UN official: Situation at Palestinian refugee camp in Syria 'beyond inhumane' - Middle East

The very top post says they are denied citizenship. If they don't have citizenship then by default they are refugees! You think the UN is responsible for Syrian policy?

You're intentionally conflating multiple things. Syria's policy is a result of the Arab refusal to integrate Palestinian refugees, but that's really not what we're talking about.

We're talking about the ridiculous double standard.

They aren't just descendants of refugees, they are actual refugees.

Only if you define "Palestinian Refugee" differently than every other refugee.

If not what are they ? Syrian citizens without Syrian citizenship?

I don't know, maybe Syrian nationals without citizenship?

What's really disingenuous is that if Syria offers them citizenship, the same voices will say to them 'well you arent Palestinian now, you have no claim to return to the westbank or Israel'

That's how refugees work, unfortunately. Bosnian refugees in the United States wont have automatic claim to immigrate to Bosnia, and Irish immigrants/refugees who fled partisan fighting in Ireland don't have the right to be repatriated because their father's father's father left Ireland.

Ireland could pass laws allowing them to immigrate (I believe Poland has similar laws, for anyone who was a citizen or descendant of a citizen after the kingdom was dissolved, but I'm not sure), but the international community doesn't have standing to force that.

It's shameful. Make no mistake they are attacking refugees

No they're not, and repeating it doesn't make it so. Everyone in this thread is condemning the organizations that pretend refugee is a fluid status, but only for Palestinians.

they want them out of Israel, they want them out of the westbank too.

"They" are very, very evil, aren't "they"? Or could it be we're looking at confirmation bias?

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