The last group of a total of close to 100 Palestinian refugees who lived in Iraq, but had to flee to the Jordanian desert, have arrived in Brazil. The 25 refugees are being settled in the southeastern state of São Paulo and in Rio Grande do Sul state, in the Brazilian South.Another group of 36 had arrived earlier this month after the first 35 Palestinians who came to Brazil in September. All of them were sent by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
The Brazilian government will offer the Palestinian refugees financial help for two years as well as Portuguese classes. They will also be receiving accommodations and medical care.
The refugee agency says Jordan’s Ruweished camp, where the refugees lived, will be shut down in the coming weeks.
Many Arab and Western countries with strict immigration policies have refused to host the Palestinian refugees.
The UN has two agencies dedicated to refugees: UNHCR and UNRWA. The UNRWA is dedicated exclusively to Palestinian Arabs, while the UNHCR takes care of everyone else worldwide.
While specific refugee populations around the world have dwindled, only the “refugees” under UNRWA responsibility have increased.
The reasons are simple: UNRWA defined Palestinian Arab “refugees” to include descendants of the original 700,000 refugees, the UNRWA has morphed from an organization that truly wanted to solve the refugee problem into one that only wants to perpetuate it to keep its bureaucracy in existence (it is mostly staffed by Palestinian Arabs;) and the neighboring Arab countries refuse to resettle their Arab “brethren” to live in peace and dignity, preferring to keep them in limbo for 60 years.
This story shows that the UNHCR actually takes its job seriously, trying hard to find a way for its refugees to become normal members of society. It shows that Brazil has more empathy for Palestinian Arabs than any Arab country. Above all, it shows the utter corruption and hypocrisy of the UNRWA and all Arab countries who refuse to truly solve the original refugee problem.
One year ago I found an Arabic editorial upset over the resettlement of some 46 Iraqis of Palestinian origin to Canada, because happy PalArabs mean less “unity”. The editorial proved the hypocrisy of the Arab world and how much they want the Palestinian Arabs to suffer as a strategy. I’ve also pointed out how the Arabs have turned their backs on the Iraqis of Palestinian origin for years.
This story is a damning indictment of the Arab world and the UNRWA, and yet more proof of their pure hypocrisy as they do everything they can to perpetuate Palestinian Arab suffering while they pontificate about how much they love them. Hundreds of millions of Arabs over hundreds of millions of square miles have institutionalized discrimination against Palestinian Arabs for decades, the UNRWA perpetuates the problem, and the world is silent.
This highlights the aspect of the conflict that seems to be almost entirely neglected.
It is conservatively estimated that there were forty million refugees in Europe after World War II. The number of Hindus and Moslems who fled India and Pakistan after 1947 can never be known but it is in the millions. And, of course, the number of Jews who fled Arab countries after 1948 is, coincidentally, about the same as the number of Arabs who left Israel for whatever reason.
Of all these people, the only refugees still in camps are the Palestinians, who are there because their brother Arabs find them useful only as political pawns. I personally extend to the Palestinians the same amount of sympathy as I extend to the Sudeten Germans or eastern Poles, none of whom are in refugee camps today. The Palestinians deserve no less, and no more.
IIRC when the Wahhabist Entity revisd its naturalization law a couple of years ago they said Muslims could become subjects of His Wahhabist majesty, except Palestinian Arabs. They were prohibited from becoming naturalized Saudi subjects. Got to keep up the numbers of cannon fodder (or suicide belt fodder nowadays).
Their “Arab Brothers” treat the Palis like dirt, worse than the Israelis do. Certainly they’ve killed more of them than the Israelis have. Still I think they ought to be resettled among their “Arab Brothers”, not spread around the world where they might bring their antisemitism and their nihilistic death cult with them, injecting their venom into other societies.