Comments by "Kalimdor199" (@Kalimdor199Menegroth) on "Why Israel was attacked" video.

Which is at the core of this issue. All the past refugee crises have been resolved one way or another through one of the three solutions: 1. Naturalization 2. Refugees returning back post-war 3. Redistribution with UN mediation to other countries willing to take them in. The only unique case is the Palestinian case. You will find no other people having been refugees for more than a generation, much less 3 or 4. I guess maintaining this anomaly was one of the ways with which the Arab world coped with its defeats in Israel, keeping the Palestinian refugees and their descendants locked perpetually in camps, without any possibility of integrating in their new host countries. They kept hoping that one day, Israel will be defeated and they will return back after the Jews are driven into the sea... which didn't happen.
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@lamondaforestry Not really. Technically they left their houses, but not their country or territory. They still reside within Cyprus. Palestinians are refugees in other countries, like Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt or Syria. Also, the Greek Cypriots who used to live in the northern portion now occupied by Turkey are not refugees. Or at least they are not classified as such by international law anymore.
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@PMMagro Yes. Turkey hasn't had a war since like 30 years. Jordan's last war in 1967. Lebanon may not be economically stable, but the civil war there ended way back. Also, part of the reason why Jordan and Lebanon are or were unstable is thanks to Palestinians.
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@Pavlos_Charalambous Referring to them as such is irrelevant. I am talking about whether they have an internationally recognized statute of refugees, living in camps. For Palestinians, there is an UN special institution dedicated to them. Do Greeks have the same? Turks who were exchanged referred to themselves too as refugees? Not saying that each country is more favorable to naturalization. Eastern and South Eastern Europe in general naturalizes people much slower for obvious reasons. The West naturalizes much quicker, but with obvious consequences (i.e. lack of proper integration). But despite all the wars and displacements in Europe in the last 100 years, there is no nation or people who have remained refugees until now. Even Armenians. Over 50% of Armenians today live outside Armenia. 110 years ago most of them lived the Caucasus, and didn't have much of a diaspora. These people, who are now at the 4th generation or 5th generation do not regard themselves as refugees.
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@ianward8658 Do they still have refugee status? Do they live in refugee camps?
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@Pavlos_Charalambous Back then there was no UN so to speak. So states had to resolve the issues pertaining to population displacements, refugees, etc. Either alone or bilaterally through treaties. The former League of Nations didn't have a body that handled refugee issues. As a Romanian, we also had people that were refugees, population exchanges, albeit not to the scale of Greece-Turkey.
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What do you mean by PoK?
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