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ok tinnie-----I see your frustration-------how about you make ANOTHER TITLE--------which would express what you consider the PRECISE hope and plan and desire of HAMAS I do not think that the writer of the title
of the thread thought that somewhere in the article is the statement HAMAS CLAIMS ALL OF ISRAEL ----he merely thought that Hamas wants Israel as a country to be combined with some other bits of land and be called PALESTINE and that any arab who ever had anything remotely to do with that entire land mass would become a citizen of PALESTINE which would---render the COUNTRY called "ISRAEL" non existent and ultimately put the jews of that country in the same position as they were in that shariah shit hole in which my husband was born
Rose,
The old man is a liar. This is only a small part of what Abbas has stated. He said that HE doesn't want to live there but does not relinguish the " Right of Return"
. Mr. Abbass answer, in an interview broadcast on Israeli television on Friday night yes, he would like to visit, but not to live there; Safed is part of Israel was widely interpreted as a surprising concession on the demands of Palestinians to return to their pre-1948 homes, perhaps the most intractable and emotional of all the unsettled issues in the decades-old dispute.
The remark set off angry protests across the Gaza Strip, in which demonstrators set Mr. Abbass picture aflame. Palestinian rivals and commentators denounced him as a traitor, or worse. In Israel, the response was strong if mixed, and the issue dominated political chatter on Sunday after weeks in which the Palestinian question had been all but absent from the debate ahead of the Jan. 22 elections.
President Abbas himself beat a hasty retreat. In an interview with an Arabic newspaper published Sunday, he said he was talking only of his personal aspirations, not about giving up anyones rights, and called the refugees a sacred matter that could be resolved only as part of a larger agreement through negotiations.
Abbas idea of " negotiations" is to have everything his way with no compromises. That is why there will never be the " palestinian state" that he demands.
International law clearly gives Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes. Why should they give up that right? If you were kicked out of your home unlawfully, would you just give up your right to return to your home even when it is 100 percent clear under intl law that you have the right to return to your home? It is really easy for you to give up others rights for them, but it is not your call! The losses of the refugees must be addressed. Maybe, the US and others, like the UK, should offer them all citizenship or a path to citizenship, considering our role in them remaining refugees all of this time, that might be an acceptable offer to some. Some of these refugees have lived in awful conditions in refugee camps going back as far as 1947.
The hapless Palestinians chose those squalid camps rather than accept peaceful coexistence with the nascent Jewish Homeland. They have since tossed generations of their kids into the fire as the unwitting pawns of UNRWA's self-serving maternalism and their own failed leadership.