Enkele korte linken over het vluchtelingenprobleem en de strijd om het grondgebied van Israel
16 februari 2012, Shevat 23, 5772
The Refugees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_3A6_qSBBQ
Ontrafeling van de feiten aangaande Israel en de Palestijnse aanspraken op Joods grondgebied
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ByJb7QQ9U&feature=channel_video_title
Dichter: No Arab 'Return,' Erekat Will Swallow his Words
by Maayana Miskin, Arutz Sheva
Published: 01/02/11, 10:27 PM
MK Avi Dichter, former Minister of Internal Security, spoke to Arutz Sheva's Hebrew-language news service Sunday regarding negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. The discussion focused on senior PA negotiator Saeb Erekat, who recently told the British daily The Guardian that Israel must recognize the Arab “right of return” if it wants peace.
According to Erekat, the “right of return” should apply not only to Arabs who fled pre-state Israel during the War of Independence, but also to every one of their descendants, making a total of seven million people eligible to “return” to Israel. “In Bosnia and in Palestine, the return of refugees has been considered absolutely necessary for the stability of peace,” he said.
Erekat's remarks are unprecedented, but not overly worrisome, Dichter said. While PA leaders have often voiced demands for “return” in the Arab press, “I don't remember [seeing] such extreme statements from such a senior figure,” he said.
However, he said, “The 'right of return' will not be included in the peace process... Talk about the 'right of return' is meaningless. Everyone understands that there will not be a solution that includes 'return,' no matter who says what.”
Erekat's statements were “manipulative, and completely baseless,” Dichter continued. “Erekat will need to swallow his words,” he said. “He has taken back many things he said in the past, and he will have to take this back as well.”
No Peace Without Gaza
Dichter warned of a “systematic, organized fraud perpetrated by the PA” regarding negotiations. “Ever since the overthrow in Gaza, they've been drawing all attention to Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, and ignoring Gaza completely,” he said.
“The subject of Gaza is a central issue that must not be ignored – not by Israel, not by the United States, not by the Quartet, and not by the Arab nations,” he continued. “Gaza is an abscess that must be burst – either by the Arab nations bringing PA control back to Gaza, or by Israel toppling the terrorist infrastructure in a process that will last for years.”
“We cannot continue to have an Iranian-directed terrorist identity between us and Egypt,” he concluded.
Israel must ensure that Gaza, and all other relevant issues, are dealt with under any peace deal, Dichter said. “We cannot go step by step, it has to be one whole process... A peace deal is like delivering a child. One does not birth a partial baby, and similarly, one cannot birth a partial peace.”
Voor de Nederlandse vertaling: http://brabosh.com/2011/01/03/pqpct-9z2/
Historically important - Arab responseble for refugees
mei 2010
Confusion about Israel-Arab affairs is often the result of incomplete or false historical information. This section clarifies some of the pressing questions of Israeli-Arab history by showing actual events, eye witness accounts, and other documentation of historical significance.
In recent years, known Palestinian leaders, writers and refugees themselves are speaking out and candidly blaming the Arab leadership for the creation of the refugee problem. According to these Palestinian accounts the massive departure of Arabs from Israel was willful, the result of orders by the Arab leadership. This contradicts the Palestinian charge that the hundreds of thousands of Arabs who ran in 1948 were expelled by Israel.
Another aspect of Arab refugee history is that the PA intentionally restricts the rights of refugee camp residents, both political and humanitarian rights, in order to prevent their natural absorption into society.
The following are more examples clarifying this important period of history
Refugee: Arab regimes told us to leave in 1948
Source: Palestinian TV (Fatah), July 7, 2009
Arab resident of a refugee camp recounting the reason his family left Israel during the war and became refugees:
"This picture was taken a week before we left Ein-Kerem [near Jerusalem] in June 1948, in front of our house. The radio stations of the Arab regimes kept repeating to us: "Get away from the battle lines. It's a matter of ten days or two weeks at the most, and we'll bring you back to Ein-Kerem." And we said to ourselves, "That's a very long time. What is this? Two weeks? That's a lot!" That's what we thought [then]. And now 50 years have gone by."
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=567
Refugees told: Leave so we can destroy Israel
Source: Al-Ayyam, May 13, 2008
Jawad Al Bashiti, Palestinian journalist in Jordan:
“The reasons for the Palestinian Catastrophe [establishment of Israel and the refugee problem] are the same reasons that have produced and are still producing our catastrophes today... The first war between Arabs and Israel had started and the "Arab Salvation Army" told the Palestinians: 'We have come to you in order to liquidate the Zionists and their state. Leave your houses and villages, you will return to them in a few days safely. Leave them so we can fulfill our mission (liquidate Israel) in the best way and so you won't be hurt.' It became clear already then, when it was too late, that the support of the Arab states (against Israel) was a big illusion.”
Refugees left homes in 1948 because of Arab promises
Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), Dec. 13, 2006
Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Palestinian Journalist:
"The leaders and the elites promised us [refugees] at the beginning of the "Catastrophe" in 1948, that the duration of the exile will not be long, and that it will not last more than a few days or months, and afterwards the refugees will return to their homes, which most of them did not leave until they put their trust in those Arkuvian* [worthless] promises made by the leaders and the political elites. Afterwards, days passed, months, years and decades, and the promises were lost with the strain of the succession of events.."
[Note: The term "Arkuvian" is after Arkuv - a figure from Arab tradition - who was known for breaking his promises and for his lies.]
Palestinian writer blames Arab leaders for refugees
Source: Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Fatah), Mar. 19, 2001
Palestinian Authority columnist:
"I have received a[n imaginary] letter from a Palestinian prisoner in Acre [Israeli] prison, to the Arab summit leaders:
'To the [Arab] Kings and Presidents: Poverty is killing us, the symptoms are exhausting us and the souls are leaving our body, yet you are still searching for the way to provide aid, like one who is looking for a needle in a haystack or like the armies of your predecessors in the year of 1948, who forced us to leave [Israel], on the pretext of clearing the battlefields of civilians.'"
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=568