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Steve Jobs, the Apple founder who died in 2011 and is subject of an upcoming biopic by British director Danny Boyle, was the son of a Syrian man who moved to the US to study in the 1950s.
Abdul Fattah Jandali was born in 1931 to a well-off family in Homs, Syria – a city now most famous as the scene of some of the worst fighting in the country’s ongoing civil war.
He and his partner Joanne Carole Schieble had Jobs out of wedlock and were forced to give him up for adoption. They later married, and had Jobs’ biological sister Mona Simpson.
Though Jobs’ story is a world away from that of Aylan, whose death last week prompted international outrage, a simple post noting their shared Syrian heritage has been shared thousands of times on social media.
Posted by Geneva-based tech entrepreneur David Galbraith, it simply included a picture of Jobs and the caption: “A Syrian migrants’ child [sic].”
Galbraith, who was co-founder of the company where Yelp was created and helped author RSS technology, said he was a fan of Jobs and remembered his family history when news about desperate Syrian refugees made headlines around the world.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...ild-too-tech-community-observes-10489651.html
Now that refugees are front and center let us go back a few thousand years. There were wars too back then and as with with wars there are refugees. Invaders usually kill those who oppose them in battle but they can scare the rest or chase them by burning their homes. It is so much the better as it is easier and less risky. The steppe pastoralists with their cattle , sheep and goats wanted land so they conquered Europe and in 1200 BC there was a massive people movement with women and children in ox carts trundling along looking for land with men in infantry weapons. Yes, It was the bronze Age collapse. I wrote that in response to a 'Roberts' post years ago that refugees could have provided the manpower to the Sea Peoples' land and sea invasions as they were driven from what is today France and Spain.