In the last few weeks, about 35,000 Palestinians have been driven from their homes, left to their own survival skills in outlying areas, several thousand in cities close to the border of Jordan. Jordanian authorities won't accept them.
If you haven't read about this in your local newspapers, there's a reason. Israel has nothing to do with these expulsions - they took place in Baghdad and were perpetrated by the Palestinians' Arab "brothers" who happen to be Shi'ite, whereas most (all?) Palestinians are Sunni. And I suppose Jordan's open borders to Palestinians only faces west.
It might be interesting to compare numbers: how many Palestinians through the years have been expelled from Arab countries vs. from Israeli-controlled areas?
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