As long as Israel continues to flaunt the basic rights of the Palestinians and so long as it does not rectify the basic injustice committed when the state was established in 1948, peace in Lebanon and the region will never be. We will always suffer from instability. Why? Because we will have the forces supprting [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Refugees’
No peace so long as Israel continues to play roughshod
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Peace, Refugees, United States on April 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Naturalizing the Palestinians
Posted in Politics, tagged Lebanon, March 14, Middle East, Palestinians, Refugees on September 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A view days ago the March 14 block presented President Michel Suleiman with a draft amendment to the constitution which would require parliamentary unanimity to change the constitutional ban on naturalizing the Palestinian refugees and their descendants in Lebanon.
I suppose the intentions behind this are all well and good at least when considering that the [...]
Why not naturalize the Palestinians in Lebanon?
Posted in Politics, tagged Israel, Palestine, Refugees on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Someone posted this today on Naharnet. I second this opinion. And I am not a Wahhabi!
Let us be logical guys, everyone is using the Palestinians and naturalization as a scare-crow or be3boo3. You know what, they deserve it more than the thousands of garbage that Michel Murr and the government have naturalized in [...]
A just settlement
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Arab World, Israel, Jewish-Arab Relations, Middle East, Palestine, Peace, Refugees on April 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It is with great hope that we receive the recent gesture by Arab states to renew their peace offer to Israel during the recent summit in Riyad and Ehud Olmert’s subsequent invitation to Arab leaders to a peace conference in which all parties can state their vision for peace. I think these gestures represent many [...]
The origin of the Palestine-Israel conflict
Posted in Foreign Affairs, tagged Arab World, Israel, Jewish-Arab Relations, Middle East, Palestine, Refugees, Zionism on March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“The Palestinians have a real grievance: their homeland for over a thousand years was taken, without their consent and mostly by force, during the creation of the state of Israel. And all subsequent crimes—on both sides—inevitably follow from this original injustice.”
This is how the paper The Origins of the Palestine-Israel Conflict published by Jews For [...]
The Palestinian refugee problem
Posted in Politics, tagged Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, Refugees on August 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The Palestinian refugee problem in Lebanon has remained unresolved since it was created following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 . Though some refugees did become Lebanese nationals, particularly if they had strong personal connections in the country, the bulk have not. This has meant that they have not been allowed to [...]
