I READ AN ARTICLE in World Israel News (http://tinyurl.com/ybyvhw7u) under the heading Analysis: Palestinian boy dies at hospital gates… in Lebanon that claims UNRWA and the Lebanese government failed to properly care for a dying child.
There are at least two sides to the story, and the article presents them all.
But I was left with some questions; questions for which I lack answers.
We know there are “refugee” camps in Israel. “Palestinians” can leave the camps whenever they wish to integrate into local “Palestinian” communities.
We also know that “Palestinians” — and that includes those in Gaza — regularly enter Israel for medical care, much of it funded by Israeli taxpayers. They get care at almost any “government” hospital, e.g., Hadassah, Rambam, Tel HaShomer, even if they are indigent.
They are treated by Israeli Muslim, Jewish, and non-Jewish doctors, nurses, and technicians.
“Palestinian” doctors intern at Israeli hospitals under world-class physicians.
The first question is: Why do the “refugees” stay in the camps sited in a Muslim country, e.g., Lebanon, Jordan, Syria?
(Source: http://tinyurl.com/y7y2vgau)
Won’t the Lebanese, Jordanians, Syrians, et al allow the “refugees” to leave and be absorbed into the local Muslim communities?
Will UNRWA object? I can understand why UNRWA officials might object: after all, the organizations full name is United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. No “refugees” and a lot of UN employees might have to find new jobs. Unfortunately for UNRWA employees, there are no similar UN agencies for any other displaced persons. Every other ethnic group has absorbed its refugees — every group except the Muslims.
Yes, I understand that Muslim A and Muslim B hate each other because one is Sunni and the other is Shia. A black hat Jew may not accept a Reform Jew as a Jew — and the feeling probably is mutual — but neither wants to murder the other. Even most Democrats and most Republicans, while they may not want “to marry one,” don’t promote the other’s killing.
Yet the Shia-Sunni warfare continues as it has for several hundred years.
Worse than Sefardi and Ashkenazi.
There always is talk that “the Arabs want to keep the ‘Palestinians' in the camps." Maybe.
But I fail to see the political gain, especially since more and more Muslim countries are establishing diplomatic relations with Israel.
I write “Muslim” rather than “Arab” since many Muslim-dominated countries are populated by non-Arab peoples. Iranians are not Arabs — they are “Persians.” Just ask one.
On the contrary. Until recently many Arab countries poured money into the “Palestinian” coffers and supported UNRWA in New York. Many European nations also poured money into the “Palestinian” leaderships’, pockets. Even the United States taxpayers funded UNRWA.
Is camp life a good life?
Can life in the camps be so good that a “refugee” — actually the grandchild of a “refugee” would rather be on the UNRWA dole than integrate into the Muslim society?
On the other hand, will a Muslim society any place in the Middle East welcome, or even accept, a “Palestinian” who elects to leave the camps?
Jordanians who have long memories will recall how the “Palestinians” tried to assassinate King Abdullah. The mini-war between the PLO and Jordan’s military is known as “Black September.”
I have no idea what daily life in a UN refugee camp is like.
Kids may go to school — where they learn to hate Jews in general and Israel in particular, where text books incite against all infidels.
If the camp is in Gaza, there may be a water shortage (blame Israel) or a power outage (blame it on Israel), or a shortage of medicine (blame it on Israel) — never mind that the cause of most of Gaza’s woes is Hamas, not Israel.
Let’s not forget that Gaza also borders Egypt and that Egypt’s border often is closed to Gaza residents.
What really happened to that child in Lebanon may be debated forever.
The bottom line is that it once more brings to light the fact that the grandchildren of the so-called Palestinian refugees will not — cannot? — integrate into the host country’s Muslim population.
Israel cannot — will not — absorb them; that would change the county’s demographics and make it just another Muslim country and make it a scientific, technical, and humanitarian wasteland similar to its Muslim neighbors. In other words, the “refugees” would come “home” to a land with no future.
In case anyone wonders what the returning “refugees” would do to Israel, look at what they did when the Jews left Gaza. Growing export businesses were destroyed. Infrastructure was destroyed. Gaza’s future — if not destroyed — t was seriously delayed .
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