June 2, 2012—SnyderTalk Editorial: The “Right of Return” is a Deal Stopper

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The “Right of Return” is a Deal Stopper

Most people don’t have a clue what the “right of return” means.  In a nutshell, it means that descendants of so-called “Palestinians” who left their homes when Israel’s War of Independence in 1948 began have the right to return to their homes, but this issue is murkier than you can imagine.  For instance, consider these facts:

  • In 1948 when Israel’s War of Independence began, everyone living in the land we call Israel today was referred to as a Palestinian—Jews and Arabs alike.
  • Yasser Arafat commandeered the name “Palestinian” for Arabs in 1964 when he founded the PLO as the “sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.”
  • When the British Mandate ended, the land was divided into 2 parts: Israel and Transjordan.  Transjordan was supposed to be the Arab state, and Israel was supposed to be the Jewish state.  Later, the name “Transjordan” was changed to Jordan.  For a more complete explanation, see “A Brief History of Israel and Palestine.”
  • Jews in Palestine at the time of the War of Independence invited their Arab neighbors to stay and help them build a country.  Arab leaders told them to flee immediately because they intended to crush the fledgling Jewish state and, as they put it, “to drive the Jews into the sea.”  Most of the Arabs departed thinking that they would return in a few days at most and reclaim their homes along with spoils left behind by the defeated Jews.  As Yahweh would have it, tiny Israel defeated the combined Arab armies, and Arabs who left their homes became refugees.
  • Most Arab political leaders decided not to offer citizenship to Arabs who fled Israel.  Instead, they built refugee camps for them in hopes of winning global sympathy for their plight.  King Hussein of Jordan, King Abdullah’s father, made it clear that Arab leaders alone were responsible for the plight of the refugees, but his was a voice in the wilderness.  Israel gladly accepted Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
  • There were more Jewish refugees from Arab countries during Israel’s War of Independence than there were Arab refugees from Israel.
  • The value of assets left behind by Jewish refugees from Arab countries far exceeds the value of assets left behind by Arabs who fled Israel.
  • Many, if not most, of the so-called “Palestinian refugees” today have no connection whatsoever to people who fled Israel at the time of the War of Independence.  For decades, Arab leaders have routinely ousted rabble-rousers from their countries and forced them to join their Arab brothers in “Palestinian” refugee camps.  It was a form of exile—like being sent to Siberia in Stalin’s Soviet Union.

Every year, Arabs remember Nakba Day.  In English it means “the Day of Catastrophe.”  It refers to Israel’s defeat of the combined Arab armies during the War of Independence.  In a literal sense, they aren’t just remembering the “catastrophe,” as they put it.  They are hoping and waiting for the day when they can reverse their fortunes and return to the land of Israel, or Eretz Yisrael.

On Nakba Day 2011, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a statement saying, “The right of return will remain sacred for every Palestinian who was forced by the Zionist war machine to leave his or her home and land in Palestine.  The Palestinians won’t succumb to extortion; either we get the home and land peacefully, or we will make sacrifices until we return.”  As the facts above indicate, that statement is a bald-faced lie, but it sells well in the Arab world and among the liberal, leftwing Western intelligentsia who have bought into the Palestinian cause hook, line, and sinker.

In practical terms, Abbas was saying that the “right of return” is nonnegotiable.  Even more, he was saying that Arabs will fight until the bitter end for the “right of return.”  In absolute terms, the “right of return” is the ultimate deal stopper, because Israel will never accept it and for good reasons.   In other words, for Palestinian leaders the “right of return” is a convenient way out of any compromise that may lead to peace with Israel.

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