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Palestinians are not the world’s first refugee population, but they may be the first to lament their perpetual refugee status while resisting any effort to resolve it.
Think about it. In 1947, the UN offered a two-state solution to address two competing national claims. The Jews accepted it; the Arabs rejected it. Or in UN-speak, the "proposed Arab State failed to materialize." Had it been otherwise, two states might have emerged, and with any luck, learned to live side by side. To this day, that two-state concept remains the most feasible outcome.
Instead, the Arab side went to war. Has there been any war that didn't produce refugees? Yet the Arab world blames Israel for the refugees from a war it ignited.
Meanwhile, that same Arab-Israeli conflict produced a greater number of Jewish refugees from Arab countries, who resettled elsewhere with little fanfare.
Then, by design, the Palestinian refugees were kept in camps, as wards of the international community, to serve as permanent reminders of the impermanence of their situation. Taught to focus their hatred on Israel, rather than to hold their own leaders accountable for using them as pawns, they have been denied opportunities for new lives.
Even now, three years after Israel totally withdrew from Gaza, astonishingly, nearly 500,000 Palestinians continue to live in UNRWA refugee camps there. Why?
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- Jewish Refugees From Islamic Countries Deserve Justice Too
Dror Eydar's written about a conference he took part in about Jewish refugees from Arabic-Islamic countries, whom nobody at the UN's ever asked be compensated for the horrifying abuse they received in past periods in their former residences before...
- Plo Leaders Tell Own People They’re Not Wanted In New Pali State………
The Elder says: The goal of a “State of Palestine” has nothing – and I mean nothing – to do with helping a single Palestinian Arab who lives outside the borders of such a state, or those who are considered “refugees” by UNRWA within such a...
- Israel's Peace Plan Marks A New Era In The Country's History And The Israeli-palestinian Conflict
From Barry Rubin: Israel has entered a new era of thinking and policy in which old categories of left or right, hawk or dove are irrelevant under a national unity government bringing together the two main ruling parties. How did this new paradigm arise?...
- Good Article To Share
This is a good article to share with people who don't know much about the root cause of the conflict. Here's a quote from the article: At that point these Arab states encouraged any Arabs remaining within Israel — around 400,000 — to leave....
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Why Palestinian Refugees Are Different
I got this at ALERT:Palestinians are not the world’s first refugee population, but they may be the first to lament their perpetual refugee status while resisting any effort to resolve it.
Think about it. In 1947, the UN offered a two-state solution to address two competing national claims. The Jews accepted it; the Arabs rejected it. Or in UN-speak, the "proposed Arab State failed to materialize." Had it been otherwise, two states might have emerged, and with any luck, learned to live side by side. To this day, that two-state concept remains the most feasible outcome.
Instead, the Arab side went to war. Has there been any war that didn't produce refugees? Yet the Arab world blames Israel for the refugees from a war it ignited.
Meanwhile, that same Arab-Israeli conflict produced a greater number of Jewish refugees from Arab countries, who resettled elsewhere with little fanfare.
Then, by design, the Palestinian refugees were kept in camps, as wards of the international community, to serve as permanent reminders of the impermanence of their situation. Taught to focus their hatred on Israel, rather than to hold their own leaders accountable for using them as pawns, they have been denied opportunities for new lives.
Even now, three years after Israel totally withdrew from Gaza, astonishingly, nearly 500,000 Palestinians continue to live in UNRWA refugee camps there. Why?
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- Un-funded Teachers Refuse To Teach The Holocaust Because "it Harms The Palestinian Cause"
From Times of Israel: Rumors of a UN decision to re-introduce Holocaust studies in schools run by UNRWA — the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees — have raised the ire of Jordanian teachers, who say they will...
- Jewish Refugees From Islamic Countries Deserve Justice Too
Dror Eydar's written about a conference he took part in about Jewish refugees from Arabic-Islamic countries, whom nobody at the UN's ever asked be compensated for the horrifying abuse they received in past periods in their former residences before...
- Plo Leaders Tell Own People They’re Not Wanted In New Pali State………
The Elder says: The goal of a “State of Palestine” has nothing – and I mean nothing – to do with helping a single Palestinian Arab who lives outside the borders of such a state, or those who are considered “refugees” by UNRWA within such a...
- Israel's Peace Plan Marks A New Era In The Country's History And The Israeli-palestinian Conflict
From Barry Rubin: Israel has entered a new era of thinking and policy in which old categories of left or right, hawk or dove are irrelevant under a national unity government bringing together the two main ruling parties. How did this new paradigm arise?...
- Good Article To Share
This is a good article to share with people who don't know much about the root cause of the conflict. Here's a quote from the article: At that point these Arab states encouraged any Arabs remaining within Israel — around 400,000 — to leave....