Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Mahmoud Abbas e' un uomo coerente

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/08/abbas-again-tells-lebanese-palestinians.html
Palestine Press Agency reports that Mahmoud Abbas, on a visit to
Lebanon, reiterated that he insists Palestinian Arabs in Lebanon
should remain stateless forever, or at least until Israel is
destroyed:
    The presence of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is temporary and
subject to Lebanese law, and access to civil rights to live with
dignity in Lebanon does not at all mean resettlement. We categorically
reject the principle of resettlement.
Here, Abbas is repeating what he said in 2008:
    We would not accept any settlements that would lead to a
demographic change in Lebanon. This is totally unacceptable ... We
won't accept a settlement that obliges Lebanon to naturalize even one
Palestinian.
And again:
    We assure our Lebanese brothers that the resettlement of refugees
in their country is rejected. We will not accept it.
In 2009, he vehemently came out against the idea of Lebanon issuing
passports to their Palestinian Arab "guests."
In 2005, however, Abbas had no problem with offering citizenship for
Palestinian Arabs in Lebanon - and he was castigated for that by the
self-appointed terrorist leaders in Lebanon.
The Lebanese Palestinians have consistently chosen to become citizens
when they had a chance.
As I have previously written on this topic:
Generations have grown up in Lebanon, raised families, and died, but
their supposed "leader" is more interested in them keeping their
stateless status rather than giving them the simple choice of allowing
them to be more integrated into the land of their birth.
Mahmoud Abbas, that supposedly moderate leader of the PA, the PLO and
Fatah, who claims to represent millions of people of Palestinian Arab
descent, has once again told his people to go screw themselves rather
than give them the option of happiness as full citizens of other Arab
lands. He arrogantly claims to know what is best for his people, and
is dead-set against giving them the option of making their own
decisions.
Because he knows that the majority them would not choose to put their
families through the hell that they have gone through thanks to the
decisions of Arab leaders over the past six decades.
Palestinian Arabs who choose to become citizens of Arab countries
will, by and large, never choose to move to an eventual "Palestine."
They will identify only peripherally as "Palestinian." They will lose
their value as pawns to corrupt, arrogant "leaders" who pretend to
know what is best for them, and whose power derives from their very
misery.
Moreover, if Arab countries would give PalArabs full citizenship, a
significant number of Palestinian Arabs in the territories - hundreds
of thousands, if not over a million - would happily move to Saudi
Arabia or Kuwait or Dubai. (Ironically, they would also have a
positive influence on most of their host Arab countries, as they tend
to be better educated and harder working, and Gulf countries import
many workers from Indonesia and Africa, causing many problems that
could be avoided if Palestinian Arab workers replaced them.)
The operative word here is "choice." Palestinian Arabs are not given
the power to choose where to live, and Arab nations specifically deny
them the ability to become citizens that they give all other Arabs.
Yet there are no "pro-Palestinian" organizations tha lobby on behalf
of real Palestinian Arabs. They all repeat the lie that they can best
help them by fighting Israel, militarily or politically. It is a myth,
and one that is easily disproven - it has not helped them one bit in
63 years. "Human rights" organizations may mention some of these
problems in isolation but they do not push for the simplest, fairest
and cheapest solution to the problem of millions of stateless people.
Abbas, the one person who pretends to represent his people the best,
tells his suffering would-be constituents that their six-decade old
problem is "temporary."
This is a travesty of human rights.
The way to tell if someone is truly pro-Palestinian Arab or is simply
using the Palestinian Arabs as pawns to help destroy Israel is to ask
him one simple question:
Do you support giving all Palestinian Arabs the choice to become full
citizens of any Arab country that they desire, according to the
existing naturalization rules that they have for other Arabs?
This is the question that needs to be asked of every Arab leader,
every Palestinian Arab leader, every NGO, every human rights
organization. It should be hammered in during every interview. They
must be forced to answer the question clearly and forcefully.
Unless they can answer that question in the affirmative, the
inescapable conclusion is that most people who pretend to be "pro-
Palestinian" are nothing more than liars and hypocrites who support
discrimination against the very people they claim they want to help.

 should remain stateless forever
Per la serie: gli amici del popolo palestinese. 

 Per la serie: gli amici del popolo palestinese.
per la serie: non fidarsi delle fonti di uno che confonde il tifo con
l'intendersi di alcunchè. Chè ovviamente Abbas  "or at least until
Israel is destroyed" non l'ha detto da nessuna parte.