A matter of perspective
The April 2 issue carried an eloquent letter by Mr. OH Kabir about the plight of the Palestinians. I have been reading Mr. Kabir's letters to various newspapers for twenty years now and find them quite interesting. That said, I think he forgets that the blame for Palestinian misfortune is spread all over the place, not just one or two countries that he mentions.
There are not too many Palestinians of the last generation who don't remember the streets of Amman running red with Palestinian blood during the late King Hussein's Black December strike on the PLO in 1970. And Syria invaded Lebanon in 1976 for the express purpose of 'containing' the Palestinians which they did with ruthless efficiency: the number of men, women, and children murdered by the Syrians in the Palestinian camps in Tripoli in 1984-85 is yet to be known. And while we are on the subject, let us not forget that both Kuwait and Libya, brotherly Arab countries, threw out into the desert their entire population of Palestinians in the very recent past.
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