Ghajar
BM
So, Ghajar residents are unhappy that half their town which expanded from Syria
into Lebanon is going to be returned (the land) to Lebanon, its rightful
owner. See:
http://international.daralhayat.com/internationalarticle/85606
Some thoughts:
- Syrians living in Lebanon is not new.
- Now that they have been liberated from occupation, why not go to Syria?
- So they want to stay on Lebanese Land on which they live and have built
houses. What is the legal status of those houses? Who owns the lands
on which they are built? Who granted the permits to build the houses?
- The worst thing that can happen is to make those Syrian refugees Lebanese
when more deserving Lebanese (like children of Lebanese mothers married
to non-Lebanese fathers) are deprived of this right.
- Why is Lebanese officialdom silent about the legal status of those people?
- Lost in all this are Ghajar families that will be divided by the border.
Who's fault is it that those families expanded into land in a different
country?
- Are we going to have a Ghajar liberation parade and issue stamps to
commemorate the occasion? Will those stamps be used in Ghajar by Syrian
refugees who don't want to be liberated?
Yalla, another screwup in a country built on contradictions. Time for
Jump-a-lot (Junblatt) to jump again.
bassem