Queen Rania of Jordan has just called on Europe
not to turn its back on Syrian refugees. My first thought was that the
Jordanian queen should have addressed her plea to the more logical direction of
the Gulf states. After all, they are fellow Arabs, fellow Muslims and they are
rich.
And then I remembered reading some time ago that
the Gulf states (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Kuwait) had set up a US$ 5
billion fund that invests in capital projects in Jordan …
The Queen of Jordan
is perhaps not really free to talk frankly to Saudi Arabia. Much easier to tell
the Europeans what to do. And yet, we should not forget that Jordan itself has been bearing much if the burden (like Turkey), having had to take in great numbers of Syrian refugees: more than 600 thousand in Jordan and almost two million in Turkey.
So how about it Saudi?
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