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Shalom aleichem. The Palestinian Media Watch brings us this shocking news:
"[...T]he Palestinian Authority (PA) will deprive Palestinian occupants of refugee camps of their basic democratic right to vote in the upcoming local elections." Why? To "protect[] the unique status of the refugee camps in [Yesha], considering them testimony to the crime that the occupation state made against [the Palestinian] nation for 56 years."

Hm... Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this mean that the Palestinian leadership actively and consciously perpetuate the existence and consequent misery of a large section of the Palestinian society for cheap propaganda gains? And does this not prompt the further question: have they been doing the same for the past fifty-six years? The refugees became refugees in the Arab-initiated war of 1948. As early as 1950 Israel offered the Arab leaders at the time the settlement of the refugee question by allowing some to return to Eretz Tzion and compensation others in return for the Arab world's recognition of Eretz Yisrael and permanent cessation of all hostilities. The Arab leaders rejected this. Further, it is a little known fact but from 1948 almost one million (ONE MILLION) Jews were kicked out of Arab countries (so, twice as many as there were Arab refugees). Did Israel let them languish for nigh-on six decades in order to score political points on the world stage? No, we absorbed them and they are today together with their posterity a thriving section of the Israeli society. And Israel was at the time a very poor and unstable country... - quite unlike eg. Saudi Arabia (one of the 1948 War protagonists, or Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Syria... Not a single country which started the War which made those Palestinians refugees in the first place did jack-squat to ameliorate their position afterward. Indeed, Jordan fought a WAR with them in 1972 (do a search on Black September and see for yourself: multiple thousands of Palestinians killed); Kuwait expunged no fewer than 300,000 of them at the outbreak of the first Gulf war; and Lebanon keeps them tightly confined in refugee camps--they're not allowed to own property or businesses outside these dens of despondence. And now we learn that the Palestinian authority itself has been doing what it could to ensure that these people's situation is not improved in the slightest. That is bad enough in itself. But it makes it that much worse when we remember that Palestinian terror emanates almost exclusively from these refugee camps. They are where terrorist explosives factories, training camps, various "offices", weapons caches, launch pads, etc. can be found. One of the biggest justification for Palestinian terrorism (proffered even by Cherie Blair (Mr. Blair's wife)) is that they "are hopeless people living in miserable conditions". Well, why don't you assholes take a closer look at WHY they are "hopeless", WHY they are "miserable" and WHO is doing their best to ensure they STAY hopeless and miserable?

And, you see, this is why the chances for peace are so slim. Because it's NOT the "occupation" that caused or is causing the conflict. Tzahal had completely withdrawn from PA areas between 1996 and 2002 when we started Operation Defensive Shield, and yet this period was used by the Palestinians to rearms and regroup themselves, rather than use the money the world was throwing at them to beef up their economy and infrastructure as well as eliminate the refugee camps and integrate their inhabitants into the Palestinian society. In short, this newest decision by the PA proves what we have been saying all along: the ARABS created Palestinian refugees, the ARABS have been ensuring they STAYED refugees, the ARABS are still doing so and it is in the ARAB interest to KEEP doing so.

Nest time: Whose war is it anyway!?

Kol tuv...

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