Would it set a bad precedent vis-a-vis the Palestinians? The so called Jewish usurpation of the land comprising Israel is nutrition to the Arab mindset. I mean, if the Palestinians had options beyond Gaza and West Bank, the raison d'etre underlying the Arab world's hatred of the Jews would be seriously undermined. The middle east is so dysfunctional one wonders if the people there can ever find a way to live in peace.
Brilliant point. Yet the Gulf states are ok with accepting large numbers of european, american and south asian expats.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War It would pay to actually research before starting a thread
Those countries did not create an open door policy. The refugees logically swarmed in as those countries border Syria. The wealthier Arab nations have done little to aid the refugees and we are no seeing a massive exodus of Syrians from Turkey.
Saudi Arabia is one country that has said refugees are welcome. The criticism is that they haven't been making that obvious enough.
Time to call bullshiat.... The rich Gulf states have taken in zero Syrian refugees. This has been documented by the U.N. and other refugee organizations. CNN - Syrian refugees: Which countries welcome them, which ones don't A cold reception: Gulf states shun Syrians 01:52 http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/09/world/welcome-syrian-refugees-countries/ How many refugees are Gulf countries taking in? Saudi Arabia: 0 Kuwait: 0 Qatar: 0 Bahrain: 0
Bullshit my ass. Read it and weep buddy boy. http://time.com/4025187/arab-states-syrian-refugees/ "Supporters of Gulf governments contend that such criticism is unwarranted. The Gulf states have donated tens of millions of dollars to help Syrian refugees in places like Jordan. Saudi Arabia claims it has admitted half a million Syrians since 2011. Syrians are welcome to come, the argument goes, even if they are not legally registered as refugees." "Rights groups are not convinced. Visa restrictions make it difficult for Syrians to enter Gulf countries in practice, and even harder to stay. “These countries are not making clear, logistically and technically, to these people that your destination could be the Gulf,” says Qadi. “They have to make it clear. They have to announce it.”" Just like I said, Saudi Arabia claims the refugees are welcome but isn't doing enough to actually prove it or emphasize it.
It is amusing that Saudi Arabia has claimed to admitted more than half a million Syrians. Actually the Saudi government earlier claimed to have taken in over 2.5 million Syrian refugees (Saudi Arabia says it has taken in 2.5 million Syrians). A number that even the U.N. has come out and stated is completely false while stating the number is zero. Let's walk through some math... There are many reliable articles providing detailed information on this subject as well as refugee counts from the U.S. and other organizations. In a in-depth article The National Post in Toronto recently detailed how many Syrian refugees each country has taken in. Many articles have provided refugee figures from the UN and other organizations carefully tracking this recent situation with Syria. According to the Organizations that count refugees just short of 4 million refugees have left Syria. 6.5 Million people have been displaced internally in Syria. Of those who have fled - 1.1 Million are in Lebanon, Jordan has 608,000, and Turkey 815,000. Considering these documented numbers out of 4 million max - where did the 2.5 million refugees supposedly in The Kingdom of Saud come from? Were they magically created out of fairy dust? In fact they are so invisible they required no incoming processing or temporary housing. In fact news reporters can not find any of them. Let me also ask how did these 2.5 Million refugees get to Saudi Arabia? How many planes were needed to fly them there? Where are the ships they came on? The claims by the Saudi government are laughable and an absurd attempt to deflect well-deserved criticism for their lack of support to help the refugees. The claims of Saudi claims to have admitted to half a million or 2.5 million refugees are obviously false. The total number of Syrians living in Saudi Arabia is under 5000 as reported by Al Jazeera, Arab News, Alburra, & Al Arabiya. Nearly all of these Syrians have been in the country for over 10 years as guest workers, not refugees. The Saudi government has turned up their spin machine to deflect well deserved criticism for their complete lack of support for the Syrian refugees. The criticism being poured on the House of Saud for their inaction is well deserved. The Arab world’s wealthiest nations are doing next to nothing for Syria’s refugees https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...re-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. As Amnesty International recently pointed out, the "six Gulf countries — Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain — have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees." This claim was echoed by Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, on Twitter: (More at above url)
What a colossal fuck up U.S. foreign policy has been in the middle east, right after Bush is done messing things up, Obama comes in and makes things worse. Now we are simply going to import all of their problems. When will these blowhard generals ever learn? All these assholes want their name on a war, but anyone with the slightest bit of reflection would find it impossible to deny that we have been a huge net loser when it comes to meddling in foreign countries affairs in every single war except maybe world war 2.