MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Palestinian Refugees Will Not Be Citizens of a Palestinian State
By Bruce Levine on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 2:37pm |In order to preserve the so-called right of return for the millions of people designated as refugees by UNRWA in Arab countries as well as in Gaza and the West Bank, Palestinian leaders have already stated that Palestinian refugees will not eligible for citizenship in a new Palestinian state. So, if the UN recognizes Palestine as an independent nation, it will be a Palestinian nation with Palestinian refugees living in relative squalor in camps provided by the UNRWA (where the United States is a principal donor).
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Yeah, like I always used to argue on "MJ" threads, a realistic Palestinian state isn't going to solve very many geopolitical problems, or even Mideast problems, in the least. It will more likely be along the lines of how the "two state solution" worked out for Pakistan and India. Might be the moral thing to do, but it's not the holy grail that people make it out to be. Kinda reminds me of the Obama is the messiah thing, only a lot bigger.
Not expecting so much is a highly undervalued modus operandi in general.
by artappraiser on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 4:32pm
The "refugee" issue is the elephant in the room. That these people living in camps, even in Gaza and the West Bank, will not be entitled to settle as citizens in the new state that Abbas seeks at the United Nations (which pays for these refugees) is a reflection of how crazy this situation is. Millions of Palestinians living in refugee camps, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state will not change their status? That's absolutely mind-boggling. I can join lots of folks in bashing Bibi for his intransigence (although admittedly I rarely do it here because there is too much pile on), but the undisputed truth of the matter is that Abbas is absolutely incapable of negotiating a settlement with the Israelis--because the goal of erasing what happened inside the Green Line 63 years ago cannot be overlooked by the PA leadership. It traps them, more so than Avigdor Lieberman traps Netanyahu.
by Bruce Levine on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 10:10pm
I have often remarked that I will "return" to Israel (I left??) when my Palestinian cousins can.
Put differently, is it too late for the plebiscite? If so, why so.?
Ought we be heard to plead the necessity of making permanent the results of an ethnic cleansing as the rationale for continuing to elide the necessity of voting on partition before partitioning?
Real estate transactions, after all, sound in equity.
by jollyroger on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 10:37pm
It is too late for a plebescite JR, and it's too early for one as well. And, as a matter of equity, most of the world wants two states or claims such.
by Bruce Levine on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 6:58am