Tuesday September 22, 2015

I've Been Thinking:

The internationally famous bubbly water maker, Soda Stream, has said that they will employ up to 1,000 Syrian refugees.

Soda Stream recently relocated to a brand new set of facilities in the city of Rahat which is in Southern Israel. Rahat is a city of 55,000 people. It is a Bedouin Arab city - a city where Bedouins live, not nomadically migrate and move as most Bedouin communities do. About 33% of the Soda Stream employees are from Rahat.

Daniel Birnbaum, the CEO of Soda Stream, said in a press release that was quoted in The Calcalist, an Israeli daily business paper:

"As the son of a Holocaust survivor, I refuse to stand by and observe this human tragedy unfold right across the border in Syria."

"Just as we have always done our best to help our Palestinian brothers and sisters in the West Bank, the time has come for local business and municipal leaders to address the Syrian humanitarian crisis and take the initiative to help those in need. We cannot expect our politicians to bear the entire burden of providing aid for the refugees."

There is little chance that Soda Stream's offer will be accepted. As of now, Israel's PM Netanyahu has been firm and clear on not accepting any more refugees from Syria. Use of the term "any more" means that Israel has already accepted many of the wounded Syrians that Israeli has rescued and treated in Israeli hospitals.

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