Genocide has a meaning - except perhaps in fuzzy headed Left-activist academic circles - and no, it is not a form of "genocide" as there is no concerted attempt to eliminate a people.
Queer argument, particularly as the latest boat accident occured entirely due to the unseaworthiness of the smuggler's boat, which capsized when a rescue ship (commercial freighter requested to divert) came by and the migrants rushed to one side, capsizing.
Nothing could be worse for policy than to encourage more Haragas. Bad for immigration policy, bad for immigrants, bad for the countries sending them.
No, not all of them were Sunni. Plenty of Christian Palestinians made of the expelled populations.
There are certainly papers on this, but there is the very obvious point that the neighbours did not consider the situation legitimate, and wholesale naturalizations would obviously be a recognition and legitimization. Never mind that the Palestinian populations if fully naturalized would have destabilized delicate local demographic and interest group balances - Jordan of course with its different tribal groups and the division between the more urban and settled North East and ... well Rest of Jordan [ aka Hashemite base].
If the USA can have a 60 year hissy fit over Cuba, it's not terribly difficult to understand the neighbouring Arab states behaviour (rather harder to grasp is their idiotic state policy towards their Jewish populations).
However, Cole is being a wee bit precious about the Palestinian - Arab identity issue as there was certainly up to the 1960s a strong pan-Arab component to Arab policy as well. Israeli pretensions in this area do not come out of nowhere. Not the pan-Arabism is anything more than a shambling zombie of an ideology now.
Genocide has a meaning - except perhaps in fuzzy headed Left-activist academic circles - and no, it is not a form of "genocide" as there is no concerted attempt to eliminate a people.
Queer argument, particularly as the latest boat accident occured entirely due to the unseaworthiness of the smuggler's boat, which capsized when a rescue ship (commercial freighter requested to divert) came by and the migrants rushed to one side, capsizing.
Nothing could be worse for policy than to encourage more Haragas. Bad for immigration policy, bad for immigrants, bad for the countries sending them.
No, not all of them were Sunni. Plenty of Christian Palestinians made of the expelled populations.
There are certainly papers on this, but there is the very obvious point that the neighbours did not consider the situation legitimate, and wholesale naturalizations would obviously be a recognition and legitimization. Never mind that the Palestinian populations if fully naturalized would have destabilized delicate local demographic and interest group balances - Jordan of course with its different tribal groups and the division between the more urban and settled North East and ... well Rest of Jordan [ aka Hashemite base].
If the USA can have a 60 year hissy fit over Cuba, it's not terribly difficult to understand the neighbouring Arab states behaviour (rather harder to grasp is their idiotic state policy towards their Jewish populations).
However, Cole is being a wee bit precious about the Palestinian - Arab identity issue as there was certainly up to the 1960s a strong pan-Arab component to Arab policy as well. Israeli pretensions in this area do not come out of nowhere. Not the pan-Arabism is anything more than a shambling zombie of an ideology now.