U.N. launches record appeal to cover Syria crisis

WHO gives a F#$%^&* what happens in Syria or any other muslim country when a GENOCIDE is happening against Christians in the middle east and Northern Africa!!  I am so sick of this Useless Nations. Condemn Israel for protecting its people and look with a blind eye to African Christians...but help out the poor poor Syrians who back al-Quida!
SCREW THEM!! SCREW THE UNITED NATIONS!!

     BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations warned on Friday that half of all Syrians will need humanitarian aid by the end of 2013 and launched what it said was the largest emergency appeal in history to cope with the civil war crisis.

"Syria as a civilization is unraveling," said the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, announcing the call for some $5 billion before the end of the year.

The joint statement by U.N. agencies coincided with heavy fighting on numerous fronts, as rebels attacked an air base in northern Syria while forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad sought to capitalize on their own recent gains.

Clashes also continued on the Golan Heights, close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria, a day after rebels briefly seized the sole crossing between the two foes.

Austria, a major contributor to a U.N. monitoring mission in the Golan, announced on Thursday it was withdrawing from the area because of the violence, jeopardizing an operation that has helped keep the Israeli-Syrian war quiet for four decades.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has backed the Syrian government since the start of the unrest in March 2011, said Moscow was ready to replace the Austrian peacekeepers.

"But this will happen, of course, only if the regional powers show interest, and if the U.N. secretary general asks us to do so," Putin said at a meeting with Russian officers.