From: max_demian@bigfoot.com 
  
 On 18/09/2024 15:42, Pamela wrote: 
 > On 20:25  17 Sep 2024, Tim Jackson said: 
 >> On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:23:59 +0100, Pamela wrote... 
 >>> 
 >>> Nor can someone be "fleeing war" if they left the war zone two years 
 >>> ago and have been living safely elsewhere. 
 >> 
 >> If they have *settled* somewhere for two years already, the Refugee 
 >> Convention and the UNHCR both agree with you. 
 >> 
 >> However, living in a refugee camp is not settling. 
 > 
 > The Palestinians turned that into an art-form and claimed refugee status 
 > many generations after being displaced, even though their "camps" in 
 > Gaza were built of brick and masonry with mod cons and the standard of 
 > living was not so very different to that of Europe. 
  
 That's because they think they have the right to live in Greater 
 Palestine, in the same way that (some, influential) Israelis think they 
 have the right to live in Greater Israel. 
  
 Unfortunately the two "Greaters" coincide geographically. 
  
 I think that the Palestinian claim is more recent: Israelis have to go 
 back to the Hebrew Bible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel 
  
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