Reply #3: If Israel had its way 30 years ago, there would be no refugee camps in the OT [View All]

[shira]

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=52&x_article=960

The "build-your-own-home" program was shot down by Palestinian and Arab leadership, as well as UNWRA and a very willing UNGA. That program 30 years ago would have taken Palestinians out of the camps and into their own homes - however, the Palestinian and Arab leadership wanted the Palestinians to keep living in misery - just as they do NOW - in order to use them as pawns in war against Israel. Happy Palestinians living the good life (and their standard of living up to Intifida 2 was better than all other arabs in the mideast) would lead to Palestinians who wouldn't want war, but peace.

And UNWRA and the UN shot it down. Those moral models.

But Israel is the root of all evil, you know.

Must've been a sinister plot back then to put Palestinians in homes in order to avoid future conflict and make their lives better.

Those zionists.

Just 30 years after the extermination camps in Poland and Germany. Trying to make the lives of Palestinians better.

Evil I tell you!