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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=183252
Demonizing Israel Is Bad for the Palestinians
(Jerusalem Post) Mudar Zahran - The international media, particularly in the West, pay very little attention to the conditions of the Palestinians living in Arab countries, despite the oppression they have been enduring for decades in most Arab countries. The tendency to blame Israel for everything has provided an excuse to purposely ignore and compromise the human rights of Palestinians in many Arab countries, such as the conditions of the Palestinians living in camps in Lebanon. Lebanon has been holing up Palestinians inside camps for almost 30 years. Those camps do not have any foundations of livelihood or even sanitation and the Palestinians living there are not allowed access to basics such as buying cement to enlarge or repair homes for their growing families. Furthermore, it is difficult for them to work legally, and they are even restricted from going out of their camps at certain hours. The demonization of Israel by the global media has greatly harmed the Palestinians' interests for decades and covered up Arab atrocities against them. The writer, a Jordanian of Palestinian heritage, is a researcher at the University of Bedfordshire.