Abbas Rejects U.S. Peace Proposal, Again

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13. About "right of return"

There is no accepted notion of this. For example, are Pakistanis guaranteed a right of return to India following the population exchange that occurred there? Let's see.

A Person of Indian Origin (PIO) is a person living outside of India and without Indian citizenship, but of Indian origin up to four generations removed. It is available to persons of Indian origin anywhere in the world as long as they have never been citizens of Pakistan or of Bangladesh (a reservation excluding Muslims who joined Pakistan during or after the 1947 partition).

The Palestinians clearly aim to echo Israel's "Law of Return" The Law of Return has a unique motivation. Care to guess what?

Specifically, the Law of Return was enacted by Israel in 1950 shortly after 1/3 of the world's Jews were killed when no country would accept them and at a time when 10% of the world's Jews had just been expelled from Muslim countries where their families had lived for millenia, it was clear that the Jewish people would benefit from a country that would accept them and grant them citizenship. Of course, the whole of Jewish history over the last 2000 years contains many other instances where Jews fled to wherever they could to avoid death, or weren't able to flee. The Law of Return has ensured sanctuary to Jews fleeing murderous anti-Semitic regimes in many cases over the decades.

Palestinians have the distinction of being the only people in the world with hereditary refugee status, with Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt ensuring that they do not have birth citizenship. It certainly sense that moving forward, the situation of those 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th generation refugees should be improved. There are ways to do this, involving aid and deals with various nations, but bringing to Israel many millions of people who are hostile to Israel is not the way to do it. As SH says, never going to happen. If they are going to refuse peace until that happens, then they will wait forever.