EmptyTimCup
06-07-2012, 04:32 AM
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Palestinians Blackmail Washington over True Refugee Numbers (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/06/05/Palestinians-Blackmail-Washington?)
The Palestinians are blackmailing Washington (http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=272709), claiming that a new amendment to a bill before Congress would prevent them from making a peace deal with Israel. The amendment calls for a true accounting of how many Palestinians fled Israel during the Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. The amendment was recently passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee, and mandates that the Secretary of State must report how many of the Palestinians serviced by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency fled Israel and how many are only their descendants.
The amendment itself was a watered down version of the original proposal from Republican Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois, which would have also ordered a count of how many of the Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza were citizens of another country. As Joan Peters revealed in her landmark work, From Time Immemorial, the great majority of those calling themselves Palestinians in 1948 were in reality citizens from surrounding states. Jonathan Schanzer, a researcher for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, estimated that the number of living refugees in 1948 was about 30,000 people, as opposed to the several million estimated by UNRWA.
Unsurprisingly, Kirk’s idea was shot down by the Palestinian-supporting Obama administration.
One GOP Senate aide said that exploding the “UNRWA myth” of millions of refugees in 1948, which stands in stark contrast to the much smaller real number, would help resolve a major issue in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. “In the end you will find a very manageable problem with practical solutions,” he said. “This is a dramatic stop in what has been maybe the thorniest and most difficult challenge to Middle East peace.”
finally someone willing to get to the BOTTOM of the Middle Eastern LIES about Palestinians ..........
Palestinians Blackmail Washington over True Refugee Numbers (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/06/05/Palestinians-Blackmail-Washington?)
The Palestinians are blackmailing Washington (http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=272709), claiming that a new amendment to a bill before Congress would prevent them from making a peace deal with Israel. The amendment calls for a true accounting of how many Palestinians fled Israel during the Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. The amendment was recently passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee, and mandates that the Secretary of State must report how many of the Palestinians serviced by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency fled Israel and how many are only their descendants.
The amendment itself was a watered down version of the original proposal from Republican Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois, which would have also ordered a count of how many of the Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza were citizens of another country. As Joan Peters revealed in her landmark work, From Time Immemorial, the great majority of those calling themselves Palestinians in 1948 were in reality citizens from surrounding states. Jonathan Schanzer, a researcher for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, estimated that the number of living refugees in 1948 was about 30,000 people, as opposed to the several million estimated by UNRWA.
Unsurprisingly, Kirk’s idea was shot down by the Palestinian-supporting Obama administration.
One GOP Senate aide said that exploding the “UNRWA myth” of millions of refugees in 1948, which stands in stark contrast to the much smaller real number, would help resolve a major issue in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. “In the end you will find a very manageable problem with practical solutions,” he said. “This is a dramatic stop in what has been maybe the thorniest and most difficult challenge to Middle East peace.”
finally someone willing to get to the BOTTOM of the Middle Eastern LIES about Palestinians ..........