing over the general dysfunction of Europe's systems for migration and asylum.
Less ire, though, has been directed at another set of stakeholders who almost certainly should be doing more: Saudi Arabia and the wealthy Arab states along the Persian Gulf.
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sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)For anybody,anytime. Why should a massive humanitarian crisis change the norm?
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)Really not into that helping thing. Bribe Isis to stay away and ignore it all.
WDIM
(1,662 posts)Displacing the refugees. why would they help them...
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Not to let the racist religious zealots in Hungarian government off the hook, though.
lostnfound
(16,177 posts)And the fact that Saudi has been funding some of the groups that created this human tragedy is all the more reason why they should fund some relief. I mean, the U.S. sometimes engages in nation-building after we engage in nation-destruction.
msongs
(67,405 posts)Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)It directs the outrage of their populations away from the oppressors in their own country.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)And some say we must b ring 65,000 here to the US.
Uh, no.
MattSh
(3,714 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)Syria is in bad shape. I am so concerned about the people of Yemen. They are cluster bombing cities full of people with American cluster bombs.
What ever happened to the United Nations? Did Bush and Porn Stash completely neuter it?
http://egyptianstreets.com/2015/09/04/wealthy-gulf-states-have-accepted-zero-syrian-refugees/