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They're all Jews. They're all trapped in Syria. And with a guy like Assad staring down at them day and night, their prospects for a freer life in the near future appear dim at best...
...Jews living in Damascus, there's one secret police officer for every 20 Jews. And Assad is worried that Jews might be able to escape...
CERTAINLY JEWS are not the only group in Syria oppressed by Assad's iron fist. Thousands of political prisoners are held without trial, some languishing in their cells for over 20 years. A 1987 Amnesty International report identified 35 forms of torture used in Syrian prisons--cruelty that knows no sectarian or religious boundaries...
...siege situation of Syrian Jewry is no different. While no one expects even a flinch from Assad--a man who had no qualms about bulldozing over the northern Syrian town of Hama in 1982, burying 20,000 of his own citizens in the process--in response to a student protest, possibilities for change are beginning to surface...
Beyond letter writing and protesting, students could aid the effort to organize proxy marriages in order to get single Jewish women out of Assad's oppressive country. Since many Jewish men have managed to escape, Jewish women are frequently left with no one within the faith to marry. Marrying Americans as a matter of convenience has worked in the past to satisfy Assad's conditions for emigration...