Middle Eastern Christians Flee Violence for Ancient Homeland of Orthodoxy

[Lord ZeN]

syrian system is guided by socialism... why don't you call for india to nationally adopt socialism as well...

 

[jamahir]

if mr. ganguly is recommending something to syria, i too was recommending something for india... what's wrong in that??

 

[Lord ZeN]

if mr. ganguly is recommending something to syria, i too was recommending something for india... what's wrong in that??

But the recommendation itself sounds illogical in the context of India.

 

[jamahir]

But the recommendation itself sounds illogical in the context of India.

the only illogical thing here is the present indian system... how can anyone calling himself educated object to socialism??

 

[flamer84]

won't you say that is bureaucratic inefficiency?? in india in the 80's and 90's, anyone wanting a telephone ( landline ) would been put in a long long waiting list.

No.Almost all of the cars were reserved for export,a few were kept for the "natives".And when i say cars i mean Dacia,Oltcit,ARO's and a few imported Trabants.

but he did not form a new bloc like tito did with yugoslavia and "non aligned movement"...

But he was a Western favourite in the 70's.

they took him in the Royal carriage,lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IhjJuOrf5c

your view is generally shared by the writer of that article, who seems a westerner... would be interesting to read the memoirs of a key member of the romanian communist party.

maybe he didn't want to get western companies to over-run romania... there must be valid reasons for his declining of their offers.

The reason was paranoia.Western tech was very instrumental in our technologisation in the 70's,helicopters,cars,trucks with Western engines/help were built.We were on the good path but the old fart went mad.

surely, those two are not true... you would have been too young in the 80's to remember this ( if your birth year is 1984 ).

My parents,older relatives,other Romanians lived their whole lives through it.It is true,all of it.

As for the tinpots you support,like Saddam,Ghadaffi,those shameless bastards didn't even pay for all those goods we gave them on credit,the infrastructure we've built for them on credit.After 1990 they refused to pay their debts to us,which amounted to billions.Same like Sudan and others we've helped,credited,and built things for in the 3rd world.






Here's a quick list with the states that didn't pay back for what we gave them-bare in mind that these are "1990's dollars":

Irak-2,6 billion $
Sudan-170 million$
Ukraine-1 billion$-Romania invested for them(USSR back then) in the Krivoi Rog complex
Cuba-1 billion $
Syria-100 million $
Lybia-hundreds of millions-Gaddafi said that he will only talk to Ceausescu,he stood us up,altough we've built roads,houses,schools,dams in there.
Egypt-470 million $
Angola-20 million $
Zambia-30 million $
etc,etc

 

[Azizam]

Christians got mostly evicted from Bethlehem, but one must not mention Israel's crimes.

Better to rant against Arabs. It's politically acceptable, unlike the other semites...

Those Christians are Arabs too and stop trying to derail the topic by bringing Israel into everything you post. There is a world outside Israel. In fact it's politically acceptable to blame Israel not the other way around. In the last summer, thousands of Yazidis were murdered and taken into sex slavery and yet all we heard in media was the outrage against Israel when they took actions against Gaza. I never see anyone speaking a word against Islamists and if anyone does he/she would be branded as racist/islamophobic. Besides those who are responsible for these crimes are consisted of many ethnic groups, not just Arabs and it's their ideology that unites them.

 

[ozzy22]

This is ethnic cleansing,but no one cares..

Are you sure they being ethnically cleansed or are they just fleeing like the millions of other Syrians because of the civil war? I’m guessing the millions of Sunni Syrians are being ethnically cleansed as well.

 

[gslv mk3]

Are you sure they being ethnically cleansed or are they just fleeing like the millions of other Syrians because of the civil war? I’m guessing the millions of Sunni Syrians are being ethnically cleansed as well.

Yes,they are being ethnically cleansed.There are several reports on that.

 

[xenon54 out]

I'm not saying the US shares no blame but the real culprits are Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar. The US is quite reluctant to get involved and these countries keep pushing them.

Oh shut up will you?, US pressured Turkey to train FSA because it didnt wanted to join Coalition, US is going to train rebells in Turkey, the whole idea isnt Turkish but American, do you think its that easy to get rid of responsibilities?

 

[al-Hasani]

Our Arab Christian brethren have not been targeted more than Arab Muslims or Atheists at all. It's just that Arab Christians are the minority so whenever their community is engulfed in conflicts this can be felt clearly.

FSA are not against Christians and there are Christian brigades and units within the FSA. They are against the Christians who support Al-Assad and who commit genocide against them and their cities. Just like they are against the Syrian Muslims who support Al-Assad and commit such crimes on them and their families.

Daesh is not part of the Syrian opposition but just part of a demonic bloc in the conflict that is hellbent on destroying everything but themselves.

Arab Muslims are the biggest victims in both Syria and Iraq by far. Anyway this is not a competition. It's sad what has been happening with our Christian brethren for the past 10 years but a lot of the fault lies in the failed policy of the West in the Arab world.

Invasion of Iraq, looking silently at Al-Assad committing genocide in Syria etc. All which have given rise to fundamentalists in the region.

So it's pathetic to see a Brit of all people playing the blame game and putting the entire responsibility on regional powers. Laughable in fact.

Also a Christian life is not more valuable than that of a Muslim, Atheist or whatever in the region.

 

[jamahir]

Yes,they are being ethnically cleansed.There are several reports on that.

how about your community receive them in kerala...

Our Arab Christian brethren have not been targeted more than Arab Muslims or Atheists at all. It's just that Arab Christians are the minority so whenever their community is engulfed in conflicts this can be felt clearly.

FSA are not against Christians and there are Christian brigades and units within the FSA. They are against the Christians who support Al-Assad and who commit genocide against them and their cities. Just like they are against the Syrian Muslims who support Al-Assad and commit such crimes on them and their families.

Daesh is not part of the Syrian opposition but just part of a demonic bloc in the conflict that is hellbent on destroying everything but themselves.

Arab Muslims are the biggest victims in both Syria and Iraq by far. Anyway this is not a competition. It's sad what has been happening with our Christian brethren for the past 10 years but a lot of the fault lies in the failed policy of the West in the Arab world.

Invasion of Iraq, looking silently at Al-Assad committing genocide in Syria etc. All which have given rise to fundamentalists in the region.

So it's pathetic to see a Brit of all people playing the blame game and putting the entire responsibility on regional powers. Laughable in fact.

Also a Christian life is not more valuable than that of a Muslim, Atheist or whatever in the region.

i want to cheer your post but then i see parts which agree with bbc and al-arabiya.

 

[Steve781]

Oh shut up will you?, US pressured Turkey to train FSA because it didnt wanted to join Coalition, US is going to train rebells in Turkey, the whole idea isnt Turkish but American, do you think its that easy to get rid of responsibilities?

Turkey and Qatar are where the FSA is based and where it draws most of its money. It would collapse tomorrow without these two countries.

Invasion of Iraq, looking silently at Al-Assad committing genocide in Syria etc. All which have given rise to fundamentalists in the region.

So it's pathetic to see a Brit of all people playing the blame game and putting the entire responsibility on regional powers. Laughable in fact.

So overthrowing Saddam is bad but overthrowing Assad would have been good? The two are not that different except in one thing:their religion. It looks to me that that is the main thing Gulf States and Turkey care about and this is why the Western public wants nothing to do with the so called "moderate" rebels.

 

[xenon54 out]

Turkey and Qatar are where the FSA is based and where it draws most of its money. It would collapse tomorrow without these two countries.

FSA got more support be it financial or weapons from west than anywhere else, west is supporting FSA from the first minute of civil war.

 

[Steve781]

FSA got more support be it financial or wepons from west than anywhere else, west is supporting FSA from the first minute of civil war.

Britain has given them fifteen million. FIFTEEN MILLION! You think this is substantial?

 

[xenon54 out]

Britain has given them fifteen million. FIFTEEN MILLION! You think this is substantial?

Its just Britain, how much gave USA alone?