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Politics : GENEVA ACCORD -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Soileau who wrote (137)	12/10/2003 1:15:17 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 190

The Palestinians have a long history of saying one (reasonable) thing in English, quite another in Arabic - even changing the wording of supposedly identical documents. Kadouri Fares, the Palestinian Geneva accord negotiator, says that the refugee quota will be set by a formula dependent on third country actions, and Israel has no right to refuse it: Refugees In his interview with PA Television, Fares said that the following guidelines were agreed upon for refugee return: "First, reliance on Resolution 194 as a basis for the solution. Second, refugees will return to four places: 1) the State of Palestine; 2) the settlements that Israel will evacuate and the places that are to be annexed to the borders of the Palestinian state; 3) Israel; 4) a third country. The [term] third country means any country willing to host refugees in which the refugee expresses a desire to live… "What will be the quota for [the refugees that] Israel [will accept]? Since it was difficult to talk about numbers, it was agreed that a committee would be established to examine the preferences of each refugee regarding the place to which he wishes to return. The quota of Israel will be the average of what all the countries will accept, whether they are countries that are currently hosting the refugees or other countries in the world. [26] No one can know now what the quota is. It could be 100, 150, or 50,000, or more, or less. No one can determine the number, but Israel will be obligated to accept this number." [27] [my emphasis] Fares made similar statements in his interview with Al-Ayyam: "With regard to the return [of refugees] to the State of Israel, it is written [in the understandings] as follows: This option [i.e. returning to Israel] will be under Israeli control. It will be determined according to the number of [refugees] submitted by Israel to an international committee. This number will be the number of all the refugees that Israel agrees [to accept]. As a basis for this, Israel will take into account the average [number of] refugees that the various other countries will offer to accept before the international committee…. There is a right of return, and this is what the agreement instructs. The matter returns to Israel, and they can interpret these sections as they wish, but for us, it is a right of return." [28] [27] Palestinian Television (PA), October 14, 2003. [28] Al-Ayyam (PA), October 14, 2003. memri.org

To: John Soileau who wrote (137)	12/10/2003 5:22:36 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 190

<<c) there's not a single mention of compensation for the Jewish refugees - as if the refugee problem had been one-sided.>> Umm...I am talking about the GA provision limiting the right of return to Israel by non-Jews. Respectfully, your entire c) is embarrassingly inapposite. In 1948 - 1951 there was a large partition of population (not huge, certainly not when compared to the 14 million refugees created by the India-Pakistan partition) in the Middle East. Approximately 700,000 Arabs moved out of Israel into surrounding Arab lands, and approximate 800,000 Jews made the reverse journey. The Geneva accord pretends that only the first movement happened, so only the first movement deserves any recognition or compensation. Now you say that pointing out that this is a major fault in the agreement is inapposite? Could you explain how? Please direct your remarks to the one million Israelis whose ancestors fled for their lives from Baghdad, leaving all their properties and businesses behind without compensation of any sort.