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[–] Joe_McCarthy 6 points -2 points 4 points (+4|-6) ago (edited ago)
You've gotta be a total ignoramus about what is going on in the Middle East to accept this premise.
Muslims are being driven out by war which is largely the cause of airstrikes, Assad's chainsaw tactics, unforgiving jihadists, Russian bombardment, etc. On a list of twenty actors driving refugee outflow in the region Israel is close to the 20th. They have had minimal involvement in the Syrian civil war.
In short this is retarded analysis.
[–] cyks 2 points 2 points 4 points (+4|-2) ago
(((a list of twenty actors)))
[–] Joe_McCarthy 5 points -1 points 4 points (+4|-5) ago
Right. Syrian regime forces, Russians, Salafist jihadist factions, Iran, etc., - all Jews.
[–] The_Tinamou [S] ago
Al-Qaida and ISIS are Israeli proxy armies. That's what's destabilizing Syria. Then the Jews in the West lobby to take in all the refugees.
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