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Boy, history won't be kind on you reprobates. I doubt anybody can be as despicable to you though as you have been to the Palestinians. Lying about all your brutal savage terrorist gangs and its rapes/plunder/murder and ethnic cleansing, wiping from the face of the earth their ancestral villages and even claim they are an invented people. Simply not human.
Good comment Avi but I should have entered his whole quote in my comment to put it into perspective:
"The best solution is to reintegrate Palestinians, a great people with tremendous commercial and economic skills, into Israel. This is what is best for Jews. Today, nearly a million foreign workers are in Israel, some for generations. This is simply not sustainable but also reflects human tragedy. The coastline of Palestine would look like Dubai if this had already been done. And yes, a name change would be in order, a show of good faith. No nukes & a new name…New Palestine."
Quoting Uri Avnery: "The best solution is to reintegrate Palestinians, a great people with tremendous commercial and economic skills, into Israel."
Clearly fredblags has never met a Palestinian if he had they could have told him a thing or two about the region instead of its lame revisionism.
Thank you, you just disproved your own position.
You decided that fredblogs and we all know how irrational your mind is. They could not return to their homeland to have their offspring in the first place.
talknic: Very well said. In 1943 Gen Patrick Hurley a former Sec of war in the American admin submitted a report to the WH following a visit to Palestine & talks with David Ben-Gurion. In his report he said The Zionists in Palestine have committed themselves to (1) a sovereign Jewish state which would embrace Palestine and probably eventually Transjordan, (2)The eventual transfer of the Palestinian population from Palestine to Iraq, (3) jewish leadership for the entire ME in fields of economic development and control.
“Yet, culpable though the Lebanese govt undoubtedly is, the real culprit is the Israeli govt, which by refusing to come to a settlement with the Palestinians, is directly & horrendously responsible for the plight of those immured in the camps [in Lebanon]. It makes me more determined than ever to fight for the rights of the Palestinian people & to campaign against the deliberate decision of the Israeli govt to perpetuate the hell in which so many Palestinians are living”. - Sir Gerald Kaufman, son of Holocaust survivors, and veteran UK MP.
Fredblogs: Illegal immigrant Zionist terrorist gangs caused refugee problem. Israel alone is responsible for their displacement. Strawmen hasbara propaganda whines like "they're the ones who ran away!" without mentioning they weren't allowed back. Or "The refugees aren't original refugees & are Syrian, Lebanese, or Jordanian" which is ridiculous. They live in refugee camps, it is not up to other nations to grant them citizenship no more than Canada should to a draft-dodging American.
OlegR: Just because you are complicit in their refugee status enjoying their land at their expense. They were never allowed to return to from where they left involuntarily. Leaving a place doesn’t make someone a refugee. It’s forbidding him or her from coming back that does it.
"The tragedy of people of Palestine is that their country was 'given' by a foreign power to another people for creation of a new state. The result was that hundreds’ of thousands of innocent people were made homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that refugees have every right to homeland from which they were driven, & denial of this right is at heart of continuing conflict."
(Bertrand Russell, February 1970)
Apart from the few dark skinned ones they all look as if they stepped out of a Russian slum.
Zionists, not Jews. True Torah Jews consider "Israel" blasphemy and for crying out loud there are young kids there listening to the most vulgar expletives about being buggered and so on. That is not a normal society by any stretch. It beggars belief how you are raised.
Scary. Awaiting Fredblogs to justify that. Lol. Swearing in front of kids and women laughing at the men saying such repulsive things. Heaven help the Palestinians.
The bouncer from Moldova who lives on an illegal settlement is in London? I thought they never allowed people who incited hatred into the UK. Or is it one rule for Israeli's and another for the rest of the world!
Mentioned it here (but it cannot be repeated enough imo):
link to mondoweiss.net
BREAKING: Asylum seekers attacked by mobs in South Tel Aviv
link to intifadamedia.wordpress.com
Was it ever going to work though? 64 years of trying to pound a square peg into a round hole.
Should have asked that question when "israel" was admitted seeing as it is not even in Europe. You may be interested to learn, as lame as it is, some songs from said contest have charted in the Billboard Hot 100 through the years.
Amen "American". My feelings exactly. Palestinians have been mighty patient. "Saber" is a word I believe they use, meaning patience and there is always tomorrow.
Bigger picture? Yeah you going to Palestine and robbing them of their freedom; homeland and lives all for a very disturbed belief Palestine is yours and they must just disappear. Your kind of lies for your cause makes any decent civilized human being cringe.
I hope the family gets the justice they seek. They have suffered enough heartache.
Fred if you think all this is normal and sane you seriously are disturbed.
Yes obviously a Sephardic Jew who has no get out of clause to avoid compulsory military call up - like the religious Jews. They are also invisible in the government.
The money given to Israel should be given to the politicians instead. Cut out the middleman.
Settlements (read squatter camps) are there as provocation and the Palestinians are not protected by the Occupation force either. In fact just the opposite.
And nobody but Palestinians had any authority to give Palestine away.
Avi Shlaim Israeli historian : Britain had no moral or legal or legal right to promise the land that belonged to the Arabs to another people so the Balfour Declaration was both immoral and illegal
Shot in the neck by a settler and still manages to smile:
link to facebook.com
The children of course, are innocent. The parents are not.
Speaking of children:
An Israeli soldier tries to arrest a Palestinian boy at gun point in Jerusalem and a female activist intervenes
link to anoncentral.tumblr.com
Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced that the South African ambassador in Tel Aviv would be called in for a reprimand today, adding that “this is not political opposition to settlements but negatively tagging a state through a special marking, according to national-political criteria. Accordingly, this is a racist measure”.
Knesset Member Arieh Eldad of the far-right Yechud Leumi goes further, calling on the government to mark all products imported from South Africa with a prominent label of “Warning! Product of South Africa. The history determines: anti-Semitism is liable to result in the death of Jews!”
link to leftwing-christian.net
In 1920 the British Govt installed the Jewish Zionist Herbert Samuel as 1st British High Commissioner for Palestine. Samuel arrived to implement what he had proposed 5 years earlier to prepare Palestine to become a Jewish state. On his first day on the job Samuel made Hebrew an official language of Palestine alongside Arabic & English the letters e & y were added to the end of the word Palestine in Hebrew as an abbreviation of the word Eretz Yisrael (land of Israel). He enacted several hundred laws that would ensure Arab lands would pass into Jewish hands and permitted the establishment of a seperate Jewish educational system INDEPENDENT OF THE PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT. The crucial British accomplishment was allowing Jews to have their own “army”.
No problem personally I thought it was a typo.
Mr Smith I have read many an article/book on the Nakba and yours is a very fair analysis. Thank you. Your heart is in the right place.
Indeed. From Ilan Pappe's "The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine":
"Zionist supporters like to bring up the fact that on November 29, 1947 the United Nations voted to partition Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. What is left out of the Zionist story is that within one year of the vote Israeli forces had managed to capture close to 80% of Palestine, destroy close to 500 Palestinian towns and villages, kill scores of unarmed civilians and force the exile of some 800,000 Palestinians."
However, The nakba started decades before 1948. In 1907 60,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed out of Marj ben Amer in Northern Palestine when the Rothschilds bought up 200,000 dunams of land.
During the British mandate too there were incidences of ethnic clearances but not on the scale we saw between 1947-49.
Excellent documentary on alnakba here:
link to youtube.com
No photoshop covers up a dodgy face.
Meanwhile the prime monster warns of infiltrators 'flooding' Israel
link to jpost.com
King of the sociopathic lunatic asylum maybe.
So well stated there ginger.
The British Empire (and other colonies) colonized lands, but the native population remained within the territory. Which eventually was recovered by means of declarations of independence such as in the case of India – as would have been the case in Palestine. Comparing this much more recent colonization of an ideological cult with a sense of entitlement to that land is irrational. Nobody is awaiting a right of return either.
Yes hence my get your priorities right comment.
Get your priorities right people of Sydney (& the west in general). I cannot believe how our morals and ethics have gone down the tube. However on a brighter note I do not recall a year in my existence where I have seen so much written on the Nakba.
Oh aye Cliffy they are all and everyone depending on what voice is in their heads at any given moment.
"The Israeli government said the E.U. statement was “based on a partial, biased and one-sided depiction of realities on the ground.”"
Words fail me on how contrary to all men these alternate universe dwellers are.
@ Annie: Yes indeed. EU countries have 2 sets of elections. I think the percentage of votes a party gets in the European parliament election determines on how many reps they send to the EU parliament.
Seriously. These Islamophobia arguments are so retarded anybody who falls for it is a complete and utter halfwit.
You possibly need reminding ALL of Israel is actually occupied Palestine
Fredblogs: They have no autonomy. Not forgetting you impostors control their land, sea and airspace as well as their borders. That makes them occupied. Longest occupation in history I may add. It beggars belief how you delude yourself. It's actually very sinister.
Fred it's not just $3 billion when all is said and done and Palestine was totally self sufficient pre-Zionist invasion and occupation. They can do it again without impostors controlling their every move.
Zionists are not Jews (simply hijacked Judaism but have no mandate to speak for all Jews) and yes to be indoctrinated into the insane zionist ideology you can hardly be described as sane.
Avigail Abarbanel, an ex-Israeli psychiatrist in Australia, views Zionism as a mental illness that can be treated. Zionism is just a symptom of a deeper problem, the delusional belief that you have “rights” which do not exist. The inner conflict that arises from these “situational ethics” certainly does create a clinically diagnosable mental inability to process certain types of information that trigger the neurotic or sometimes even psychotic defensive reaction.”
The self chosen rosen Zionistas are the only ones allowed an opinion and the only opinions that count in their delusional heads - no matter how twisted or disturbed those opinions are.
Fredbonkers: Personally I wouldn't even call it a "nation" and probably would not get printed if I did say what I thought of it, but you have to be mad to follow the Zionist ideology and believe everything they tell you. You Fred are unable to think for yourself. That makes you part of the madness that is being a zionist.
Fred would love to know how you could possibly defend this madman. His racism and that of your pariah's actions' speak louder than my supposed racist words.
A professor? Even their intellectuals are madman.
Sunday, May 20
SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS AGAINST APARTHEID A DECLARATION
As South African Artists and Cultural Workers who have lived under, survived, and in many cases resisted apartheid, we acknowledge the value of international solidarity in our own struggle. It is in this context that we respond to the call by Palestinians, and their Israeli allies, for such solidarity.
More:link to networkedblogs.com
Thanks. I really do not know whether to believe that or not. Personally being the cynic I am when it comes to this mammon nightmare he probably got promotion - albeit in another department. They seem to live in an antonym universe.
Agreed. I meant products manufactured by settlers in the Occupied territories.
Report: Denmark set to label settlement produce
link to maannews.net
Way to go Harry.
I believe they have sunk so low as to mark products made in the occupied territories as "Palestinian" to get past boycotts. Something to keep an eye out for.
Censored is better than nothing but where is freedom of speech and what are they afraid to show. Has backfired on the zionistas horribly.
Yep us and them only the them in this case can hardly be described as humane.
Wow. Life has been so unfair on the Palestinian people. Put yourselves in their shoes.
Fred: I am here to find out from you zionistas what your legal, moral and ethical right to be in Palestine at the native indigenous peoples' expense. I have addressed this question to you on at least 2 previous occasions (seeing as you always have so much to say trying to polish your turd) and still waiting. Humor me please.
Reverse psychology. Loving it.
One rule for the locals and another for the squatters ...er settlers
OlegR: Truth is on the side of the oppressed and that ain't you frankenstein monsters no matter how much you whine about it. I have said it once I shall say it again "Oleg" sounds so at home in Russia, not in the ME.
Mammon nightmare
OlegR: Palestine was COMPLETELY free pre-Zionist invasion and occupation and don't you ever forget that. You must be living under a rock (read: in denial) as well because Palestinian Christians and Muslims are restricted in going to their places of worship. They had no problem pre-Zionist occupation of their land.
There was a lot more to it than that OlegR and you have denied both Muslim and Christians access to their holy sites since you self declared your pariah on ancestral Palestine (incl the 2 holiest Christian sites in Christendom i.e. Holy Sepulchre and Church of the Nativity)
400 detained at Frankfurt Occupy protest
German police temporarily detained some 400 demonstrators during largely peaceful protests by Occupy activists in Frankfurt on Friday. About 1,000 people turned out at some of the unauthorized protest rallies across the city, AP reports. Protesters erected barricades, staged sit-ins and tore down traffic signs. The protest group Blockupy plans to stage protests over the weekend. It has called for barring access to the European Central Bank. Some 5,000 police will be deployed to keep the weekend protests in check.
link to rt.com
The Nakba are the sins of our fathers.
So true and thanks for being human always defending injustices.
Love your comments Woody.
All these actions and they wonder why they are detested by decent civilized human beings worldwide.
Woody they did consider their troops safety paramount against Zionist terror attacks. However it was probably more to it than that. Brits made promises they did not keep.
Independence from what country? Who was oppressing them?
Eleanor Kilroy was in London Fred.
According to Dutch Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer ‘Formerly, an anti-Semite was somebody who hated Jews because they were Jews and had a Jewish soul. But nowadays an anti-Semite is someone who is hated by the Jews’.
“The Zionists are automatons. Wherever I speak they do always the same. They come to the audience without any arguments or just shout “lies!” … They are brainwashed to nothing.” -Hajo Meyer Dutch Holocaust survivor, May 01 2011.
Well let's just say the internet has killed Israeli PR (read MSM/Hasbara) and leave it at that shall we.
Well said
Thanks for that. Still working my side.
Some more Phil (courtesy link to twitter.com
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Very rational review indeed from Mr Shulman.
Possibly Britain and Spain:
When the “Israeli” ambassador to Spain, Raphael Schutz, finished his term in Madrid he wrote an op-ed in Haaretz he termed as a very dismal stay & seemed genuinely relieved to leave. This kind of complaint now seems to be standard farewell letter of all their ambassadors in W.Europe. “Israeli” ambassador to London, Ron Prosor, on his way to his new posting at UN in NY, complaining very much in same tone about his inability to speak in campuses in UK & whining about overall hostile atmosphere. Before him the ambassador in Dublin expressed similar relief when he ended his term in office in Ireland.
Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews attending Nakba protest in front of the WH:
link to yfrog.com
Sins of Our Fathers : al-Nakba by Professor William Cook
link to veteranstoday.com
Israeli Court rejects Israeli citizenship of non-Jews
Twenty percent of the population of Israel could be affected by a court ruling in Haifa on Tuesday in which a judge ordered that only Jews should be allowed to have Israeli citizenship, and non-Jews, even those born and raised in what is now Israel, should not be allowed to claim Israeli citizenship.
More: link to imemc.org
Thanks justice. I think this sums it up: Americans are generally quite naïve about Israel and how the Zionist state really functions. The general ignorance about Israel is primarily due to the fact that most people are woefully misinformed about the Middle East having grown up consuming news and entertainment products provided by Hollywood and the Zionist-controlled media.This has resulted in a very significant part of the American population suffering from an extremely distorted point-of-view.
fredblogs:
“This I can say for sure: There were human beings on that land, and they had been there all their lives, and their families for many generations before them down through the centuries. And many of them were actually descended from ancient Jews who later converted to Christianity and Islam, while our ancestors, Golda's and mine- the Ashkenazi Jews, were converting to Judaism in the Khazar Kingdom on the shores of the Caspian Sea.” –Rich Seigel.
He also said : Interestingly, during the years of the Yishuv, the pre-Israeli-statehood Zionist community in Palestine, Jewish-Zionist settlers called themselves “Palestinians”. In this way, the Zionists ironically affirmed the thing that many of them wish now to deny: Palestinian identity. In 1948, amid the massacres and military forced mass expulsions of the “nakba” (Arabic for catastrophe, the name commonly given to the events of 1948), when the state of “Israel” was declared, all of the Jews who had been calling themselves Palestinians became “Israelis”, and when the dust cleared, the Arabs who remained within the green line became “Arab Israelis”, like it or not. (It was not known until the state of “Israel” was declared, what it was to be named. “Zion” was considered as a possibility, but rejected, as the result would have necessitated referring to “Arab Israelis”, the Arab citizens of Israel, as “Arab Zionists”.)
Globescan poll for BBC Worldservice 2012:
The most negatively rated countries were, as in previous years, Iran (55% negative), Pakistan (51% negative), and Israel and North Korea (both 50% negative).
link to globescan.com
As did Mandela
Mahmoud Sarsak, a member of Palestine's national football team, was arrested in 2009 on the way to join the squad. He's never been charged. He has been on a hunger strike for 58 days now and has refused to stop.
Also: Son OF Arab MK Held For Refusing Military Service
link to imemc.org
After 77 days, Thaer Halahleh to end hunger strike as Israel agrees to release, father tells EI blogger:
link to electronicintifada.net
#ThaerHalahleh's family spoke to me now 1:30am. They said Thaer will be released on June 5th after Israel promising not to renew detention.
BREAKING: #ThaerHalahleh's father just called me & told me Thaer has agreed to end his hunger strike on the morning of 15/5 Tears #PalHunger
https://twitter.com/#!/LinahAlsaafin
Hunger-striking detainees sign deal with prison authority
link to maannews.net
Scene in Ramallah following news of supposed end to prisoners hunger strike
As conflicting reports emerged about the purported deal, the father of administrative detainee Thaer Halahleh - who has been on hunger strike for 77 days - gave a short speech stating his son and seven other long-term hunger strikers will remain on strike "until freedom or martyrdom."
link to youtube.com
Urgent: Addameer Visits Bilal Diab, Hassan Safadi and Omar Abu Shalal in Ramleh Prison Medical Clinic Today
link to addameer.org
Despite reports, prisoners have NOT released statement calling end to hunger strikes
A religion is not an ethnicity OlegR. Black people can convert to Judaism (Sammy Davis Jr) but a white man cannot convert to being black.
They were buying gas at a loss to the Egyptians and then making a profit in selling that onto the Gazans/Palestinians.
@ OlegR: Why all that waffle? Palestinians were operating their own electricity pre-Zionist occupation of their homeland and could again without needing an impostors approval.
From twitter:
#greenbrigade showing solidarity and support for #palhunger strikers, #yom76 for #bilal and #thaer
link to twitpic.com
Just goes to show how out of touch most Americans are (present company excluded of course).
Heart rending stuff.
Just read Diab has sent his will to his family
link to alternativenews.org
Palestinian hunger strikers 'in danger'
At least six out of 2,000 hunger-striking prisoners in Israeli jails at imminent risk of dying, lawyers say.
link to aljazeera.com
Your Hard-Earned US Tax Dollars and Church Pension Funds at Work for Israel
Mass demonstrations in support of 2500 Palestinian hunger strikers swept through the West Bank this weekend.
by James M. Wall
Full article: link to veteranstoday.com
I saw this comment on a youtube video and it sums it up for me:
Israel has no concept of honor and morality. Israel's legacy of terror and lies is extremely well documented. No one is surprised at the depths to which the madmen in Tel Aviv will go. Their blood-soaked hands cannot grasp the levers of sanity and reason. Their delusional minds inhabit a dark and hateful place, and they want the rest of the world to travel to that hellish place with them. But the world is saying NO !
Wow great pics. Thanks.
Brilliant and humble.
That is what has been said yes.
Let us hope this is the straw that breaks the mammon nightmare's back. Finally makes it see sense.
I have a lot of admiration for Ms Amanpour but she really sounds naive on the topic of the holyland and it's recent history..
Target audience: EVERYBODY without a conscience.
Legitimate resistance is called terrorism? State terror is your MO to keep the meek and patient Palestinians in check. Terrorism is what "Israel" was born out of.
Now the reality check: Palestinians accept all elements of International law and all UN (United Nations) resolutions on the issue. Israel by contrast, has violated over 60 UN Security Council resolutions and over 200 UN General Assembly Resolutions. Without the USA using its veto power to shield Israel from International law at the UN Security Council , the number would have been doubled.
I tried posting this on an old article re the red hot chili peppers but think it got missed.
red hot chili peppers: Cancel your performance in Israel
link to change.org
State Department: Protest Israel's Treatment of Palestinian Political Prisoners
Please sign this joint petition of the US Campaign and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
Between 1,600 and 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners are currently on a hunger strike in Israeli prisons protesting their imprisonment, one of the largest mass hunger strikes in history. Two hunger strikers--Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab--have refused food for 73 days and are now facing imminent death in protest of their "administrative detention," a widely-used Israeli practice of detaining Palestinians without charge.
More: link to salsa.democracyinaction.org
Palestinians hunger strike day 74 (1:12)
(Video transcript) 74 days without food. Two Palestinian prisoners held in Israel, Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh, enter day 74 of their hunger strike, which has sparked a mass movement. Another 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have also stopped taking food since April, demanding an end to administrative detention and more family visits. The Director of Physicians for Human Rights says Halahleh is willing to die for the cause. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ANAT LITVIN, DIRECTOR OF PRISONERS AND DETAINEES DEPARTMENT AT PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ISRAEL, SAYING: "His doctor told him that his life is in immediate danger and that he could die at any moment and what is very worrisome is the fact that he said that he doesn't want to be saved if something happens to him and he loses consciousness. He doesn't want resuscitation." Earlier in the week Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was pressed to do more to resolve the situation by crowds in Ramallah. There are daily demonstrations in the occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip in support of the movement. Lily Grimes, Reuters
link to uk.reuters.com
I don't believe anything wiki says and for good reason. I believe Palestinian Christians, not an occupying ideology with a screw loose.
Youtube video: “Wikipedia – Israel is paying internet workers to manipulate online content”:
0:12 sec in: "..The goal of the day is to teach people how to edit Wikipedia which is the number one source of information today in the WORLD ".
0:27 sec in: "...we wanna be there...we wanna be the guys who influence WHAT is written there , HOW is written and ensure that is balanced and ZIONIST IN NATURE. "
link to youtube.com
Only place they can get away with building on land owned by someone else (for now).
Karma will NOT be kind!
yep outnumbered the Jews 2 to 1.
@ fredblogs: Why is it incredible to want to negotiate the terms of your independence ? It sounds normal.
Have you read Resolution 194, paragraph 11? Also, General Assembly Resolution 3236 which "reaffirms also the inalienable right of the Palestinians to return to their homes and property from which they have been displaced and uprooted, and calls for their return".
CALLING FOR A RETURN is not just a "good idea" even if English is your second language.
Even though it's another of fredblogs irrational arguments it's another falsehood. 30000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed out January 1947 - May 1948. Over 300000 Palestinians were forced to leave West Jerusalem, Tiberias, Haifa, Jafa, Beishan, Deir Yasin Mar - in May 1948 - terrified by horrible massacre committed by Hagana & Stern forces against innocent civilians in Deir Yasin.
The Israeli armed forces deported approximately 100000 Palestinians from Lod & Ramlah cities to Jordan May- Dec 1948. Israeli hostilities continued after the 1948 war, over 200000 Palestinians were forced to move to the Gaza Strip.
The UN cannot create any states. It can only recommend a solution and if both sides of a conflict can come to an agreement only then can it go to the Security Council to be ratified into law.
Any person of sane mind would have rejected their country being partitioned for the sake of a foreign ideology.
Besides, The Jewish leadership met and decided against accepting the UN partition borders prior to their declaration of independence. The side that prevailed argued that they should keep any extra territory won in warfare (read: terrorist land grab).
Thanks Klaus
Did the founders of zionism think of that before they went on their ethnic cleaning land grab giladg? Seems to me what you advocate is far worse than what the Allies have invaded for. Moral of the story: Should think before you do stupid terrorist land grabs (and before you talk or comment).
fredblogs: The United Nation's Partition Plan was a non-binding proposal that was never ratified or adopted by the Security Council, and therefore never acquired legal standing, as UN regulations require - although as far as the Palestinian people are concerned the United Nations had NO RIGHT at any rate to partition what WAS NOT theirs to partition, much less to do so without the consultation of the Palestinian people themselves, thus denying them the right to self-determination.
Also, Israel is the only state to be given a CONDITIONAL admission to the UN. Under General Assembly Resolution 273, Israel was admitted on the condition that it grant ALL Palestinians the right to return to their homes & receive compensation for lost or damaged property, according to General As sembly Resolution 194, paragraph 11. Suffice to say, Israel has never lived up to these terms, never intended to – only deceitfully agreed to get their foot in the door, so should, in effect, be expelled.
A whole host of international treaties & conventions recognize the Palestinians right to return including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination & the International Convention on Civil & Political Rights. The Right of Return for refugees is GUARANTEED under Humanitarian & Human Rights Law & countless UN resolutions. UN has affirmed the right of return through its Resolution 194 on no less than 122 occasions.