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Refugees and German ExpelleesThe atmosphere could not have been more tranquil: a former royal castle in the rolling hills of the Taunus region near Frankfurt, where statesmen and politicians held an annual meeting dealing with the Middle East.
On the opening night, a senior German government minister, himself deeply involved in Middle Eastern affairs, addressed both subjects, displaying great sensitivity both to Israeli and
Palestinian
concerns.
The evening proceeded along the expected anodyne trajectory until a Lebanese academic raised the issue of the right of
Palestinian
refugees to return to Israel.
But it was just one more expression of the context in which the issue of the 1948
Palestinian
refugees has to be addressed.
As the German senior minister reminded the audience, there are numerous parallels in recent history to the
Palestinian
refugee problem.
Anyone who now claims that the 1948
Palestinian
refugees have a claim, in principle, to return to Israel, must confront the question: should the millions of Germans expelled from Eastern Europe after 1945 also have the same right of return to their lost homes?
It is worth keeping in mind what advocates of a
Palestinian
right of return now prefer to forget:
Palestinian
Arabs and four Arab members of the UN went to war in 1948 not only against Israel, but against international legitimacy and the UN plan for a two-state solution.
But the political consequences for him were clear: the revanchist call for a return of refugees--in both the German and the
Palestinian
case--is a formula for instability, if not war.
If so, the
Palestinian
leaders themselves may well determine it is safer to say no than to sign on to a plan sure to disappoint many of their own people and leave them vulnerable to Hamas and other radical groups.
If the new crown prince is worried about his domestic political standing, he will be reluctant to stand shoulder to shoulder with an American president seen as too close to an Israel that is unwilling to satisfy even minimal
Palestinian
requirements for statehood.
He launched a series of legal proceedings to evict
Palestinian
families from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrach neighborhood and elsewhere, and established a fund (backed by donations from wealthy, right-wing Americans) to buy land from Palestinians in order to give it to Israelis – sort of a racist Robin Hood in reverse.
That will make it easier for him to displace
Palestinian
families living in East Jerusalem, and he is expected to use his voice in city management to back the acceleration of construction for Israeli settlers there.
Giving a person like King responsibility in managing Jerusalem means increasing tensions within the city, aggravating the
Palestinian
population’s greatest fears, and encouraging Israeli settlers to develop new outposts, thereby erecting new obstacles to peace.
Revealed to a visiting American journalist during a private dinner with the Crown Prince, the plan centers on a “full normalization” of relations between Israel and all Arab countries, in return for an Israeli withdrawal from all the
Palestinian
territories it occupied in 1967.
Moreover, it is alleged that the Saudi government has become preoccupied with appeasing America, despite the beginning of the second
Palestinian
intifada, and Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestine.
At the same time, Saudi public opinion has been inflamed, mostly because of their rulers’ apparent apathy toward the plight of the
Palestinian
people, particularly when contrasted with Osama bin Laden’s lethal propaganda.
On the other hand, in the
Palestinian
territories, a new system of values has been progressively established.
Unlike colonial states, in which colonizers came from distant metropolises (and only in small numbers) the
Palestinian
territories are just across the border from Israel.
Palestinian
lands are illegally confiscated.
Little by little, the state of occupation, which should have been temporary, became a stable reality, and the policy of creating Israeli settlements in the heart of the
Palestinian
population strengthened the connection between Israel and the occupied territories.
As the embassy was opened,
Palestinian
residents of Gaza escalated their protests demanding that
Palestinian
refugees be allowed to return to what is now Israel, prompting Israeli soldiers to kill at least 62 demonstrators and wound more than 1,500 others at the Gaza boundary fence.
Without reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians, it is only a matter of time before the
Palestinian
powder keg ignites once again.
The polls, involving nearly 15,000 respondents, were conducted in 16 countries, representing 58% of the world’s population: Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, France, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, the
Palestinian
Territories, Russia, South Korea, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United States.
An even stronger overall majority, 71%, regards women as having made progress towards equality, although once again, the
Palestinian
territories are an exception, this time joined by Nigeria.
But the strategy of terror used by the Israeli authorities to deter further attacks or to restore a temporary “quiet” has been costly not only in terms of
Palestinian
lives lost and Israeli soldiers killed; it has also contributed to the deterioration of the security of Jews around the world.
It is another to recognize the inevitable impact of images of dead
Palestinian
women and children on communities in France that feel close to Palestine the way that Jews feel close to Israel.
The world has two chief aims in the area between Cairo and Teheran: to maintain peace in the wider Middle East so that oil flows freely through the Persian Gulf; to steer the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians toward a settlement that guarantees the safety of Israel in its internationally recognised borders, while meeting the
Palestinian
people’s legitimate national aspirations for their own state.
The Syrians also like to present themselves as the last real Arab defenders of the
Palestinian
cause.
Like most Arabs, Bashar Al-Assad views Israel from the perspective of pan-Arab anguish at
Palestinian
dispossession, but also sees a chance to use the Palestinians to strengthen his regime’s power by putting his own imprint on any settlement.
Jordan, with Israeli collaboration and European Union aid, is creating a Red Sea-Dead Sea pipeline, a conduit that would desalinate Red Sea water, in order to provide potable water to Jordan, Israel, and the
Palestinian
territories, and then funnel the brine to the dying Dead Sea.
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