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Source: http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/7921.htm
Abbas to the West: No Flood of Refugees to Israel; Abbas to Palestinians: Refugees Have Personal Right of Return to Israel
(MEMRI) C. Jacob - In a March 6, 2014, meeting with Palestinian students in Ramallah, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas discussed the personal right of refugees to return to Israel. "You are returning to the state of Israel. After all, the refugees, numbered at five million, and their children, were all expelled from the 1948 territories. There is no refugee from Nablus or Ramallah. They are all from Tiberius, Acre, Safed, Nazareth, Jaffa or Beersheba." Addressing Israelis visiting Ramallah, Abbas spoke in a different tone: "There is propaganda that claims that Abu Mazen [Abbas] wants five million refugees to return to Israel."