You have a good point AK, then again comparing their literacy rate for example to Canada or the US means a lot of folks can be easily manipulated... what images do you think they see mostly... I said before Islam is an effective tool for that, just like Christianity used to be... Not saying it is right.. but putting band aids on things is only temporary...
Then again jerusalemites.org
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Palestinian refugees in Egypt by Amineh Ishtay
Egypt hosted approximately 50,000 Palestinian refugees. Most of them were displaced from the West Bank and Gaza by the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) provided humanitarian assistance to Palestinian refugees on a case-by-case basis.
The situation of Palestinian refugees in Egypt is insecure. UNRWA serves them only in exceptional cases. This is particularly problematic for refugees because Egypt does not have its own domestic asylum laws, and Cairo depends on UNRWA to determine the refugee status of individual asylum seekers. The U.N. refugee agency has repeatedly urged the Egyptian government to develop its own asylum policy.
Their greatest problem is a lack of stability and security; they all face an uncertain future.
The Palestinian society isn’t integrated to the Egyptian society. The government policy kept them distinctly separates. Their situation became worst after the signing of the peace treaty with Israel in 1978. The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) opposed Egypt’s normalization with Israel.
Even more problematic is the general law that prevents children of Egyptian women who marry foreign men from gaining Egyptian citizenship. These children are denied rights that are granted to children of Palestinian women who marry Egyptian men.
Many Palestinians stay in Egypt illegally because they don’t have the money to maintain their legal status. Concerning education they are treated like the Egyptians who received education in schools, universities and institutes. However, they are in many cases treated as foreigners and they have to pay hard currency tuition fees. They can’t study medicine, economics, journalism, political science, and pharmacy.
The Egyptian law No. 28 of 1960 allows Palestinians to obtain a travel document but they have to get a visa to return. The Palestinians holding such a document who were born in Egypt or who have lived there for most of their lives have no automatic right to stay in, or re-enter, the country, but must renew their visas every six months to three years.
There are cases where Palestinians born in Egypt have been denied visa entry requests by Egyptian consulates "in summary fashion, without providing reasons.
This does not help... Look at the Israel number... Score one for Israel.. It has long been a problem that Muslim Nations did not want Palestinians... It cannot be an Islam thing now can it ?
mondediplo.com
Since the first Israeli-Arab war in 1948 the Palestinians have experienced several waves of exile and lived in various host countries. To the refugees of 1948 must be added the hundreds of thousands displaced in 1967. These refugees together constitute the Palestinian diaspora. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the total number of Palestinians throughout the world in 1998 was 8,041,569, made up as follows:
Israel : 910,510
Gaza : 1,039,580
West Bank :1,857,872
Jordan : 2,328,308
Lebanon : 430,183
Syria : 465,662
Egypt : 48,784
Saudi Arabia : 274,762
Kuwait : 37,696
Other Gulf states :105,578
Iraq, Libya : 74,284
Other Arab states : 5,544
The Americas : 203,558
Other : 259,248
Total : 8,041,569
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