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La isla griega de Lesbos convertida en prisión, millón y medio de refugiados atascados en distintos países, cerrazón comunitaria a buscar soluciones al problema y, por último, premio a Turquía de 3.000 millones de euros -duplicables- por colaborar en un problema que no existiría o, cuando menos, no tendría tal magnitud si Turquía no fuera el corazón y santuario del extremismo islamista, origen inmediato tanto de las oleadas de refugiados como de los últimos atentados terroristas en Europa. Los responsables de ambos desastres tienen nombres y apellidos -EEUU, Turquía, Arabia Saudí, Qatar, la OTAN-, con pruebas que llevan años apiladas en despachos ministeriales, agencias de espionaje y medios de comunicación, pero que se callan, unos porque son cómplices en un grado mayor o menor; otros porque no quieren destapar tramas y conspiraciones.…  Seguir leyendo »

Jordanian soldiers at the funeral of Captain Rashed Zyoud, Zarqa, Jordan, March 2, 2016; Zyoud was killed during a raid by Jordanian security forces on an ISIS terror cell. Muhammad Hamed/Reuters.

Poor Jordan. A small, economically precarious country, it shares a two-hundred-mile border with Syria. Yet unlike Syria’s other neighbors, Turkey, Iraq, and Lebanon, it rarely gets any attention in the international press. Indeed, while the world focuses on the European Union’s controversial deal with Turkey—in which Ankara has agreed to limit the number of asylum-seekers hoping to reach Greece’s shores in exchange for a lavish foreign aid package from Europe—hardly anything has been said about this crucial American ally on Syria’s southern border. But as I observed on a recent visit, Jordan is struggling to cope with vast numbers of refugees and an alarming rise in extremism.…  Seguir leyendo »

For weeks, Islamic State militants, aided by Al Nusra Front, waged a street war in Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp against Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis, an anti-governmental battalion. But snipers targeted anything that moved. The Syrian government also launched aerial attacks targeting civilian areas, including dropping about 50 barrel bombs, two of them on Palestinian Hospital this month. Reports that Islamic State has left Yarmouk are inaccurate; it has merely redistributed its forces in the camp and Al Nusra also remains. The residents’ situation is still dire.

Although the Islamic State attacks started April 1, the Assad regime first sealed off Yarmouk from the outside world in 2013.…  Seguir leyendo »