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shira (1000+ posts)      Mon Feb-23-09 06:45 PM
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The suffering of Palestinians in Iraq
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x262213

At the moment so much is being said by so many people about the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, but none of them seem to care about another group of Palestinians who very rarely make the news but whose suffering is no less real:

"After 18 members of her family were brutally murdered by Shi’ite militiamen in Baghdad, Nadia Othman, a 36-year-old Palestinian mother of three, finally managed to escape to Jordan together with hundreds of Palestinian families that had been living in Iraq for decades. In 2006, more than 600 Palestinians were killed in the Iraqi capital in what Palestinian leaders and political activists are describing as a “systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing.” <...>

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But nobody seems to care about this. In January 2007, this alert from UNHCR appeared on Reuters. Only the Washington Post wrote an article in response. The next attempt to raise awareness of the Palestinians in Iraq was even less successful: in March 2008 UNHCR put out this alert and only the Kuwaiti News Agency responded. Certainly, there has been some coverage of this story, notably from the Jerusalem Post and the IHT/NY Times but, despite a couple of articles in the UK press this month, such examples remain rare and public awareness close to non-existent.

Which raises the question - with so many people focussed on the suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza, why does nobody give a damn about Palestinians when they are in Iraq?

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http://www.hurryupharry.org/2009/02/22/the-suffering-of...

 
How about their treatment in Jordan? They are basically in refugee camps in that country- after they tried to revolt and overthrow the King...

How many people here want o bet that these numbers of Sunni victims are layed at our door when the leftists count the bodies teh evil * mercenaries killed?

Oh, and btw, the SUNNIs brutally murdered thousands of Shi'ai in Iraq under Saddam...payback is a bitch.

New fire, no answers yet...but there will be.

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Anyone ever get the feeling that the Palestinians are not a group of people that others really want anything to do with?  Even if they were to get every Jew to move out of Isreal and the Palestinians moved into that area, I bet it wouldn't be long until they got into some kind of tussle with Lebannon, Syria, and/or Jordan.

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You might have to be a little more specific there. There are several that easily fit that description. 

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How about their treatment in Jordan? They are basically in refugee camps in that country- after they tried to revolt and overthrow the King...

How many people here want o bet that these numbers of Sunni victims are layed at our door when the leftists count the bodies teh evil * mercenaries killed?

Oh, and btw, the SUNNIs brutally murdered thousands of Shi'ai in Iraq under Saddam...payback is a bitch.

New fire, no answers yet...but there will be.

The Palestinians have a way of winning hearts and minds wherever they go.  After getting kicked out of Jordan for plotting against King Hussein, they became persona non grata in Kuwait for siding with Saddam against the Emir in Gulf I.

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Anyone ever get the feeling that the Palestinians are not a group of people that others really want anything to do with?  Even if they were to get every Jew to move out of Isreal and the Palestinians moved into that area, I bet it wouldn't be long until they got into some kind of tussle with Lebannon, Syria, and/or Jordan.

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Yes they do seem to be a rather combative group!