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Re: "The Saudi proposal was more significant than recognizing Israel; it was for full normalization. Trade, tourism, treaties, cultural exchanges, etc. Why has not Sharon jumped on it as a basis for negotiation? "
The guaranteed "deal breaker" that apparently made it safe for the Saudis to offer all that, because they knew it would not be acceptable, is the so-called "right of return."
At the time the Palestinian refugees left, maybe it would have been possible for them to remain and live in peace, I don't know, but now that we have large numbers of their descendants who have been raised to hate Jews, I have a real hard time seeing how this is going to work.
On the surface, it all sounds oh-so-humanitarian: let all the Palestinian refugees and their descendants come back to their original homeland. But people have a dangerous tendency to forget about the practical realities imposed by 50 or more years of nursing the hatred of one people for another. And what about the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab states? Will the Arab nations allow the Jewish refugees and their descendants a similar "right of return"? If they did, would there be anyone naive enough to take them up on it, in the current environment? I don't think so!
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