LEBANON'S DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PALESTINIANS

Invisible Palestinians Exist in Legal Limbo in Lebanon - Nada Bakri
Three generations of the Hamdallah family have lived in Lebanon, where not a single member of the family has been allowed to graduate from school, legally marry, or hold a job. The UN estimates that more than 400,000 Palestinians live in Lebanon - refugees, their children, and their children's children - all denied many basic rights. Palestinians have been denied citizenship in Lebanon for years, and they are prohibited from practicing more than 70 professions. "This is a problem [that is] not going to go away on its own; now is the time to solve it," said Richard J. Cook, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East. (New York Times)

I FOR ONE AM SHOCKED. THE ARAB WORLD KEEPS HARPING ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF THE POOR PALESTINIANS AND HOW ISRAEL MISTREATS THEM. (NEVER MIND THAT ISRAELI-ARABS LIVE BETTER THAN THEIR BRETHREN IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY). COULD IT BE THAT THE ARAB WORLD IS MERELY USING THE PALESTINIANS AS A STICK WITH WHICH TO CLUB ISRAEL? HOW CYNICAL OF YOU TO THINK SO.