To: Zeev Hed who wrote (185436 ) 3/24/2004 12:07:43 AM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to Only your ignorance is greater than your arrogance. 700,000 to 800,000 Arab refugees left "Palestine" in 1948, 700,000 to 800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries (forcefully evicted and their property confiscated) came to Israel, a simple exchange of population. There is nothing against a "Law of return" to whatever a future Palestinian state might be (mind you there is already one Palestinian state, it is called Jordan, I am not sure why there is a need for two). There is a universal world wide destabilizing factor if "Law of returns" to the pre conflict lands become international law. Germany will rightfully demand Gdansk, Breslau, and Kaliningrad (used to be Danzig) and of course, Alsace Loraine. Japan will demand Sakhalin, Mexico will demand our Southwest, and 2 Millions Sikhs forced out of their fertile lands in 1949 will demand the "right of return". 20 Million Greeks will have the same demand on Turkey and the list goes on. The last century has created 100 MM refugees world wide, the only "refugee problem" not solved (and that only because of the East/West conflicts forcing the UN to disallow absorption of refugees in the lands where they ended fleeing to, in most cases, their ancestral lands) is the Palestinian "problem". They were not clamoring for a state of their own when under Hashemite control for 19 years, because they had a state, they just did not like the Monarch at the head of that state.
