“And say besides that in Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by the throat the circumcisèd dog, And smote him, thus.”
While teaching was still allowed, I used to show my students Shakespeare’s Othello. Then it became all about testing and watching a play became verboten. I often wonder how many of those students have made the connection between current events in Syria and the mention of Aleppo in the play.
A friend of mine goes to Honduras at least once a year to render medical aid to the locals. She has explained that the drugs go through that country heading North, the money makes the return trip, and some of it greases the palms of those in authority while none reaches the masses, who have to endure whatever dangers and mayhem the trafficking brings to their towns. They have no healthcare, so her annual trip is necessary.
But that is not the extent of her charity.
In a few weeks she will be heading to Italy and then Greece to render medical aid to refugees whose cities are being obliterated in a war not of their choosing and not for their benefit.
During previous trips she has had to deal with children who have seen death, and not the quiet giving up the ghost kind, but the kind that often involves beheadings.
The children arrive with only part of the families they began the trip with, and that is only if they can make it past one country’s military that shoots at the inflatable boats so they sink before reaching land, which is intended to reduce the number of those who make it ashore, and who arrest life guards who attempt rescues.
She, herself, faces possible arrest for helping those refugees who actually do make it ashore.
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The other day I listened to a news program on the radio with one person who opposes accepting and aiding the refugees because, as he claimed, the good conditions at refugee camps were attractive enough to entice people to leave their homes and seek false political refuge, while the refugee on the panel pointed out that he had been a surgeon who lived in comfortable home in a better section of Aleppo.
But, according to the critic, he obviously was exaggerating his past life to get to one of those posh camps.
The opponent of refugees was basing his opinion, not on having been to the camps, but on pictures he had seen.
My fiend has been there and has seen things as they are.
One side of the conflict, politely so named, is from one version of Islam, the other side from the other, and the outsiders who encourage the death and destruction know that there is oil for the taking if those they back prevail.
The people my friend has, and will be once again helping, are simply in the way of what others might gain, and the people to whose country they are fleeing seem to blame them for their condition while not addressing those who are causing it.
If they don’t want the refugees coming to them, a good approach might be getting involved to end that which forces them to flee.
I wish my friend success knowing that whatever she does, even if it is untimely interrupted, is of great importance, benefit, and consolation to those who have lost so much and make landfall.