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But they're all US orgs that focus on intervention in Syria. To play devil's advocate (I need to practice playing devil's advocate because I'm training to be a lawyer and decidedly going to Hell), many of the refugees fleeing for Europe (including the one that Merkel patronized) were Palestinian, but most "Palestine solidarity" groups did/said very little, and in fact most don't even focus on the refugees that aren't trying to cross into Europe. Many of the people who died trying to get to Malta were Palestinians, for example. I've done my best personally but that's no excuse for the movement as a whole. I don't think it makes perfect sense to expect any of the groups taking whatever position it is to put out statements, but perhaps they should. The xenophobic rhetoric from Assad is so twisted, and in fact is not unique to Europe but also common throughout the Arab world, where Syrian refugees (Assad's "illegal immigrants") are seen as terrorist agents. Assad is willing to use xenophobic rhetoric to defend crackdowns on his victims. He is basically doing the same thing that Israel does when it tells other regimes in the region to look out for Palestinian "terrorists" among the refugee camps, etc. - Amith On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Lüko Willms <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > On Samstag, 5. September 2015 at 15:31, Ken Hiebert via Marxism wrote: > > > I did a quick survey of groups that I identify as favourable to the > > Syrian government. I wanted to see how they are responding to the > current refugee crisis.. > > I did not see any response. > > You looked up US-american organizations. They would perhaps react to the > refugees dying at the US-border against Mexico, but why should they take a > position on a European issue, the huge wave of refugees fleeing the Third > World countries in Africa and Asia? > > > > > Cheers, > Lüko Willms > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
