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Chapter 2 Global wave – The end of colonial era and the emerging two super powers (25)
063 Guerilla
combatant or refugee? Wandering Palestine (4/4)
It is not just an entity that has escaped. Palestinian
individual was the same. They escaped to Jordan. Jordan was poor country and
not a place to rest. Some Palestinians aimed for further trip in search for better
life. At that time the oil boom was about to begin in Persian Gulf countries. There
were two options for the Palestinians. One option was to become PLO’s guerrilla
combatant, and the other option was to migrate to the more safety country with
their family. Many of them rushed to oil producing countries as migrants.
Teacher's family of Shatila and doctor’s family of
Al-Yassin who had escaped together from Tulkarm on the West Bank of Jordan
River to Jordan at the Israeli Independence War, they again moved together to
Kuwait where aimed for nation building with abundant oil income focusing on
education and medical care. High salary attracted numerous Arab expatriates.
Palestinians became the people of
Diaspora (discrete) like the Jewish people of two thousand years ago.
(To be continued ----)
(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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