@cazzie I understand why many Palestinians see Israel as their land and want a right of return, but I can’t help recognizing the UN basically created Israel, so the UN helping refugees makes sense. Three generations of refugees, if a large portion are poor and unable to contribute to the country they live in, then it begs the question why weren’t they assimilated? The Palestinians I know are educated, smart, productive people, so I’m not trying to generalize Palestinians around the world are unproductive, not at all. Why have the other Arab countries not come together and helped the Palestinians “get back their land?” You can’t just blame the Israelis, there is so much more to it.
Maybe the example in your article of the Palestinians demonstrates that Europe should integrate immigrants/refugees more readily.
In America a person can be American and still also hold onto their identity with their former country. In some parts of Europe I think that’s harder. Germans for hundreds of years have been German. Italians Italians. Is a Palestinian-German as German as a Palestinian-American is American? Do the immigrants take on the identity of the new country like they do in America? Or, at least does the first generation born there take on the identity of the new country?
I think country identity and feeling equal is extremely important.