Palestinians, Lebanese Shi'ites forced to leave UAE

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GAZA, Sept 4 (Reuters) - A number of Palestinians and Lebanese Shi'ites have been forced to leave the United Arab Emirates in recent months, Palestinian and Lebanese officials said on Friday.

Hussam Ahmed, head of the Refugee Affairs Department in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, said hundreds of Palestinians had been dismissed from their jobs in the UAE for security reasons.

"(This is) an operation of mass displacement of Palestinians in the UAE, especially those of Gaza origins, without known reasons other than security pretexts," he said in a statement issued in Gaza on Thursday, citing the UAE town of al-Ain.

He said many did not have passports, and Arab states would not accept them with the travel documents they had.

http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSL4682977

[LeftishBrit]

1. Disgusting

[Duckhunter935]

2. Israels fault

It must be some where, as we all know the Arab states can do now wrong.

[LeftishBrit]

3. The Palestinians are everyone's pawns

They are badly treated by Israel.

They are badly treated by much of their own leadership.

They are badly treated by many of the Arab states.

The first two of these are frequently pointed out, though not often by the same people. The last of these gets rather less mention, but is just as true.

[Vegasaurus]

4. Unfortunately for the Palestinians

blaming everything on Israel and Jews absolves them and their Arab brethren from any responsibility in their plight.

If the Palestinian leadership or the Arab states cared at all about the Palestinian people, their situation would not be the same as it was 60 years ago.

[Violet_Crumble]

5. We all don't know anything of the sort...

What a stupid thing to say...