Clancy Sigal writes:<\/p>\n
\nFAR FROM HOME, IN NEED OF HELP\u2014BUT FROM WHERE?<\/a><\/p>\n
As millions of Syrian refugees search for safety, their dire situation is reminiscent of those who fled Nazi Germany via British kindertransports<\/p>\n
…Full marks then to Angela Merkel and the Germans who have a lot to live down and are doing it handsomely. And a salute to those individual Hungarian kids on the roadside who hand out water to exhausted Syrian trekkers. Boo to the official Hungarians whose Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, presiding over a country with a short memory and a rising tide of anti-Semitism, tells the refugees, especially if they\u2019re Muslim, to eff off. Obviously he doesn\u2019t remember how many countries took in Hungarian refugees after the 1956 revolution.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not a moment for blame but for feeding, housing, and taking care. Yes, U.S. \u201cforeign policy\u201d got it wrong, wrong about Syria. Yes, Bush and Iraq. Yes, the hugely rich Arab states like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc. can\u2019t care less.<\/p>\n
But if I was a Syrian I too would hit the road rather than risk more lung-bursting barrel bombs from Assad\u2019s air force or ISIS going door-to-door executing anybody they please.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Clancy Sigal writes: FAR FROM HOME, IN NEED OF HELP\u2014BUT FROM WHERE? As millions of Syrian refugees search for safety, their dire situation is reminiscent of those who fled Nazi Germany via British kindertransports …Full marks then to Angela Merkel … Continue reading