A Letter To The Palestinians From New Zealand:

[jumpy]

Originally Posted by Immacolata

I also wonder why palestinians are living in refugee camps for nearly 60 years. Do they want to stay there? Or is the problem that their "brothers" in other countries are quick on the rhetoric and condemnation, but when it comes to actual housing said brotehrs, they suddenly can't find the space for it?

It is my rough understanding that at one time they did have a home in Jordan (as refugees maybe? I'm not entirely sure; my history lessons for that era were over a decade ago now), until they tried to overthrow the king and governement with a military coup. The king (Hussain?), quite understandably, got really pissed off at this and ordered thre jordanian army, or what was loyal and left of it, to explell the whole lot of them from his country. Hence all the displaced palestinian multitudes.
If this has any truth to it then it's no wonder none of the other Arab states don't want to pay anything more than 'lip-service' to the displaced palestinians and their tradition of causing trouble wherever they go.