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Thanks to Franklin Lamb for sending this to DS.
by Franklin Lamb
Dandelion Salad
20 April, 2010
Part I: Hiba’s Story, Ein el Helwe Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon: Can Lebanon Come in from The Cold
Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp
Beirut, Lebanon
As of mid-April 2010 there are no fewer than six draft laws, half of them ‘embargoed for now’ being circulated and debated in Lebanon, any one of which if adopted by Parliament, would grant Lebanon’s Palestinians, for the first time since their 1948 expulsion from Palestine, some elementary civil rights including the right to work, to have an ID, and to own a home.
Part Three of this discussion will reveal publicly for the first time, with the permission of the various Drafting committees, the changes in Lebanon’s laws each one advocates.
Despite the fact that bookies and odd makers at Lebanon’s main Casino in Jounieh decline to give odds on any of the drafts actually being enacted by Parliament, Lebanon’s political leaders are talking sweet.
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