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Source: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/198488/stateless-refugee-thank-you
A Syrian Refugee Says Thank You
(Tablet) Aboud Dandachi - Syrians as a people are starting to learn who their true friends are. It is absolutely astonishing that there have been so many instances of Jewish and Israeli organizations and individuals who have gone out of their way to assist and help Syrians in need. From the earliest days of the conflict, Israeli medical teams have been offering lifesaving medical assistance to wounded Syrians. Israelis have gone into Jordan to provide aid to Syrian refugees. Tireless IsraAID volunteers are on the ground in the Balkans, ready to receive and assist the massive numbers of refugees fleeing the wars in the Middle East. And despite some understandable ambivalence on the part of many in the Jewish diaspora, many Canadian Jewish congregations have gone through an enormous amount of effort to sponsor Syrian refugees for resettlement. I have spoken by phone to Syrians in Israeli hospitals and marveled at the world-class cancer treatment and limb-replacement operations given to them unstintingly and at great cost to the Israeli medical system.