Pearly, have you considered the international implications of the "right of return". That will mean that arts of Poland France, Russia and Chechia will go back to Germany. When a country engages in an aggression whose goals is to gain territories (in this case the complete elimination of the state of Israel), it should accept the risk that if it loses, it will lose some territories. Otherwise, what is the incentive for them to stop with those attacks? The Arabs could have accepted the partition in 48, but chose to try and get the whole of Israel, they tried twice more (67 and Yom Kippur war), everytime they did, they actually lost some territory. The longer that conflicts continues, the lesser of a state Arafat will get. As for refugees, the number of Arab refugees that left "Palestine" in 48 is about the same as Jewish Arab refugees forced out of their countries. The only difference, Israel took care of its refugees problem, the Arabs kept these as political pawns.
By the way, where were the "National aspirations" for statehood when Palestine was under Jordanian annexation?
Zeev |
