Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Jordan turns away Palestinian refugees fleeing violence in Syria [View all]shira
(30,109 posts)....in apartheid conditions. You're also whitewashing Abbas, and you have the audacity to cry "detestable" at Israel? Nice attempt at deflection (quick, look over there at Israel while everyone throughout the mideast is fucking the Palestinians).
Rich.
You think any refugees would choose to stay in Syria rather than sign a paper in order to get on normally with their lives elsewhere? Maybe you want them to stay refugees for the same purpose Hamas and the PLO want, but that makes you as inhumane and regressive as them.
And you're wrong about IHL. The refugees don't have law on their side that allows RoR. At best, what they have is a non-binding UNGA resolution and that only calls for refugees willing to return peacefully. Besides, out of 5 million there are 4 million who are internally displaced & therefore do not meet the legal definition of a refugee.
You need to understand that 4 million "refugees" already live in historic Palestine (Gaza, WB, Jordan).
That you and your regressive, rightwing fascist friends running rogue regimes in the mideast prefer to keep these people caged up for generations is nothing short of criminal. That the UN (meaning the world) is party to it, as the UN actually works to settle other refugees (but not Palestinians) is a crime.