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I'm always impressed by insolence.

Since turning against Saddam, many Iraqis have lost interest in the Palestinians -- and some have turned hostile toward them. Immediately after the war, for instance, Palestinians who had been given low-rent apartments under Saddam were evicted by landlords seeking to take back their property, according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. More generally, Iraqis have shown their anger about the special treatment Palestinians received.

Warmth Between Iraqis and Palestinians Gives Way to Animosity and Resentment
By SARMAD ALI
December 12, 2007

Much love has been lost between Iraqis and Arabs in general -- and Iraqi and Palestinians in particular – since the U.S. invasion. As soon as Saddam was gone, the affinity and amiability between Iraqis and Palestinians, a hallmark of decades of Baath Party rule, began to fade. The mutual warmth, friends and others say, sometimes turned into hostility.