> Unless you can explain further how the right of return is somehow a political party, or a "stigma" that people are trying to "disentangle" themselves from?
I guess I assumed you had some basic knowledge of the situation there.
Explaining properly would take too long, but in short part of the reason there is no political solution to the conflict, is that the Palestinians insist on the right of return to decedents of former Palestinians into Israel proper. Israel would obviously never agree to that. (They could return to the newly created Palestine, but apparently that's not an option for them - they only want Israel.)
So that's your political party connection. And as for stigma anyone who is listed on that register is basically permanently excluded from citizenship in their country of birth.
Former Palestinians who were born in Lebanon would prefer to be Lebanese citizens and work there, but they can't, because of that registry. etc, etc, etc, for all the other Arab countries in the area (Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, etc). No one wants Palestinians, so I'm sure a ton of them would prefer to shed that label and live like other Arabs in those states, but they can't.
Thanks -- I understand what you were trying to say now.
And I do have some basic knowledge. But I still don't think what you're saying has anything to do with a "stigma" or "political party".
The whole "citizenship in their country of birth" thing is a red herring. Lots of countries don't provide citizenship to the children of immigrants who are themselves not citizens. There are jus soli countries that provide citizenship if you are born there, and jus sanguinis countries that determine citizenship based on the citizenship of your parents. Lebanon is a jus sanguinis country.
So I don't see how this has anything to do with whether someone received services from UNRWA. Lebanon isn't providing citizenship to Palestinians if their parents aren't Lebanese. They wouldn't provide citizenship to an American born in Lebanon either, if their parents weren't Lebanese.
You're using the UNRWA as some kind of stand-in for nationality, but past history with the UNRWA isn't the relevant part here.
Unless you can tell me that a Palestinian, born to Palestinian parents, on Lebanese soil, does somehow get Lebanese citizenship if their name doesn't show up on any UNRWA data? Which I don't believe is the case.
In other words, none of this has to do with some affiliation with UNRWA. It's just quite simply your citizenship period.
I guess I assumed you had some basic knowledge of the situation there.
Explaining properly would take too long, but in short part of the reason there is no political solution to the conflict, is that the Palestinians insist on the right of return to decedents of former Palestinians into Israel proper. Israel would obviously never agree to that. (They could return to the newly created Palestine, but apparently that's not an option for them - they only want Israel.)
So that's your political party connection. And as for stigma anyone who is listed on that register is basically permanently excluded from citizenship in their country of birth.
Former Palestinians who were born in Lebanon would prefer to be Lebanese citizens and work there, but they can't, because of that registry. etc, etc, etc, for all the other Arab countries in the area (Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, etc). No one wants Palestinians, so I'm sure a ton of them would prefer to shed that label and live like other Arabs in those states, but they can't.