By Naseer Aruri
With renewed clash within the center East, the chance of a calm answer appears extra not going than ever. The Palestinian correct of go back to their houses has been upheld in foreign legislation and during United countries' resolutions for 50 years. both the correct of go back has been denied through Israel and deferred to a "final prestige" factor within the Oslo Accords. it really is in this correct of go back that the Palestinians are united. And it's this factor that is so often missed through the foreign media. With significant contributions from a number foreign specialists, together with Edward W. acknowledged, Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe, Alain Gresh and Norman Finkelstein, this quantity examines the Palestinians’ correct of go back. Chapters disguise the historic roots of the Palestinian refugee query; the rights of the refugees lower than foreign legislations; the certain case of Lebanon; Israeli perceptions of the refugee query; the sensible feasibility of the go back; the function of the U.S. and the ecu Union and the Refugee query; the worth of the refugee estate; the rules of repayment; and a programme for an self sufficient Rights crusade.
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123–36. Although Zionism had made little headway before the 1930s when considerable numbers of Jews went to Palestine from Germany, the Shoah played a significant part in illustrating its thesis that Jews could not live safely other than in a Jewish nation state. Gerhard von Rad, ‘The Promised Land and Yahweh’s Land in the Hexateuch’, in The Problem of the Hexateuch and Other Essays (London: SCM and Philadelphia: Fortress, 1966, repr. 1984), p. 79. James M. ), Exile: Old Testament, Jewish and Christian Conceptions (Leiden: Brill, 1997), pp.
3 This and other pronouncements by Weizmann and leading Zionists embodied European supremacy which planted in the Zionist mind the racist notion of an empty territory – empty not necessarily in the actual absence of its inhabitants, but rather in the sense of civilizational barrenness. It justified Zionist colonization and engendered obliviousness to the fate of the native population. The United States Ambassador to Israel, James McDonald, in his book My Mission in Israel, 1948–1951,4 recalls a conversation he had with Weizmann, in the course of which Weizmann spoke in ‘messianic’ terms about the 1948 Palestinian exodus as a ‘miraculous simplification of Israel’s tasks’.
9–11). The Jewish leadership in Palestine began already in 1937 to plan systematically for ‘population transfer’, and executed it at the first opportunity in 1948, and at the second in 1967. Privately, Theodor Herzl and the majority of Zionists after him were in no doubt that the realization of the Jewish dream would require a nightmare for the indigenous population. For a discussion of the role of the Jewish–Christian dialogue in western Christian support see my Zionism and the State of Israel …, pp.