I wonder why blinkered West is keeping silence when perfect solution for refugee crisis is staring in their eyes. Super rich Saudi Arabia (SA) has built ultra-modern deep water “King Abdullah Port Complex” on Red Sea coast, at a cost of $100 billion with modern housing facilities for 2 million people.
The Port with 30 multipurpose deep water births with 20 million tons capacity and “Smart Gate System Technology” for quick trucks turnaround, capable of birthing largest cargo vessels and cruise liners, has plenty of land in “industrial Valley” for further expansion. Yet city is practically empty, ghost town with just 5000 inhabitants.
What better solution than housing cohesive Sunni Syrian refugees who share same religion, culture and Arabic language? As these refugees are well educated, hardworking with no language barrier, they could invigorate and assimilate with indigenous people, be an asset to SA who is chronically short of manpower with 20% of workforce consists of migrants from South Asia and Europe who neither speak Arabic nor are they Sunnis!
EU should provide financial assistance to these refugees to move in these ultra-modern empty flats rather than waste billions to keep them in “Tent Cities” breeding ground for ISIS recruitment, as people without hope, aspiration, living in inhumane refugee camps are irrepressible, fodder for radicalization.
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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