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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Arab leaders pay lip service to Palestinian rights – except when it comes to the rights of domiciled refugees in their countries
Lebanese hostility to the Palestinian refugees is far from uniform. But it's explosive and dangerous where it exists. In the 1980s, the Amal militia besieged the camps, killing hundreds and starving thousands. More recently, the Lebanese army bombarded the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in the north of the country in an attempt to root out terrorists unaffiliated to the camp.
The Arab world is rife with hypocrisy when it comes to the Palestinian issue. Arab leaders frequently and rightly cite the chronic human rights violations in which Israel engages, but fail to address the marginalization of Palestinians within their own societies. Historically, Lebanese citizens have declared that naturalistic Palestinians will act as a disincentive to their eventual repatriation and the exercise of their inviolable right of return. But this is a specious and cynical misrepresentation of the issue.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jun/24/middleeast-palestinian-territories
Lebanese hostility to the Palestinian refugees is far from uniform. But it's explosive and dangerous where it exists. In the 1980s, the Amal militia besieged the camps, killing hundreds and starving thousands. More recently, the Lebanese army bombarded the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in the north of the country in an attempt to root out terrorists unaffiliated to the camp.
The Arab world is rife with hypocrisy when it comes to the Palestinian issue. Arab leaders frequently and rightly cite the chronic human rights violations in which Israel engages, but fail to address the marginalization of Palestinians within their own societies. Historically, Lebanese citizens have declared that naturalistic Palestinians will act as a disincentive to their eventual repatriation and the exercise of their inviolable right of return. But this is a specious and cynical misrepresentation of the issue.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jun/24/middleeast-palestinian-territories