Not Saddam's BFF's Posted by The Editors

This post is by NSN intern Katherine Aizpuru

Mark Krikorian at The Corner expressed dismay at the State Department announcement that around 1,350 Iraqi Palestinian refugees, whom he delicately characterized as “Saddam’s BFF’s”, will be resettled in the U.S. 

According to Refugees International and Amnesty International, the small Palestinian community in Iraq dates to the founding of Israel. Beginning in 1948, Palestinians driven from their homes found sanctuary in Baghdad. The community grew in 1991 when Palestinians were expelled from Kuwait after the Gulf War. After the U.S. invasion in 2003, the Iraqi Palestinians became the targets of arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, rape, and killings. Many tried to flee, but were denied entry by Syria, Jordan and other Arab nations. Over fifteen-hundred Palestinians now live in the al-Tanf and al-Waleed camps along the border with Syria, whose living conditions Amnesty International characterized as “appalling.” Human Rights Watch refugee policy director Bill Frelick, who has visited a camp outside Jordan, says that the Iraqi Palestinians are “apolitical,” and “basically desperate, scared, miserable and ready to just get out of Iraq.”

These people are not “Saddam’s BFF’s.” Their parents and grandparents resettled in Baghdad because it was the only place available to them when their own homes were destroyed. Now, they are forced to leave Iraq because of more violence, and Arab nations are still refusing them. The U.S.-led war in Iraq disproportionately exposed Iraqi Palestinians to violence, torture, and murder. While know-nothings like Krikorian may think that all Palestinians present terrorist threats, the rest of us should recognize that the U.S. has a responsibility to ensure that the people driven out by our war have the opportunity to resettle somewhere stable and begin a new life. Iceland, Sweden and Canada have already accepted several hundred Iraqi Palestinians. It is time for the U.S. to step up.

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