Its too bad the Middle East does not have enough wealth to take care of its own people.
Yeah, read about the weird concept of perpetual Palestinian "refugees" -
"the only refugees in the world to be mainly inherited, including unregistered, displaced persons and refugee descendants" - this nonsense has gone on since 1948 !
"The term "
Palestine refugees" originally referred to both Arabs and Jews whose normal place of residence had been in
Mandatory Palestine but were displaced and lost their livelihoods as a result of the
1948 Palestine war.
[5] The
UNRWA definition of the term includes the
patrilineal descendants of the original "Palestine refugees", but is limited to persons residing in UNRWA's areas of operation in the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.
[5][6] In 2012, there were an estimated 4,950,000 registered patrilineal descendants of the original "Palestine refugees",
[6] based on the UNRWA registration requirements,
[2][3][7][8] of which an estimated 1.5 million lived in UNRWA camps.
[9] The number of original refugees "who meet UNRWA's Palestine Refugee criteria" was 711,000 in 1950
[1] of which approximately 30,000–50,000 were still alive in 2012.
[10]
During the
1948 Palestine War, around 85% (720,000 people) of the Palestinian Arab population of what became Israel
fled or were expelled from their homes, to the
West Bank, the
Gaza Strip, and to the countries of
Lebanon,
Syria and
Jordan.
[11][12] They, and their descendants, who are also entitled to registration, are assisted by UNWRA in 59 registered camps, 10 of which were established in the aftermath of the
Six-Day War in 1967 to cope with new Palestinian refugees.
[13] Being the only refugees in the world to be mainly inherited, including unregistered, displaced persons and refugee descendants, the Palestinian Arab refugee and displaced population has grown to be the second largest in the world,
[14] after an estimated 11,000,000 Syrians displaced by the
Syrian Civil War. They are also the world's oldest unsettled refugee population, having been under the ongoing governance of Arab states following the
1948 Arab–Israeli War, the refugee populations of the West Bank under Israeli governance since the
Six Day War, and the
Gaza Strip administered by the Islamic Resistance Movement (
Hamas) since 2007. Citizenship or legal residency in host countries is denied in Lebanon where the absorption of Palestinians would upset a delicate
confessional balance, but available in Jordan where approximately 40% of UNWRA-registered Palestinian refugees have acquired full citizenship rights.
[15][16]
On 11 December 1948, the UN General Assembly in non-binding
Resolution 194, Article 11 resolved that the refugees who wish to "live at peace with their neighbors … should be permitted" to return to their homes at the "earliest practicable date"
[17][18] This forms one basis for the Palestinian political claim for a '
Palestinian right of return'.
An independent poll conducted in 2003 with the Palestinian populations of Gaza, West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon showed that the majority (54%) would accept a financial compensation and a place to live in West Bank or Gaza in place of returning to the exact place in modern-day Israel where they or their ancestors lived (this possibility of settlement is contemplated in the Resolution 194). Only 10% said they would live in Israel if given the option."
Palestinian refugees - Wikipedia
*** OT post - but an example of how illogically the world operates regarding Muslim "refugees". With this approach, Mexicans in the US would be called "refugees" too. Actually, what group (other than white males of course) wouldn't be refugees.....? Liberal Newspeak at work again.
