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How interesting. Especially considering it was YOU who said what I call Israel & you call Palestine is one & the same piece of land.
The UN resolutions don't specify 'Palestinian' refugees: it's no use pretending those 900,000 or so people weren't made refugees as part of the same conflict.
Many of them were formerly citizens of the 5 Arab nations which got together to attack Israel: it's obvious there's SOME connection.
Though just in case you didn't understand, it never occurred to me - or to them! - to blame or punish the Palestinians for the impoverishment and exile of other refugees. Not at all.
But it is neither a 'separate' nor an 'unrelated' issue. Hardly!
I repeat: to insist on 'justice' for the Palestinians and ignore the other refugees from the '48 conflict is not justice at all. Especially when some of those Jewish refugees were ethnically cleansed out fo East Jeruasalem in 1948/9 by the Jordanians when they became occupiers of that part of the city.
It is not that I ignore the Jewish refugee problem. It is just that the Palestinians had nothing to do with it.
History says that the "Arab countries" invaded Palestine not Israel. All of the fighting took place in Palestine.