P F Tinmore, et al,
So, there is a "Plan." OK, what is the plan? Do all 5,149,000 (UNRWA Registered) Arab Palestinians know what "The Plan is?"
That's not the plan.
BTW, the PA/PLO does not represent anyone anymore.
(REFERENCE)
• Gaza Strip: More than 1,258,000 registered Palestine refugees in 8 camps
• West Bank: More than 774,000 registered Palestine refugees in 19 camps
• Syria: More than 526,000 registered Palestine refugees in 9 camps
• Lebanon: More than 449,000 registered Palestine refugees in12 camps
• Jordan: More than 2,117,000 registered Palestine refugees in 10 official camps
(COMMENT)
So, this "Plan" has some coordinated understanding among the Arab Palestinians that the Arab Palestinians will not migrate back towards the formerly occupied Palestinian territories:
•• If the Israelis were to (unilaterally) withdraw from the West Bank, --- you are saying that --- there will not be a migration of Arab Palestinians, stretched across 9 camps along the M5, from Aleppo down to Damascus are not going to start moving south to the West Bank border.
•• If the Israelis were to (unilaterally) withdraw from the West Bank, --- you are saying that --- there will not be a migration of Arab Palestinians, from dozen or so camps along the coast road, down from Aabdeh through Tyre towards the West Bank border.
•• If the Israelis were to (unilaterally) withdraw from the West Bank, --- you are saying that --- there will not be a migration of Arab Palestinians, from the 10 camps in Jordan towards the West Bank.
Who actually represents the Arab Palestinians spread across 2 territories and 3 countries? It is a confusing question. The Arab Palestinians population is much bigger than what the Islamic Resistance Movement has a strangle hold over, or those that want some sort of leadership in the West Bank. I take it that you know the actual intent expressed by the other 31 camps. There are some Arab Palestinians who claim that the Islamic Resistance Movement won the majority vote in 2006. But the 2006 Elections only cover the Arab Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Arab League really has not said anything about the other 31 Camps outside the West Bank and Gaza Strip. What it said was:
League of Arab States (LAS)
28 October 1974
Seventh Arab League Summit Conference
Resolution on Palestine
Rabat, Morocco
And in light of the victories achieved by Palestinian struggle in the confrontation with the Zionist enemy, at the Arab and international levels, at the United Nations, and of the obligation imposed thereby to continue joint Arab action to develop and increase the scope of these victories ; and having received the views of all on all the above, and having succeeded in cooling the differences between brethren within the framework of consolidating Arab solidarity, the Seventh Arab Summit Conference resolves the following:
1. To affirm the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to return to their homeland;
2. To affirm the right of the Palestinian people to establish an independent national authority under the command of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people in any Palestinian territory that is liberated. This authority, once it is established, shall enjoy the support of the Arab states in all fields and at all levels;
3. To support the Palestine Liberation Organization in the exercise of its responsibility at the national and international levels within the framework of Arab commitment;
4. To call on the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Syrian Arab Republic, the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Palestine Liberation Organization to devise a formula for the regulation of relations between them in the light of these decisions so as to ensure their implementation;
5. That all the Arab states undertake to defend Palestinian national unity and not to interfere in the internal affairs of Palestinian action.
IF the Arab Palestinians void the LAS Resolution of October 1974, then clearly there is no one unified voice that speaks for all Arab Palestinians. And it becomes apparent that the Arab Palestinians of the territories occupied (oPt) since 1967, have essentially abandon the Arab Palestinians in the 31 Camps outside the oPt.
Most Respectfully,
R