bandiera, if europe has done a laughably poor job, i don't know what kind of job you'd call the syrian neighbours in the gulf, like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain etc who have taken none
You're talking about monarchies that established their rule through the blind allegiance doctrine for decades. The same nations that are suffering lately from the diverse sects and the aspiring political reform calls that are being prosecuted for asking questions. I doubt these type of countries going through this crucial phase in their history and existence will accept uncertain loyalty from refugees they equally incited and prolonged their current crisis next to the regime. I'm not down playing the internal problems of European countries like Greece, I'm just pointing out that the Gulf countries, despite their attempts and claims, aren't founded on the concepts of civil, equal, and practical political rights. In fact, their longevity relies on discrimination.
I won't talk about Saudi Arabia & Bahrain because they have internal complications their citizens know about so I'll address Kuwait seeing how it's my country and we've already went through this once with a very negative outcome.
In the late 40s and early 50s, Kuwait (like most Arab countries) accepted great numbers of Palestinian refugees who helped the country after the oil surge in many sectors and into modernization. I recall my late father talking about Arafat and how he and most of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) members were working together in the same office of the ministry of public works. At that time, the number of Palestinians exceeded the 400,000 mark (Kuwaitis almost half a million) which wasn't a problem until the public focus turned to the need of empowering Kuwaiti citizens in the key positions in the country instead of our Palestinian brothers. For some reason I always attributed that to the influence the Lebanese and Egyptian media had on the young Kuwaiti journalists who studied in Beirut and Cairo in the 60s and later the 70s and their direct contact with the diverse political life and coverage in those parts of the Middle East but that needs a longer talk on the origin of patriotic sentiment between Arabs. My point is that by that time we acknowledged the flaws of that refugees policy especially when the interests of our citizens were, to some extent, sidelined by the PLO's influence in the public sector and how most of the financial funding to the Palestinian cause was going to the pockets of some its leaders. My father used to say that his Palestinian colleges were the most dedicated in their work but they cared about each other's success ahead of others which aggravated that sentiment in the media and local gatherings. The disaster struck in 1990 during and after the Iraqi invasion when the PLO was divided on how to react to Saddam Hussein and for those who lived in that time the memories weren't good ones especially when some of the refugees showed support for the invading forces (creating barricades, torture, informative duties.. etc) while other opposed and were killed alongside Kuwaitis. Eventually after the invasion ended, Kuwait deported 350.000 Palestinians after the public outcry of treason. I also suspect that our royal family wanted to decrease the numbers of Palestinian to ensure the allegiance concept in the Gulf countries I spoke about earlier while getting rid of what became a problem with the unresolved Arab-Israel conflict.
Still, to this day we have demographic problems like the ignored part of society called the bedoun (literally means without) who are waiting for their stateless situation to be resolved somehow as some politicians fear that despair and the financial temptation of terrorism (they get paid) creep through the younger generations. However, unlike the refugees these people are related to Kuwaitis or think of it as a permanent home. Despite these things, there has been a noticeable increase in the population of Syrians here after the current crisis and I say noticeable because of Kuwait's small and concentrated population in the capital but nothing as the large impact Lebanon is going through with 4 Million citizens & over 1 million refugees in a sensitive sectarian system or what other countries have offered of course.
I remember this ridiculous Irish YouTube 'philosopher' who likes to "keep it real" against the media and the bullshit he says is enough to fill 1000 pages of this thread. He talked about similar incentives and how European countries (and the west in general) provided the third world and Arabs with the tools and support of modernization as if these backward monarchies and kingdoms are protected by Sauron's army and not by the US or European arms deals and treaties. So please, don't use similar shortsighted arguments when you evaluate the refugees as you'll have the bad and good apples... and not necessarily the "blows shit up" type.
Obviously I'm not saying this to you Armes but as a general observation.
One last thing..
DomesticatedPimp, I'm not sure if this stance against "forced" rules is related to the latest anti-political correctness trend or not but I genuinely doubt that people like the radical Trump supporters back in the day would have willingly endorsed the demands and dreams of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King if it were down to them.
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