Chris Hedges: Why Israel Lies

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144. But we are looking at 5 million, maybe 10 million people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_refugee

Worse, most of the Palestinians that migrated to the US were Christians (I meet one in Collage in the 1970s). They are as anti-Israeli as any Moslem, but having a slightly higher level of Income were able to move to the US. Most were NOT refugees, they came from the West Bank.

So we are talking of 5 MILLION people as Refugees not the 137,450 Jews the US took in in 1952 (From your report) or the 58,179 that came to the US and were granted asylum in 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_refugee#Jordan

The PLO estimates there are 10.7 Million Palestinians:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Palestinian_territories

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) estimated Palestinians at mid year 2009 as 10.7 million persons as follows: 3.9 million in the Palestinian Territory (36.6%), 1.2 million (11.5%) in Israel; 5.0 million in Arab countries (46.2%), 0.6 million in foreign countries (5.7%)

http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ochaopt_atlas_opt_general_december2011.pdf

The 5 Million in Arab Countries, include 2 million in Jordan and another 1/2 million in Lebanon. the rest are in various Persian Gulf nations where they are tolerated as laborers not as permanent residents.


http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.577997

As to the West Bank, it is presently divided into four types of lands:

A - Under Palestinian Control

B - Under joint Palestinians and Israeli Control

C - Under Exclusive Israeli control:

------Jerusalem, annexed into Israel.



http://rahimk.tumblr.com/post/69484087110/mandela-is-gone-but-the-struggle-is-still-here

As you can see MOST of the West Bank in under Israeli Control, even through over 300,000 Palestinian live in Area C:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.577997

Thus it would be a tremendous influx of people into which country takes in these Palestinians. Most countries will reject such an influx, and given the policy of the Palestinians themselves, they first choice is to go to their ancestral homes in present day Israel.