Palestinians have been living in refugee camps (1.5 million of them in 58 camps) for decades.
http://www.unrwa.org/palestine-refugees

Perhaps familiarity with their plight makes the current batch of Arab refugees anxious to find a quick way out of the Turkish camps?

Perhaps they were moving to the US for the political environment?

The Palestinian situation is unusual so I doubt that others are assuming they will be treated the same way.The Palestinians are purposefully kept as refugees as part of an Arab political agenda

rickyp wrote:bbauska

Perhaps they were moving to the US for the political environment?

The political environment in their home country, and the economic environment in their home country more likely.
For instance modernizing farming methods decreased the amount of labor required on Russian and Polish farms in the 1880s. Combine this with agents for the new world actively recruiting farmers for migration .... and boom. The freedoms offered were also attractive, no doubt. But mostly it was the opportunity to establish a new farm.

rayjay

The Palestinian situation is unusual so I doubt that others are assuming they will be treated the same way.The Palestinians are purposefully kept as refugees as part of an Arab political agenda

Really? Or is it because their home country remains occupied?
Since 1948, the sovereign State of Israel has guaranteed asylum and citizenship to Jewish refugees, while the self-declared State of Palestine remains unable to absorb the Palestinian refugees, due to lack of de facto sovereignty over its claimed territories.
The Palestinians want to return home but can't. The Syrians, I'm sure, would return home if their homeland was peaceful.
If the question is why don't the Palestinians become Jordanian, or Lebanese ....etc. Maybe they hold out hope that they can return home one day ?

But mostly it was the opportunity to establish a new farm.

In this study, we measure the contribution of immigrants and their descendents to the growth and industrial transformation of the American workforce in the age of mass immigration from 1880 to 1920. The size and selectivity of the immigrant community, as well as their disproportionate residence in large cities, meant they were the mainstay of the American industrial workforce. Immigrants and their children comprised over half of manufacturing workers in 1920, and if the third generation (the grandchildren of immigrants) are included, then more than two-thirds of workers in the manufacturing sector were of recent immigrant stock.

The Syrians want to some day return to their home country but instead of waiting in UN funded, hate-filled, and sometimes squalid refugee camps they are migrating to Europe and potentially being given citizenship. Hopefully they will have normal lives in Germany. Hopefully their children will have something even better. Why do the Palestinians deserve a different fate?

Too funny; most of the immigrants from Poland and Russia were settling in cities to work in factories. They weren't establishing new farms

My forefathers left Russia and ended up with many of their Russian neighbors on a farm in Alberta.

But perhaps the lure of the homeland is strong? There are peoples who waited almost 2000 years to return to their homeland.

They went to whichever country would accept them and they lived and worked there

An awful lot actually had as their genus point Alexandria, by the way. Not Israel. And substantial populations were found throughout the Roman Empire well before the Roman-Jewish wars.So, maybe not refugees so much as economic emigres?

Further waves of Jewish immigrants settled in Egypt during the Ptolemaic era, especially around Alexandria. Thus, their history in this period centers almost completely on Alexandria, though daughter communities rose up in places like the present Kafr ed-Dawar, and Jews served in the administration as custodians of the river.[6] As early as the 3rd century BCE, one can speak of a widespread diaspora of Jews in many Egyptian towns and cities. In Josephus's history, it is claimed that, after the first Ptolemy took Judea, he led some 120,000 Jewish captives to Egypt from the areas of Judea, Jerusalem, Samaria, and Mount Gerizim. With them, many other Jews, attracted by the fertile soil and Ptolemy's liberality, emigrated there of their own accord. An inscription recording a Jewish dedication of a synagogue to Ptolemy and Berenice was discovered in the 19th century near Alexandria.[7] Josephus also claims that, soon after, these 120,000 captives were freed of their bondage by Philadelphus.[8]

The history of the Alexandrian Jews dates from the foundation of the city by Alexander the Great, 332 BCE, at which they were present. They were numerous from the very outset, forming a notable portion of the city's population under Alexander's successors. The Ptolemies assigned them a separate section, two of the five districts of the city, to enable them to keep their laws pure of indigenous cultic influences. The Alexandrian Jews enjoyed a greater degree of political independence than elsewhere. While the Jewish population elsewhere throughout the later Roman Empire frequently formed private societies for religious purposes, or organized corporations of ethnic groups like the Egyptian and Phoenician merchants in the large commercial centers, those of Alexandria constituted an independent political community, side by side with that of the other ethnic groups.

For the Roman period there is evidence that at Oxyrynchus (modern Behneseh), on the east side of the Nile, there was a Jewish community of some importance. Many of the Jews there may have become Christians, though they retained their Biblical names (e.g., "David" and "Elisabeth," occurring in a litigation concerning an inheritance). There is even found a certain Jacob, son of Achilles (c. 300 CE), as beadle of an Egyptian temple.

The Jewish community of Alexandria was "extinguished" by Trajan's army during the Jewish revolt of 115–117 CE.[9]