Palestine-Refugees Dilemma
Right to return to a refugee's occupied motherland is among the most legitimate rights of any war refugee in accordance with entire international conventions, and international community ratifications, including the UN General Assembly Resolution 194, and Security Council resolutions 242 and 338.
In addition to them, the right to return to one's own country is emphatically confirmed in related international laws, including in the international Law of Citizenship, and in the law on governments that take charge consecutively in same geographical region, the collection of international war laws, the International Charter of Human Rights, and the UN Laws on Refugees.
Yet, the most important text that the supporters of the Palestinian refugees' right to return refer to though, is the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194.
The reason behind the significance attached to that resolution is that it is exclusively focussed on Palestinian refugees' right, and above that, Israel's membership at the UN had been conditional on that regime's acceptance of this particular resolution.
Meanwhile, the international community has ratified that resolution 135 times in the period between the years 1945 and 2000.
REPATRIATION RIGHT IN PEACE INITIATIVES
During the past six decades the Palestinians' refugee, asylum and forces mass migration problems have been among the major obstacles in the so called peace process initiatives designed for the Middle East, and for peaceful coexistence between the Palestinians and the Zionist usurpers of their motherland.
Numerous peace initiatives have been proposed in that respect, none of which have been aimed at fundamental restoration of the refugees' rights.
That is while in accordance with the international laws these refugees are not only entitled the right to return home, but also must receive high remuneration amounts for all the imposed years they have spent in forced exile and the entire hardships they have tolerated thereof.
One of the major obstacles leading to failure of the peace initiatives is their ignoring of securing the refugees' repatriation right, and even recognition of them as "Palestinian refugees"! The options proposed in such initiatives include:
A) Naturalizing the living status of the refugees in the countries they have lived in, regardless of the refugees' desire to do so, or those countries' will to accept them as their own nationals.
B) Refugees' migration to other foreign countries; in which the number of refugees to immigrate to each country would depend on those countries' willingness to accept them, and the terms they would set as preconditions for their acceptance.
C) Turning refugees' issue to a "humanitarian case", in which merely paying a small amount of remuneration fine to them would be the means to solve the grave problem.
D) Choosing regions by the self rule Palestinian Authority (PA) for permanent residing of the refugees, regardless of the capacity of those regions for accepting new residents, while yielding to Israel's right to interfere in the matter and to limit the number of refugees in order to keep control over security matters, balance of population ratio between the Jews and the Palestinians, and any other concern that Tel Aviv might deem as necessary!
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