The other day I saw a post on Twitter/X speculating that if any Gazan refugees are allowed into Egypt, they’d likely ship them to Venezuela, so they can be assisted to the US southern border. I can’t remember who posted that comment, but it got me googling for more information on Iran’s activities in South America and Latin America. While I doubt Egypt will allow in any Gazan refugees, due to the risk of importing Hamas terrorists and Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers, this person’s speculation brought to mind the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis, that resulted in Europe being flooded with refugees. It also reminded me of the massive political, activist, and media propaganda efforts to guilt the West to open their doors. Most of the same players are involved in this current attack on Israel and trying to cast Israel in the wrong for responding with force to an invasion and bloody massacre by Hamas.
Ron DeSantis, governor of FL and 2024 GOP presidential candidate, announced we should not allow in any refugees from Gaza and he attempted to explain the culture among Palestinians, who it’s a safe bet most of them hold anti-Semitic views and are virulently anti-Israel, not to mention plenty are radicalized jihadists. Palestinian schools teach their children to hate Jews and that they should want to kill them. This has been reported for decades now. UN Watch, a NGO in Geneva, Switzerland, reported on March 14, 2023 report, UN Teachers Call To Murder Jews, Reveals New Report. The UNRWA is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine. Just so we know what our tax dollars are funding through the UN: “UNRWA schools funded by US and EU indoctrinate Palestinian children to antisemitism, hate and violence.”
Former President Trump has now come out with a similar announcement as DeSantis, saying he would reinstate and expand his travel ban, to include refugees from Gaza.
While it’s easy to get sucked into the pulling at our heartstrings when we see people, especially children, trapped in terrible situations, especially war zones, and America has a long history of providing refuge to people fleeing those situations, but should our leaders take a harder, more pragmatic approach, when it comes to refugees, from places where anti-Western attitudes pervade and the culture is steeped in glorifying jihadist terrorism?
In 2015, there was a Syrian refugee child (whose family was reportedly Syrian Kurds), who drowned off the coast of Turkey when the inflatable rubber boat he was on overturned. Photos of that dead child blazed across media around the world and that little boy became the face of the crisis. Turkey’s leader, Erdogan, a leader who has dealt harshly with Kurds, all of sudden was busily trying to shame European leaders that they must do something – and they did – they took in more and more “Syrian” refugees, who were not vetted and many of them came, not from Syria, but from all over the Middle East and beyond.
I’m a detail person and I did write a blog post in 2015 about this drowned child becoming the face of the Syrian refugee crisis. In one news report of the incident of the boy dying when the inflatable rubber boat sank, there was mention of his body being found and moved on the beach, so that made me wonder if the photo was staged for effect, not that a drowned child isn’t awful. It was just how his body was laying in the water made a big visual impact. Then there were conflicting stories, with the boy’s surviving father claiming the boat’s captain abandoned the boat when the engine failed and he gave conflicting accounts, Then there was an Iraqi survivor, from that boat who claimed the drowned boy’s father was the captain and he was operating the illegal smuggling operation. From Wikipedia:
“An Iraqi survivor from the same boat, Zainab Abbas, who also lost two children from the attempted crossing, told reporters that Abdullah had been presented to her as the “captain”, that he was driving the overcrowded boat too fast, causing it to flip over, and that he pleaded with her while they were still both in the water not to report him to anyone in authority.[32][33] Abbas said her family escaped out of Baghdad from ISIS and she was angry because all the media attention was on Alan Kurdi and Abdullah Kurdi, and not on her family.[34] “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Alan_Kurdi
With this current war between Israel and Hamas, there’s so much propaganda and dishonest reporting that it’s hard to even sift through most of it. Then there’s the reality that many people lie, embellish or shade the truth and often reporters are more political activists or devoted to causes than they are about getting the facts straight. The other day, I posted photos of children taken hostage by Hamas and I thought about it a good bit before posting that, because I don’t like children used in politics, but Hamas did invade Israel and did break into Israeli families’ homes and take these children hostage. Americans were taken hostage too.
The media is running a lot of Gaza’s an “open air prison” and the horrors for the people of Gaza now to build up a drumbeat for other countries to step in and take Gazan refugees, but you can be sure neither Erdogan in Turkey nor any Arab leaders will open their doors to refugees from Gaza – because there’s no way to vet them and they don’t want to risk bringing in radicalized jihadists. But more than one government in that area of the world has been involved in transporting radical jihadism to Europe and America. That’s the truth and it now seems that along with a lot of Americans not wanting any more military adventurism, like regime change or trying to set up western-style democracies in the Muslim world, they also want to completely forget the post-9/11 terrorism lessons we learned. Unfortunately, the radical Islamist brand of terrorism hasn’t forgotten us and they still chant, “Death to America!”
There’s a long history of Iran’s involvement with oil in Venezuela, but here’s a 2020 Atlantic Council piece, The Maduro-Hezbollah Nexus: How Iran-backed Networks Prop up the Venezuelan Regime, which explains how Hezbollah is operating in Venezuela and Latin America, especially with drug trafficking. This article states, “In October 2018, the Justice Department elevated Hezbollah’s status in the United States by listing it as one of the top five transnational criminal organizations (TCO).10 Naming Hezbollah alongside three major Mexican cartels and the Central American gang MS-13 was a wake-up call for Latin America to realize that, in today’s age, Hezbollah is equal to the cartels in organized crime and terror.
We keep hearing reports of people crossing our southern border, who aren’t from Latin America or South America and are on the FBI terrorist watchlist and invariably right-wing media gives these stories a lot of coverage, while liberal media tries to breeze past them and downplay the threat.
Most Democrats in Washington and the WH downplay the threat of bad actors getting into America, across our unsecured border. A few days ago, our FBI director, Christopher Wray, taking a break from warning about “right-wing extremists, came out and warned that a “Hamas-style” attack could happen here. That “Hamas-style attack was radical jihadist terror, the kind Trump tried to stomp out with the elimination of the ISIS leader, al-Baghdadi, and the Iranian terrorist mastermind, General Soleimani. Many Democrats, foreign policy experts and mainstream liberal media people attacked these Trump decisions. The Washington Post dubbed al-Baghdadi an “austere religious scholar.” With Soleimani, whose terrorist plots with providing IEDs to Iraqi jihadists, resulted in killing hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq, Andrea Mitchell, longtime NBC reporter, was hyping him as a respected Iranian military leader and the Washington Post called Soleimani a “revered” leader.
There are already bad actors, funded by the Iranian regime in Venezuela, Latin America and Mexico, who are involved in the drug trafficking with the cartels. Drug-trafficking bad actors are also involved in weapons and human smuggling, so the open border poses a national security threat to America in many ways.
We need to secure our borders and it’s way past time for more leaders to start speaking the truth, instead of being silenced by all this PC virtue-signaling, especially from our liberal media.
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