Thursday, March 17, 2011
A Palestinian woman sits in front of her house in Alhuson camp in Jordan's Irbid area, on Sept. 20, 2010. There are ten camps for Palestinian refugees in Jordan, where more than 300,000 Palestinians live. (Xinhua/Mohammad Abu Ghosh)
One of those sentences that makes you shake your head
The Jerusalem Post has an interesting article that shows that Jordan is granting citizenship to very, very few Palestinian Arabs over the past decade.
But it includes one of those sentences that makes absolutely no sense - and that the world accepts as normal:
If they are citizens...then they aren't refugees.
But when we are dealing with Palestinian Arabs, and only Palestinian Arabs, they apparently are.
And if you thought that this makes no sense, try to wrap your head around this, from UNRWA's website:
Yes, some 1.8 million Palestinian "refugees" are living in British Mandate Palestine, inside what the world considers...their own country.
But it includes one of those sentences that makes absolutely no sense - and that the world accepts as normal:
Some two million Palestinian refugees are registered by United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jordan, mostly as Jordanian citizens.
If they are citizens...then they aren't refugees.
But when we are dealing with Palestinian Arabs, and only Palestinian Arabs, they apparently are.
And if you thought that this makes no sense, try to wrap your head around this, from UNRWA's website:
The West Bank is home to 771,000 registered refugees... Over two-thirds of [Gaza's] 1.5 million residents are refugees registered with UNRWA.
Yes, some 1.8 million Palestinian "refugees" are living in British Mandate Palestine, inside what the world considers...their own country.
