Risking Israel's ire, US takes 1,350 Palestinian refugees

Christian Science Monitor | Jul. 8, 2009 (News Report)

he State Department confirmed today that as many as 1,350 Iraqi Palestinians – once the well-treated guests of Saddam Hussein and now at outs with much of Iraqi society – will be resettled in the US, mostly in southern California, starting this fall.

It will be the largest-ever resettlement of Palestinian refugees into the US – and welcome news to the Palestinians who fled to Iraq after 1948 but who have had a tough time since Mr. Hussein ... Full Story »

Posted by Fabrice Florin - via Christian Science Monitor, Memeorandum

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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Jul 8, 2009 - 2:34 PM PDT
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