When muslims burn down refugees centers and homes, that also falls on tax payers. When they wage war on civilians or riot in the streets, tax payer are paying in police cleanup arrests courts...............
Left right, forward back, up down ...... tax payers will end up paying
Better to use the money the right way and not the back end of a problem
Palestinian can build wonderful homes and cities if they want. There is a lot of uncultivated unused land in the WB but they need title, plans and permits before they can even begin, be it storage shack or an apartment building
Sorry this is not the 1800's wild west where all you need is four posts/points to file a land claim
If you don't register land because you don't want to do military service under the Ottomans, you don't own the land. Mandate gave them the chance, but they didn't want to pay taxes. A key to a door is not ownership of land, especially when old keys and fake deeds, printed in the camp, were as plentiful as garbage in the streets of Beirut right now.
I've lived, or my parents and grandparents, have lived many places, but I can't go back there and claim the land as mine. We had refugees move in and take over land, the neighborhood, we used to own but after so many years/decades, I doubt we could reclaim our breach front property again.
Considering the price of land, I'm sure it could be very valuable today, but I will probably never know. I only have memories of summers there. For all I know the house there has been torn down and a cinder block apartment building is there now and other kids are on the waters edge finding a way to have fun.
When palestinians built on our park land,they did not have permits. From tents to shanty homes to huge luxury apartments building. While they were building up they were also building down, an underground city with it's own hospital. None of is was their land. They occupied building outside the camps and kept spreading, and spreading. Now the citizens are the refugees scattered around the world while their country is occupied, not just palestinians but syrians as well. It was a refuge for kurds, armenians, turks, druze......... Now there are more refugees than Lebanese, and no president.