Palestinian Refugees In Lebanon Live Endless Suffering

[Quetzal]

Palestinian Refugees In Lebanon Live Endless Suffering

"Lebanese laws ban Palestinian refugees from applying for health care services, social insurance, employment in 73 syndicated professions and even property ownership .."

By Ayman Qenawi

BEIRUT,Lebanon - The suffering of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, far exceed the feeling of homesickness with daily hardships and humiliation in almost all aspects of life, if theirs is to be called one.

“We have no drinking water, no electricity and no means to make ends meet,” said Um Rashid, a 69-year-old woman living in the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila.

Located south of the Lebanese capital, the camp is absolutely out of context with the clean streets, fancy cars, luxurious restaurants and sky-high prices of Beirut.

Painted with the colors of the Palestinian flag and decorated with the pictures of 'Palestinian martyrs', the corridors inside the camp are so narrow it would be difficult for two people to walk side by side.

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=20040319064333137

[Muddleoftheroad]

1. Sounds like their gripe is with Lebanon

[GabysPoppy]

2. It will be Israel's fault in 5 - 4 - 3 - 2........

[Jim Sagle]

6. Are you prescient, or what?

:thumbsup:

[GabysPoppy]

8. I wish I could pick lottery numbers this easily

[Jim Sagle]

15. I'd trade S & P futures. But hey, that's just me.

[Quetzal]

3. Other governments in the region must be held accountable as well

n/t

[GabysPoppy]

4. Why not start with Syria?

They just about control everything in Lebanon anyway

[Jim Sagle]

7. Stop making sense.

:spank:

[Jim Sagle]

5. Yeah. Right.

[cantwealljustgetalong]

9. oh goody...

when can we start?...

[Quetzal]

10. Egypt

Saudi Arabia. It needs to improve its record on Women's rights.

[cantwealljustgetalong]

11. Egypt...Saudi Arabia...Brussels...Wherever...

I'm ready when you are...

[Quetzal]

12. Hopefully, something can be achieved by means of diplomacy

not that of war or violence.

Brussels doesn't seem like a serious violator in my view.

[Aidoneus]

17. it's some of the Christians there, actually

They're perhaps the only people as demographically obsessed as the zionists are--they'd like to see anything besides 380,000 more Arab Muslims added to the voting rolls. That's why some of them backed the zionist regime's invasion in the past, and when the resistance beat this back, it is also why some (less) of them assisted the IDF in occupying and terrorizing the southern regions.

When they return to Palestine it will not be such an issue, and that is the best course to be taken.

[aquart]

13. Two questions:

Why don't the Lebanese like these nice people?

Why don't these nice people go to another Arab country?

[Scurrilous]

14. The 'nice people' want to go home to Palestine...

...got a problem with that?

[Jim Sagle]

16. Uh...that IS the problem.

How many other times in all of recorded history did refugees get to keep nursing their grievance for over 50 years?