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Arabia
New Saudi citizenship law: no 'Palestinians' need apply!
2004-10-23
Expatriates of all nationalities are entitled to apply for Saudi citizenship and their travels abroad with re-entry visas will not disqualify them, press reports said yesterday quoting senior officials.... Shubaily ibn Majdoue Al-Qarni, chairman of the security committee which supervised amendments to the law, said Saudi citizenship would be open for all nationals working in the Kingdom. "The law does not aim at a particular nationality. On the other hand, it covers all expatriates in the country," he told Al-Madinah. But Al-Watan Arabic daily reported that the naturalization law would not be applicable to Palestinians living in the Kingdom as the Arab League has instructed that Palestinians living in Arab countries should not be given citizenship to avoid dissolution of their identity and protect their right to return to their homeland.
The fact that Arab states have been directly responsible for helping create the current "Palestinian" crisis has escaped media attention for far too long.
Diplomatic sources have estimated the number of Palestinians in the Kingdom at about 500,000. There are large concentrations of Palestinians in the country's western, central, eastern and northern provinces.
Posted by:Mark Espinola

#9  #5..ululating

I'm in tears.
Posted by: incarnate of lee atwater   2004-10-23 11:11:37 PM  

#8  I love this part:
There are large concentrations of Palestinians in the country’s western, central, eastern and northern provinces.

So - pretty much everywhere but the empty quarter, huh guys?
Posted by: mojo   2004-10-23 8:26:36 PM  

#7  Wotta surprise.

Wonder why the "saudis" wouldn't want the Paleos, who are just as loveable as kitten and puppies and fluffy bunnies....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-10-23 6:26:54 PM  

#6  and car swarms...they haven't really caught on elsewhere....not enough Nike shirts, maybe?
Posted by: Frank G   2004-10-23 2:48:24 PM  

#5  Seems that these days those poor Paleostinians ain't much good for nuthin' 'cept slogan shouting, seething and ululating.... and dying.
Posted by: Mac Suirtain   2004-10-23 2:45:18 PM  

#4  Awhhh!!! Nobody want the Paleo's. Cry me a Euphrates River.

I guess it took a whole generation for the Paleo's to realize that, they are NOTHING but a pawn of the Arab states.

They also will have to come to the realization that the only friends they ever had, is ironically, the Jooooos. The Joooos gave them a job, fed them, protected them, gave medical attention, etc...............................Put your money where your mouth is, stopping killing the Jooos, instead kill your real oppressors--your own cousins around you, stupid morons.
Posted by: Poison Reverse   2004-10-23 1:07:12 PM  

#3  So if you are a Paleo, you are stuck being a Paleo in SA. What about the UN Declaration of Human Rights, etc etc? A Paleo is just human cannon fodder and that is it, at least from the viewpoint of SA.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-10-23 1:00:28 PM  

#2  Palestinians living in the Kingdom as the Arab League has instructed that Palestinians living in Arab countries should not be given citizenship to avoid dissolution of their identity and protect their right to return to their homeland.

"Dissolution of their identity" my hairy western @ss! More like continued and intentional disenfranchising of the Palestinians as a means of further fomenting their violent opposition to Israel's existence. The vicious cynicism of Arab politics makes even the UN look like a bunch of boy scouts.

One can only wonder when the world's remaining population will finally catch on to how a majority of the Middle East wants nothing more than constant turmoil and strife as a way of disguising their own brutally craven hold upon political power.
Posted by: Zenster   2004-10-23 12:59:41 PM  

#1  Throgh their deeds you shall know them. It is telling that the people who know the Palestinians best want no part of them. The only "right of return" that applies to Palestinians is "from dust to dust."
Posted by: RWV   2004-10-23 11:48:41 AM  

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