interesting.. I hadn't heard about that in british media. where have you heard it?
I see an article about it in the NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/world/middleeast/06lebanon.html?pagewanted=printwhat is the history of these refugees?
they're meant to be arabs in israel, that fled
with the one in that story , it says "Mr. Hamdallah did not flee when Israel was formed over the former Palestine in 1948"
if he didn't flee, he'd be an "israeli arab" surely. would he have fled in 1967?
it has him fleeing jordan for lebanon (the month of black september).
I guess british media don't want to talk about arab human rights violations!
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“They are not persons in front of the law,” said Stéphane Jacquemet, regional representative for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Lebanon. “They live in camps, don’t have access to services, schools, hospitals, and strictly speaking a person with no documents can be arrested. "
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Palestinian refugees have been denied citizenship in Lebanon for years, and they are prohibited from practicing more than 70 professions
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Fact is, they don't deserve human rights..
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. Hamdallah was one of those militants. He arrived in Lebanon when the Palestine Liberation Organization — then ensconced in southern Lebanon — was at the height of its power, and so he never thought about legalizing his status.
“The revolution was strong, I was strong,” Mr. Hamdallah said in an interview. “I never thought about identification papers or what would happen to me and to my children without them.”
But when the P.L.O. was driven out of Lebanon in 1982, “I started pitying myself,”
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Mr. Hamdallah did not flee when Israel was formed over the former Palestine in 1948, and so he and his family did not meet the United Nations definition of Palestinian refugees. In Lebanon, the P.L.O. was blamed for igniting civil war, and so Mr. Hamdallah, like others with his background, were not welcomed.
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All the way up to 1982, did israel touch lebanon?
I read about the 1967 war being on 3 fronts. egypt, jordan, syria. Did lebanon attack israel in 1967?
I know that israel didn't occupy lebanon in 48 or 67.