Displaced and Refugees

By Marwan Jabbar | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Iraq’s security crisis means that if you are “different”, you may be a threat to militias ruling the streets now. Would-be asylum seekers tell NIQASH why they want to leave Baghdad, despite good jobs and nice homes. Europe is dealing with an influx of refugees […]

Apartheid

Nearly all of Gaza’s Water ‘Undrinkable’

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By Celine Hagbard – (IMEMC) | – – Reporters from RT (Russia Today) traveled to Gaza to look into last year’s report that 90% of Gaza’s water is undrinkable. As they sampled water from different parts of the coastal Strip, they found that the report is accurate – the water throughout Gaza is dirty, salty […]

Apartheid

Israel plans to tear down 13,000 Palestinian Buildings in Palestine

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has produced a report [pdf] in which it finds that “Official data released by the Israeli authorities indicate that over 11,000 demolition orders – affecting an estimated 13,000 Palestinian- owned structures, including homes -are currently ‘outstanding’ […]

Displaced and Refugees

As Germans welcome 1000s of Refugees, EU, Turkey Wrangle over Crisis

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Euractiv.com | – – Thousands of exhausted refugees and asylum seekers received a hero’s welcome Sunday (6 September) as they streamed into Western Europe. But Austria warned the emergency measures are only “temporary” as the EU struggles to establish a united response to the crisis. As they stepped off trains in Munich, many clutching young […]

Christianity

Pope Francis’ call to host Refugees contrasts w/ anti-Immigrant US “Religious Right”

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Not all American Christian leaders have covered themselves in glory when it comes to the issue of Syrian refugees being accepted by the US ( not many are). Evangelist Franklin Graham sees these refugees as a security threat because many of them are Muslim (though there […]

Displaced and Refugees

Netanyahu: Israel Not To Be ‘Submerged’ by Syrian Refugees

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By IMEMC News | – – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, on Sunday, he would not allow Israel to be “submerged” by refugees after calls for Israel to take in those fleeing Syria’s war. Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu also announced the start of construction of a fence along Israel’s border with […]

Displaced and Refugees

Why some European countries do more than others to help refugees

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By Tim Hatton | (The Conversation) | – – Not since World War II has Europe faced a refugee crisis comparable with the situation unfolding at its borders at the moment. The European response has been, to put it mildly, ambivalent. On one hand there has been a mass outpouring of sympathy in the media […]

Authoritarianism

Those forced to Europe are mostly Regime Change Refugees

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By Thalif Deen | ( Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The military conflicts and political instability driving hundreds of thousands of refugees into Europe were triggered largely by U.S. and Western military interventions for regime change – specifically in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria (a regime change in-the-making). The United […]

Displaced and Refugees

Why Don’t Rich Arab Gulf States Welcome Syrian Refugees?

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By Charles Recknagel | (RFE/ RL ) | – – It's hard not to notice how almost all Syrian refugees flee westward rather than seek a safe haven in the rich Arab Persian Gulf states. Now, social-media users worldwide are increasingly raising the question of why. On Twitter, the Arabic-language hashtag #Hosting_Syria's_refugees_is_a_Gulf_duty has become a […]