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To: Elroy who wrote (231846)	5/22/2007 1:48:04 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What are all these Palestinian refugee camps doing in Lebanon anyway? Shouldn't these people have been repatriated to Israel-Palestine decades ago? Does Israel prohibit them from relocating to the West Bank? Eh, good question. Israel did prohibit them after 1967, I believe. Until then, Lebanon and Jordan prohibited them. Lebanon has also prohibited them from becoming Lebanese citizens, getting Lebanese work papers, or moving out of the camps. By now, only a small percentage of the population are actual refugees from 1948. With other refugee populations, to be a refugee you actually have to be a refugee, but with the Palestinians - you guessed it, didn't you? - it doesn't work that way.