The Phantom of Palestinian Refugees Exposed

Yoram Ettinger

Jerusalem Cloakroom #237, September 24, 2010

*Ralph Garroway, UNRWA Director (Aug. 1958): “The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the UN and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don’t give a damn whether the refugees live or die.”


*Dr. Benny Morris (Irish Times, Feb. 21, 2008): "…In defiance of the will of the international community, as embodied in the UN General Assembly Resolution 181 of November 29th, 1947, [the Palestinians] launched hostilities against the Jewish community in Palestine in the hope of aborting the emergence of the Jewish state and perhaps destroying that community. But they lost…"

*15 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims were displace in 1947 in order to create Pakistan. No right of return…



*300,000 Palestinians were expelled from Kuwait, in 1991, in response to Abu Mazen's PLO collaboration with Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. No Arab or international uproar…



*Scores of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from Jordan and killed – in 1970 – in response to Abu Mazen's PLO attempt to topple the Hashemite regime.



*The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) employs 6,300 persons, resettling gradually 27MN refugees. UNRWA – the largest UN agency – employs 29,000 Palestinians, perpetuating Palestinians' refugee-status.



*The phantom of the Palestinian refugees – just like Abu Mazen’s hate education – constitute the most authentic reflection of the Palestinian Vision, aiming to de-legitimize and de-humanize the Jewish State.



*The root cause of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the existence – and not the size – of the Jewish State.



Please read the following Summer 2010 article – The Nakba Obsession - by Sol Stern, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to the City Journal quarterly:



http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_3_nakba.html