A new week with the same scandals and BS…..so I will take the day to post on a subject near and dear to my heart….the Middle East…….(not including the Iranian deal)…….

The history I am talking about is that of refugees in the Middle East.  In this case the refugees that have fled the civil war now being fought in Syria.

Since the war broke out there have been at least 1 million Syrians that have been displaced and located in refugee camps in Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and to a small extent in Lebanon……..but the one that interests me the most is Jordan.

Jordan has a history of accepting displaced people and then they seem to have a change of heart and it goes to crap…….during the many wars between the Jews and the Arabs Jordan got about nearly 2 million Palestinians.

After the 1968 war with Israel more and more Palestinians flooded into nearby countries trying to outrun the bombs and the killings, especially Jordan…..and the country adsorb them as long as possible until there was a perceived threat from the refugees and in 1970 the King of Jordan declared martial law and attacked the Palestinian refugee camps under the guise of trying to eliminate the PLO fighters hiding there……because of this action by the king at least 10,000 people were causalities, both Palestinian and Jordanian.

One of the excuses for the attack was that the refugee camps were a recruiting ground for PLO and others……..and now we have history repeating itself…….

(AP) – Syrain rebels in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan freely acknowledge recruiting fighters in the camp, trying to bolster rebel ranks in the face of stepped up offensives by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces just across the border in southern Syria. Recruiting is banned in Zaatari, and the rebel activities put Jordanian officials and UN officials running the camp in a delicate position. Wary of further increasing tensions with the government in Syria, Jordan has sought to keep its support of rebels under the radar, officially denying that any training of anti-Assad fighters takes place on its soil, though both Jordanian and US officials have acknowledged it does.

For the UN, the recruitment mars what is supposed to be a purely humanitarian mission of helping the streams of Syrians fleeing the civil war at the camp, which is home to more than 100,000 Syrian refugees. When an AP reporter told the head of the UNHCR’s Jordan office and a Jordanian Cabinet official of the overt recruitment, both expressed surprise. But an AP reporter visiting Zaatari found rebels from the Western-backed Free Syrian Army unabashed in talking about their search for new fighters, which they say has brought in dozens of recruits in past months. “Zaatari is an exporter of fighters,” says one former rebel. “We see civilians maimed, our homes destroyed and our relatives jailed, tortured or killed, so we react by recruiting and training people to fight the tyrant government back home.” Click through for the full AP report.

Fast forward to today, the civil war in Syria has driven many people into neighboring countries and into refugee camps…..to date there are about 500,000 Syrians are languishing in camps……if history repeats itself then somewhere in the near future these refugees will be a problem and a threat and action will be taken by the Jordanian government……

Now the question is who will be the instigator?  I thought it will most likely be Israel……after all it was them that hit the Palestinian that forced the king into his action in 1970……the Syrian refugees are from having a peaceful existence and the rest of the world will do what they did in 1970……..NOTHING!