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Abbas Asks Host Countries to Give Palestinians Citizenship
 Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told Arab countries hosting Palestinian refugees to give them citizenship, insisting such a move would not compromise their right of return.
| "Yasss! We deserve to have our cake and eat it, too!" |
"I call upon every Arab government wishing to give citizenship (to Palestinian refugees) to do so. What is wrong with that?" he said in an interview with Dubai Television late Sunday. But the Palestinian Authority president insisted that obtaining citizenship in a host-country should not compromise the right to return to their homeland of which many Palestinian refugees dream. "This does not mean resettlement (of refugees). A Palestinian would return to his homeland whenever he is allowed, whether he carried an Arab or non-Arab citizenship," he said. "A fifth-generation Palestinian living in Chile also wishes to return when allowed ... It is an emotional matter, not related to citizenship," he added.
So lemme get this straight: You demand the right of return. You demand your own state. You demand citizenship in everybody else's state. You retain the right to explode without warning if you don't get your way.
I'd try and demand something similar for myself, but I can't think of anything that's quite that outlandish. |
Posted by: Fred 2005-07-12 |
