Israel Matzav

Who gives a damn about freezing Syrians? We do

While the rest of the world is allowing Syrian refugees to freeze to death in the bitter winter cold, their bitterest enemies in Israel are providing the Syrian refugees with coats and blankets.

In a few short weeks, when thousands of Syrian refugees receive cartons packed with warm blankets, clothes and sleeping bags, they might well be surprised to learn that the winter gear was collected by dozens of Israeli students and IDF employees at an army base in northern Israel. 

Like neighboring northern Israel, Syria can experience bitterly cold winters, with temperatures falling to as low as -3 degrees Celsius. For refugees who are living in makeshift accomodations or even sleeping in the rough, keeping warm can be a challenge.

Shimshon Camp, one of the IDF's largest Ordnance Corps bases, is also the home of the Aman-Shimshon school, attended by 125 students from grades nine to 12, and the drive is their initiative. "Our students include Druze, Bedouin, both Christian and Muslim Arabs, Circassians and Jews," says school principal Nitzan Amit proudly.  

We're also the only country in the region where no one would try to annihilate any of those groups.

But unfortunately, those Syrian refugees aren't going to know who sent those coats and blankets.

"They asked us to remove all Hebrew lettering," says organizer Etti Cohen. "So we're going to write greetings in Arabic and put them in the pockets of the clothing, so that the Syrian refugees get a little bit of support."

I wonder if they'll figure out how the Chinese and the Koreans learned Arabic.... 

Labels: anti-Semitism, Syrian refugees

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:12 PM