Similar offers have been made throughout the last 20 years. The Arab world has refused to accept an offer from the Israeli Government which would mean implicit recognition of the existence of the State of Israelsomething no Arab politician has been willing to do for the last 20 years. While we might sympathize with the outraged pride of the losers in 1948. we must weigh in the balance the squalor of the refugee camps in 1969. Far less excusable than Arab refusal to .accept Israel funds is the treatment doled out to the refugees by their brothers in Islam. Channing B. Richardson. professor of political science at Hamilton College. N.Y.. in his study of the refugee problem. reports: With a few exceptions. the refugees have not been wanted in the countries into which they have fled. Egypt evacuated the few thousand refugees who fled there. turning them back into the tiny Gaza strip and maintaining close guard lest any of the 200.000 slip back. Lebanon places severe restrictions on the refugees who have fled into her territories. Syria. with the largest usable area of arable land upon which hundreds of thousands could begin life anew. will accept no more. Only the tiny kingdom of Jordan granted the refugees citizenship and began some tentative resettlement programs. The reasons involved reflect no credit on the Arab nations. In many cases. tight control of the land by a few wealthy families has led to exploitation that no Palestinian would accept.
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