"To say that there is a Jewish refugee problem...
“To say that there is a Jewish refugee problem is to negate the success of Israel as the refuge for all Jews who choose to live there,"
from [http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11021245]
on the Economist, now commenting on the new argument for another recipient of restitution including the Jewish refugees who now successfully inhabit the land now called Israel.
"But he also mentioned another goal: to show how Arab leaders, by keeping the Palestinian refugees in misery while the West accepted Jewish ones, have used the Palestinians as pawns to whip up anti-Israel feeling. Though true, it makes this look like little more than an effort to reduce the cost to Israel of a peace deal. Certainly, Palestinians will see it as a way to cancel out any restitution they might get. And to Jewish critics of the campaign it looks like just an attempt to derail the peace process. “To say that there is a Jewish refugee problem is to negate the success of Israel as the refuge for all Jews who choose to live there,” says M.J. Rosenberg of the Israel Policy Forum, a doveish think-tank in Washington."
from [http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11021245]
on the Economist, now commenting on the new argument for another recipient of restitution including the Jewish refugees who now successfully inhabit the land now called Israel.
"But he also mentioned another goal: to show how Arab leaders, by keeping the Palestinian refugees in misery while the West accepted Jewish ones, have used the Palestinians as pawns to whip up anti-Israel feeling. Though true, it makes this look like little more than an effort to reduce the cost to Israel of a peace deal. Certainly, Palestinians will see it as a way to cancel out any restitution they might get. And to Jewish critics of the campaign it looks like just an attempt to derail the peace process. “To say that there is a Jewish refugee problem is to negate the success of Israel as the refuge for all Jews who choose to live there,” says M.J. Rosenberg of the Israel Policy Forum, a doveish think-tank in Washington."