Immigrants (1990)
Today's Golden Oldie is a Dry Bones cartoon I did 20 years ago this month. Back in June 1990 we were trying to figure out how to absorb a flood of Jews from Russia pouring into the Jewish State. "Jews returning to the Land of Israel" is called "Aliya". It is Hebrew for "Going up".
Palestinian refugees seek basic rights in Lebanon
June 27, 2010BEIRUT — "Thousands of Palestinian refugees gathered on Sunday outside UN headquarters in Beirut to demand basic civil rights in Lebanon, such as a choice of jobs and ownership of property.The protest organised by Palestinian and Lebanese non-government organisations was initially due to be held outside the parliament building in downtown Beirut."The police outside parliament usually ban any protest there," said Maher Shehadeh, one of the Palestinian organisers. So the protesters gathered instead several hundred metres (yards) away outside the UN headquarters.Maher said 6,000 people were taking parting in the peaceful protest.The Palestinians travelled in buses from Lebanon's 12 refugee camps for the Beirut gathering organised by Palestinian and Lebanese non-governmental organisations."Working is a right," "We want to live in dignity," read placards carried by the protesters."I have the right to own property," said another, summing up the frustration of the tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees who live in dire conditions in Lebanon." The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) lists almost 400,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, a country of four million inhabitants.But Lebanese and Palestinian officials say the actual number may be as low as 250,000 as UNRWA does not strike off its list those who move to other countries.The majority of UNRWA-registered refugees live in dire conditions in the camps across and are denied basic civil rights." -more
Labels: 1990, Aliya, Arabs, Palestine, Refugees, Russia
5 Comments:
such an lovely article
I hope they succeed in their campaign. The apartheid in Lebanon is disgusting.
And almost all of these "refugees" were born in Lebanon, so they are not refugees at all.
However they didn't do too well with the people of Gush Katif.
And they particularly aren't received in their home country of Jordan. That's where "Palestine" should be. Give them a section of their own native Jordan, and let them try to make a state out of it that would give them all the advantages they've had while living on the take in Israel. And I'm not disparaging the pre-1948 Arab Israelis who are loyal to Israel, either. They are still welcome in Israel, and they know it.
If you sent them to Jordan, you'd stir up a Honets nest, as Israel was the only one who'd taken them.
If you were to pack them up and send them to Iraq or Iran or Jordan they'd have a fit. Before when they had them it caused a real rip, as all of these other countries would have killed them every mothers son and daughter. Nothing would have been said, but put them on Israel and they'll say that you have to take them, like it or not.
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