"It seems like it's 1938 and Czechoslovokia all over again," said Batchelor. "Aaron told me to go on to Syria and broadcast. But I told him that if I was to leave him behind, the enemy has won a victory. What we represent to the people of Jordan and Syria is that we don't separate people on the basis of race, color or creed."
I'm not sure if Syria is intellectually advanced to understand the concept.
There's a reason tribalism is big there: centuries of inbreeding means most people in a particular area are at least loosely related to each other, and not always so so loosely.