Analyst: Polonium found on Arafat's clothing was planted

[Ken Burch]

128. not full physical RoR for everybody descended from the 1948 exiles...which wouldn't work

I'm for physical RoR for the elderly who were kicked out in 1948...few, if any of whom were driven by hatred of Jews...

for the descendants, I favor compensation with APOLOGIES and ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF WRONGDOING.

The way to get post-1948 refugees to move on is to admit that they were victims and to apologize for the wrong. This is what decent human beings everywhere would naturally do, and it would set a great example for the other refugee situations in the world. Acknowledgment matters and helps to get people to change.

Saying "your side lost and that's all that matters" is not ever going to be an acceptable or workable position.

My position would not threaten Israeli security in the slightest. Everybody who lives in Israel now would be just fine.

So no, I don't favor your nightmare scenario.

(as, of course, you knew perfectly well already).

At the same time, I'd also ask(as I've already done)for the refugee camps in other Arab countries to be closed and for those people to be allowed to resettle somewhere...while acknowledging, as should be acknowledged, that Palestinian identity IS real and that Palestinians were never "generic Arabs" and were never part of CAMERA/FLAME's mythical "unrelenting Arab campaign".

So, I've taken a moderate, workable, and responsible position on this issue that harms no one.