An article this week by Joseph Farah in WorldNetDaily.com places the suffering of Arab refugees in perspective. Farah writes that despite Arab accusations about alleged Israeli mistreatment of Palestinians, many Muslim nations \"have done far less for Arab Palestinians than Israel has.\" As examples, he cited a new Lebanese law depriving Palestinians of the right to own property. The Jordan Times reported, \"Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, who have long been denied many civil rights including the right to work, now face a new obstacle in their precarious lives.\" The Times explains that the bill was passed to protect the \"right\" of Palestinian refugees to eventually return to Israel. Farah jumps on it: \"Don\'t you love that? We are protecting your rights by denying your rights. Only in the Arab world could such hypocritical duplicity occur without international ridicule and universal denunciation.\"



Other Lebanese laws deny Palestinians citizenship, governmental medical, social and educational services, 74 forms of employment, and more.