Posts Tagged: Palestinian refugees
How 30,000 Remaining Palestinian Refugees From ’48 Morph Into 5 Million
The Times of Israel reported Sunday that, during his meeting with Barack Obama last Monday, Mahmoud Abbas not only refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish...
Moshe Ya’alon and the Dangers of Truth-Telling
As former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and current Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon have recently been reminded, honesty in politics can be costly. Gates's...
World is Silent as Lebanon Abuses Palestinian Refugees
From IPS: Over the past year more than 50,000 Palestinian refugees have fled violence, chaos and destitution in Syria to seek sanctuary in Lebanon. The vast...
Report: Kerry Proposes Return of 80,000 Palestinian Refugees to Israel
JNS.org - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has proposed to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas the return of 80,000 Palestinian refugees to Israel...
Another Reality Check on Palestinian Refugees
The Palestinian refugee issue has been dramatically misrepresented, distorting circumstances and numbers, in order to delegitimize the Jewish state. The root cause then and now According to...
Arab League Official: There Can be No Peace Without Destruction of Israel
Mohammed Sabih, deputy secretary general for Palestinian affairs in the Arab League, went on an anti-Israel rant, stating that Israel is aggressively attacking Palestinian Arabs, it...
The True Number of Palestinian Arab Refugees
Western policymakers and media have misconstrued/misrepresented the Palestinian refugee issue, ignoring its global context and core data. Moreover, the Palestinian claim of dispossession --...
The Mirage of Peace Now
The whirling diplomatic dervish, also known as John Kerry, is spinning once again. Leaving Israel for the umpteenth time on Friday, he proclaimed the imminence...
The BBC’s Track Record on Jewish Refugees From Arab Lands
On Nov. 30, the BBC News website's home page and Middle East page both promoted a feature titled "In pictures: Early years of Palestinian refugees,"...
Negotiating Under the Shadow of Palestinian Refugees
One of the main issues that Israelis and Palestinians are struggling with in the ongoing negotiations is the Palestinian refugee problem. Although in previous negotiations...
The Economist Keeps Making Up Facts to Demonize Israel
Here is the beginning of a new Economist article: BLESSED are the meek. While Israel's 1.4m Muslim citizens vociferously champ for the right to return to the...
Naqba — Commemorating a Self-Inflicted Tragedy
Today, Palestinians and their supporters, as they have done increasingly over the years, mark what they call the naqba (Arabic for catastrophe). It was on...
Experts Call For Change in UN Palestinian Refugee Policy
NEW YORK - The way that Steven J. Rosen sees it, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is being held back because of mathematics. "Multiplication of numbers does...
New Documentary Details Hate Education at UNWRA Schools (VIDEO)
A video published recently on YouTube details the disturbing ties between The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East...
