However they want to address the issue, most people are horrified at the refugee crisis now besetting Europe, with its scenes of chaos, conflict, and desperation. Yet in Israel, at least one high official sees in it not horror, but hope. As Rania Khalek has reported :...
Mass-Producing Huddled Masses
Inscribed on a plaque inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty is a poem by Emma Lazarus titled “New Colossus.” The sonnet waxes lyrical about how different the Green Goddess is from ancient colossal statues, and how that symbolizes the contrast between American...
Iraqi Allies Scrambling for Exits
The list of what the authors call events over a “random 79 days in a 2,500 day-old war” is gruesome. 4/26/08 — Bahaa — DEATH — Death caused by multiple injuries sustained during torture 9/11/2005 — Dieyer — KIDNAP, DEATH — Abduction, death 6/29/04 — Lamees — DEATH —...
Between Libya and the Deep Blue Sea
RAS AJDIR, Tunisia — NATO’s five-month bombing campaign in Libya, run under the guise of protecting civilians, is also killing victims fleeing the conflict, directly and indirectly. Since the start of Libya’s Arab Spring and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Netanyahu: Stupid Like a Fox?
My hero of the year (for now) is a young, brown-haired Palestinian refugee living in Syria called Hassan Hijazi. He was one of hundreds of refugees who held the demonstration on the Syrian side of the Golan border fence, to commemorate the Naqba—“Disaster”—the exodus...
For Afghan Refugees, Polls Are Far and Near
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Afghan voters just went to national parliamentary elections, but refugees from that country here in neighboring Pakistan could only rue the fact that they have been left out of this vote. Some 2 million Afghans living overseas in Pakistan and Iran...
Afghans Find Their Welcome Running Out in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - The number of Afghan refugees in Pakistan who will return to their homeland this year is expected to be double the 2009 figure, but it's not only a longing for their native soil that is fueling the Afghans' departure. Many of the refugees say...
Friday: 46 Iraqis Killed, 114 Wounded
Iraqi Christians Cling to Their Faith in Jordanian Exile
AMMAN - As the 2003 United States-led invasion of Iraq began, the country's Christians started streaming across the border into neighboring Jordan. Today most of them continue to live here in abject poverty with no hope of ever returning to the land of their...