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Olmert: 'Not one refugee can return'
2007-03-31
While the Prime Minister's Office had no formal reaction to the Arab League's land-and-refugees-for-peace initiative relaunched in Riyadh on Thursday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told The Jerusalem Post there is absolutely no wiggle room on the refugee issue. Olmert reiterated that Israel would not accept the return to Israel of any refugees.
It is "out of the question," he said. "I'll never accept a solution that is based on their return to Israel, any number."
It is "out of the question," he said. "I'll never accept a solution that is based on their return to Israel, any number."

The initiative adopted Thursday was the same one passed by the Arab League summit in Beirut in March 2002, commonly known as the Arab Peace Initiative. It is not, however, identical with the so-called Saudi initiative from a month earlier that did not mention the refugee issue. Asked if the Arab initiative could be the basis for talks, Olmert said, "The Saudis don't speak at all about [General Assembly] Resolution 194 [on the refugees]. The Saudi initiative looks better in this respect than the Arab initiative."

Olmert said that not only would Israel refuse to accept any refugees, it would also not recognize a "right of return."
Posted by:Fred

#5  It's tricky Sonar, you sound like an off-lander or Natural American, far has I'm concerned you do have the right of return to San Diego. Same with folks of the Jewish persuasion, they have the right of return to Israel. The pali-people are being denied their right of return to Egypt, Jordan and Syria which is where they were hatched.
Posted by: Shipman   2007-03-31 03:11  

#4  How can people who weren't born in Israel have a "right of return"? I wasn't born in the USA, so can I also have a "right of return" to go and live in, say, San Diego?
Posted by: Sonar   2007-03-31 02:36  

#3  NEWSMAX > ISRAELI POLITICIAN: WE'RE ON THE PATH TO WAR article. Nutshell : Israel needs to re-attack the Hezzies-Hizzies. War agz IRAN may occur eventually.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-03-31 01:29  

#2  What's your problem with shorts?
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-03-31 01:12  

#1  Is there any way that Olmert can encourage most Palestinians to leave Israel short of ethnic cleansing? That is a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian issue that deserves a try. That way there will be a pro-Western, productive Israel free from most internal terrorist threats and the Palestinians will be forced to accept responsibility for their own corrupt, brutal, self destructive condition.
Posted by: Unanter Smith3689   2007-03-31 00:48  

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