The Palestine Papers on the Right of Return
January 25th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Writes Laila Al-Arian:
The Palestine Papers show that Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiators were prepared to make major concessions on the refugees’ right of return: on the numbers potentially allowed to return to their homes in what is now Israel; on whether refugees would be able to vote on any peace agreement; and on how many would be able to settle in a future Palestinian state…The papers also reveal that then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert proposed that 1,000 Palestinian refugees be allowed to return annually to Israel over a period of five years -totalling just 5,000, a tiny fraction of those displaced after Israel’s creation.
Search the Palestine Papers on Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera – Since 1948, millions of Palestinian refugees have held out the hope of returning to their own state one day.
But the Palestine Papers reveal that their leaders were willing to make major concessions on the issue of the Palestinians’ right of return.
Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Phillips reports from Shatila Refugee Camp in Lebanon.
