The desire for a Right of Return and the status of Palestinian refugee-ness is synonymous to Palestinian identity. That is to say that you will rarely find a Palestinian who will say: I am not longer a refugee. As it connotes, the fact that they have gone through the terrible environment...
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describing it as a "blatant violation" of UN resolutions and an attempt to erase the refugee issue. The ministry stressed that Israel's campaign against UNRWA reflects a "premeditated hostility" towards Palestinian refugees and their right of return, targeting not only the agency's headquarters ...
“As long as UNRWA exists, there will always be a Palestinian right-of-return narrative that keeps the conflict alive. Palestinians have to step up to the plate and take responsibility for their own future. Without Palestinian self-determination, chances of a prosperous future are slim,” says ...
“return” fantasy is to end the concept of a permanent refugee population. If there are no refugees, then there can be no question of “right of return.” That means that UNRWA and its fundamental principle of hereditary refugee status needs to be ended too, even if the process is ...
Founded in 1949, ostensibly to help the Palestinians until the refugee problem would be solved, UNRWA has contributed to the problem. The real hurdle is the Palestinian insistence on the “right to return,” a dream to flood Israel with the millions who claim refugee status. ...
the negotiations in the past, the issue of refugees was also, first of all, an important component, but it was also a sensitive component, and that's why it became a final status issue, and so UNRWA does not need to advocate per se, that's not our mandate fo...
In recent weeks, several countries have resumed funding the agency. Germany said last month it would resume cooperation with UNRWA following a report led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna into UNRWA's procedures for ensuring adherence to principles of neutrality. ...
and the legitimate right for Palestinian refugees to return to their land will be unnecessary. Israel has denied that right of return since the late 1940s, even though its own membership in the UN was made conditional upon Palestinian refugees being allowed to return to their homes and land. ...
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