[swany]

Ironically the Lebanese claim that they won't allow the Palestinians festering in UN run terrorist training camps citizenship because it will upset the "delicate ethnic balance" of Lebanon.

That sure is interesting. Could you site a source for this or lead me to one?

[adam_az]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=lebanon+delicate+ethnic+balance

[SJackson]

Selected Jordanian policies, in the context of the Camp David proposal that some of the refugees living in camps in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon be resettled in those countries. Their position, even at that lated date, is that the refugees must be resettled in Israel proper. Note Jordan won’t resettle them, but they want compensation too.

Jordan Times Thursday, January 11, 2001

US President Bill Clinton has proposed to the Palestinians and Israelis a bundle of proposals which includes shared sovereignty over East Jerusalem, the refusal of the return of millions of Palestinian refugees to their homeland and the rehabilitation of these refugees in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and other countries….

“The memo stressed that Jordan will reject any solution that will not take into consideration its national rights, and the rights of the refugees,”….

Hiyari said Jordan considers Palestinians who fled here in 1948, as a result of the Arab-Israeli war, as Jordanian citizens “with full rights”…

“The premier told us that Jordan is against settling Palestinian refugees in Jordan and insists on their right to return [to British-mandate Palestine] and their right to compensation,” Deputy Salameh Hiyari said. ….

Officials say the government will insist on the return of displaced Palestinians — those who left their homes in the West Bank after the Kingdom lost the area to Israel in the 1967 war. ….

The premier also emphasised Jordan's right to be compensated for the “hardships and difficulties” it suffered as a result of hosting refugees. ….