Naturalize the Palestine Arabs

Submitted by Peter Herz (United States), May 17, 2011 at 06:04

They say that 39 million people were made refugees after WWII and down to about 1960. Of these tens of millions, all save the Palestine Arabs and their descendants in the Middle East have been re-settled and absorbed into their host societies. This number also includes the offspring of about a million Mizrahi Jews resettled in Israel.

The Arab Street curses America fifty times a day over the plight of the Palestine Arabs, yet we have given passport-holding, property-owning, voting citizenship to more victims and offspring of an-Nakba than any 10 Arabic-speaking states put together excluding the PA, Jordan, and Israel itself. It' s time the world held the feet of the Arab states to the fire and told them to naturalize those people who are of similar linguistic, cultural, and religious heritage to themselves.

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