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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Olmert details failed peace offer
2010-09-20
[Al Arabiya] Former Israeli premier Ehud Olmert said on Sunday the United States had agreed to accept some 100,000 Paleostinian refugees within the framework of an eventual Middle East peace deal, media reported.

Washington had agreed to absorb and give citizenship to 100,000 refugees,
All of whom would have been here legally, and therefore would no have been deported after 9/11. Let us be grateful for the unexpected twists and turns of history, as it's quite certain some of them would have been plotting mischief here instead of over there.
while Israel would accept less than 20,000, Israeli media quoted Olmert as telling a conference.

"The numbers discussed were below 20,000, but this would require an end to the conflict and a Paleostinian announcement that they would not make any more demands," the Ynet website quoted him as saying.
Not something the Palestinians were capable of then. Nor now, it has been demonstrated
.Olmert was speaking at a conference in Tel Aviv organized by the Geneva Initiative, an Israeli-Paleostinian group that aims to show a peace accord is possible.

The former prime minister held peace talks with the Paleostinians from November 2007 until they collapsed when Israel began its devastating military 22-day offensive against the Islamist-ruled Gazoo Strip just over a year later.

"If we had reached an agreement, it would have changed the map of the world and the entire Middle East. We are not to blame. If there is no agreement, it's because the Paleostinian side was not prepared to take the extra step that we made," Olmert was reported as saying.

The issue of Paleostinian refugees is expected to be one of the thorniest issues in the renewed direct Israeli-Paleostinian peace talks that resumed in the United States at the beginning of the month.

The Paleostinians want Israel to recognize the "right of return" of the Paleostinians who fled or were expelled when the Jewish state was created in 1948. With their descendants, they number 4.7 million people.
So they all want to return? That could get a bit crowded.
Israel rejects the demand, saying they should be accommodated within a Paleostinian state.
Indeed. Besides, if they all return, why bother with a separate Palestinian state?
Posted by:Fred

#1  ION TOPIX > AHMADINEJAD: [Mideast] RESISTANCE TO THE WEST RISING. Alleged growing ME = Regional popular support for SYRIA, IRAN GOVT. POLICIES.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-09-20 01:41  

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