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Israel: Palestinian refugees number only in the thousands, not millions
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Published: 13.10.18, 15:39
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1. name calling
David Miltier ,   Kibbutz Gat   (10.13.18)
There are only a few thousand original Jews living in Israel. All the others are descendants or immigrants so how can Israel be called the Jewish state? They can't be considered real citizens. Such is the Jewish reasoning with regard to the Palestinians. Only a US President with a 6 year old's intelligence and evangelical lackeys like Pence and Halley can so twist common sense. Call them what you want Netanyahu but the seven million Palestinians living between the river and the sea aren't going away. Now, that's your problem.
2. The UNWRA ponzi con bubble impossible to sustain burst
MadDad ,   Johannesburg   (10.13.18)
The UNWRA 70 year ponzi con created to bring temporary relief to a couple of Arabs who left their homes has turned into a political sherade funded by us and other western allies has become totally counterproductive and unsustainable and it’s dismantling is long overdue
3. Do Palestinians really exist?
Sjoerd van der Velde ,   Hoorn Holland   (10.13.18)
They talk the Arabian language. Someone who talks Arabic as her/his mother tongue, can be called an Arab, belonging to the Arabian people, of more than 300 million people. In the first place, Israel is a Jewish/Israëli, free, independant, sovereign democratic country, with self-determination, with Jerusalem as capital, PERIOD.
4. Actually: I don't care how many Unicorns there are out there
(10.14.18)
5. West bank = Jordan
MadDad ,   Johannesburg   (10.14.18)
No one protested or complained when the West Bank was part of Jordan
No one protested or complained when Gaza was part of Egypt
6. Israel and Trump are spot on
MadDad ,   Johannesburg   (10.14.18)
Eliminate the travesty called UNWRA and there might be a chance of peace
7. number of refugees is simply a matter of logic
C   (10.14.18)
it is logically impossible that 700,000 refugees swell to over 5,000,000
after 70 years.

the status of refugee is not inherited.
according to international law, refugees are absorbed into host countries.
this has been the case of all refugees.
there is no logical reason to make an exception for the arabs who left
the land of israel during the war of independence.
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