Spengler has got it right

Submitted by Vijay (United Kingdom), Sep 3, 2009 at 11:19

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KH18Ak01.html

Palestinian Arabs are highly literate, richer and healthier than people in most other Arab countries, thanks to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and the blackmail payments of Western as well as Arab governments. As refugees, they live longer and better than their counterparts in adjacent Arab countries. It is not surprising that they do not want to be absorbed into other Arab countries and cease to be refugees.

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