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Showing posts with label Syria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Syria. Show all posts

Monday, April 9, 2018

Assad Murders Syrians, Can it Be Stopped?

While the Syrian terrorist dictator Assad continues his murderous rampage, using chemical weapons plus against Syrians, anti-Israel countries conspire to condemn Israel for self-defense.

The pictures coming out of Syria are awful and make it clear that Assad is targeting civilians.

https://www.reuters.tv/v/jqy/2018/04/09/trump-says-big-price-to-pay-for-syria-attack

There are reports of  Syrian bases being bombed, but nobody knows who's doing it for sure. I have this picture in my mind of some mysterious cartoon character swooping in to "save the day."

My innate pragmatism makes me very pessimistic. That's because the western so-called developed world is being taken over by Moslems. That's because Christian society, even the Catholic countries are just not reproducing. Their birthrate is in the negative, especially among the academics, but even in "blue collar" social/economic circles. This means a serious lack of workers, and also not enough young people to pay into the governmental pension systems, like American Social Security.

That's why Europe and the United States are easing their immigration laws and encouraging even illegal migrants to remain. Somebody has to work. But the question is whether these newcomers, mostly Muslim, will assimilate into the existing culture and value system, or will they change society into their own.

Any objective social observer with a knowledge of history should be very worried.

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Israel Attacked From Both North and South!

For someone of my generation, yesterday's possibly coordinated attacks on Israel from Egypt and Syria are deja vu worrying!
IDF RETALIATES AGAINST SYRIAN REGIME AFTER MORTARS LAND IN GOLAN HEIGHTS
ISIS TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR ROCKETS FIRED FROM EGYPT INTO EILAT
And it worries me even more that the Israeli Government is soft-pedaling it. The 1973 Yom Kippur War began with attacks from Syria and and Egypt. 

ADST.org

Then, at least we held the Sinai, which gave us a very healthy security buffer. But since Menachem Begin gave the Sinai to Egypt, and Egypt doesn't really control it properly, dangerous enemies, like ISIS, can easily roam and rule there, Gd forbid.

OK, old-timers, what do you think?

Sunday, June 5, 2016

Jerusalem Day: Reflecting on 49 Years

For Jews of my generation and older, the 1967 Six Days War was a watershed event, unforgettable and inspiring. For many Jews it was life-changing, too.



There were two major results of the Six Days War:

  • Israel miraculously survived and completely defeated three enemy Arab armies, Egypt, Syria and Jordan.
  • Israel liberated the illegally occupied Jordan Valley, Judea, Samaria and the eastern parts of Jerusalem including the Walled City and Temple Mount, along with the Sinai and Golan Heights.
All three aggressor countries lost land as a result of the war. If you look at World History, in every single war in which an aggressor loses land in defeat, the land is then part of the victorious country. But here, almost a half a century later, Israel is under all sorts of attacks, diplomatic and terror/military to cede land fairly won to its enemies or a new invented "country." 

It would be nice if I could blame our enemies and faux friends for Israel's problems. But the sad and tragic truth is that it was the State of Israel that is the cause of today's security/terrorist problem and the awful diplomatic pressures we suffer.

Even before the dust had settled, while the world looked on in complete awe, the State of Israel should have immediately and unconditionally annexed all of the Land we liberated, from the northern tip of the Golan until the Suez Canal to the east at the Jordan River. All remnants of the "green line" should have been erased, ground to dust. Not only should the barriers that had been scarring Jerusalem been taken down, but Jews should have been allowed and encouraged to live in every single neighborhood, not just what became known as the "Jewish Quarter" of the Old City. Not only the wonderful and thriving Jewish neighborhoods which were built, like Ramat Eshkol, Gilo, Ramot etc. but housing for Jews should have been built in Shuafat, Beit Hanina, Beit Jalla etc. That anti-Jewish apartheid we still suffer should never have been allowed to continue. 

Judea and Samaria should have had been open for Jewish communities just like the Golan and the Jordan Valley were. And of course we should never have returned the key to Har Habayit, the Temple Mount to the Wakf. A synagogue should have had been built for Jews to pray with full religious rights on the Temple Mount. 

If the Israeli Government had annexed and opened all of the newly liberated Land, the world would have accepted it, even more Jews than the masses who did make aliyah in the euphoric post-Six Days War era would have arrived and the Moshiach/Messiah would be here, too.

Gd gave the Jewish People and Jewish State a great miracle, a military victory in 1967, and our government spit in Gd's face. For that we are suffering to this day, and we must find a way to correct this awful sin. Only then will there be true peace!!

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Syrian Refugees: Why aren't They Clamoring to Find Refuge in Arab Countries?

Besides Syria, there are close to two dozen Arab countries, some pretty close to Syria, and some are extremely modern and affluent.

National Geographic

Maps of Arab countries and Israel. Note that Israel is a tiny island in a sea of Arab countries. MEFacts.com

Considering the difficulties all immigrants have learning new languages and adjusting to new cultures, norms and school curriculums, you'd think that the innumerable syrians fleeing their country would make a beeline to nearby Arab countries.

List of Arab countries from Wikipedia

Population[edit]

PosCountryPopulationWorld ranking
1 Egypt89,100,00016
2 Algeria39,500,00033
3 Sudan38,448,00035
4 Iraq37,425,00039
5 Morocco33,666,17940
6 Saudi Arabia31,560,00045
7 Yemen25,502,00049
8 Syria17,740,34055
9 Tunisia10,982,80077
10 Somalia10,456,00085
11 United Arab Emirates9,589,00093
12 Libya6,449,000103
13 Jordan6,745,023106
14 Palestine sic*4,650,368123
15 Lebanon4,468,000126
16 Mauritania3,778,254134
17 Kuwait3,589,000138
18 Oman3,383,000139
19 Qatar2,321,000149
20 Bahrain1,359,000155
21 Djibouti923,000158
22 Comoros830,000163
Total Arab League365,674,964

Area[edit]

RankCountryArea (km2)[Note 1]Area (sq mi)% of TotalNotes
1 Algeria2,381,741919,59518.1%Largest country in the Arab world.
2 Saudi Arabia2,149,690830,00016.4%Largest kingdom in the Arab world.
3 Sudan1,861,484718,72314.2%Formerly the largest country in the Arab world.
4 Libya1,759,540679,36011.4%
5 Mauritania1,025,520395,9607.8%
6 Egypt1,002,000387,0007.6%Excluding the Hala'ib Triangle (20,580 km2/7,950 sq mi).
7 Morocco713,550275,5003.4%Does not include Western Sahara (266,000 km2/103,000 sq mi).
8 Somalia637,657246,2014.9%Largest exclusive economic zone in the Arab world.
9 Yemen527,968203,8504.0%
10 Iraq435,244168,0493.3%
11 Oman309,500119,5002.4%
12 Syria185,18071,5001.4%Including the part of the Golan Heights (1,200 km2/460 sq mi) currently occupied by Israel. sic*
13 Tunisia163,61063,1701.2%
14 Jordan89,34234,4950.7%
15 United Arab Emirates83,60032,3000.6%One of three federated states in the Arab world.
16 Djibouti23,2009,0000.1%
17 Kuwait17,8186,8800.1%
18 Qatar11,5864,4730.08%
19 Lebanon10,4524,0360.08%
20 State of Palestine6,0202,3200.05%Under Israeli occupation. sic*
21 Comoros2,2358630.01%
22 Bahrain7582930.005%
Total13,333,2965,148,048100%

Population density[edit]


RankCountryDensity
(/km2)
Density
(/mi2)
Area
(km2)
Area
(mi2)
PopulationNotes
1 Bahrain1,7884,6317502901,341,000[3]
2 State of Palestine7131,8476,0202,3204,293,313sic*  [21]
3 Lebanon4081,05710,4524,0364,268,000
4 Comoros3438882,235863767,000
5 Kuwait16242017,8186,8802,889,000
6 Qatar17545311,0004,2001,921,000
7 Syria117303185,18071,50021,740,340
8 United Arab Emirates9725183,60032,3008,089,070[22]
9 Egypt962491,001,449386,66282,532,544[23]
10 Morocco78202446,550172,41032,666,179Including Western Sahara (Non-self-governing territory)[24]
11 Jordan7118489,34234,4956,345,023
12 Iraq76197438,317169,23533,425,000
13 Tunisia65168163,61063,17010,673,800[25]
14 Yemen45117527,968203,85025,502,000
15 Djibouti3910123,2009,000923,000
16 Sudan18471,886,068728,21534,848,000[26]
17 Algeria17442,381,741919,59539,500,000
18 Somalia1539637,657246,2019,656,000
19 Saudi Arabia13.1342,149,690830,00028,660,000
20 Oman9.324309,500119,5002,883,000
21 Libya3.79.61,759,540679,3606,449,000
22 Mauritania3.38.51,025,520395,9603,378,254
* There is no "State of Palestine" and has never ever been one!

Considering the amount and variety of Arab countries, many of which have extremely low population density, shouldn't they be the main countries welcoming Syrians fleeing their homes?

Israel Resource Review
This is an important question. Jordan has accepted some refugees, but I wonder if they will let them become Jordanians. Since 1948, they have kept their fellow Arabs from Israel in refugee camps enthusiastically supported by the United Nations aka UNRWA. Almost seventy years after the establishment of the State of Israel, these refugee camps are  still being used to indoctrinate and train terrorists to attack and destabilize Israel.

The vast majority of Syrian refugees, seem to have been able to afford to get much further away than Jordan. Considering the price the smugglers and agents demand per head, there must be someone funding this massive exodus to Europe, the Americas etc.

I suggest three simple reasons why the fleeing Syrians are not flocking to other Arab countries:

  1. There are people/organizations encouraging/funding them to attempt to enter other countries and societies. There are two reasons for this, humanitarian and to get sleeper terrorists into those other countries. 
  2. The Arab countries are not looking for fellow Arabs to increase their populations. 
  3. The refugees want to get as far from Syria and Arab culture as they can.
What do you think?

Please write your opinion in the comments thanks.