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a gigantic Gaza strip filled with desperate people with no hope, jobs or prospects. ... Palestinians from what is now Israeli territory evacuated ... The Arab nations lost, and then refused to resettle the refugees in their territories

The Palestinians, even during the terrible winter of 1949, when there was a high number of deaths in the camps, did not spend their time looting or shooting at one another. There is a strong family basis in their society. It is patriarchal and stable, they have values - especially when they were the generation of the villages and the fields. Being an UNWRA worker to the camps was quite a safe job.

Let’s do the same. We have to. No government can build a refugee center to replace New Orleans, but people throughout the US can rebuild families, one at a time. Most of us, who own a computer, have a couch that a single refugee could sleep on. Others of us may be fortunate enough to have enough room to house a family. Here is a computer list that will hopefully match the homeless to one of us.

Our church is discussing how to facilitate this tonite. This will work for middle-class New Orleanians and for Christian New Orleanians, regardless of class. Americans all over and especially Christian Americans are trying to figure out how to make their extra bedroom house a family from NO as I write. Most New Orleanians who are middle class or Christian will be back on their feet (probably in a city other than NO) within a year with the help of hundreds-of-thousands of American families.

But the big problem is the NO underclass. If they get moved to refugee camps, the camps will turn into violent, drug-filled ghettos quickly and the race pimps will make every attempt to enforce order there into a huge racial issue.

But if they don't go to refugee camps, where to they go? It's going to be hard to find placement for them in people's homes, even Christian homes, because noone wants to subject their own family to danger and because non-Christian underclass members are perceived as a risky proposition in that regard.

So if we set up refugee camps, they are likely to become permanent. I believe it is therefore important to disperse the NO underclass from the very start rather than put it all in one or two big spots. A concentrated underclass is what we have now in NO and they are shooting at rescue boats and helicoptors. That's not going to change when they get pissed off about refugee camp conditions. The problem is, how do you disperse the underclass when noone wants them in their homes?

This is the biggest single problem that will come out of Katrina and it is a wound that will fester for years. In effect, the NO underclass has been in a refugee camp for years. It's just that it has been hidden from the cameras in bad parts of NO. It looks to me like tent cities filled with the NO underclass are inevitable. So the refugee camps will be front-and-center and the tv cameras and the race-pimps will be drawn irresistably to it, like flies to a corpse. Many will suffer. The camps will be a source of racial hatred and violence for years to come.