Well, there's no excuse for anyone reading this thread, is there?
Here's a more complete list of how Palestinians are being treated by their Arab, Muslim brothers.
Jordan:
1967: Jordan refused to allow Gazans who came after the Six Day War to become Jordanian citizens.
Todaysome 165,000 Palestinians in Jordan cannot become citizens and get no government services.
1988: Jordan
revoked citizenship for millions of West Bank Palestinians as they declared "independence." As usual, this move was justified as being for their own good.
2012: Jordan
passed an electoral law that effectively limits the number of Palestinian members of Parliament to less than 10%
2014: Palestinians who are citizens are
still denied equal rights in the military, and on getting college scholarships and being admitted to some public universities, among other areas.
Egypt:
1948: Placed all Palestine refugees that reached Egypt into camps, forced men to go back to Palestine to fight.
1949: Expelled all Palestinian from Egyptian camps into Gaza. Very few Palestinian Arabs were left in Egypt.
1950: Egypt refused any UNRWA presence on its territory, relegating it to Gaza.
1949 - 1956: Any Palestinians in Egypt were barred from schooling and employment.
1970s: Palestinians who were treated equally under Nasser are
officially classified as "foreigners"and lose access to Egyptian social and food subsidy programs. Most jobs are closed off to them along with university education.
2013: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees from Syria
placed into jail as they try to enter Egypt
2013-now: Egypt has effectively closed the Rafah border with Gaza, even limiting hospital patients from traveling, effectively imprisoning 1.7 million Gazans.
2015: Egypt refuses to allow Syrian Palestinians to register with UNHCR, meaning that any who manage to make it to Egypt cannot get any services or residency permits. There have also been deportations of Palestinians from Syria.
Lebanon:
1950-58: Would only issue one-way travel documents for Palestinians to leave the country
1962: Palestinians classified as "foreigners":
They are still banned from working as physicians, journalists, pharmacists or lawyers.
They are not permitted to build new houses or own property, or even to repair their homes
Martial law imposed on refugee camps. Army stops people from entering and exiting.
Limitations on schools for Palestinian "foreigners"
Not allowed to live outside refugee camps, which in turn are not allowed to grow. Population of camps is now triple capacity.
Palestinians not allowed to create organizations.
1975-78: At least 5000 Palestinians killed in Lebanese civil war
1995: Law prohibiting Palestinians from entering country
without a visa; and visas weren't issued. Those expelled from Gulf states could not return to Lebanon. (Law repealed in 1999.)
2005:
Specific lawsprohibiting foreigners who are not "nationals of a recognized state" - Palestinians - from owning property. Those who owned it previously cannot pass it to their children.
2007: 31,000 Palestinians homeless because while Lebanese Army destroyed Nahr el Bared camp
2013: Some 50,000 refugees from Syria treated differently from other Syrian refugees; expensive temporary short-term visas effectively make them criminals
May 2014:
restrictions placed on the ability of Palestinians from Syria to legally renew their residency papers.
2015: Palestinians can only stay in Lebanon for nine hours, and they must have visas for a third country.
Kuwait:
Libya:
Arab countries
refused to take in the new refugees. Hundreds were stranded in the desert or the sea. Eventually Libya allowed some to stay but kept threatening to expel them again. In the end about
15,000were forced to go to Arab countries they had documents for, Gulf countries, and Western nations.
Iraq:
Early 1950s:
Expelled striking Palestinian workers, along with Saudi Arabia and Libya..
2005: After Saddam Hussein lost power, Palestinians in Iraq were subjected to
abduction, hostage-taking, killing and torture from armed groups. Politicians derided them. About
15,000 were forced to leave Iraq. Thousands were stranded in camps in the desert between Iraq and Syria, where no Arab country would allow them to enter.
Qatar:
Syria:
1970: Palestinians
cannot vote, cannot run for office, cannot own farmland, cannot own more than one property..
2005-2008: Syria did not allow thousands of Palestinian Arab refugees fleeing from Iraq to enter the country.