Definition & Relevance
Noun. A group of people living on a strip of land in the Middle East called Gaza. They have held refugee status for eighty years. Unlike all other refugees in the world, they can’t be resettled because Gaza is their home. They are both refugees and not refugees at the same time.
“Advocates” for Palestine hold Palestinians hostage with an indefinite, limbo status: Permanent Refugees—who also can’t be moved an inch, even during war, because somehow, refugee camps are also their home. (Ethnic Cleansing)
How is moving them out of harm’s way in a war “ethnic cleansing”, but they’re also refugees in Gaza?
- ANY other refugee group gets moved out of harm’s way, resettled, and ceases being refugees. Keeping Palestinians stateless harms them for decades.
- They want permanent victimhood and permanent refugee status, when it means leveraging that to destroy Israel by reputation or by demographics. Yet they refuse to leave “refugee camps” (that have literal malls) because it’s also their home. It can’t be both.
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See Also
- Schrödinger (disambiguation page), for more on ceasefire, genocide, and status
- Free Palestine – when neither word means what you think
