Personal History

I chose to talk more about the Palestinian refugee crisis in Lebanon, due to my family's long history in suffering the crisis of being a refugee in such a politically unstable country. Lebanon's civil war that started in 1975, was no pleasant event for those ordinary Palestinians living in refugee camps surrounded by conflict, in an environment that was "very terrorist friendly". As the war grew more violent and racial, the Palestinian survival in Lebanon was under serious risk. I am going to discuss several tragedies that faced the Palestinian families living in refugee camps, including mine. one of the many results of the violence in Lebanon, was that Palestinians had to also form militias to ensure protection, as they faced many massacres. One of those many massacres is the notorious Sabra and Shatila massacre which was held by the so called "man of peace" Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister.