Arabien - Arabische Liga

[Shahab3]

Fraglich wie man hierzulande am Arbeitsmarkt reagieren würden, wenn praktisch über Nacht umgerechnet 8 Millionen Vertriebene "Glaubensbrüder" ins Land kämen. Hinzu kommt, dass die politische und ethnische Situation im Libanon wesentlich komplizierter ist. De facto ist die Erleichterung der Arbeitssituation für die Palästinenser in den letzten Jahren vor allem immer wieder am Veto der Maroniten gescheitert. Heute, wo diese nur noch einen Drittel der libanesischen Bevölkerung ausmachen und die durch den Bürgerkrieg verschärften Gräben wieder zuwachsen, lässt sich dies nun offenbar leichter durchsetzen. Gratulation an die Palästinenser und Libanesen, dass sie da in diesem Punkt entscheidend vorwärts gekommen sind.

Ein gutes Beispiel aus der dieser Entscheidung vorausgegangenen politischen Debatte:

First Published 2010-07-12
Lebanon MPs debate Palestinian refugees’ fate

Rival Lebanese leaders feud over whether to grant Palestinian refugees long-denied basic rights.
By Natacha Yazbeck - BEIRUT
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Prime Minister Saad Hariri's bloc, in favour of extending these rights to the refugees, is close to an agreement with their Christian Maronite allies, according to parliamentarians.

Christians across the board balked at the issue of property rights as well as arms inside Palestinian camps, which are immune to state control.

Bitterly divided Maronite leaders are for once united -- all fear the move would be a slippery slope to permanent resettlement and giving the refugees full-fledged citizenship, which in turn would tilt Lebanon's delicate sectarian balance drastically in favour of Muslims.

"We fully support the humanitarian rights of Palestinian refugees, that was never the issue," Maronite MP Ibrahim Kanaan said. "From the onset, the issue was political."
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"When you progressively turn a Palestinian refugee from a person in exile into a resident of the country of exile ... it becomes a grey area," Kanaan said.

"Tawteen is not just about identity papers."

The threat of "tawteen," an Arabic term for the naturalisation and resettlement of Palestinians, looms large over Christians, a diminishing community which largely depends on Lebanon's system of "consensual" democracy to preserve its share in power.
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