It seems to be a taboo subject. Except when it is not Israel talking about it.
Libya wants to deport Palestinians to the Gaza Strip, to avoid their permanent settlement in Libya, and facilitate their right to return to the occupied territories.
Libya’s Al-Jamahiriya daily said on Tuesday that Libya intended to expel the Palestinians from its territory to abort “the conspiracy of liquidating the Palestinian cause.”
The state run newspaper said that if Palestinians stayed, then they would be giving up the right of return to their homes in return for Israel’s acceptance of the Beirut initiative.
It said such a deal was aimed at “settling every Palestinian in the diaspora in the countries where they reside”.
There are more than 4.5 million registered Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The newspaper said the Libyan authorities will facilitate the return of Palestinians to the Gaza Strip through Egypt to “protect their identity”.
The paper also urged Lebanon and Syria to allow more than 1.5 million Palestinian refugees they host to “return to Palestine and abort this conspiracy.”
Make no mistake. The Arab governments have no love for the palestinians, just an appreciation of their worth as a political tool – whether it be as a demographic weapon against the Jewish state of Israel, or a great way to turn their peoples’ attention away from the corruption of their own regimes. And you can’t discount the possibility that these countries simply don’t want palestinians residing within their borders.
You have to ask yourselves why there are still palestinian refugees after 60 years, along with the only permanent UN agency dedicated to refugees of any kind, while Jews expelled from Arab lands were quickly absorbed into Israel.
