Why would countries like Jordan and Lebanon not grant citizenship to the Palestinian refugees living there?
A complicated history determined the current situation. But, speaking for Jordan, this country believed for decades that Palestine was part of Jordan. The West Bank was once an administrative province of Jordan. But we cannot say even today that Palestinians have seen full integration. Lebanon, too, was always a kind of shelter for Palestinians. But the Palestinian population, as a highly politicized group, has become a kind of threat to the established Arab regimes. What else would you say about Hamas in Gaza? We usually talk about the issue of Gaza and Hamas when there is a massive Israeli attack. That is unfortunate because there is no ethical reasoning or analysis you can find when Israeli forces attack a school under the protection of the United Nations and children die. When there is fire, you first try to save lives. So there are ethical and psychological constraints under circumstances in which there is a human struggle in Gaza and it is hard to be critical of Hamas and questio
