Now that work restrictions on Lebanon’s estimated 400,000 Palestinians have been eased, though this is still a small step and should not be seen as an end to the plight of Lebanon’s Palestinian Diaspora, maybe it is time to explore what should be done with the roughly 150,000 Palestinians in Lebanon under the age of 18. The only passport they have to escape the misery of the camps is proper healthcare and, more importantly, a decent education. But the Lebanese should not have to shoulder such an initiative alone – we were not a signatory of the Sykes Picot Agreement which, nearly a century ago, laid the foundations for the region’s current woes. No, the world’s wealthy nations must do at least as much to ameliorate the problem as they have done to cause it, and play their part in molding the Palestinian youth into genuine global citizens. They could
