tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post6795046405070030971..comments2023-08-25T16:13:51.356+01:00Comments on Martin In The Margins: Three contributions to the Israel-Palestine debateMartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15608932251584881007noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-46378556100281986322007-09-18T14:56:00.000+01:002007-09-18T14:56:00.000+01:00Hi gI think you must be confusing me with someone ...Hi g<BR/><BR/>I think you must be confusing me with someone else - Bob from Brockley perhaps?<BR/><BR/>Personally I don't have a fixed view on the right of return, but I've just read Dershowitz's 'The Case for Israel' and this is what he says:<BR/><BR/>'The claimed right of return has never contemplated their return as a minority group, based on any personal desire to live in a particular village or house in Jewish Israel. The right to return has always contemplated returning as a majority group so as to eliminate the Jewish state and live in a Muslim state...the refugees were not primarily a humanitarian concern but rather a political tactic designed to produce the intended destruction of Israel'.<BR/><BR/>Elsewhere in the book, Dershowitz accuses some Arab states of perpetuating the misery of Palestinian refugee camps - rather than enabling their occupants to integrate into mainstream society, as has happened with other population movements around the world - in order to keep the issue alive and to bolster their opposition to the very fact of Israel's existence.<BR/><BR/>MartinMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15608932251584881007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4318375667051435937.post-73335914680773868232007-09-18T09:41:00.000+01:002007-09-18T09:41:00.000+01:00Hi Bob.In our earlier discussion you said you in f...Hi Bob.<BR/><BR/>In our earlier discussion you said you in favour of the right of return to Israel for the Palestinian refugees. Perhaps I misunderstood you, but isn't that effectively a one-state solution? And how could Israel remain a 'Jewish state' in such circumstances?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com