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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Palestinian refugees demand visas to Europe
2007-11-10
Dozens of refugees from the battered Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon staged a sit-in on Thursday to demand asylum in Europe if they are not allowed to return home.
Doesn't Europe have enough problems?
They were among 31,000 refugees relocated from the camp after deadly clashes raged for more than three months between Islamist militants and the army, leaving much of the shantytown reduced to rubble.

More than 100 refugees gathered outside the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) office at the nearby Beddawi refugee camp complaining at their treatment. "If the question of our return is not decided, we will demand that all European countries offer us visas so we can emigrate," said Abu Wassim Taha, a spokesman for the group.

The Lebanese government has vowed to help the refugees return home, but reconstruction is expected to take a long time because of the extent of the destruction.
Posted by:Fred

#9  Aren't they always demanding we relocate the whole nation of Israel to Alaska? I'm sure the fisheries could use a bunch of employees for their canneries, they're always trying to talk continental college kids into doing it...
Posted by: Mitch H.   2007-11-10 12:09  

#8  Doesn't Europe have enough problems?

Why should Jews pay for EUros inventing the "Palestinian Nation"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2007-11-10 12:04  

#7  Right of Return.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2007-11-10 09:07  

#6  Isn't there some way of disguising one of those Futurama "suicide phone booths" as a European visa application kiosk?
Posted by: Zenster   2007-11-10 09:01  

#5  Ooooh, I love it when they demand things!
Compromise. Send them to Zimbabwe. Or Somalia...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-11-10 08:10  

#4  they're s'posed to go back to their shacks and seethe.
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-11-10 00:50  

#3  Particularly Paleo hajis.
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-11-10 00:50  

#2  The Sauds deal quite harshly with Hajis who try to overstay their visas.
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-11-10 00:49  

#1  What is wrong with a taking a Haji and just staying?
Posted by: 3dc   2007-11-10 00:39  

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