I don’t mean to argue with You on Your own website ;-) and no doubt I don’t have the same perspective on Palestinians as You do. Certainly, their leaders did some stupid things in the past, instead of concentrating to improve their people’s situation (though at the root of the problem remains their expulsion from their home country).

However, I can’t agree with You when You tell what the Palestinian refugees did to their host countries was worse than what the Israelis did to them. Jordanians, Kuwaitis, or the Lebanese didn’t have to flee their countries because of them, right?

Also, You suggest Palestinians solve their problem with the Israelis on their own. Like it or not, as long as they’re refugees, it’s a problem of the neighbouring countries, too (actually, later You concede for Yourselve You had a problem with Palestinians outside their country).

(On a side note, I think solving the refugee problem should be the most important issue in Arab-Israeli peace talks, not just security and the creation of a Palestinian state. I think it’s important for Israel, too.)

In response to rampurple, I find it highly cynical to suggest Palestinian refugees were responsible for the the miserable conditions in the refugee camps themselves. It’s easy to judge from an air-conditioned apartment in one of the richest countries of the world!

Most important of all, I strongly agree it’s rarely ever admissible to judge a people as a whole. In the context of past colonialism and the current events, where would that leave Arabs, where Europeans and Americans?

Thanks for hosting my opinion!

Seems odd.

Lebanon, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, are just some examples.

Some mentioned something about kicking the palestenians out… will this is something being discussed at the moment.. what to do with the refugees in their horrific camps (which are only horrific cause they made them so).

I never met a “good” palestenian either.

Call me a racist if you will and I can call these people sooooo many names.

So once we got to Lebanon and settled down we called our neighbors asking them to send us the furniture but they were giving us excuses or hanging up on our phone calls. Finally they told us that they wouldn’t be sending us our stuff and that if we had a problem to deal with it. Later we found out that all our stuff was shipped to their house in Jordan.

Let me tell you a story happened with me during the first gulf war.
In that time I was living in the east side of Saudi Arabia in Al-khobar, as you know most of Kuwaitis flew to this city when the war began, one of the Kuwaitis families rent an apartment in front of us… so we became friends with them.
their father wasn’t with them so we tried to help them as much as we can, we became like a one family, when the alarms rings in the city we set together in one protected room as a one family …
anyway guess what happened after the war and after a few groups of Palestinians there did that big mistake,
they forgot us and started ignoring us, started to put garbage in front of our door …
why they did that, coz they believed that we Palestinians supporting what happened in Kuwait …
tell me here have we did something wrong in there with them, no …
but this is our problem we always generalize on a behavior from a few gang of people that maybe sometimes all what they need is to make only a problems.

Do you think the rest of Palestinians are happy for what happened in there, they lost their money they lost their cars they lost all what they had …

Anyway it’s a big and long subject that will not lead us to results …
I didn’t want it to be like this, and am sorry if I did react in an aggressive way …

I think “K” comment say it all … Thanks for your great comment, and again am sorry Mark …

I suggest everybody takes Marks comments with a grain of salt… at least he is being honest. There are tons of people who share similar thoughts and will change their public position according to the atmosphere.