http://fresnozionism.org/archives/417 A pro-Israel voice from California's Central Valley Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:02:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://fresnozionism.org/archives/417#comment-5257 Shalom Freedman Sun, 20 May 2007 15:34:09 +0000 http://fresnozionism.org/archives/417#comment-5257 There is a well - known anomaly with the U.N. and its reckoning of refugees. With every other case the U.N. counts as refugees only that generation of people which were themselves exiled. For the Palestinians the U.N. of course does something prejudicial and counts all the descendants of that initial generation. The U.N. is not simply not a fair broker whose resolutions should be honored, it has actually played a large role in the whole business of making the Palestinian refugee problem a perpetual propaganda vehicle. The number of Jews absorbed by Israel from Arab countries roughly matches the number of Arabs who left Israel in 1948. Israel absorbed the refugees and they made new lives. They are no longer refugees. The Palestinians and their Arab brothers made 'refugeeism' into a kind of pseudo- religion . If this problem is to be resolved not only the U.N. must change but the Palestinians and other Arabs must transform their attitude towards Israel. This does not seem very likely at the moment, or for many moments to come. There is a well - known anomaly with the U.N. and its reckoning of refugees. With every other case the U.N. counts as refugees only that generation of people which were themselves exiled. For the Palestinians the U.N. of course does something prejudicial and counts all the descendants of that initial generation.
The U.N. is not simply not a fair broker whose resolutions should be honored, it has actually played a large role in the whole business of making the Palestinian refugee problem a perpetual propaganda vehicle.
The number of Jews absorbed by Israel from Arab countries roughly matches the number of Arabs who left Israel in 1948.
Israel absorbed the refugees and they made new lives. They are no longer refugees. The Palestinians and their Arab brothers made ‘refugeeism’ into a kind of pseudo- religion .
If this problem is to be resolved not only the U.N. must change but the Palestinians and other Arabs must transform their attitude towards Israel.
This does not seem very likely at the moment, or for many moments to come.

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