Palestinians were treated as foreigners in nearly every Arab country

Evidence

In the past they had been, for obvious reasons, the most enthusiastic supporters of the pan-Arab cause and the most prominent exponents of pan-Arab ideology. But they had encountered bitter disappointments. At the lowest level they found themselves treated as foreigners in virtually all Arab countries, apart from Jordan; even in the Gaza stip occupied by Egypt, apart from a brief period in 1956–57, from 1948 to 1967, they were not accorded Egyptian citizenship and not allowed freedom of travel or employment in Egyptian territory. The Arab states had either refused or proved unable to help them in their struggle against Israel, or to accept them as fellow Arabs in their own countries. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 932 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Palestinians were denied citizenship and work rights in most Arab states. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 932; Arab cultural assimilation absorbed peoples of every nationality as fully Arab; Romanticizing the Arab as ancient model masked Palestinian labor exclusion (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Palestinians were denied citizenship and work rights in most Arab states. #expands (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 932