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I did see he’s british yeah ?
wonder how many even know who the last one is
@ride the lighting wrote:
Sorted and the french!!!
Still leaves the Argies…
@sceptical guy wrote:
Trapper, another problem with Saudi is that it’s the centre of official Wahabism – the heart of radical Islam which has led to al quaeda and ISIS.
Isn’t it time that we stopped palling up with them in the power games which have led to all this?
Our policy of ending the civil war in Syria by arming and training one of the sides is failing, and Russian intervention has blown a hole in that policy.And it’s going to cause an even bigger influx of refugees in the next year.
Only an international response – and an end to British power politics in Syria – can end this.
Do you agree – or disagree?
It’s also mainly Sunni muslims same as the refugees.
Of course we shouldn’t arm people simply for strategic reasons, possibly not for any other reason either. Nobody seems to heed history cause they all eventually appear to bite the hand that feeds them at some point.Gulf states are under fire from human rights groups for not doing more for Syrian refugees as Syria’s neighbours struggle to house those fleeing across their borders and the EU grapples with its worst refugee crisis since World War II.
The UN estimates that more than 4 million Syrians have fled the country’s civil conflict so far, with 3.8 million of these having temporarily sought refuge in just five countries: Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq (mainly Kurdistan) and Egypt.
According to the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Turkey has taken in almost 2 million Syrian refugees while Lebanon has registered 1.1 million refugees within its borders – an influx that now accounts for 20 percent of the Lebanese population. Jordan, likewise, has received almost 630,000 asylum-seekers, Iraq close to 250,000 and Egypt another 132,000. Many other Syrians have crossed into these countries but have not been officially counted.
But while Syria’s neighbours struggle to accommodate the influx, an Amnesty International report from December noted that the six Gulf states — Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar — “have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees”.
