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Trump campaign reorganization to open door to new
policies?
Will the overhaul of the Trump campaign command structure
open the gates to a new and more disciplined campaign? Was the firing of controversial campaign
manager Corey Lewandowski the pivotal first step in challenging Hillary
Clinton?
As the concerns grew over the direction of the campaign
under Lewandowski it seems Ivanka Trump, the candidates daughter and most
trusted advisor, became the key to convincing her father to change leadership and
bring in more experienced people to direct the fall efforts.
It was Sunday, when Ivanka sat down with her father, that
she convinced him to get rid of Lewandowski and place veteran GOP strategist
Paul Manafort in charge of the campaign.
The Coltons Point Times has noted the influence of Ivanka
Trump throughout the campaign and look for her and her husband, Jared Kushner,
along with her brothers Eric and Donald Junior, to play prominent roles in the
campaign.
Does this signal a
Trump policy shift?
Sources say Donald Trump, ever the one to confound the
experts, is about to release a major new initiative to address the tragic
Syrian Refugee problems resulting from the Syrian civil war. The most current estimate of displaced
refugees from Syria
now exceeds 4.5 million with no end in sight.
The Trump initiative, called The Syrian Resettlement Program,
is built around an international coalition of nations led by the United States,
China, Russia, Germany, France, England, Japan, and Middle East nations, to
establish a no fly zone in the Northwest region of Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin and
Chinese President Xi Jinping will be key partners.
All hostile acts against any Syrian civilians in the area
will result in intensive retaliation against them including coalition air and
ground support. Adoption of a no fly
zone will be part of the coalition building and will prevent Russian planes
from attacking local rebel groups helping to fight ISIS
and bring down Syrian President Assad.
The coalition will be built around the US, Russia,
and China
as critical partners. This area will
become the first redevelopment zone in Syria and will serve as the model
for further initiatives. Prohibited are
any actions against civilians by ISIS, rebel forces, or the Syrian government.
In addition, Trump intends to call for the establishment of International
Trade Zones in America's most
distressed cities for manufacturing and other activities to support and supply
the materials to rebuild the Syrian cities.
Trump expects the creation of tens of thousands of jobs and the generation
of millions of dollars in foreign trade to result from this effort to restore Syria to its
rightful place in history.
Once elected President, in addition to ordering the
implementation of The Syrian Resettlement Program, Trump will create a Syrian
Resettlement Commission of American business executives to work with
Syrian and Middle East specialists on plans to
redevelop the cities. Of course, Trump
also encouraged President Obama to launch the peace program sooner in order to
get control of the refugee disaster.
This multi-faceted initiative will help alleviate the
crushing burden of the refugee crisis and the need to press forward with a
resettlement plan to return them to their native country and homes. Calling a return home for the refugees the
most humanitarian program possible, Trump is also expected to say it would also
help speed up the processing of Muslims and any relocation to America and
other nations but resettling them in their home country.
With over half the people of Syria currently displaced, the
world demands a solution that helps keep the people in their native
environment. By initiating this plan,
Trump believes the senseless deaths of refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea will end
and the crushing financial burden on other Middle East
and European nations will ease.
Trump has expressed concern in the past that Syrian
President Assad has been killing Syrians to protect his throne, and this new
Trump initiative will force Assad to take sides. If he attacks his own civilians, he becomes
our enemy.
Syria's refugee crisis in numbers
3 February 2016, 19:02
UTC
Refugees in the region
More than 4.5
million refugees from Syria are
in just five countries Turkey,
Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq
and Egypt:
- Turkey hosts 2.5 million refugees
from Syria,
more than any other country worldwide
- Lebanon hosts approximately 1.1
million refugees from Syria which amounts to around
one in five people in the country
- Jordan hosts approximately 635,324 refugees
from Syria,
which amounts to about 10% of the population
- Iraq where 3.9 million people
are already internally displaced hosts 245,022 refugees
from Syria
- Egypt hosts 117,658 refugees
from Syria
The UN’s 2015 humanitarian appeal
for Syrian refugees was just 61% funded by the end
of the year.
Funding shortages mean that the
most vulnerable Syrian refugees in Lebanon receive just $21.60
per person month or around US $0.70 cents a day for
food assistance, well below the UN poverty line of US $1.90
86% of Syrian refugees in urban areas in
Jordan
are living below the local poverty line.
Conflict in Syria
According to the UN around 250,000 people
have been killed and 13.5 million people are in urgent
need of humanitarian assistance inside Syria
More than 50% of
Syria’s
population is currently displaced
One-in-every-two of those
crossing the Mediterranean this year – half
a million people – were Syrians escaping the conflict in
their country
International Resettlement
In total, 162,151 resettlement
places have been offered globally since the start of the Syria crisis, which equates to a mere 3.6% of
the total population of Syrian refugees in Lebanon,
Jordan, Iraq, Egypt
and Turkey.
At least 450,000 people in the five main host
countries - or 10% - are in need of resettlement according to the UN Refugee
Agency, UNHCR.
Amnesty International is calling
for at least 10% of Syria’s most vulnerable refugees to
be offered resettlement or other forms of admission by the end of 2016.
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