Israel the Jewish State, Palestinians not Welcome

[a_unique_person]

The language that would implicitly reject the complete Palestinian "right of return" would be similarly opaque, according to Administration officials, in that it would simply reiterate Israel's identity as a Jewish state and suggest that Palestinians should move, in a final settlement, to their own state rather than Israel.



http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/14/1081838790766.html?from=storyrhs

Just wanting to get this point settled, because it seems to come up from time to time. Israel doesn't want Palestinians that want to return to the homes they once owned.

[Cleopatra]

I thought that we have been through this many many times. The Palestinians that support the Geneva Initiative have resigned from the right to return.They cannot return. They cannot. Period.

This doesn't matter anymore. We have new tragic news. I just haven't managed to confirm them yet because I heard them on the Greek radio. I heard that the man that is leading us to our destruction G.W Bush has decided to aknowledge Israel's right to annex part of the West Bank...

[a_unique_person]

started a thread on that too. Like I said, I don't think Dubya cares any more. He appears to be a broken man.

[subgenius]

Sorry to intrude, but I wish it to be noted that I decline to offer any opinion on the entire subject matter because I am woefully, if not grossly negligently uninformed, for which I am without excuse.

I do hope you forgive me for not saying anything when I have nothing to say.

Carry on.

(I further wish to apologize if the above seems to be of a light-hearted nature regarding matters which are more serious to the involved parties and/or communicants. I assure you it is nothing of the kind, and that I take matters, even of which I am completely ignorant, with complete and utter gravity.)

[The Don]

Originally posted by Cleopatra
I thought that we have been through this many many times. The Palestinians that support the Geneva Initiative have resigned from the right to return.They cannot return. They cannot. Period.

Until such point in time that the Palestinians manage to gather sufficient influence or sympathy on the international stage to be given back their ancestral homeland from the later interlopers who have temporarily displaced them from their lands.

[shemp]

Originally posted by subgenius
I assure you it is nothing of the kind, and that I take matters, even of which I am completely ignorant, with complete and utter gravity.

So did Newton and Einstein. You are in good company.