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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinians: Right of return is sacred
2006-11-28
The Palestinian Authority on Monday gave a lukewarm reaction to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's offer to withdraw from large parts of the West Bank and return to the negotiating table, while Hamas described the statements as a "conspiracy."

"Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's statements are not in accordance with the road map and the [2002] Arab peace initiative," said Nabil Abu Rudaineh, a spokesman for PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. "We want the implementation of the United Nations resolutions concerning the establishment of a Palestinian state within the territories that were occupied in 1967. With regards to the issue of the refugees, we want a solution based on United Nations resolution 194."

Abu Rudaineh added that the Palestinians remain committed only to the road map and the Arab peace initiative as the only way to achieve peace in the Middle East. "The only way to achieve peace is by implementing the road map and the Arab peace initiative, and not by coming up with new initiatives," he said. "We need serious negotiations and actions, not only words."

Syria-based Musa Abu Marzouk, the No. 2 man in the Hamas leadership, said the right of return for the refugees is "sacred" for all Palestinians. "The Palestinian people will never give up this sacred right," he said. "Our people have been fighting for 58 years to achieve the right of return for all those who were expelled from their homeland. We reject any deal that does not recognize the right of return."

Taysir Khaled, member of the PLO executive committee and a representative of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said the content of Olmert's speech reflected a hard-line stance. "How can Olmert ask the Palestinians to renounce their right to resist the occupation?" he asked, referring to Olmert's call for ending Palestinian terror. "We also don't understand his demand that the Palestinians give up the right of return for the refugees and form a unity government according to conditions set by the US and Israel."
Posted by:Fred

#15  As someone once posted here, long ago, when I first started readin' the 'burg, in what other freakin' war has the loosing side not only lost, but moved out and then DEMANDED a "right" to return?

WWII, we took over large parts of Germany, Japan and other areas and ran it for them for YEARS. And, previous to the 20th century, pretty much ALL wars were landgrabs, where the defeated either molded into the conquerors' society (at the same location) or left their "homeland" in search of greener pastures, never to return. The Paleos are the Je$$e Jackson/Al $harptons of the Arab world. Nothing but tools and shakedown artists.
Posted by: BA   2006-11-28 21:00  

#14  He (Jordan's King) gave a speech where he said Jordan won't accept is former citizens.

IIRC, the Paleos have already been kicked out of Jordan once before for bad behavior. I can understand why none of their arab brothers want them. Better to have fire ants.
Posted by: SteveS   2006-11-28 18:20  

#13  the right of return for the refugees is "sacred" for all Palestinians

If you were a Palestinian, and you had no brain, you would look at this and use it as a substitute for thinking. The "secret code" that the US was so worried about being embedded in terrorist isn't so secret. The message is right there for all to see. They want everyone to get all pi$$ed off whenever this "right" is challenged in order to create more seething.

Propagating the hate.
Posted by: gorb   2006-11-28 18:01  

#12  Our people have been fighting for 58 years to achieve the right of return for all those who were expelled from their homeland.

This is a crock of sh$$. The Jews begged the palestinians not to leave, but the Mufti of Jerusalem told them to get out, so the Arab armies could crush "Israel" once and for all. They still haven't managed. Hamas and the Palestinian Authority will do ANYTHING to destroy Israel, include lie through their teeth about anything and everything. Israel needs to end this farce by totally crushing all "palestinian" organizations and their supporters. Yesterday. With whatever it takes, including nukes.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-11-28 14:29  

#11  I demand my right of return to Saint Sophia along with the rest of Constantinople. I demand my right of return to a Templar fortress in Jerusalem. I demand my right of return to the days of five dollars a barrel oil.
Posted by: Excalibur   2006-11-28 11:02  

#10  Jordan's King is getting nervous that the Israelis will finally gather the courage to expel the muzzies. He gave a speech where he said Jordan won't accept is former citizens. Brotherly love, muslim style.
Posted by: ed   2006-11-28 10:15  

#9  Right after the Silesian and Sudeten Germans get their right of return. Got a couple years on the Paleos. Chances of that happening - zero to none.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2006-11-28 10:08  

#8  Anyone old enough to actually have the "Right to return" doesn't want to go back I bet. It's these terrorists that are in there 20's, who have lived there all their life, that want the returning. Arabs who aren't even RELATED to those who lived there will come pouring in, probably with promises of riches or glory or just plain shipped out at gunpoint. Victory by Over-population is what this strategy is called.
Posted by: Charles   2006-11-28 08:48  

#7  right of return for all those who were expelled from their homeland
Ha! What about those who fled because the Arab states told them to? All they've been given by their Arab "brothers" is squalid refugee camps.
Posted by: Spot   2006-11-28 08:27  

#6  If the "Right of Return" is sacred, then Christians should be able to reclaim all of the Middle East that was taken by force by Islamic armies during the Dark Ages. These creatures continue to rant against Crusaders, but Crusaders were merely Christians trying to exercise their right of return to the holiest places in Christendom.

Muslims play on the stupidity of Western intellectuals who allow them to do more or less what they want because they consider muslims to be inferior and disadvantaged. If the West wants to survive, it needs to reassert its worth, values, and rights. Basically, the West needs to begin rolling back the malign influence of Islam. If that means eradicating Islamics that oppose the West, so be it.
Posted by: RWV   2006-11-28 07:51  

#5  I wonder what would happen if the US said "the right of return is B.S."
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2006-11-28 02:08  

#4  the right of return for the refugees is "sacred" for all Palestinians.

Ho hum, just another impossible-to-meet-criteria that prolongs this interminable travesty. What about compensation for all the Jews who were forced to flee to Israel from surrounding Arab nations? Two can play that game.

More than anything, the Palestinians need to remember that many of their forbearers voluntarily abandoned their property, believing that they would be returning in a short while to resume ownership of not just their own estates but those of the ejected Jews.

Funny how things didn't turn out that way. Now they want to play crybaby and pretend that all of them were forced off of their land at gun point. Wah! Wah!

Cry me a fucking river and fill it with fucking herring.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-11-28 01:16  

#3  Paleos have a right to return to Jordan. That's where you came from. Head back, if they'll take you.
Posted by: SpecOp35   2006-11-28 00:50  

#2  Israel needs defense in depth. Any pullback, in face of Islamofascist aggression, is suicidal.
Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550   2006-11-28 00:46  

#1  Sacred refers to religion not where you live.
What a jerk.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-11-28 00:39  

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