The Palestinian Fright of Return

Honest Reporting/Backspin
25 August '10

The BBC opened up a can of worms for Palestinian refugees. Turns out third-generation refugees living in Syria aren't interested in the so-called "right of return," and they said as much to reporter Lina Sinjab:

With generations of Palestinians now having lived in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East, they have established deep roots outside their ancestral homeland.

But it is rare for them to publicly admit these views.

"On the record, because it is politically incorrect to say otherwise, all of them would say 'Yes, we would return to Palestine'. But once you sit with them in private, you hear a very different point of view," says political analyst Sami Mubayyed.

"Why would a businessman leave their comfort zone? Home is where the heart and the money is."

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