Refugee camps as they are, are a stain on the Landscape
Refugees should not be housed in mud-swilling, tent-town slums for months or even years on end, and certainly not be subject to massacres as the residents of Sabra-Shatila were.
Please don't attempt to feign concern for people who, you have declared, have no right to the homeland they have been driven out of and whose decimation you have attempted to defend at the hands of the Israelis.
You and your fick friend would have to fill in application forms in order to be even considered human beings.
Keith had denigrated and undermined the rights of refugees (including those who have been forced off Traveller sites in Britain and have become Britain's own home-grown permanent refugees) and you are no different.
Here, both of you have attempted to open a long-settled debate in order to defend the perpetrators of the mass-murder of people you pretend to have concern for (don't think I've ever come across anything quite so stupid as 'it wasn't a massacre because we don't know how many were killed'.
You want to see a "stain on the landscape" - look at Calais, populated by refugees fleeing being slaughtered by despotic friends of Britain, (often by arms and equipment sold by us) in wars we have helped instigate.
If the Arab nations have done what you claim - it is exactly what we are doing now by refusing refuge to those fleeing oil wars and slavery-level poverty - also assisted by western greed.
If wartime Britons of the past had treated the fleeing Jews the way we are treating today's refugees. there would have been a few more digits added to the six million who died then.
These camps are not only "stains on the landscape" - they are living and ongoing proof of the inhumanity of the wealthy nations.
Your smug finger-pointing at third-world nations for doing what we are doing just about sums you up.
Jim Carroll