[rlmorel]

"...The Arab States do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the United Nations and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don’t give a damn whether the refugees live or die..."

This answer, from 1952, is only part of it. The bigger reason is, the Arab world hates the Palestinians, and know that allowing them to enter their countries only creates problems both financial and political.

That they want the Palestinian problem to persist and act as a cat's paw against the West is, to the Arab world, a nice byproduct.

[rrrod]

Well said.