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Did you know that Lebanon has generations of Palestinians who were born there and still don’t have normal citizenship rights?

That alone should raise an obvious question: if Hezbollah is truly some great champion of the Palestinian struggle, why is it not fighting for the rights of Palestinians in Lebanon itself? Why is there constant talk of liberation, dignity, and resistance, but almost no demand that Palestinians born in Lebanon be treated as full members of society?

The standard excuse is “right of return.” But that argument collapses immediately. If preserving return requires denying citizenship for generations, then the same people should support denying citizenship to Palestinians born in the West too. They obviously don’t. Because they know that would be barbaric.

So the silence is revealing. Hezbollah’s posture is not really about consistent concern for Palestinian rights. If it were, Palestinians living in Lebanon would not be kept in hereditary limbo while everyone pretends this is solidarity.

Amnesty’s breakdown of the restrictions: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/lib-docs/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session9/LB/AI_AmnestyInternatioinal_Revised.pdf

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