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Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. agreed to resettle 1,350 Palestinians displaced by fighting in Iraq, marking the largest resettlement ever of Palestinian refugees in the nation.
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Let me see if I understand this. One group of Arabs are victimizing another group of Arabs because the have different beliefs and it is up to the U.S. to let them come here to escape the persecution. How about Egypt or Libya, or Syria? They all supposedly support the Palestinian cause.
"The World Health Organisation (WHO) cites an increase in growth-
stunting malnourishment, now at over 10 percent of children,
attributed to a chronic lack of protein, iron, and essential vitamins.
The WHO further warns of increasing anaemia rates: 65 percent among
children below 12 months of age, and 35 percent among pregnant women."
New UN numbers put the Palestinian refugee population at 7.6 million.
At least someone is talking.
Might be nice if Obama had a single Arab or Palestinian in his cabinet, or on staff, or heading a department, or even a single one on George Mitchell's mideast peace team.........
Begs the question: What is the definition of lip service?
I hope they will not be "resettled" here. Any Arab country where they can be "free" not to have to tolerate our immoral "western" ways.
And the racism is back! What's wrong, Levy? Don't want to give them back what belongs to them? You better get ready, because at some point in the future, whether you like it or not, there will be millions of Palestinians returning to the land of their fathers, and the Palestinian population within Israel will outgrow the Jewish one, and there goes your apartheid state. Poof!
Have a cigar.
Returning to the land of their fathers? Great, so they're finally on their way to Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt etc ?
What the "Holy Land" looked like at the turn of the 20th century didn't include your mythical millions of Arabs ... read Mark Twain who traveled there and wrote for a NY magazine - or was he paid off by AIPAC ?
"Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies. Where Sodom and Gomorrah reared their domes and towers, that solemn sea now floods the plain, in whose bitter waters no living thing exists--over whose waveless surface the blistering air hangs motionless and dead-- about whose borders nothing grows but weeds, and scattering tufts of cane, and that treacherous fruit that promises refreshment to parching lips, but turns to ashes at the touch. Nazareth is forlorn; about that ford of Jordan where the hosts of Israel entered the Promised Land with songs of rejoicing, one finds only a squalid camp of fantastic Bedouins of the desert; Jericho the accursed, lies a moldering ruin, to-day, where the angels sang Peace on earth, good will to men, is untenanted by any living creature, and unblessed by any feature that is pleasant to the eye. . . . "
http://twain.thefreelibrary.com/The-Innocents-Abroad/56-1
But don't let reality stop you from fantasizing .. I know Aladdan's Lamp and the Arabian Nights captured the imagination of millions, clearly yours too
You clearly don't know much about Palestinians Jerry. Most Palestinians are pro-US. Not only that since when have most Palestinians become religous fundamentalists? Do you really have a clue?
The more the US does to show good will toward the Palestinian people the better we look in the Arab world and the world in general. This is NOT about abandoning Israel. It is about caring for those who need shelter and are downtrodden. Isn't that how your ancestors arrived in the US Jerry?
The US has paid enough for its one-sided approach in the conflict between Arabs and Israelis - it was called 9/11!
I believe that the United States will support a healthy two -state solution and also significantly help the Palestinians rebuild their infrastructure - This is great work and good publicity for our nation.
Come on - be brave - don't be shy - use the word Palestinian and not they.
You can do it - there you go.
Wasn't that hard was it - after all you don't have a problem with appropriating Palestinians' land.
I'm sorry - 'our immoral western ways' - speak for yourself - I don't advocate ethnic cleansing or the failed policy of imposing western democracy.
When the WSJ doesn't know the difference between "illicit" and "elicit," media literacy is in its death throes.
Finally someone is thinking of helping these poor people. Hounded out of their own country, attacked in the place they have settled. Now they are being moved on again. I trust the legendary American hospitality awaits these refugees.
We can do this and we cannot resettle victims of hurricanes in this country.
PaIestine belongs to the PaIestinians.
Israel belongs to the Israelis.
About time that SOMEbody offered homes and lives to Palestinian refugees...or, should I say, their descendents. Thanks to the horrid policies of certain Arab League nations (with the notable exception of Jordan, the Eastern part of "Palestine"), the Palestinians are the only "perpetual refugees" who were never resettled after fleeing a conflict. Every other decent nation on Earth has taken in refugees--Greeks and Turks, Hindus and Muslims (from the Pakistan/India partition), Vietnamese boat people...we could go on. The Palestinians were made into political tools to use against a certain tiny democracy in the region...and the West let them get away with it. I'm glad the US is going to make this bit of an effort.
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First Posted: 07-17-09 01:40 AM | Updated: 08-16-09 05:12 AM