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To: E. T. who wrote (206422)	12/2/2001 12:06:58 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

There are numerous quotes from Arab leaders and news sources to support the account. Nevertheless, my main aim is to show that there is more than one story. Incidentally, there were more Jews expelled from Arab territories than Palestinian refugees at the time. Israel, of course, took them in. Most of them left the bulk of their property behind. It is the Israeli position that compensation for Palestinians should be discussed in the context of compensation foe Jews dispossessed by the various Arab governments. Additionally, the UN Resolution at the time, calling for negotiations on refugees, recognized that Israel could not reasonably be expected to take in a "fifth column", and therefore assumed that most Palestinian refugeses would be taken in by Arab states. Basically, the Arab states refused to do it, in order to create a festering refugee problem........