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	Right of return
		A right of return is a right, held by members of an ethnic or national group, to assurance of immigration and naturalization into the nation of their homeland.
		The Jewish and Palestinian Arab rights of return are hotly disputed topic in Middle East politics, and play an important role in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and the Arab states.
		The right of return can be seen, next to the question of the status of Jerusalem as one of the major impediments of the Peace process.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ri/Right_of_return.html (393 words)

	Right to Return - Human Rights Watch Policy Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Human Rights Watch similarly urges that this right be recognized for all displaced people in the Middle East, regardless of religion or nationality.
		The right is held not only by those who fled a territory initially but also by their descendants, so long as they have maintained appropriate links with the relevant territory.
		The international community has a duty to ensure that claims of a right to return are resolved fairly, that individual holders of the right are permitted freely and in an informed manner to choose whether to exercise it, and that returns proceed in a gradual and orderly manner.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/israel/return (740 words)

	Right of return - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The question of whether or not Palestinians have a "Right of return" to lands within the State of Israel is, next to the question of the status of Jerusalem, one of the major impediments to a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.
		Supporters of the right to return claim that if a Jew born in America has the right to return to his or her homeland, a Palestinian born in a refugee camp should have the right to return to his or her homeland; but this analogy is disputed.
		The Feasibility of the Right of Return by Salman Abu-Sittah
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Right_of_return (3924 words)

	The Crisis of Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return \| MADRE: An International Women's Human Rights Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Crisis of Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return
		While the right of return is not legally contingent on an Israeli policy of expulsion, Israeli acknowledgment of this history is crucial to other aspects of reconciliation.
		This dilemma is the crux of Israel's refusal to recognize the Palestinian right of return.
	www.madre.org /articles/me/rightofreturn.html (8249 words)

	Alternative Palestinian Agenda
		Returning Palestinians should reclaim their own properties where possible or be substituted with a similar property at the nearest location to their place of origin where resettlement is feasible.
		Once the right of return is granted, many Palestinians may choose to exercise it as an expression of identity.
		Nevertheless, 30% or 78,000 refugees of this population is expected to exercise the right of return.
	www.ap-agenda.org /ROR.htm (6810 words)

	bitterlemons.org - Refugees and the right of return
		There is one school that believes in the absolute right of return of every single refugee to his or her original home or land, town or village.
		This holds that the right of the Jewish people to a country in their historic homeland was endorsed in 1948 by the world community and that it was the Arabs' refusal to acknowledge that right and their attempt to annihilate Israel that created the Palestinian refugee problem.
		There is one additional problematic aspect of the right of return issue that requires specific comment: the readiness on the part of the world, including Israel, to acquiesce in a definition of refugee status that allows it to be passed on from generation to generation.
	www.bitterlemons.org /previous/bl311201ed5.html (3098 words)

	Jews Against the Occupation
		The Right of Return is affirmed by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the American Convention on Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and People's Rights.
		While the return of the refugees will bring peace and stability to the Middle East, the Russian immigration is a cause of tension in Israel itself and, as studies have shown, could trigger a new major conflict about water.
		The Right of Return to the Palestinians is a dire necessity.
	www.jatonyc.org /rightofreturn.html (2043 words)

	BREITBART.COM - Baker panel's mention of Palestinian "right of return" raises eyebrows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A reference to Palestinians' "right of return" in the report issued by the high-level Iraq Study Group broke a diplomatic taboo which sparked immediate concern in Israel and surprise among Middle East policy experts.
		But they do not use the term "right of return", which is a long-standing Palestinian demand -- rejected by Israel -- that Palestinians who fled or were driven out of what was to become the Jewish state in 1948, as well as their descendants, be allowed to return home.
		"'Right of return' is not in Oslo I or Oslo II, it's not in the Bush Rose Garden speech, it's not even in UN 181, the original partition resolution -- it's part of the Palestinian discourse," said the US analyst.
	www.breitbart.com /news/2006/12/06/061206204349.qjq06iek.html (536 words)

	Australian Jewish Democratic Society - Right of Return
		The Palestinian demand for the Right of Return for the refugees was one of the reasons for the failure of the Camp David summit and for the Palestinians' objection to the Clinton proposals.
		The position that the Palestinian refugees must have the right to choose to return to Israeli territory, is the official position of the PLO and the PA and is voiced by Palestinian officials on a daily basis.
		The principle of the right and its implementation are tied together, primarily because the "Right of Return" is perceived as an individual right.
	www.ajds.org.au /return.htm (6427 words)

	Right of Return - Israel and Palestine - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Their right of return is clearly and unambiguously guaranteed by international law under the Geneva Conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
		Israeli concerns and questions about the right of return are understandable and must be addressed, but Israel's absolute rejection of the rights of refugees cannot be the final word.
		The prospect of a "right of return", though frustrated by the unpromising Geneva Accord, is still dear to the heart of many Palestinians.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/israel-palestine/returnindex.htm (1115 words)

	Do Palestinian Refugees Have a Right to Return to Israel?
		Even the right of nationals is not an absolute one, but it may be limited on condition that the reasons for the denial or limitation are not arbitrary.
		Moreover, according to Stig Jagerskiold, the right of return or the right to enter one's country in the 1966 International Covenant "is intended to apply to individuals asserting an individual right.
		The return should take place only "at the earliest practicable date." The use of the term "should" with regard to the permission to return underlines that this is only a recommendation.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Peace/refreturn.html (1482 words)

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		The RIGHT TO RETURN to Israel-Palestine is a crucial concept in understanding the right to the land of Palestine.
		It speaks only of a moral right to return that should be considered within a reasonably short time after the factor prohibiting the return or caused the exile had ceased.
		The right to return cannot be belatedly claimed because the factors that forced them to leave, or that prohibited their return had ceased to exist.
	www.al-bushra.org /latpatra/right.htm (2295 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There is the right of return and the dream of return.
		Prominent Palestinian figures from around the world have signed it, reaffirming that the Palestinians' right to return to their homes is sacred, legal and physically possible.
		A Harvard University report based on a simulated negotiation exercise denies the Palestinian right of return and demands that Arab governments compensate Arab Jews for emigrating to Palestine.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/687/region_ror.htm (544 words)

	CNN.com In-Depth Specials - Mideast: Land of conflict
		Despite a U.N. resolution recognizing the Palestinians' right to return to their homes, Israeli law barred those Palestinians from re-entering Israel at the end of the war.
		Israeli leaders have held the position that the right of return is nonnegotiable.
		Many Palestinians say their right to return goes beyond the U.N. resolution, stemming from a right of a people to live in their homeland.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/mideast/stories/issues.refugees (432 words)

	The Right of Return (by Uri Avneri) - Media Monitors Network
		It is clear that the return of millions of Palestinian refugees to the State of Israel would completely change the character of the state, contrary to the intentions of its founders and most of its citizens.
		However, such a limited return is the natural completion of the recognition in principle of the Right of Return and the acceptance of responsibility for the events of the past.
		Instead, it is the open return, in the framework of the Right of Return, which is necessary as a symbolic act of conciliation.
	www.mediamonitors.net /uri3.html (3487 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In Depth \| Israel and the Palestinians \| issues \| Right of return: Palestinian dream?
		Palestinian assertions of the right of return for themselves and their descendants are based both on a moral standpoint, claiming the refugees' rights to return to homes from which they have been displaced, and on a number of resolutions issued by the United Nations.
		It states that Palestinian "refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practical date".
		The United States appears to have sided with Israel by asking the Palestinian leadership to "waive" the right of return, although supporters of that right say it is inalienable to each individual refugee and not for Yasser Arafat and his negotiators to give up.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1099279.stm (623 words)

	ZNet \| Mideast \| Opening The Debate On The Right Of Return
		Beyond the moral and symbolic value of realizing the right of return, this right is useful in creating the framework for providing refugees with the choice between remaining in their host countries, returning to their village of origin or coming to the political entity in the Palestinian territories (or relocating to an attractive third locale).
		The right of return is a necessity for those who have for half a century been forced to live as foreigners without basic civil rights, in miserable camps and in states that have not always embraced them with open arms.
		There is a structural contradiction between the two-state solution and the right of return for Palestinian refugees, which would change the demographic nature of the Jewish state, with the permission of the Jewish state itself.
	www.zmag.org /content/Mideast/hanafi_right-of-return.cfm (2932 words)

	UJC - Israel Educational Initiative: "The Right of Return"
		The Zionists always knew they would have to live with their Arab neighbors and made every effort to reach an agreement to live in peace; however, most Palestinian Arabs were unwilling to live as equal citizens in a Jewish state and abandoned their homes.
		Israelis across the political spectrum have made that clear acceptance of a "right of return" would be suicide.
		When they talk of the right of return, they mean to the homes they lived in before they left.
	www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=40790 (688 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Profile \| Salman Abu Sitta: Right of Return (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was in this climate of turbulence and poignancy that the Right of Return Movement emerged.
		But because the return of millions of Palestinian refugees poses a threat to the foundations of a purely Jewish state, it is a right he says Israel wants to deny at any cost.
		The new American position on ROR has no importance from a legal perspective, he says, "because the right to return is an inalienable right and it is supported by international law and by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/690/profile.htm (3065 words)

	(DV) Amr: Kerry's Right to Return
		Under the Law of Return, any individual with one Jewish grandparent can land in Tel Aviv and inform the immigration authorities that he intends to settle in the Holy Land for the rest of his life.
		Since he is so generous in dispensing with other people’s rights, perhaps the Democratic nominee should set an example by renouncing his own entitlement to “return” to Israel.
		On that count, he is not only challenging the Palestinian right to return but their right to remain on what little is left of their native land.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Aug04/Amr0809.htm (1192 words)

	Law of Return - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Law of Return was enacted by the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, on July 5, 1950 (in the Jewish calendar, 20th Tammuz 5710).
		The Law of Return declares that Israel constitutes a home not only for the inhabitants of the State, but also for all members of the Jewish people everywhere, be they living in poverty and fear of persecution, or be they living in affluence and safety.
		(See Right of return and Repatriation laws.) These citizenship laws seem to have been enacted by states wishing to guarantee a safe-haven to diaspora populations assumed to be living under precarious conditions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Law_of_Return (2237 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Speaking at a special conference entitled Defending the Right of Return Haniyeh told Hamas supporters in Gaza that "58 years after the nakba (disaster) the Zionist project is leaning toward withdrawal and is incapable of taking decisions, while the Palestinian-Arab project is in a stage of continuous development."
		But the present shows us that the same youths, whom the enemy thought would forget the right of return and accept life under the occupation, brought about the first and second intifada.
		And they are fighting for the land, the holy shrines and the right of return," he said.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3250260,00.html (472 words)

	Unpacking the "Right of Return" - Campus Watch
		This discussion on the "right of return" within the academic hallways is based on a highly specific reading of history, one that assumes an Israeli responsibility for creating the refugee problem via "ethnic cleansing." Restitution from the allegedly guilty party involves the return of the refugees and their descendants.
		Distorting the real, empirical history to "discover" alleged rights creates an on-going, unjustified animosity to Israel, and continues to lead even well-meaning Palestinians down a path of false hopes built on false foundations, and thus defers the possibility of an enduring peace settlement that would be of benefit to all.
		Uncritical support for the ‘right of return,' and the obfuscation of its much worse intended effects, is actually but one symptom of the radicalization of our universities, and permeates the entire field.
	www.campus-watch.org /article/id/1257 (801 words)

	Al-Awda - PRRC: Fact Sheet
		Despite the fact that they were issued Israeli citizenship, the Zionist state has also denied these refugees their right to return to their homes or villages.
		Denying the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands is a war crime and an act of aggression which deserves action by the international community.
		There is no more elemental right than one's right to his/her home and to live in his/her land.
	www.al-awda.org /facts.html (863 words)

	Daled Amos: Israel's 'Right of Return' is Made in Japan (and Armenia and Bulgaria and Finland...)
		Daled Amos: Israel's 'Right of Return' is Made in Japan (and Armenia and Bulgaria and Finland...)
		Israel's 'Right of Return' is Made in Japan (and Armenia and Bulgaria and Finland...)
		Bernstein also notes the difference between Israel and these other countries in having a Right of Return: Hitler's attempted--and partially successful--genocide, Stalin's attempt that was pre-empted only by his death, and the history of violence both attempted and successful over the centuries requires the need of a homeland where Jews can find a refuge.
	daledamos.blogspot.com /2006/08/israels-right-of-return-is-made-in.html (612 words)

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