A Vision of Arab Repatriation

More potential allies in the demographic battle!

In much the same way that Nayib Bukele’s interview with Tucker Carlson caught our eye, namely because President Bukele explicitly mentioned welcoming his diaspora home, another interview has come along and another president has championed the same goal.

Bashar al-Assad, the longtime president of wartorn Syria, gave an interview to Sky News Arabia stating that he wants to welcome refugees home. But, he also mentions several ongoing issues which are hindering the return of Syria’s now sizeable diaspora - issues that are not entirely dissimilar to the ones that once gang-ravaged El Salvador is currently working to overcome.

Additionally, this is far from the first time Assad has stated his intention to welcome Syria’s displaced populace home. Syria’s government has, on numerous occasions, expressed that it would like its citizens to come home and rebuild the country. The Assad government now controls the great majority of the state’s territory and has been welcomed back onto the international stage by the Arab League.

Turkey has expressed an intention to mend fences with Syria, which means that Turkish withdrawal from the Syrian territory it occupies is more than likely imminent. The news of this caused Syrian refugees in Turkey to begin rioting and Turks to riot in response to the Syrians burning their country down. It is clearly time to finish the stabilization of Syria and send those refugees (and the ones in Europe) home.

If the Syrian nation is now relatively secure, relatively safe, and getting along with its neighbors then now would be the ideal time for White nations to work with the Assad government and the other nations hosting Syrian refugees to begin the return of the Syrian people. This process would be welcomed by Assad and would be in line with his own requests on the issue.

But, if the West were to invest in returning the Syrian diaspora and work with other countries on the issue then the issue of repatriation should be made into a truly regional affair. Syria is far from the only Middle Eastern state which has requested that its diaspora return home.

Lebanon is deeply concerned with the massive flight of its educated classes to the West and would like them to return to ensure that the country can continue to function. It is also worth noting that Lebanon itself labors under the wave of a massive refugee population from Syria, last estimated at 1.5 million individuals.

Iraq has attempted to convince its diaspora to return for decades, needing both skilled workers and unskilled workers to rebuild the country. The Iraqi government has ambitious goals for development and progress which can only be met with an educated workforce and a strong base of laborers.

Still, Iraq has long resisted attempts by states to return its citizens unilaterally, and has demanded that coordinated efforts be undertaken to support the return of Iraqis and to provide them with the aid necessary to reestablish themselves.

These requests for aid and development assistance are something that Western governments are well-resourced enough to manage and fund, yet no such action has ever been attempted. Likewise, crushing sanctions continue to hobble the Syrian economy, while American support for the aggressive Israeli state makes Lebanon more unstable by the day.

The current situation (In the West):

Migrants from the Arab world have flooded into the West in recent decades, driven there by a combination of wars, poverty, Western foreign policy, and regional disagreements. Some migrants are true refugees who fled in the wake of ISIS destruction or the near destruction of Syria. In other cases, migrants fled relatively stable existences in Baghdad or Beirut in order to abuse Western welfare states.

Regardless of their reason for migrating, there are more than 450,000 Iraqis in Germany. The UK is estimated to have between 200,000 and 450,000 Iraqi residents while small Sweden has some 225,000 Iraqis within its borders.

The Syrian refugee population is even more significant. There are 240,000 Syrians resident in Sweden, and another 1.2 million Syrians now call Germany ‘home’. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians live in Canada, nearly 300,000 in the United States, and the rest of Western Europe is replete with pockets of Syrian and Arab refugees.

As for the Lebanese diaspora, some 375,000 have set up new lives in France, another 200,000 reside in Germany, some 30,000 in Sweden, and as many as 270,000 Lebanese live in Canada.

Policy Options:

Europe is already spending intense amounts of money on refugees and immigrants, sums that will continue to mount if active policies of repatriation are not undertaken.

Rather than giving tens of billions of dollars in aid and offering seemingly endless logistical support to the Israeli state for wars in the Middle East, sensible Western governments could be striking deals with these Arab states.

Treaties and pacts whereby Western states would be able to ensure the deportation of millions of non-Whites back to countries that want them.

Lifting Sanctions:

American, British, European, and other countries’ economic and civilian material sanctions against Syria should be lifted.

Instead Western governments should shift to the models they still employ against Iraq and Lebanon, models which ban the sale of arms, armaments, and other military assets to those countries. These same actions, at least in the case of Iraq, also prevent Westerners from buying and importing cultural material from these post-conflict Arab states. This same regime should be applied to Syria so that wealthy Western institutions do not carry off the nation’s cultural heritage as it seeks money for development.

Redirecting Spending:

Investing modest sums to ensure Arab states can house people that Whites do not want to live amongst is a much more intelligent investment than funding Israeli missile systems. The $14.3 billion in aid that the American Congress has approved for Israel could build more than 8 million homes in Arab countries, going by numbers provided by the aid organization Muslim Hands.

Likewise, Lebanon is struggling with electrical, sewage, and water infrastructure problems which need to be stabilized in order to stem the flow of refugees and citizens from that country to the West. If Lebanon is to retain its middle class and draw its diaspora home it must have stable services.

In such a case a European state like Germany would be better served by taking a portion of the 22 billion Euros it spends annually on attempting to integrate foreigners and instead using that money to fund the reconstruction of countries like Lebanon. The German funding could help Lebanon meet its goal of 24/7 electricity availability in the country, a project which Lebanon projects will cost some $3.5 billion.

It is also likely that this large inflow of foreign cash both from aiding governments and returning Lebanese could finally begin to ease the country’s ongoing liquidity crisis and result in a more stable Lebanese lira. However, Western states should be prepared to back IMF loans to the country if more needs to be done, a move not dissimilar to the IMF bailout which Meloni’s Italy helped secure for Tunisia.

With all of this work undertaken countries such as Germany could then quite reasonably deport and repatriate the bulk of the 200,000 Lebanese people who currently reside within its borders.

Another option would be to utilize some of the European Union’s 50 billion Euro foreign aid budget in order to fund a portion of the $65 billion that Syria requires to repair its severely damaged infrastructure. This move would be massively beneficial for small European states like Sweden who cannot fund such massive projects, yet host very large Syrian populations. For, if Sweden does not remove these recent immigrant populations they will double the cost of the Swedish pension system, putting the pension system into such a severe deficit that it would likely collapse.

A European initiative to rebuild Syrian infrastructure could give all the cover Sweden, Germany, Greece, Austria and other European countries need in order to begin deporting and repatriating Syrians to their homeland.

For two or three years of redirecting welfare and foreign aid spending, the countries of Europe could work with the Arab states and send their diaspora home in an organized manner. These refugees and immigrants can return to countries with clean water, reliable electrical grids, ample safe housing, and access to international markets and imports.

Recalibrating Foreign Relations:

Israel destabilizes the region, Saudi Arabia’s rivalry with Iran threatens to erupt into open conflict, and wealthy Arab states refuse to support their brothers and instead prefer to leave the burden to White countries.

The United States, Germany, France, and Britain should cease unconditionally supporting the Israeli government with military aid and should instead focus on curtailing regional instability more broadly. The United States and its allies should embrace a strategy of offshore balancing where they display no strong preference for any regional actor and instead work with all governments in order to maintain regional stability and prevent further conflicts.

Again: this recalibration of foreign relations does not mean that Western states should shift their hostility from current enemies to new enemies, but rather that it is in White national interest(s) to work with states who want to repatriate their diaspora rather than to continue to back states which fuel regional conflict and refugee flows.

Broadening the Coalition:

It is not only these states that want Arab repatriates and immigrants.

Numerous Arabs from Europe have already relocated to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, and other wealthy Gulf Arab states. These Arab migrants to the Gulf state that the cultural similarities, lower taxes, language similarities, and rapid economic growth of the region drew them from the culturally alien Europe.

White countries should work with the Gulf states to help them expand their ‘golden visa’ programs into programs that are aimed, quite specifically, at recruiting skilled Arabs from the West. These visas would enable said repatriates to bring their families to the UAE and will offer the Arab settlers a chance for citizenship, something which almost no immigrants to the country are able to obtain.

And lest there be any confusion, these programs already exist but with global recruitment and on a very modest scale. We are proposing a rapid expansion of these programs, with support from Western governments.

Conditionality:

None of this is to say that White countries should offer monetary support and a recalibrated foreign agenda with mere hopes of repatriation. Money and support should come only after these countries sign formal agreements to take their citizens and coethnics back. If these Arab states fail to take back their citizens and coethnics, or fail to make the policy change necessary on their end to accommodate Western policy, then White countries should shift their monetary support to countries that will take deportees and repatriates.

Conclusion:

There continues to be ample opportunity for White countries to work with Arab and other states in reversing the Great Replacement and correcting the demographic course.

With such a willingness and desire to see the diaspora return home on the part of Arab states, and the strong desire on the part of Whites to reverse demographic trends, one cannot help but wonder why current Western elites never so much as mention these policy options.

Instead, Whites are continually told that immigration is an unstoppable reality, in some way desirable, or otherwise necessary.

The Great Replacement can reverse, and as soon as Whites know that repatriation is a realistic possibility this reversal will happen.

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