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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/hypocrisy-begins-at-home-1.297989
How Does Lebanon Treat the Palestinians?
(Ha'aretz) Salman Masalha - The Turkish flotilla to Gaza was in fact one big public relations exercise. Erdogan noticed that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was raking in the whole popular Arab jackpot called Palestine, and he also wanted to grab some of it. Another convoy, well-covered by the media, is setting sail, this time from Lebanon, of all places. All they want is spectacle, footage and headlines because the Israeli-Palestinian arena is the most photogenic in the world. If they had any genuine humanitarian concern, the Lebanese would stage protests against the harsh blockade that has been imposed on the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon for decades. As a European volunteer told the organizers of the new flotilla: "You love the Palestinians in Gaza and hate your own Palestinians."