Reply #15: Arab countries want to destroy Israel [View All]

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Providing relief to Palestinians undermines that.

Even where they took Palestinian refugees in 1948, they never allowed them citzenship, realizing that doing so would result in their melding into the new country and not caring any more about getting Palestine back. Now the grandchildren of those refugees born in those countries are not citizens either. Keeping them stateless gives them a motive to want Palestine back.

The creation of Israel was unfair to the Palestinians, but the surrounding Arab countries have done nothing to help. At least as far as the Muslim ones, they should have been able to absorb them. Most Christian Palestinians have long since cleared out - many migrated to the US, where, as Christians, they were relatively welcome in the 50s and 60s.