Professor Nitza Nachmias of Haifa University, an expert on Jewish-Arab relations in the Middle East, told Arutz 7 radio this week that the reality is there are no Palestinian refugees, though they are wielded to great effect to extract concessions from Israel.
Nachmias, who also teaches at the University of Maryland, explained that the word "refugee" is being applied to Palestinian Arabs to illicit international sympathy, though few realize they do not fit the common perception of what a refugee is.
"If people would stop calling the places in which they live 'refugee camps,' then they would see that these places are just like villages and towns anywhere else, and the inhabitants are totally rehabilitated," said Nachmias. "Real refugee camps are like the...camps now in Haiti – not the villages with streets and stone houses in what is known as Palestinian refugee camps of today."
A Refugee must be someone who possesssed the land and was forced to leave or flee. Palestinian Arabs have never possessed the land.
Friday, February 12, 2010
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