[Piranha]

I don't think they'll want to go. The point is, they are refugees who have refused to leave their camps. They don't want to live in the west bank, either. They want to move to Jaffa, Haifa, Lod and other cities that they left in 1947-1948.

By contrast, by the way, a roughly equivalent number of Jews were forced out of the Arab nation from Morocco to Iraq. Not only did they leave literally billions of dollars of real estate and assets in the Arab countries, but they were resettled in Israel and the west without US and UN funds.

Before World War II, Baghdad had about 125,000 Jews. They were instrumental in the import-export trade as well as the legal and medical professions, and even were represented in Iraq's parliament Most recent count, last year, was about 50. They were different from the "refugees" in the UNRWA refugee camps because they looked to the future and resettled, whether in the US, the UK or Israel.

[carton253]

The point is, they are refugees who have refused to leave their camps

And there have been refugees who have been barred from leaving by the PLO who don't want to lose their number one political hammer against Israel.

[Sam Cree]

"but they were resettled in Israel and the west without US and UN funds."

Good point. And the Israelis did not force them to live in camps for 50 years in hopes of fanning hatred and building propaganda, as the Arabs have done with the "Palestinians."

[dennisw]

Tell it like it is!