"Eight nos, but nothing new." This is the reaction I hear over and over again from Palestinian refugees here in Lebanon's Wavel Refugee Camp, where four generations wait to return to the homeland from which they were brutally evicted over 60 years ago, in response to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's so-called landmark policy speech.
This is from those who even bothered to listen.
The US and Europe saw his speech as a move towards recognising two states (while dismissing the right of return, a divided Jerusalem and an end to settlements, and the list goes on) and thus some sort of advance towards peace; others suggested it was a step backward.
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