I spoke to a friend in Beirut the other day. He/she met recently with the French ambassador and his wife in Lebanon. The person tells me that the French ambassador's wife (and to a lesser extent the ambassador himself) expressed her outrage at the plight of the Palestinians in Lebanon, and the worsening socio-economic status of the community. Yet, in Lebanon: they speak about improving the humanitarian conditions of the Palestinians in Lebanon but only after disarming them. Do they think that the Palestinians will rely on security assurances of the Lebanese state, which did so much to hurt and harm them in the past, for their safety?