Richard, the point is that during the last century, humanity has created 100 MM refugees (i used to be one of those), all of these "refugees problem" have been resolved or are on their way to be resolved, but the Arab world has refused to resolve their own refugees problem for the last fifty years (it is "their" refugees problem since they have created about the same number of of Jewish Arab refugees by expelling them and confiscating their property in Arab countries, which the Israeli have solved for them by "absorbing" most of these refugees). It is not as if the Arabs did not have the resources, they just do not have the will. See jajz-ed.org.il for the size of the original Arab refugee problem and jajz-ed.org.il for the size of the equivalent Jewish Arab refugees problem.
Mind you, at about the same time, in 1949, Pakistan expelled 2 MM Sikhs from Punjab, and that much bigger refugee problem has been resolved long ago. The Afghanistan wars created more than 4 MM refugees (prior to our involvement there post 9/11), and that refugee problem is still unsolved. There were close to 20 MM refugee in the Turk/Greece conflict immediately after WWI, that has by now mostly been resolved. it is high time for the Arab nations to show the same humanism, the Israeli have shown to the Jewish Arab refugees from the Arab crescent.
Grant them citizenship and equal right, just has Jordan has done with a portion of these refugees.
Zeev |
