The myth called the right of return has enabled Arab leaders to become very rich by posing as victims. The West fell for it and so the money flowed. It’s just one huge grift. Same for the UN. Keeping Gazans poor and angry at Israel for supposed wrongs, telling them the Zionists took what was theirs, has spawned a multi billion dollar victim industry fuelled by UNRWA. What a scam.
This interview by Yasmine Mohammed Growing up under Palestinian Apartheid in Lebanon gives some surprising information about the inflated numbers of UNWRA refugees...
The interviewed person talks about the numbers as of 29:49 :
The West hasn’t noticed that the Two State Solution is a One Sided Dream. Neither Israel nor the Palestinians want it, only the West. The Palestinians never wanted it. The Palestinians want the Right of Return and the Destruction of Israel and they’re not compromising on either.
There is no right if return for any refugee in international law. This is a made up nonsense by Palestinians and their supporters to destroy Israel.
No one is demanding the 850,000 Jewish refugees and their descendants from Arab lands be allowed to return to the countries they left ( of course no one in their right mind would return to those countries).
No one is demanding the refugees and their descendants created during the India -Pakistan independence be allowed to return to their original countries either.
There is also the fact that only the Palestinians remain refugees after being settled in another country. You cannot pass on the status as refugee for another conflict only this one and only for the Palestinian. Think of this- the internationally famous and wealthy haddad sisters are Palestinian refugees. That too has to change. Why are there still Palestinian refugee camps in the Palestinian authority and why were they still call refugee camps when Hamas rules Gaza? These are full blown cities.
Let alone that Palestinians living in Palestinian Territories are not refugees but are internally displaced. We’ll never hear of a Syrian who fled from Homs to Damascus as a “refugee” when they’re still in their own country!
I think the issue is not that people are stupid, it's that anti-Zionist, anti-Israel propaganda is very sophisticated. I am not defending anti-Zionists, my point is that mocking and dismissing them as stupid doesn't really help or address the root of the issue of a huge disinformation campaign that has been going on for a very, very long time.
Great article. Palestine had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire for centuries before the 20th century. Arabs and Jews lived there. When the Ottoman Empire was defeated in World War I, Britain and the other colonial powers began carving up the Middle East amongst themselves reflecting their colonial interests. They recognized as well the importance of the local tribes: Jews and Arabs among them. Arabs include the two major Muslim sects of Sunni and Shiite Muslims who had age old hatred of one another. The British solution to "The Jewish Problem" as written in the Balfour Declaration and UN Resolution 181 was to allocate 0.1% of the Middle Eastern land to the Jews, and the Arabs given the other 99.9%. Of that 99.9%, there was a portion of land around today what is Israel, now belonging to the country of Jordan, which was allocated to those Arabs who today are called "Palestinians" (the name Palestinians coming into use only after 1967), but Transjordan--later to become the Kingdom of Jordan, and the other Arabs, had a different solution to The Jewish Problem. The Arab leaders refused to accept the idea of Israel--in the end PREFERRING GENOCIDE OF THE JEWS TO LAND-- and Transjordan also rejected their Arab brothers (later called the "Palestinians"), refused to absorb their brother Arabs living on the land that would become Israel. Because the Koran states that once Muslims possess land it is theirs for eternity, and because Jews (and Christians) were seen as infidels, Arabs completely rejected any land whatsoever going to Jews. Leading up to May of 1948 Jews had acted in accordance with all League of Nation, British, other colonial, and UN directives and laws. They purchased land within the region from voluntary Arabs. A significant part of the Jewish population boom occurring during The Holocaust where refugees that were able to escape the Nazi extermination came to the region (Arabs were Nazi allies and adopted the ideologies of the Final Solution even until today). The Arabs didn't like this and, after diplomacy seemed to be failing, committed the first act of community violence between Jews and Arabs in centuries--The Hebron Massacre. From there, the regional violence escalated to the point in 1948 where Britain, unable to maintain a peace in the region, and refusing to enforce the Balfour Declaration and the UN resolution, wiped their hands clean and withdrew from the region. The Jews wanted peace and the tiny sliver of land that they had been promised. But it went against Muslim religion and the Jews were refused. Facing utter genocide (6 million had already been murdered in Europe, 650,000 more in the Middle East now stood on the brink), when the Arabs declared war on fledgling Israel, the Jews defended themselves. Days before Israel's war of independence, Arabs living on what was to miraculously become Israel land were told by their Arab brothers to temporarily leave their land on account of the violence about to take place, and that, once Israel was defeated, could return. Well guess what? Against all odds, the Jews were able to defend their tiny piece of indigenous land and the state of Israel was created in 1948. After, many Arabs were allowed to return to the land they owned, THE ISRAELIS CHOSING LAND OVER ARAB SLAUGHTER. they were largely considered neighbors by Israelis. And so was born the conditions that exist until today: Jews/Israelis wanting co-existence, Muslims fueled by their fundamentalist beliefs wanting genocide of Jews. Real genocide.
Thank you! This is such a simple concept - and yet so few seem to be able to grasp it. Millions upon millions of displaced people - including and especially Jews - have had no choice but to move on. They haven’t spent their lives or taught their children or children’s children to spend their lives attempting to go back in time and right a so-called wrong at any cost. It’s ridiculous! There seems to be one special rule for the Palestinians and another rule for literally everyone else. These ‘right of return’ twits are beyond unreasonable.
20 MUSLIM Countries at WAR against ISRAEL since 1948. [Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh ,Brunei, Comoros, Djibouti, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yeman.]
Most Palestinian activism is built on magical thinking - such as the right of return and East Jerusalem. The only future they have is whatever exists within the realm of possibility, and these two simply do not exist. Regardless of the rightness of its establishment Israel isn't going anywhere, the Arab expellees will never get to come back, and they will not get E Jerusalem or Syrians the Golan.
The one true bottleneck to a Palestinian state is Israel's sense of security - this is the threshold, because it is the only factor that will result in Israel consenting to it. The highest objective should be to assure Israelis that a future Arab state will not pose a threat, and the quickest way to this is simply surrender. The problem is people who are in power due to the conflict have a perverse incentive to continue it. (Although to be honest this criticism applies equally well to the Israeli right wing)
there is no "right" of return. you can't step into the same river twice. Israel is a brilliant new country. whatever Israel was in 1989 is gone, not to mention 1948. It's over. Get on with your life.
The myth called the right of return has enabled Arab leaders to become very rich by posing as victims. The West fell for it and so the money flowed. It’s just one huge grift. Same for the UN. Keeping Gazans poor and angry at Israel for supposed wrongs, telling them the Zionists took what was theirs, has spawned a multi billion dollar victim industry fuelled by UNRWA. What a scam.
Maybe the biggest scam we have ever seen.
This interview by Yasmine Mohammed Growing up under Palestinian Apartheid in Lebanon gives some surprising information about the inflated numbers of UNWRA refugees...
The interviewed person talks about the numbers as of 29:49 :
https://youtu.be/UlQrJeq26KU?si=ARP3f2etCvFSYb8f
The West hasn’t noticed that the Two State Solution is a One Sided Dream. Neither Israel nor the Palestinians want it, only the West. The Palestinians never wanted it. The Palestinians want the Right of Return and the Destruction of Israel and they’re not compromising on either.
Well said !
Personally, I support Israeli sovereignty over all of Judea and Samaria.
At this point, that does seem like the best solution.
I don’t blame you Sheri. They have shown no indication that they can get their shit together and live peacefully
Me too! It’s about time the PA was abolished and Israel went in and regained what is rightfully theirs.
There is no right if return for any refugee in international law. This is a made up nonsense by Palestinians and their supporters to destroy Israel.
No one is demanding the 850,000 Jewish refugees and their descendants from Arab lands be allowed to return to the countries they left ( of course no one in their right mind would return to those countries).
No one is demanding the refugees and their descendants created during the India -Pakistan independence be allowed to return to their original countries either.
There is also the fact that only the Palestinians remain refugees after being settled in another country. You cannot pass on the status as refugee for another conflict only this one and only for the Palestinian. Think of this- the internationally famous and wealthy haddad sisters are Palestinian refugees. That too has to change. Why are there still Palestinian refugee camps in the Palestinian authority and why were they still call refugee camps when Hamas rules Gaza? These are full blown cities.
100%!!!
See this interview by Yasmine Mohamed and skip to 29:49 to learn more about the inflated numbers of UNWRA refugees :
https://youtu.be/UlQrJeq26KU?si=ARP3f2etCvFSYb8f
Let alone that Palestinians living in Palestinian Territories are not refugees but are internally displaced. We’ll never hear of a Syrian who fled from Homs to Damascus as a “refugee” when they’re still in their own country!
Anybody with two brain cells understands what has been going on. Except for the brainwashed. And of course Jew haters and racists.
Right! It seems a lot of people don’t possess two brain cells.
I think the issue is not that people are stupid, it's that anti-Zionist, anti-Israel propaganda is very sophisticated. I am not defending anti-Zionists, my point is that mocking and dismissing them as stupid doesn't really help or address the root of the issue of a huge disinformation campaign that has been going on for a very, very long time.
It’s very hard to understand it any other way. But I do hear what you are saying.
I really didn’t realize the extent of the propaganda until I read “Israelophobia” by Jake Wallis Simons.
Top notch synopsis of this ludicrously transparent attempt to destroy Israel from within. Well done.
Thank you Dena.
Great article. Palestine had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire for centuries before the 20th century. Arabs and Jews lived there. When the Ottoman Empire was defeated in World War I, Britain and the other colonial powers began carving up the Middle East amongst themselves reflecting their colonial interests. They recognized as well the importance of the local tribes: Jews and Arabs among them. Arabs include the two major Muslim sects of Sunni and Shiite Muslims who had age old hatred of one another. The British solution to "The Jewish Problem" as written in the Balfour Declaration and UN Resolution 181 was to allocate 0.1% of the Middle Eastern land to the Jews, and the Arabs given the other 99.9%. Of that 99.9%, there was a portion of land around today what is Israel, now belonging to the country of Jordan, which was allocated to those Arabs who today are called "Palestinians" (the name Palestinians coming into use only after 1967), but Transjordan--later to become the Kingdom of Jordan, and the other Arabs, had a different solution to The Jewish Problem. The Arab leaders refused to accept the idea of Israel--in the end PREFERRING GENOCIDE OF THE JEWS TO LAND-- and Transjordan also rejected their Arab brothers (later called the "Palestinians"), refused to absorb their brother Arabs living on the land that would become Israel. Because the Koran states that once Muslims possess land it is theirs for eternity, and because Jews (and Christians) were seen as infidels, Arabs completely rejected any land whatsoever going to Jews. Leading up to May of 1948 Jews had acted in accordance with all League of Nation, British, other colonial, and UN directives and laws. They purchased land within the region from voluntary Arabs. A significant part of the Jewish population boom occurring during The Holocaust where refugees that were able to escape the Nazi extermination came to the region (Arabs were Nazi allies and adopted the ideologies of the Final Solution even until today). The Arabs didn't like this and, after diplomacy seemed to be failing, committed the first act of community violence between Jews and Arabs in centuries--The Hebron Massacre. From there, the regional violence escalated to the point in 1948 where Britain, unable to maintain a peace in the region, and refusing to enforce the Balfour Declaration and the UN resolution, wiped their hands clean and withdrew from the region. The Jews wanted peace and the tiny sliver of land that they had been promised. But it went against Muslim religion and the Jews were refused. Facing utter genocide (6 million had already been murdered in Europe, 650,000 more in the Middle East now stood on the brink), when the Arabs declared war on fledgling Israel, the Jews defended themselves. Days before Israel's war of independence, Arabs living on what was to miraculously become Israel land were told by their Arab brothers to temporarily leave their land on account of the violence about to take place, and that, once Israel was defeated, could return. Well guess what? Against all odds, the Jews were able to defend their tiny piece of indigenous land and the state of Israel was created in 1948. After, many Arabs were allowed to return to the land they owned, THE ISRAELIS CHOSING LAND OVER ARAB SLAUGHTER. they were largely considered neighbors by Israelis. And so was born the conditions that exist until today: Jews/Israelis wanting co-existence, Muslims fueled by their fundamentalist beliefs wanting genocide of Jews. Real genocide.
Thanks Derek!
Let’s not forget Black September as well.
Expertly stated!
Thank you Jill.
Thank you! This is such a simple concept - and yet so few seem to be able to grasp it. Millions upon millions of displaced people - including and especially Jews - have had no choice but to move on. They haven’t spent their lives or taught their children or children’s children to spend their lives attempting to go back in time and right a so-called wrong at any cost. It’s ridiculous! There seems to be one special rule for the Palestinians and another rule for literally everyone else. These ‘right of return’ twits are beyond unreasonable.
Exactly Elly.
Kelli, happy new year. May this be a year filled with peace, love and happiness for you and yours.
Thank you Kathy. I wish the same for you 🙏🏻🤍
20 MUSLIM Countries at WAR against ISRAEL since 1948. [Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh ,Brunei, Comoros, Djibouti, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yeman.]
Well said.
Thanks GP
Most Palestinian activism is built on magical thinking - such as the right of return and East Jerusalem. The only future they have is whatever exists within the realm of possibility, and these two simply do not exist. Regardless of the rightness of its establishment Israel isn't going anywhere, the Arab expellees will never get to come back, and they will not get E Jerusalem or Syrians the Golan.
The one true bottleneck to a Palestinian state is Israel's sense of security - this is the threshold, because it is the only factor that will result in Israel consenting to it. The highest objective should be to assure Israelis that a future Arab state will not pose a threat, and the quickest way to this is simply surrender. The problem is people who are in power due to the conflict have a perverse incentive to continue it. (Although to be honest this criticism applies equally well to the Israeli right wing)
You are, of course, correct. The UN, of course, doesn’t care.
A nice succinct summary of the conclusion reached in the comprehensive and well researched book “The War of Return” by the wonderful Einat Wilf.
there is no "right" of return. you can't step into the same river twice. Israel is a brilliant new country. whatever Israel was in 1989 is gone, not to mention 1948. It's over. Get on with your life.