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Yesterday, was World Refugee Day. Refugees are created through wars and pure ethnic cleansing and such inhumanity has not ended in the 21st century. The tragedy of Darfur was created hundreds of thousands of refugees and countless more have been created in other wars and atrocities in Africa.
Pakistan's conflict with the Taliban in the north of the country has displaced millions.
In this time of recognition of refugees, The Economist provided this chart of the nations with the largest refugee population:
The refugee population in both Jordan and Syria is made up exclusively of Palestinians. In 1948, with the violent creation of Israel, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were made refugees by terrorist Zionist militias.
Today, those Palestinians number in the millions. In 1948, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution stating that all those who wish to return to their homes should be allowed to. But Israel, keen to maintain its Jewish majority, refused to recognize the Palestinians' right-of-return.
Every year, the United Nations General Assembly reaffirms that right but Israel still refuses to allow the Palestinians to return.
This Refugee Day weekend let us remember the longest-serving refugees and all they have suffered. Upon committing ethnic cleansing, Israel's founding Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stated that "the old will die and the young will forget" about the injustice done to them.
But the Palestinians have not and will not. And they shall return.
