Archive Report
Archive Report
Arab Refugees and Middle East Peace
Burdens and Dengers in Arab Refugee Problem
Almost a million Palestine Arab refugees, living in camps and villages along the borders of Israel, present a continuing threat to the precarious truce between Israel and its neighbors. The situation has been in deadlock for nearly a decade. The Arab states refuse to abandon their economic boycott of Israel and to negotiate a general peace settlement until the refugees have been repatriated or compensated for loss of property, and until the present boundaries of Israel have been adjusted; Israel refuses to consider these issues except as part of a general peace settlement.
Barred from their former land holdings in Israel, and for the most part unwilling or unable to support themselves in neighboring ...