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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/mailto:ishaan.tharoor@washpost.com?subject=Reader feedback for 'The Arab world’s wealthiest nations are doing next to nothing for Syria’s refugees'"><span class="fa fa-envelope"></span></a></span> <span class="tweet-authors"><span class="pb-twitter-follow unprocessed"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://twitter.com/@ishaantharoor" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-lang="en">Follow @ishaantharoor</a></span> </span> </div> <article itemprop="articleBody"><div class="inline-content inline-photo inline-photo-normal"> <a name="0f4198f049"></a> <img class="unprocessed" data-hi-res-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_908w/2010-2019/Wires/Videos/201509/Reuters/Images/20150902_BUDAPEST.jpg&w=1484" 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(EPA/ZOLTAN BALOGH)</span> </div> <p>The world has been transfixed in recent weeks by the unfolding refugee crisis in Europe, an influx of migrants unprecedented since World War II. Their plight was chillingly highlighted on Wednesday in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/03/my-sons-slipped-from-my-hands-says-father-of-drowned-syrian-boys/" target="_blank">image of a drowned Syrian toddler</a>, his lifeless body lying alone on a Turkish beach.</p> <p>A fair amount of attention has fallen on the failure of many Western governments to adequately address the burden on Syria's neighboring countries, which are struggling to host the brunt of the roughly 4 million Syrians forced out of the country by its civil war.</p> <p>Some European countries have been criticized for offering sanctuary only to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/03/even-britains-hard-hearted-tabloids-were-moved-by-the-photos-of-a-drowned-toddler/" target="_blank">a small number of refugees</a>, or for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/08/19/slovakia-will-take-in-200-syrian-refugees-but-they-have-to-be-christian/" target="_blank">discriminating between Muslims and Christians</a>. There's also been a good deal of continental hand-wringing over the general dysfunction of Europe's systems for migration and asylum.</p> <div class="flex-embed"> <div class="inline-content inline-video"> <div class="posttv-video-embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.5625" data-category-id="handoutlicense" data-duration="96000" data-headline="Hundreds of migrants marching west from Budapest" data-is-truth-teller="0" data-max-height="-1" data-max-width="-1" data-object-id="55e9b9ffe4b0edeb833ae710" data-show-endscreen="1" data-show-promo="http://s3.amazonaws.com/posttv-thumbnails-prod/thumbnails/55e9b9ffe4b0edeb833ae710/20150904_migrant_march.jpg" data-uuid="6b06a8f0-531a-11e5-b225-90edbd49f362" data-youtube-id=""><script src="//web.archive.org/web/20150905070354js_/https://js.washingtonpost.com/posttv/static/js/posttv/posttv-video-embed.v3.js"></script></div> <div class="inline-video-caption"> <span class="pb-caption">Several hundred migrants are hoping to make the 90-mile trek to Austria on foot if no trains would take them from Budapest's Keleti train station. (Storyful)</span> </div> </div> </div> <p>[<em><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/04/europes-refugee-crisis-is-americas-problem-too/">Europe's refugee crisis is America's problem, too</a></em>]</p> <p>Less ire, though, has been directed at another set of stakeholders who almost certainly should be doing more: Saudi Arabia and the wealthy Arab states along the Persian Gulf.</p> <p>As <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2014/12/facts-figures-syria-refugee-crisis-international-resettlement/" target="_blank">Amnesty International</a> recently pointed out, the "six Gulf countries -- Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain -- have offered zero resettlement places to Syrian refugees." This claim was echoed by Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, on Twitter:</p> <div class="flex-embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Guess how many of these Syrian refugees Saudi Arabia & other Gulf states offered to take? 0 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/http://t.co/iY0ct3kXBW">http://t.co/iY0ct3kXBW</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/http://t.co/JI3WTQhlxo">pic.twitter.com/JI3WTQhlxo</a></p> <p>— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/639099052257320960">September 2, 2015</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150905070354js_/https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p></div> <div class="flex-embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">The way that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states aid Syrian refugees: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/http://t.co/2i9gcGiRxe">pic.twitter.com/2i9gcGiRxe</a></p> <p>— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://twitter.com/KenRoth/status/639127974512603136">September 2, 2015</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150905070354js_/https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p></div> <p>Or see this map <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://twitter.com/AL_Khatteeb/status/639679539661131777" target="_blank">tweeted</a> by Luay Al Khatteeb, a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution, showing the numbers accommodated by Syria's overwhelmed neighbors in comparison to the oil-rich states further south:</p> <div class="flex-embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" width="500"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://twitter.com/hashtag/Syria?src=hash">#Syria</a>: Number of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://twitter.com/hashtag/Syrian?src=hash">#Syrian</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://twitter.com/hashtag/refugees?src=hash">#refugees</a> taken in by countries in the Middle East. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/http://t.co/qWcktXwEkW">pic.twitter.com/qWcktXwEkW</a></p> <p>— Luay لؤي الخطيب (@AL_Khatteeb) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://twitter.com/AL_Khatteeb/status/639679539661131777">September 4, 2015</a></p></blockquote> <p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150905070354js_/https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p></div> <p>That's a shocking figure, given these countries' relative proximity to Syria, as well as the incredible resources at their disposal. As Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi, a Dubai-based political commentator, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://uk.news.yahoo.com/syria-crisis-wealthy-gulf-states-130802002.html#hnkd3oL" target="_blank">observes</a>, these countries include some of the Arab world's largest military budgets, its highest standards of living, as well as a lengthy history -- especially in the case of the United Arab Emirates -- of welcoming immigrants from other Arab nations and turning them into citizens.</p> <p>Moreover, these countries aren't totally innocent bystanders. To varying degrees, elements within Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the U.A.E. and Kuwait have invested in the Syrian conflict, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/http://warontherocks.com/2014/04/saudi-qatari-convergence-and-divergence-on-iran-and-syria/" target="_blank">playing a conspicuous role</a> in funding and arming a constellation of rebel and Islamist factions fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.</p> <p>None of these countries are signatories of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49da0e466.html" target="_blank">United Nations' 1951 Refugee Convention</a>, which defines what a refugee is and lays out their rights, as well as the obligations of states to safeguard them. For a Syrian to enter these countries, they would have to apply for a visa, which, in the current circumstances, is rarely granted. According to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34132308" target="_blank">the BBC</a>, the only Arab countries where a Syrian can travel without a visa are Algeria, Mauritania, Sudan and Yemen -- hardly choice or practical destinations.</p> <p>A spokesperson for UNHCR, the U.N.'s refugee agency, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-04/syria-s-refugees-feel-more-welcome-in-europe-than-in-the-gulf" target="_blank">told Bloomberg</a> that there are roughly 500,000 Syrians living in Saudi Arabia, though they are not classified as refugees and it's not clear when the majority of them arrived in the country.</p> <p>Like European countries, Saudi Arabia and its neighbors also have fears over new arrivals taking jobs from citizens, and may also invoke concerns about security and terrorism. But the current gulf aid outlay for Syrian refugees, which amounts to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://uk.news.yahoo.com/syria-crisis-wealthy-gulf-states-130802002.html#hnkd3oL" target="_blank">collective donations</a> under $1 billion (the United States has given four times that sum), seems short -- and is made all the more galling when you consider the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/03/31/saudi-generals-use-yemen-war-to-showcase-their-new-swagger/" target="_blank">vast sums</a> Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. poured into this year's war effort in Yemen, an intervention some consider <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/http://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabias-war-in-yemen-is-a-tragic-blunder-2015-8" target="_blank">a strategic blunder</a>.</p> <p>As Bobby Ghosh, managing editor of the news site Quartz, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/http://qz.com/491751/hey-saudi-arabia-heres-what-you-can-do-to-help-the-syrian-refugees/" target="_blank">points out</a>, the gulf states in theory have a far greater ability to deal with large numbers of arrivals than Syria's more immediate and poorer neighbors, Lebanon and Jordan:</p> <blockquote class="citation"><p>The region has the capacity to quickly build housing for the refugees. The giant construction companies that have built the gleaming towers of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh should be contracted to create shelters for the influx. Saudi Arabia has plenty of expertise at managing large numbers of arrivals: It receives <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/http://www.uitp.org/saudi-arabia%E2%80%99s-ongoing-efforts-increase-capacity-hajj">an annual surge of millions of Hajj pilgrims</a> to Mecca. There’s no reason all this knowhow can’t be put to humanitarian use.</p></blockquote> <p>No reason other than either indifference or a total lack of political will. In social media, many are calling for action. The Arabic hashtag #Welcoming_Syria's_refugees_is_a_Gulf_duty was tweeted more than 33,000 times in the past week, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34132308" target="_blank">according to the BBC</a>.</p> <p>"The Gulf must realize that now is the time to change their policy regarding accepting refugees from the Syria crisis," <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150905070354/https://uk.news.yahoo.com/syria-crisis-wealthy-gulf-states-130802002.html#hnkd3oL" target="_blank">writes</a> the columnist Qassemi. 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