Well they can't return to where they or their ancestors have never been,
Cool. So they can still return to Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Well, no. The Palestinians are not from Syria, Egypt or Saudi Arabia. They are from Palestine.
Sure, and lots of them came from Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia in the last 150 years.
I hear there's room in Syria. And no pesky Jews. They should move.
An insignificant number came from Syria, Egypt or Saudi Arabia. The Palestinians are from Palestine. The only people who migrated to Palestine in any number were European Zionists.
UNITED
NATIONS
A
OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE SECOND SESSION OF
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
SUPPLEMENT No. 11
UNITED NATIONS
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
ON PALESTINE
REPORT TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
b)IMMIGRATION AND NATURAL INCREASE
15. These changes in the population have been brought about by two forces: natural increase and immigration.
The great increase in the Jewish population is due in the main to immigration. From 1920 to 1946, the total number of recorded Jewish immigrants into Palestine was about 376,000, or an average of over 8,000 per year. The flow has not been regular, however, being fairly high in 1924 to 1926, falling in the next few years (there was a net emigration in 1927) and rising to even higher levels between 1933 and 1936 as a result of the Nazi persecution in Europe. Between the census year of 1931 and the year 1936, the proportion of Jews to the total population rose from 18 per cent to nearly 30 per cent.
16. The Arab population has increased almost entirely as a result of an excess of births over deaths.
A/364 of 3 September 1947