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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (246715)	10/26/2007 4:42:48 AM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Well then, it was not a trap...but rather a case of the arabs taking advantage of a crisis whos origines lay with the founding of the jewish state and subsequent displacement of populations. as you say ,israel was already busy with its own influx of refugees...why ? because israel desperately needed more jews to form a state. Israels motive is clear. Israel also had donations to finance the intergration of arriving jews. But what motive and means could arab states have to help...jordan,syria and egypt could hardley be expected to welcome and intergrate large potentially destabilizing refugees from another country. These countries were themselves desperately poor. That they were fellow arabs has little to do with the politics and economics of such a choice.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (246715)	10/26/2007 9:04:11 AM
From: SARMAN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine, if you so concerned about your tax money going to the needy Palestinian, I am sure there are lots Americans that are concerned about their tax money going to the fat cow Israel. OTH why doesn't Israel let them go back to their homes?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (246715)	10/29/2007 5:50:14 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 281500

Don't be silly, ch. Of course it was designed. Every other refugee population on earth is served by UNHCR. UNHCR defines refugees as having lived at least 20 years in a place before they fled. The mission of UNHCR is to repatriate or resettle the refugees in some reasonable time period. But the Palestinians have their own special UN agency, UNWRA. UNWRA defines you as a refugee even if you only lived for 2 years in the place you fled from. The mission of UNWRA is to feed and house the refugee population indefinitely pending final resolution of the conflict. So you have generational "refugee camps" with children, grandchilden, greatgrandchilden - all entitled to UNWRA stipends - added to the total refugee population. So why isn't there some US-led push to hand UNWRA responsibilities over to UNHCR with UNHCR definitions?