French court upholds ban on pro-Palestine Paris demonstration

If there was any real interest to promote a solution that would reduce the suffering and improve the conditions under which Palestinians live in the occupied territories, Lebanon, Syria and a Jordan things today would’ve been quite different.

A good start would be to shelve the n State solution and focus on normalizing relations; both Palestinians and Israelis care predominantly about having a roof over their heads, food on their tables and employment opportunities for them and their children. Europe is peaceful because even the most destitute of nations in it allow a quality of life that most people on this planet would envy.

The second issue that should be the primary focus of anyone who cares about making people’s lives better rather than driving a political issue one way or another is the recognition of Palestinians as refugees and transferring their administration to the UNHCR instead of UNRWA.

UNRWA mandate is nothing less than to ensure that displaced people continue to suffer through generations, they aren’t allowed to offer anything but the most basic assistance, build permanent structures which is why refugee camps still exist and the displaced Palestinians have none of the rights that refugees do including equal access to employment, health care and education.

They do however have some “unique” rights like being able to transfer their status (males only) to their children which produces quite comical scenarios such as a person who was born to a Palestinian father in Qatar, immigrated to the United Kingdom and adopted a Malaysian child that child is now considered a Palestinian refugee.

Now I’m not claiming that the adopted child will seek to use their rights as a Palestinian refugee to return but the fact that the process that governs Palestinian “refugees” puts more focus on ensuing that their numbers continue to grow over granting them basic rights such as the right to employment or education is shameful and it was specifically created because the Arab League would not have backed the UN convention on refugees otherwise.