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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel Aiding Syria Refugees on Turkish, Jordan Borders
2012-07-13
[An Nahar] Israeli aid groups are working with Western organizations to provide humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in Turkey and Jordan, MP Ayoob Kara told Agence La Belle France Presse on Thursday.

"We have found a way, with voluntary organizations from Israel that are now on the borders of Jordan and Turkey with Syria, to provide humanitarian help to the Syrians who are there," Kara said.

"My advisors are also in Jordan to try to find a way to help the refugees in Jordan," he added, saying that Israeli volunteer groups had been working in Turkey and Jordan for the past two months.

Kara stressed that the aid was humanitarian, with Israeli groups providing "food, medicine, a lot of help."

And he said the organizations involved were non-governmental groups working under the auspices of European institutions to assist Syrian refugees in the border areas.

"This is not the government, it's volunteers," he said, declining to identify the groups involved.

"They are Israelis but they don't work there as Israelis, they work with the European groups there."

Kara said the Israeli government was wary of being seen to aid the opposition groups fighting to overthrow the regime of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
, whose country is a sworn enemy of Israel.

"If we are part of the conflict, it's a danger for all the region, all the world," he said.

But Kara said he was eager to see the Jewish state provide humanitarian assistance, where possible.

"It is important for us that when there are big problems in our neighbor states, we are helping," he said.

Kara, a member of Israel's Druze minority who belongs to the rightwing Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the governments of Jordan and Turkey "know about the work of the Israeli organizations."

And the deputy said he was working with Jordan and the Israeli government on the possibility of bringing maimed Syrian refugees to the Jewish state for treatment.
Posted by:Fred

#7  This isn't so much the Israeli government doing something as independent people or groups helping out a bunch of displaced victims of war because, well, that's the right thing to do. You don't do these sorts of things because you expect to get something out of it other than personal satisfaction.
Posted by: Secret Master   2012-07-13 21:18  

#6  Where can I send a couple of pallets Spam? Just trying to do my part.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man   2012-07-13 21:17  

#5  Tomatoes and Gum.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-07-13 17:08  

#4  Maybe the Israeli aid groups assume the refugees will be grateful. Hahahaha. Yeah, I'm kidding. Get back on the turnip truck.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-07-13 13:44  

#3  You're right, good for good, and evil for evil is the best standard, it makes people good on the whole and discourages evil for evil's sake.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-07-13 12:32  

#2  Personally, I believe that returning good for ill is just as morally wrong as the vice verse. But, mine, seems to be a minority opinion in this brave new world.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-07-13 12:05  

#1  Any runners from Syria welcome, try anything and you're dead, otherwise welcome.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-07-13 00:11  

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