Palestinians predicament in Lebanon, Part 2.

The Palestinians refugee camps where always the source of conflict and competition between the different Palestinians organizations and militias. At one time or another, the number of armed Palestinians organizations and militias almost equal that of the Lebanese sects and religious organizations. Of course all, and without exceptions, Palestinian organizations where on the pay roll of many of the Arab regimes doing the bidding of the regimes of Saddam, Assad, and Qaddafi and some of them where simply militias for hire assigned to kill and murder political opponent of the different Arab regimes and in some cases in cahoots with the Israeli Mossad.
With Arafat out and in exile in Tunis, the Palestinians camps remained a "security and political" problem for Lebanon. Thus the continued presence of armed militias within these camps and with an unwritten agreement with the Lebanese central government that the security and internal affairs of these camps are and remain internal issue for the Palestinians with direction for the Lebanese army and police not to enter the camps under any circumstantiate lest there will be a total breakdown of the "hush" truce between the Lebanese government and local Palestinian leadership.
This situation not only created competing sphere of influence between the different competing Palestinians organizations but also gave rise to lawlessness and rise to protection rackets and armed mafias beyond the reach of Lebanese justice system.
Of course while one does recognize that Lebanon opened its doors and hearts to Palestinian refugees, it also took actions that are not only shocking but unconscionable actions and acts by any and all standards.
The Lebanese government decreed that Palestinians in Lebanon are denied the rights to engage in some 50 different activities and are forbidden even to add a room or bring cement into the camps to fix a house or any additions thereto. No other country in the world, not even Israel denies its refugees such rights as those denied to the Palestinians in Lebanon.
Of course the biggest and most prominent issue in Lebanon, in addition to the sectarian politics which is killing the country and denying its citizens the right to be free from the control of war lords and sectarian bosses is the "tawteen".
Tawteen in local Lebanese politics means the denial of the Palestinian refugees the rights of permanent residency or citizenship in Lebanon. On this issue all Lebanese politicians agree irrespective of their political or sectarian persuasion and this is one issue that all Palestinians organizations and groups agree with us.
The Lebanese politicians use "tawteen" as competing and local issues and they use that for their own political end instead of facing the truth about nature of the country as a sectarian state. Do not let social and stylish sophistications fool you.
No where did the Palestinians receive such a hospitality like that they received in Lebanon and no where did the Palestinians received and treated with hostility and mass murder than they got in Lebanon.
With Arafat reaching his security contract and agreement with Israel where the PLO and Fatah represented in the Palestinian Authority becoming security contractors for Israel, there is no need any more for the presence of weapons and arms within the Palestinian camps and there is no need for the presence of armed Palestinians militias within the camps. The question remain is whether under the present make up of Lebanese sectarian politics are the Palestinians secure within their camps? Keeping in mind that only in Lebanon does a professional class of killers and mass murders like the late Elie Hobeika become a minister with the support and cover provided by the late Assad and where a convicted killer and murder like Samir Geagea become political leaders. The battle of Nahr Albared refugee camps is but an example of the tenuous presence of Palestinians in Lebanon. Perhaps it is time to take the presence of Palestinians in Lebanon out of the local Lebanese equation and perhaps it is time to take the arms and weapons out of the camps. One wishes that some day Lebanon will live up to it name and become free of all forms of sectarian politics. It is time to end "taefyee" once and for all. It is also time to retire all the war lords and mass murderers and criminals from political leadership in Lebanon.