Shusha
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If not, is this, from the video accurate:
Many international agreements guarantee the right of return to refugees even if there is a successor government--they cannot be left stateless. The UN divided Palestine, without legal basis, in 1947 and in 1948 seeing the refugees it did not condone or foresee took responsibility for them. The treaty of Lausanne, 1923 recognized them as citizens as the world did, including Israel until a Court case in 1950 and a Law in 1952 to 'denationalize' them. UN Resolution 194 however accepted their citizenship and Right of Return.
Stateless person should certainly not be left stateless. Fortunately, Jews returning to the successor government of Israel will have Israeli nationality. And Arab Palestinians returning to the successor government of Arab Palestine will have Arab Palestinian nationality. Not a problem. All those with other nationalities are already not stateless, so again, not a problem.
Those who lost property in the conflict should be compensated, of course. The Jewish people (or their descendants) by the Arab nations who expelled them and the Arab Palestinian people (or their descendants) by the Israeli government. Again, not a problem.
We agree that Arabs SHOULD have become citizens of Israel. They did. The CAUSE, however, was and continues to be their hostility towards the Jewish people and the State of Israel. The civil war which broke out between the Jews and the Arabs precludes those Arabs engaged in hostilities and the destruction of Israel from return.
So, I ask again. What is wrong with Jews returning to the Jewish state and Arabs returning to the Arab state?