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Category Archives: Syria
Holocaust Museum Sees a U.S. Duty to Syrian Refugees
Chaim Amalek: “Jesus Christ, if there is one argument that the friends of Israel (which I assume includes the Holocaust Museum) need to avoid making, it is this one. Otherwise, the goyim might well ask why Israel is not accepting … Continue reading
Yossi Klein Halevi: Next, Turn the Screws on Syria
Why did the West create a mess in Syria, which is in turn flooding the West with Syrian immigrants? In part, because of the pressure of intellectuals such as Yossi Klein Halevi, who wrote in the Los Angeles Times April … Continue reading
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Teen girl raped by 5 Syrian migrants
Why do many Jewish groups push the West to take in more Muslims? The Sun: A TEENAGE girl has claimed she was gang raped at a care home by five young Syrian migrants. The vulnerable 18-year-old victim was subjected to … Continue reading
Weekly Standard: Jewish Immigration Group Fights to Bring Syrian Refugees to America
I hope the Syrian refugees all move into Park Slope and Westchester and Foggy Bottom, where the elites in Washington live. I wonder what the Israelis would do to a prime minister that was determined to make the Jews a … Continue reading
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Forward: Jews Push Washington to Admit More Syrian Refugees, Even as Some Worry About Backlash
Jews don’t want Muslim immigrants, Jewish elites do. How many Jews and gentiles will be slaughtered by these Muslim migrants? Nathan Guttman writes: At the end of her Rosh Hashanah sermon, Rabbi Elyse Frishman turned to congregants and asked them … Continue reading
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Let Putin Have His Way In Syria
Steve Chapman writes: Vladimir Putin is having a field day in the Middle East. He has sent Russian planes to bomb rebels in Syria. He has reached an intelligence-sharing agreement with Syria, Iran and Iraq. At the U.N. Monday, he … Continue reading
Steve Sailer: Putin Garners Strange, New Respect by Dropping Bombs on the Middle East
Steve Sailer writes: “That’s just what a respectable country does: it drops bombs on the Middle East. So if the Russians are bombing some country in the the Middle East, then they must be, when you stop and think about … Continue reading
Take the Russian Gift Horse’s gift and run like hell to North America
Michael Scheuer writes: One has to be amazed at the number of chances to save itself that America keeps encountering and refusing to grasp and exploit in the Arab world. We were safely out of Iraq when Obama and the … Continue reading
Jewish Groups Lead Push To Crack Open Doors to Syria Refugees
If Jews deserve to preserve their people and heritage, which I believe they do, then surely non-Jews such as the Germans, Swedes, Australians, English etc also deserve to preserve their heritage and keep enemy aliens (Muslims, Africans, etc) out. Every … Continue reading
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Culture Clash: Understanding The Syrian Race
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Or as a Jewish character in one of John Updike’s novels says, “If we have to have enemies, thank God they are Arabs.” * Want to see Moslem behavior for yourself? Just go to your … Continue reading