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Al-Arabiya TV Deputy Secretary-General Calls for Resettlement of Palestinian Refugees
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Yesterday, MEMRI put out a special dispatch to highlight several articles published by the Daoud al-Shiryan, the Deputy Secretary-General of al-Arabiya TV, on the plight of the Palestinian “refugees”—those perpetual refugees still living in perpetual refugee camps due to the restrictive policies of their host countries. Al-Shiryan criticizes the way these countries have treated them and calls on them to integrate the refugees into their societies and to resettle them, essentially before the world catches on to what is being done under the guise of their supposed “zealous devotion to the Right of Return.”
Some excerpts from his articles:
Objecting to [refugee] resettlement is no different than objecting to peace. It is nothing but an unrealistic slogan. The Arabs have agreed to peace, although they realize that there cannot be peace without [refugee] resettlement. But they disregard this fact, viewing the refugee issue as a point of controversy, when it is [actually] a central and key issue in the peace process. The fear [of being accused of renouncing the nationalist] slogans [calling for] struggle, resistance, and casting Israel into the sea – slogans which emerged at the outset of the peace process with Israel – and the link that has been established between the issue [of resettlement] and ethnic and political problems in some [Arab] countries – have [all] become an obstacle to a realistic and honest approach to the issue.
Arabs who object to the [refugee] resettlement plan contend that they are motivated by their zealous devotion to the Right of Return. But they have not lifted a finger to keep this right alive in the consciousness of the Palestinian ‘detainees’ in the camps of abasement. As a result, this spurious devotion has evoked the opposite reaction: a Palestinian [refugee] now hopes to emigrate to America, Europe, Canada, or Australia in order to escape the hell of the Palestinian refugee camps, which have played a part in killing his will to live.
These countries must stop treating the Palestinians like a plague, using slogans which, as we all know, have become nothing but empty utterances in a loathsome struggle. We must break the isolation of the Palestinians in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. A Palestinian should be made to feel like a welcome and dear guest – before some external intervention comes along and grants him the right to live in dignity, to everyone’s consternation.
[My] passion for [refugee] resettlement is not a rejection of the Right of Return, but rather of the inhuman treatment of the Palestinians in the ‘countries of the refugee camps.’ Foremost among these countries is Lebanon, which bars the Palestinians from 72 professions, so as to prevent them from living in dignity – despite the fact that you wouldn’t find such a long list of professions even on Mars.
There are many other websites that can cover palestine news,which i prefer is http://www.alalam.ir
I assume you mean “Palestinian news” (referring to the self-identified people), since “Palestine” is not an actual place.
As for the news on that site, the English-language version of the site has been down for a couple of years due to mismanaged funds. The Arabic-language site is run by the government of Iran, so take it with a boulder of salt.