Coming and Going (or not, as the case may be).

I had an interesting conversation the other day, which relates directly to this post about the new movement restrictions that are being placed on Palestinians who live abroad. Here is a snippet:

I know his uncle, he’s much older than me, in his late seventies, early eighties. He was an established engineer when there were no engineers in the Middle East, educated in one of the best universities in the Middle East, which is the American University of Beirut. He did a fantastic job, he’s a very famous engineer in the area, and he wants to come here and visit, to see his land, to see his house that he built, and the Israelis are telling him no you can’t come. So instead what he does is he comes to Jordan, because from Lebanon you cannot call here, and the first thing he does is he takes the phone and starts calling. So he called him, he called his sisters, he calls his nieces, he’s just trying to get some balance in his life probably. And when I see him in Lebanon, you feel he’s a broken man. It’s just impossible, I don’t understand it. Why don’t they allow such an old man to come in? What damage to Israel would it do? I’ve no idea.