Why don the Arab nations simply absorb the Palestinians into their own countries?
Approximately 3 million Palestinians live in diaspora, outside the country they claim as their homeland. Many still live in refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. Many have moved to Saudi Arabia and other Arab Gulf countries; some have moved to other parts of the world. Many Palestinian refugees want to return to Palestine, and their children and grandchildren want to live there. They have no interest in settling in another country, and numerous UN resolutions state the right of the refugees to return to their homelands. Other Arab countries back them up. The economic, social and political impact of absorbing such a large number of people from another place would present a tremendous burden on countries as well as change the demographics of the country. Isn’t Jordan really a Palestinian country? At the end of 2000, Palestinians constituted more than half of Jordan’s total population. Jordan has given citizenship to the Palestinian refugees who entered the country in 1948 and 1949
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