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Netanyahu’s intention was essentially to force the Palestinians into admitting that the right of return of refugees applies only to the Palestinian state, not Israel.
But the situation was reversed in the case of the Palestinians: the ethos of the diaspora, with the plight of the refugees at its center, has been the beating heart of the Palestinian cause and the focus of decision making for the national movement.
The Palestinians, however, always wanted to return to the issues of 1948: refugees, dispersion, and what Akram Hanya, a close Arafat confidant, defined as the need “to make the Israelis face the tribunal of history.”
The decisions taken at the last Fatah Convention were explicit in calling for the refugees to “return to their homes and cities.”
Instead of suppressing the memory of the refugees, Israel needs to recognize that in 1948 the land was bisected by the sword, and that the Jewish state came into being partly because of the massive uprooting and dispossession of Palestinian communities.
Only an acceptable deal on the refugees can definitely close the 1948 file – and only then can the conflict in Palestine end.
Europe must grapple with many issues simultaneously, including refugees, immigration, sovereign debt, high unemployment, and a welfare state that no longer delivers what it promises, despite high taxation and the availability of enormous resources to finance it.
But their xenophobia is directed against poor Mexican immigrants, blacks, or Middle Eastern refugees, who are perceived as freeloaders depriving honest (read white) Americans of their rightful place in the social pecking order.
As the number of refugees grows daily, cases of malnutrition, especially among mothers and young children, are rising.
Preliminary findings from a joint nutrition assessment show that one in four children is malnourished, and refugees are desperate when they cross the border.
Once the immediate pangs of hunger are addressed, refugees need help reinventing diets with diverse, locally sourced fresh foods.
We are also planning to roll out an e-voucher program for new refugees by early 2018.
These initiatives will empower refugees to make their own choices and shop for nutritious food on a regular basis, while supporting local businesses.
Refugees have also been arriving for decades, fleeing previous bouts of violence in Myanmar.
Many locals are fishermen or rice farmers, and their resources are stretched from sharing their land, markets, and roads with the massive influx of refugees.
To reduce the potential for tension between refugees and their hosts, international aid efforts must target both communities.
In addition to meeting refugees’ most fundamental needs, WFP is expanding its school feeding, nutrition, and livelihood activities to the host communities.
Of course, immigration does imply short-term challenges and costs for destination countries, particularly when it takes the form of a large and sudden influx of refugees.
The record of countries that move from conflict to a fragile peace through military intervention or negotiated settlements is dismal: roughly half of them revert to conflict, leading to more human tragedy and large numbers of refugees.
At the same time, we must promote fair and equal treatment of refugees and legal aliens.
Just about anyone and anything, from tourists, terrorists, and refugees to e-mails, diseases, dollars, and greenhouse gases, can reach almost anywhere.
When it comes to refugees, there is no substitute for effective local action aimed at preventing situations that generate large refugee flows in the first place.
Even without a consensus, however, there is a strong case for increasing funding for refugees, ensuring their humane treatment, and setting fair quotas for their resettlement.
The EU, meanwhile, has left Italy to manage on its own the 160,000 North African refugees who have arrived so far just in the course of this year.
This, too, would be a blow against Europe, because it would mean that any EU legislation – such as policies to disperse refugees now in Italy to other member countries – could be blocked by a plebiscite.
Preventing Poland from accepting any refugees may have been good campaign posturing, but doing so in power would lead to the confrontation with the EU that he seeks to avoid.
Despite the efforts of United Nations relief agencies, the carnage this summer has created an additional one million child refugees.
They include: India’s Ashwini, a visually impaired champion for disabled children;Attal, who created a girls school in his family kitchen in Afghanistan;Shweta who grew up in a South Asian brothel and created a support group for trafficked and abused girls; and Salyne, whose organization, Teach For Lebanon, is helping to educate many of the country’s half-million Syrian and Palestinian refugees.
The muhajir community – the refugees who migrated from India in 1947 – has its own political party, the Muhajir Qaumi Movement, which governs Sindh and its large cities with the help of the People’s Party.
Some may not technically be refugees, as defined by the 1951 Refugee Convention.
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