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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Mahmoud Abbas offers to take Palestinian refugees fleeing Syria war
2012-12-20
[Dawn] The Paleostinian president said he was ready to take in Paleostinian refugees fleeing Syria's civil war.

the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
 said he had asked UN chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
 to help in bringing the refugees to the Paleostinian territories.

This could include the West Bank, where Abbas governs, or the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-ruled Gazoo Strip.

The request was reported Wednesday by the official Wafa news agency. It follows an attack by Syrian warplanes against a Paleostinian refugee camp in Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
The statement said there are 450,000 Paleostinian refugees living in 10 camps in Syria.

Abbas said the biggest camp, Yarmouk, "has been through a difficult situation due to the escalating conflict in Syria".

Any movement of refugees into the West Bank would need the consent of Israel. Israel's Foreign Ministry had no comment.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Such new arrivals in numbers ought to impact the culture of the Palestinians. These are people accustomed to fairly apolitical accommodation to the powers-that-be, and of course they'd have no tribal or other connections to those currently running things.
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-12-20 09:11  

#1  As Syria does not have any borders with the West Bank, those people could only make it to the West Bank if Jordan or Israel agrees.

Only once they arrive would it need the consent of Israel although I doubt Israel could do much if they arrived.




Posted by: BernardZ   2012-12-20 06:35  

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