The Palestinian refugees deserve to return to their homes. The Palestinian people were living peacefully in Palestine for many generations. Today there are 4,375,050 Palestinian refugees living in neighbouring countries such as Jordan, Syria, West bank/ Gaza and Lebanon. I strongly disagree with the fact that so many innocent Palestinians have been force to flee their own homes in hope of finding safety. The Palestinians were innocently living there when they were evicted from their homes, and they need to be able to seek safety in a home once again. The Palestinian refugee crisis is one of the world’s biggest issues today. Israel's declaration of independence in May 1948, forced more than 350,000 Palestinians to flee their native land as …show more content…
The state of Israel has refused the right of letting these refugees return home in violation of international laws. At the same time, in an example of inequality and discrimination, Israel has declared itself the state of all the Jews in the world and automatically grants citizenship to any Jewish person anywhere in the world who seeks to imigrate to Israel. A Jew living in Canada, for example, who has never lived in Israel, can automatically gain the benefits of citizenship under the Law of Return, one of Israel's Basic Laws, while a Palestinian refugee whose family lived in Palestine for hundreds of years is unlikely even to gain a visa for a brief visit to his or her former home, let alone obtain the right to return there to live. What this information shows is that they are refusing to Palestinians citizenship, to the people who have lived there for generations before themselves, and to the people they kicked out causing them to be desperate and homeless. They have left the Palestinians homeless and desperate. However they are allowing Jews who have never lived in Israel to gain citizen ship easily. The Palestinians should be allowed to return to Palestine, their home land. The fact that is that, that land will always belong to Palestinians and they deserve the right to return to their home land. Why should a random Jew who has never lived in Israel be able to live in Israel, …show more content…
His family fled their homes in 1948, in hope of finding safety in Lebanon and they have now been living for 55 years in Lebanon as refugees. Without citizenship or human rights. Youssef El Loubani grew up stateless, in Bourj el-Barajneh refugee camp, under unbearable hardship, he had to live every day of his life persecuted and discriminated against. As a Palestinian, he has no right to work in almost 80 professions, own or inherit property, access public education or healthcare, and travel freely. As a child he grew up in a war zone. He is always hungry and barely sleeps from fear of bomb attacks. During these times they are unable to leave the camps, when he was five years old, his family were in their house when a bomb exploded on the roof. Most of them were injured. Youssef El Loubani was injured near his heart and needed surgery and hospitalization. Later his father died, and his sister was kidnapped when she was 11 for almost 4 years, she was kept in a Syria and was raped repeatedly, she returned home at age 15 then a couple months later her family and her found out she was pregnant. This is a story about a Palestinian refugee who grew up in a refugee camp. You can see this story demonstrates the awful living conditions many Palestinian people have to live in. What have they done to deserve this? They have not broken any laws, and yet they were calmly living in
were outside of the border to be citizens of Israel.The leaders were just trying to make
According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, refugee is a term applied to anyone who is outside his/her own country and cannot return due to the fear of being persecuted on the basis of race, religion, nationality, membership of a group or political opinion. Many “refugees” that the media and the general public refer to today are known as internally displaced persons, which are people forced to flee their homes to avoid things such as armed conflict, generalized violations of human rights or natural and non-natural disasters. These two groups are distinctly different but fall ...
The film “Five Broken Cameras” by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi portrays the essence of injustice in oppression by offering a raw, unfiltered and rich look into the lives of the most vulnerable of Palestinians. The Palestinian farmers who live in the disputed region, where Israel has since erected a large fence, lived through a period of great oppression in which their government offered little to no protection for their families or lands. To capture the importance of their experience it is necessary to experience a full version of their communities existence in all its complex beauty. As Mike Hoolboom states in his article From Lebanon to Kelowna: an interview with Jayce Salloum, “As we’ve come to know the Palestinian condition, it’s been
After World War II, the United Nations handed the Jewish people a piece a land so they could live together. This land known as Israel has holy places for the Jewish religion and is surrounded by Muslim countries. Before the United Nations relinquished the land to the Jewish people it belonged to the Palestinian Muslims. This land is important to the Muslims as they consider it holy. There is a religious belief among Palestinians to regain control of East Jerusalem as part of lasting peace region. Also Palestinians are in an occupied nation with Israelis have military rule. The Palestinians have retaliated with a terrorist network to attack innocent Israeli civilians. Israelis believe they must control the Palestinians with military force to protect against terrorism.
Has there ever been a day where your home has just been taken from you? Life as a Jewish refugee in the Middle East was definitely a difficult thing during and after WWII because there was so much fighting between nations. The Jewish people just wanted a homeland so they could be free from persecution. The Arab people that were already living in the existing state of Palestine were extremely upset with the attempt to form the Jewish state of Israel; other countries that weren’t interested with the countries assisting the Jewish people used the Arab’s anger and resentment to their advantage. The Jews needed a homeland free from persecution because after the Holocaust, none of the countries surround Germany wanted to take the Jewish people in; this left them with nowhere to go. The creation of the state of Israel was a bad decision because it angered the Arab inhabitants already living in the state of Palestine; the Jewish people should have been able to immigrate to other countries instead.
It was not their intention to cause a refugee crisis. Most Arabs did not want to become citizens of Israel but for the Arabs who accepted, equal citizenship with fulfilled. Though not always successful the Israel 's government did what they could to give Palestinian Arabs better lives.
Refugees do not simply choose to be “refugees.” There are many aspects that go into account when displacement occurs. War is often associated with refugee displacement. Even a simple task of walking in the streets can be dangerous. In an interview with Time magazine, Syrian refugee Faez al Sharaa says that he was held up at gunpoint with three other people in his homeland after soldiers accused him of being a terrorist. "We felt death upon us," Sharaa said (Altman 24). His backyard turned into a battle ground, while young kids were fighting for their lives (Altman 24). War
Those who do not fear persecution are not considered in this definition, for instance, people escaping from natural disasters, because they do not have a fear of persecution. In addition, even though the individuals do face persecution, they are not considered as refugees if they are not ‘on the basis of’ of one of the protected grounds. Even those who face persecution on the basis of a protected ground, they cannot be declared as refugees because they are not outside their country of citizenship. The most controversial notion is that those who have been driven from their homes but who have not crossed international borders, so-called ‘Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs), are not in the definition of refugee, even though they have all the characteristics of a refugee except that they have not crossed an international border. The UNHCR has played their part in helping such persons in the last thirty or so years, but has still not considered them as refugees which makes them hard to have full benefits of what refugees should get. Hence, Lister aims to portray that these restrictions have a rational
Going through this, seeing the way other Syrians treated me and how they tortured me without any pity, looking at their faces which seemed to be as cold as ice, made me feel as if I was a stranger in my own country. As I stayed longer in captivity, the feeling of being a stranger grew inside me. I was being slowly detached from the place I’m in, from my country. And by time it wasn’t only the kidnappers that thought of me as a stranger, but I myself recognized that I was too. Everything seemed odd: the walls, the land, even the sound of language the people spoke was eccentric to me. Reading Ahmed Mohsen’s article all of those feelings directly arose to me. For Ahmed downtown Beirut seemed a strange
... I believe that Israel must abide by international law, and should be stopped when these laws are violated. I believe that the Palestinians must be given their rights. I fully understand that Israel is extremely concerned about it’s safety as it is mostly surround by enemy’s however I do not believe that the oppression and ultimate control of the Palestinians will bring this safety they long for, but do the very opposite instead.
“Syrian children: The Forgotten Victims.” Your Middle East.Your Middle East. 10 Feb 2014. Web. 11 Feb 2014.
A refugee is defined as an individual who has been forced to leave their country due to political or religious reasons, or due to a threat of war or violence. There were 19.5 million refugees worldwide at the end of 2014, 14.4 million under the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), around 2.9 million more than in 2013. The other 5.1 million Palestinian refugees are registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). With the displacement of so many people, it is difficult to find countries willing to accept all the refugees. There are over 125 different countries that currently host refugees, and with this commitment comes the responsibility of ensuring these refugees have access to the basic requirements of life: a place to live, food to eat, and a form of employment or access to education.
The first chapter of the book provides a highly informative background and history to the concept of refugees, as well as their relevance to the modern international political system. The authors importantly point out that defining a refugee is not simply a matter of academic concern because resulting definitions may mean the difference between life and death for people in conflict zones. Defining a refugee involves political and ethical considerations, inevitably creating disagreement regarding the issue. For example, when refugees are defined in a certain way by the United Nations, research will consequently revolve around such definitions and will help support the status quo of the institut...
Nationality is between a country and a person, sometimes the people who are no relate to any country, call stateless. Also some of the stateless can be refugees, these two groups of people is care by UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). Nationless is a very big problem; it may affect more than 10 billion people in this world. Everyone in the world can be having their human right, but some activity in country only able nationals to participate, for example: election. Also much of the stateless didn't have their right, they may never get the ID of the country, just get in to jail, losing the chance of education and health services or can’t get a job (UNHCR, 2014). This article is talking about what power of the nation states has to manage issues and effect the beyond national boundaries. By the refugee Convention (1967), refugees can be applying t person who is fear to persecute by race, religion, nationality, or the member of a social group and government. In this person is don't want himself protect by that country who fear, also don't want to return to that country. By the divide of UNHCR, there are four types of people, which they care: Asylum-Seeker, Stateless people, Internally Displaced People and Returnees. Asylum-Seeker refers to the person who is finding the international protection, not all the asylum-seeker final can be a refugee, but all the refugees begin is an asylum-seeker. Stateless people refer to who are not relating to any country and national. Internally displaced people refer to the people who are forced to leave their home because of the wars, or some human problem, and getting in to another country from the border. Returnees refer to the people who return to their own country, they are supported by UNHCR when they arrive (UNHCR, 2014). The nation state is a country; they have the political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity. A country is mix by culture and nation that mean a nation state may in the same place. Much of the nation state is forms by a people with a polity
Since 2011, Syrian refugees have been fleeing their country and looking for safety in places like Turkey. There is a great global debate on the solution to this refugee crisis involving as many as 20 independent countries plus the European Union. The United States is caught in a debate of its own on whether to take in Syrian refugees because of a conflict of domestic safety and global humanitarian obligation. By analyzing the historical background of the United States regarding Jewish, Hungarian, and Cuban refugees, there are distinct similarities and differences between the political decisions, domestic response, and overall effectiveness of refugee policy compared to the current Syrian Refugee