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Longtime Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi resigns
2020-12-10
[IsraelTimes] One of the most well-known spokespeople for the Paleostinian cause in the Western press, Ashrawi calls for reform in Paleostine Liberation Organization in her resignation letter.

Senior Paleostine Liberation Organization official Hanan Ashrawi
...age 74, the cultured, Christian Palestinian daughter of one of the founding members of the PLO took the polish and contacts accrued while acquiring a PhD in Medieval Lit. from U of Virginia — among other efforts she was a long-time girlfriend of television anchorman Peter Jennings — to advance the cause of Palestinian nationhood and soften the impact of various terror attacks on Israelis at home and abroad. Mrs. Ashwari was diagnosed with COVID-19 in October, which may have something to do with her apparently sudden decision...
announced on Wednesday that she had submitted her resignation from the pan-Paleostinian organization.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  If the refugees were just allowed to become citizens wherever they happen to be, they would be no more trouble than any other sub-population in the Arab world. The problem is that they are required by the world to accept nothing less than full ownership of a Judenfrei Israel, which of course the Jews will never accept.

The PLO was given power because A) the world required it, and B) otherwise there was no one to negotiate with except the village headmen.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-12-10 18:01  

#2   Because of the loony UNRWA policies which gave them cradle to grave support presumably for ever, their host countries treated them like dirt, and still do.

The Arab host countries would have treated them like dirt anyway, daniel. The refugees were not related to anyone in the host country, so they had, and still have, no value except as propaganda.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-12-10 17:58  

#1  Why the PLO was given power in the first place is something I could never understand. It was an organization that represented refugees and not the people living in Palestine. It was noticeably more corrupt and nasty than what it replaced, which was probably no great shakes.
The refugees so-called have gotten a bad deal not from Israel but from everyone else. Because of the loony UNRWA policies which gave them cradle to grave support presumably for ever, their host countries treated them like dirt, and still do. And the rich Persian Gulf countries got rid of them after they attempted to take over Kuwait. But the PLO cannot make peace without doing something for the refugees, and nobody knows what can be done for the refugees,
Posted by: daniel    2020-12-10 17:38  

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