Atef Adwan, Minister of Refugees of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)-led government, on Sunday accused Jordan of planning to transfer hundreds of Palestinians, who fled violence in Iraq, to Canada. In a press release, Adwan noted that the Jordanian government has recently reached a deal with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to transfer 280 Palestinian refugees to Canada.Even Mr. “Moderate” Abbas is not happy.
The Palestinians are stuck on the Jordanian-Iraqi border after fleeing from Iraq because of the growing hatred and violence against them by Iraqi sectarian groups. Adwan wondered how Jordan was able to contain 600,000 Iraqis but refuse to allow 280 Palestinians from staying on its territories.
He appealed to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to intervene and ask Jordan not to displace the Palestinian refugees for fears that this step could be the beginning of ending the Palestinian refugees issue by transferring them to some countries and canceling their right of return to Palestine.
I expect the Fatwas to come soon and the riots will commence as soon as a shipment of Canadian flags can be imported into the Gaza Strip. Maybe they can get a grant?
2 comments:
This just goes to show a few points that I've always believed to be true.
First, no one really wants the palestinians. Jordan can "contain" 600K Iraqis, but 280 pallys gotta go.
Second, every single time there has ever been any kind of attempt to resettle or repatriate the pally "refugees," it get scuttled by their own "Arab brothers." Why? Because those fellow Arabs can't bear to lose a political weapon against Israel. It's much better just to keep the pallys living in squalor.
Finally, in the article to which you linked, it stated that many of the pallys from Iraq fled there early in the fighting. Before things got bad for them. Which tell me two things:
First, pallys fellow Arabs hate them, and want to kill them; and,
Second, the pallys are wusses, who run away from a fight.
Interesting article, thanks for posting.
The problem with the Iraqi Pallyhood is twofold. They were a protected group under Saddam, so there is a great deal of hostility towards them by ordinary Iraqis now that Saddam is gone, and secondly, the Jordanians don't consider them Palestinian enough - too much Iraqi so they don't want them.
On one level I have a certain amount of sympathy for them. There are a pariah group among Arabs, and the treatment outside of Jordan is appalling. Even in Lebanon, if one is a Palestinian one cannot work as an Engineer, or a Doctor, or a professional of most any kind (though the Lebanese last spring did open up a few professions that were previously closed to them)and its very similar in other Arab countries.
Secondly, their identity outside of the Israel-Palestinian conflict does not really exist culturally. A Palestinian in Syria has very little in common culturally with a 'Palestinian' from Saudi Arabia though neither will be accepted for citizenship.
I have always wondered why a greater pressure has not been brought to bear on Arab nations that host refugee camps to integrate the Palestinians within their society. I understand why Arab governments don't - there is an astronomical amount of money to be made by keeping this conflict alive and most Arab regimes use it as a scapegoat to keep their population focused on other then them but why have Western nations been so stunningly silent on this issue?
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