There is no such thing as 'Right of Return' at this late stage. It evaporated decades ago.
There's no statute of limitations on the right to return.
No, but there was a limit to the amount of time during which the Jews of Israel would have been even marginally willing to consider even a partial 'Return'. That time limit was exceeded at the close of the 1967 Six Day War.
Any snowball's chance in hell that the Palis had, to attain even a partial 'Return', evaporated at that point, and it's the guys with the Big Guns who say what is to be, and what is not.
If you don't like the decision, you must pick up a rifle and take it up with them.
It's the difference between
Paper Law and
Operative Law; the difference between some arguable 'ideal' or 'standard', and what the Real World is willing to settle for, in light of an entirely understandable Israel intransigence.
"...You're full of shit!..."
Quite possibly, but I take some small measure of comfort in the notion that you are comprised of the same stuff; not merely full of it, but made of it.
Granting Right-of-Return = the death of the State of Israel. After waiting for 2000 years to reclaim their ancestral or spiritual homeland... not a chance.
So it's okay for the jews to return after being driven out 2000 years ago, but it's not okay for the Pals to return after being driven out 70 years ago?
By Jove, I think you've got it. Don't like it? Pick up a rifle and take that up with the IDF.
"...Now look who's trying to wipe out who?..."
Pay close attention, Junior...
Option A - this is Expulsion...
Option B - this is Wiping Out...
See the difference? ...my little butt floss.
If the Israelis decide to flush-out the West Bank or Gaza, they'll choose
Option A - Expulsion...
Which is one helluva lot more humane and merciful than what the Palestinians themselves - and their Muslim-Arab neighbors - have repeatedly sworn to do to the Jews, in drowning them in the Mediterranean...
"...There's another solution. How 'bout Israel obeying the law?..."
The very moment that 'the law' does not require them to surrender all or much of what they already have, or to commit slow national suicide. 'The law' is usually used to the great detriment and harm of the Jews and they've had enough of your (and my) shit; trusting to themselves to complete the process of reclaiming the Holy Land and to set up a defensible and sustainable nation-state, as they're doing now. Don't like it? Pick up a rifle, and take it up with the IDF.
At present, there is a nearly-ideal window of opportunity to do just that.
What a drama queen.
My reference to a 'nearly-ideal window of opportunity' pertains to the relative weakness and distraction of all of Israel's Muslim-Arab neighbors; most of whom will not be in a position to threaten Israel again for many years to come; the first time that that state of affairs has presented itself since the founding of Israel in 1948.
That is not 'dramatization' - that is an accurate assessment of the relative strengths and willingness and ability (
or lack of it) to interfere in external matters, on the part of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Lebanon; serving-up opinion that there is a unique opportunity here to exploit that weakness.
As to the 'queen' part, well...
Anybody who would, as Israeli Prime Minister in 1967, wait until Egyptian bombers crossed into my airspace - seconds or minutes from my cities and military bases - willing to take hundreds or thousands of civilian casualties and to lose precious and irreplaceable war-assets - just to conform to the letter of international law and to make such a point...
Anyone who would do that - well... that's a bit too limp-wristed for MY vote, but that's just me.
If I were a Palestinian, I'd be crapping in my pants right about now, waiting for the other shoe to fall.
You probably are crapping in your pants right now?
Don't try to be clever Queenie... you haven't got it in ya.
