It transpires that Jordanian authorities are revoking the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians living in the kingdom to avoid them being “resettled” there permanently. “Many Palestinians living in Jordan are convinced that the Jordanian authorities are trying to squeeze them out,” said a lawyer.
I’ll take a wild guess and say that despite their, ahem, very real concern for the Palestinian people, the Israel-bashers of the West won’t have much to say about this. After all, they have a fine tradition of such hypocrisy.
Very interesting, and of course totally in keeping with the long established attitude of the Arab states towards the Palestinian refugees.
Of course not many people remember these days that in April 1949 at the UN Palestine Concilliation Commission in Lausanne, Israel offered to repatriate 100,000 Palestinian refugees within the framework of a general settlement of the dispute, but that the Arab delegations refused.
Neither do they remember that in 1950 UNRWA proposed settling Palestinian refugees in Sinai, Jordan and Syria, but that the proposal was rejected by Arab governments, or that in 1952 the UN Refugee Rehabilitation Fund offered the Arab states $200,000,000 to find jobs and homes for the refugees. Whilst some of the money was used for relief work, the Arab states did not even apply for most of the fund.
One cannot help but conclude that the name of the game has not changed since these words were written in the Cairo newspaper Al Gumhuriyya in 1961 -” The refugees will not return while the flag of Israel flies over the soil of Palestine. They will return when the flag of Palestine is hoisted over Arab Palestine.”