re: #65 lawhawk

That bit about Israel stripping Israeli-Arabs of rights is BS. Israel has never made any intention to do so. Israel simply doesn’t want to see its Jewish population overwhelmed through a Palestinian right of return that now includes a grossly inflated refugee population created because other Arab countries refused to resettle/recognize those Palestinians born outside of the territories as citizens and because the UNRWA refused to close the refugee camps after any reasonable period of time.

There can be some reasonable right of return for some Palestinians who were directly affected by the 1948 conflict, and maybe some portion from 1967, but the rest will have to realize that they aren’t going to get what their leadership has been promising from the outset - to overwhelm Israel through a population shift.

If Israel has given any intention to strip rights from the Israeli-Arabs, then it shouldn’t be difficult to get that assurance put into writing in any agreement that Israel and Palestine create.

The right of return for the Palestinians is going to be a big problem, as there are tens (hundreds?) of thousands of displaced Palestinians (primarily descendants of the displaced) who are currently not citizens of any nation, as they don’t live in Palestine, and other Arabic nations are not allowing them to live within their borders. The UNRWA was stuck in a bad situation, as the residents of those refugee camps had nowhere else to go. Israel can’t let all, or even a majority of those people back to their original residences, but there has to be some solution found.