Obama Administration has issued refugee visas to 1,300 Palestinians who lived in Iraq. The Palestinians are now ostracized because they supported Saddam.
In previous years, America has issued almost no visas to Palestinian refugees.
Touted informally as a trial balloon for resettling Palestinians from the refugee camps, the move is unlikely to succeed: Hamas and the Arab states want the refugee problem to continue unsolved, and will campaign heavily in the camps against relocation. Also, other countries are less quixotic than the United States, and won’t resettle close to a million Palestinians.
Neither does Fatah want them in the West Bank, where they would soon begin to engage in crime and terror, the only things they have known for the past sixty years.
