Israel and NATO

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Second, there are diffent kinds of Palestinian refugees. Those that where driven from their homes in the 1948-49 war, those driven away in the 1967 war

Which brings up an important point (and one that hardly gets raised by anyone)... no one should be leaving in in a refugee camp (or shanty town) of some kind half a century after their family became refugees. Personally I think that that, not the usual hackneyed debate about who's land it "really" is, is the real disgrace of what's happend in the Middle East over the past century or so; Arab government's have a hell of a lot to answer for IMO.

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In Lebanon it would have tipped the delicate balance between Christians and Muslims (not that that happened anyway)

Although it happend anyway o/c. And probably wouldn't have been so bad if they'd tried to integrate the refugees into society; besides it would have provided a lot of employment in construction and might have helped to stabilise the economy.

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Which is the reason why they didn't do it, but it's still a terrible thing to do (or not to do). And again, if integration had happend there would be less tension between the refugees (aren't they in a majority now?) and the Government.

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Well yes, refugees do change things. A lot in some cases. Same with immigration in general. But it's still no excuse to not integrate refugees.