powerclown

Its ugly and horrible here in downtown detroit but nobody - not even the naacp - has resorted to throwing around terms like 'apartheid' 'genocide' or 'colonial repression'. Its a ridiculous lefty buzzword that serious minded people should leave out of their vocabluary.

So in 1945 europe there were OVER A MILLION 'displaced persons' in the aftermath of ww2. By 1965, there were precisely ZERO. Think about that for a minute. The various governments concerned, along with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), had resettled them all, and by no means all or even many of them back into their countries of origin. However, the UN Refugee Relief & Work Administration (UNRRWA), set up to deal ONLY with the Palestinian refugee situation, has a major definitional difference from the UNHCR: unlike the latter, it defines anyone displaced AND THEIR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, etc, as refugees – until the end of time. The UNHCR restricted the definition of 'refugee' strictly to those actually displaced. No wonder the 'problem' grew with time, instead of diminishng. Please tell me why the oil-rich Muslim states couldn't solve the refugee problem as easily as the much poorer (at the time) European countries managed.