Posted on 05/18/2015 10:05:25 AM PDT by Zakeet
Detroit, a once great city, has become an urban vacuum. Its population has fallen to around 700,000 from nearly 1.9 million in 1950. The city is estimated to have more than 70,000 abandoned buildings and 90,000 vacant lots. Meanwhile, desperate Syrians, victims of an unfathomable civil war, are fleeing to neighboring countries, with some 1.8 million in Turkey and 600,000 in Jordan.
Suppose these two social and humanitarian disasters were conjoined to produce something positive.
Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan, a Republican, has already laid the groundwork.
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Grants from the federal government and from philanthropic foundations would be needed to help the local Arab-American community supply social services for the newcomers.
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They might be Christians.
If they really are Christians and they support Israel I would welcome them.
If they hate Israel then they don’t belong here.
My understanding is that many ME Christians don’t support Israel. In that case they are probably receiving Gods wrath.
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