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Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan Makes Palestinians Disappear
Pretending that Palestinians hardly matter won’t make them go away.
They don’t have much.
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A refugee is someone with little left to lose. He’s lost his home, his livelihood and his land. Often, she’s lost her country, too. That’s what’s happened to the approximately 5 million Palestinians registered as refugees by the United Nations.
Now the Trump administration is trying to rob the Palestinians of two of the few things most refugees do have: humanitarian assistance and their legal status as refugees.