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2007-07-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Camps in Lebanon are not permanent settlements for Palestinians

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Posted by Fred 2007-07-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1  Both the Arab world and the West are to blame for the plight of the Palestinian refugees

Oh, the blamegame and fingerpointing. How could we live without it?

 The history of western anti-Semitism ultimately led to the creation of Israel and the displacement of the Palestinian people

The first part, okay, that was the case. The second part, why no one mentions the more than equal displacement of Jewish people?

 All Arab countries have abused their Palestinian refugee populations for political motives

And vice-versa. They just take turns.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-07-02 01:14|| 2007-07-02 01:14|| Front Page Top

#2 The history of western anti-Semitism ultimately led to the creation of Israel and the displacement of the Palestinian people

Actually, when you lose a war, you create new boundaries and environments. In 1948, the 'Arab' world launched an attack to destroy the UN action to create both an Jews and Paleo homeland. They lost. Three years before, the world was cleaning up after the Nazis and in doing so sent millions of Sileasian Germans from their ancestorial roots never to return again with the land incorporated by the "Great Powers" into modern Poland. Crap happens when you lose. The Germans have learned to live with it. Better get a hint. The Paleos were promised by their Arab 'brothers' they'd get to return upon the destruction of Israel. Didn't happen. Given the quality of government apply displayed by their Arab brothers, it probably wouldn't have made much difference for them, if it had.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-07-02 08:02|| 2007-07-02 08:02|| Front Page Top

#3 They've been in the camps for over 50 years, they don't look like camps, they look like cities. There are no tents. If the camps are squalid, then they are to blame, they administrate the camps themselves and chase away any outsiders. They are cockroaches, in 59 years they havent done a goddamned thing to better themselves. And we just keep throwing money at them like we are one track imbeciles.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-07-02 10:49|| 2007-07-02 10:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Moreover, those in the West like Robert Fisk and his ilk of the Guardian and the Independent who pontificate to the Lebanese about how to treat their Palestinian refugees, may want to assume the responsibility for the Palestinian problem that their colonial UK itself created by promising the "promised Land" to both Arabs and Jews, in one of the most treacherous acts of colonial England. Perhaps Robert Fisk would like to open a brand new Palestinian Refugee Camp in Leeds , right next to the new Pakistani centers of the future Islamic Kingdom of England. Perhaps one day, Lebanon will open those same refugee centers, now evacuated of Palestinian refugees, to the new refugees like him from Europe !

Mr. Hitti shoots...and scores!

Posted by tu3031 2007-07-02 13:36|| 2007-07-02 13:36|| Front Page Top

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