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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (4097)	8/26/2003 6:32:36 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

You wrote:<font color=blue>"That is not answer."<font color=black> Opppppps. Let me try again. <font color=blue>"The Refugee Curse"<font color=black> "Here's a puzzle: How do Palestinian refugees differ from the other 135 million 20th-century refugees?" danielpipes.org From the article- "Answer: In every other instance, the pain of dispossession, statelessness, and poverty has diminished over time. Refugees eventually either resettled, returned home or died. Their children - whether living in South Korea, Vietnam, Pakistan, Israel, Turkey, Germany or the United States - then shed the refugee status and joined the mainstream. Not so the Palestinians. For them, the refugee status continues from one generation to the next, creating an ever-larger pool of anguish and discontent." ... "The policies of Arab governments then make things worse by keeping Palestinians locked in an amber-like refugee status. In Lebanon, for instance, the 400,000 stateless Palestinians are not allowed to attend public school, own property or even improve their housing stock."