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A Bold Proposal: Palestine Should Give Its Refugees Citizenship

Policy Brief Refugees

A Bold Proposal: Palestine Should Give Its Refugees Citizenship

by Fateh Azzam on May 5, 2015

Children infront of their home in Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon

Palestine should confer citizenship on its stateless refugees and enter into bilateral agreements with other states to improve their situation – as citizens - wherever they reside. Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Fateh Azzam knows this proposal has pitfalls but argues it is a powerful way to create facts on the road to freedom and rights. Read the policy brief or the executive summary.

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Policy Brief Politics

Palestinians Imposing Agenda on Abbas

by Leila Farsakh on November 13, 2012

As Mahmoud Abbas heads to the United Nations to secure non-member state status for Palestine, he faces a strong and growing movement among Palestinian civil society activists within and outside the occupied Palestinian territory to reframe the Palestinian struggle as fighting against an apartheid Israeli regime and for inalienable Palestinian rights – and not for a state per se. Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Leila Farsakh discusses Abbas’ attempts to placate this movement while retaining control of his political program.

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