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The Middle East “Peace Process” – Oh No, Not Again
by Shoshana Bryen
October 19, 2015

West Bank Palestinians are — and are known to be — the most privileged refugees in the world. They are not running; they do not have to. Unlike Syrians, no one is dropping barrel bombs on them, starving them, or refusing them entry — as Jordan does with Palestinians among the refugees from Syria. The West Bank Palestinians have homes, food, jobs (often with Israeli companies that pay three times the prevailing Palestinian West Bank wages), education, political parties, seats in parliament, and relative security. Gazans are different, but Israel ensures that they have the basics. Palestinians are irrelevant in the world, except that they suck up a vastly disproportionate share of the world’s aid money, which has allowed the PA to create a bureaucracy that even Palestinians complain is corrupt and unresponsive. READ MORE