E.T., without trying to diminish the plight of the Palestinian Arabs, they are really a very small portion of the 100 MM plus refugees created in the last century (including Jews evicted from Arab countries in the period 47 to about 51, in about the same numbers as Palestinian refugees in 48), they are the only group of refugees whose "problem" has been kept "alive" for 50 years (first by the "East/West conflict, and after the cold war by extreme Islamists). Time to solve that problem by all the nations in the Mid East, not just the Israeli and Palestinians. Barak offered "land for peace", but Arafat demanded "right of return". If the right of return (to original place, within Israel) is granted here, that will form a new international precedent and you are going to seed a major element of destabilization all over the world (some 6 Million Sikhs (then, in 49, only 2 Millions) forcibly evicted from their fertile lands, would demand their right of return, Europe will erupt in flames as right wing Germans will make forcible claims on Kalinigrad (old Koenigsberg), Breslau and Danzig (now both Polish cities). They of course could also expand their demand to Alsace/Lorraine, if the world's appeasers give them those three little apples, and you know what will follow. The Palestinian, in their own new state (where ever that state might be) cold pass a law of "return" (as Israel has), but return to within the territory of their new state, not to within Israel.
Zeev |
