"Refugee Camp" is the Preferred Political Term for Ignorant MSM

This is a typical headline from a mainstream media outlet (in this case MSNBC).

The media use the term "refugee camps" to describe Palestinian towns and neighborhoods in Lebanon that are currently under attack by the Lebanese army for harboring Islamic radicals; fleeing, they are now apparently refugees from their refugee camps.

Of course "refugee camp" implies that the inhabitants of these areas have been displaced by a recent conflict and are in flux. That is simply not the case with these "camps" which are in fact well built, if mostly poor neighborhoods (yes, I have visited a number of them in Lebanon). Lets be honest, There is no such thing as a 60 year old refugee camp, and the vast majority of those living in these neighborhoods were never displaced by a war. Their grandparents or great-grandparents were; they were displaced by a war 60 years ago, a war initiated by Arab leaders to destroy Israel, a war which didn’t go exactly as Arab leaders had planed. The term "refugee camp" is truly a political term that ignorant Western media have adopted without question or any historical context.

If anything, A more accurate description of these towns and neighborhoods would be poverty "prisons" (and there are such things as 60-year-old prisons). Arab countries have purposefully refused to absorb 1948 Arab refugees and the generations of their offspring, confining them to a status-less state of poverty and ignorance with no right to citizenship, in towns and neighborhoods that were quickly labeled "refugee camps" to emphasize their illegitimate status. While Israel absorbed millions of Jewish refugees from Europe and Arab states, the Arab countries have purposefully refused to do the same for hundreds of thousands of their Arab brothers who now call themselves Palestinians, including their many offspring; aliens in their own countries and to their fellow Arabs, tools to be used for political hay, breeding grounds for ignorance, extremism and hate. The Palestinians deserve much better than what they have received from their fellow Arabs. Not that they themselves are completely blameless.
Joe Gelman

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