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Source: http://townhall.com/Columnists/MichaelMedved/2007/04/04/a_palestinian_right_of_return
A Palestinian "Right of Return"?
[Townhall.com] Michael Medved - The latest Arab League peace proposal, recycled with much fanfare from a 2002 Saudi plan, includes a requirement that Israel should accept untold millions of Palestinians who would relocate into Israel itself. The War of Independence began in 1948 because the Palestinians and their Arab supporters refused to accept the idea of an independent Jewish state in their midst, regardless of its borders or the clear-cut Jewish majority in the land originally mandated by the UN. Today, the insistence on a "right of return" shows that the Arabs still refuse to accept Israel as a sovereign nation, entitled to control its own destiny. If the Palestinians will negotiate peace, they get to decide who lives in their new state, but they don't get to decide who lives in the neighboring State of Israel. Until the Palestinians and their Islamic allies come to terms with the reality and permanence of a restored state on the ancient homeland of the Jewish people, and drop demands about a "right to return," peace negotiations will go absolutely nowhere.