BY TOPIC: Palestinian Refugees
In what is by far the world’s largest unresolved housing, land and property restitution problem, some five million Palestinian refugees retain valid restitution claims over their original homes and lands from which they have been expelled since 1948. These rights have been repeatedly re-affirmed by UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions. Virtually all Palestinian refugees still possess title deeds, keys, photographs and other documentary evidence proving their rights to their original homes. Similar information is kept on file at the UN Headquarters in New York. Many experts agree that there can be no prospect of a workable peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians until all outstanding housing and property restitution issues are properly addressed.
17 post/s found with this tag.
+972 Magazine: International law sides with Palestinian refugees. But can it solve their plight?
Plus61j: Historical omissions taint polemic about Palestinian ‘right of return’
![“Palestinian Refugees in International Law” (second edition) [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/PalestinianRefugeesinInternationalLaw.jpg)
“Palestinian Refugees in International Law” (second edition) [Recommended]
The 1998 first edition looks at the Palestinian refugee question, resulting from the events surrounding the birth of the state of Israel seventy years ago, remains one of the largest and most protracted refugee crises of the post-WWII era. Based on a survey of more than 50 countries conducted with support from UNHCR and UNRWA, the second edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the status and treatment of Palestinian refugees in the Arab world and beyond.
Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies: “What Do the Palestinians Want?”
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Palestinian refugees are Israel’s Achilles heel [Book Review]
The book is a long-winded frontal attack on Palestinian refugees and reads more as a commissioned assignment from the Hasbara-hub called the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs than a truly deep analysis of the issue of Palestinian refugees. What is missing from the book is as important as what is in it—all the other references that Palestinians’ Right of Return is based on, above and beyond the single one, UN General Assembly 194, that the authors pin their entire argument around.
A History of Money in Palestine: From the 1900s to the Present
![“The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge” by Ilan Pappe [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/TheIdeaofIsrael-AHistoryofPowerandKnowledge2528IlanPappe2529-798828-1.jpg)
“The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge” by Ilan Pappe [Book Review]
Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, takes the reader through the maze of knowledge creation in Israel and how that journey has interacted with power. The invaluable intellectual contribution and framing that Professor Pappe provides cannot be overstated. He documents for all serious researchers who follow how the dust (or more like blood) of Israel’s foundational moment has yet to settle. The events in and around 1948 that led to the creation of Israel and the colossal loss of Palestine were such a historic tragedy that even the well-oiled Israeli and Zionist public relations machines have been unable get traction to settle the historic account.
Hidden Histories + “If Obama intends to ignore the looming ‘apartheid cliff’…”
“Native Sons: Palestinians in Exile” documentary highlights the Palestinian Diaspora experience
This documentary explores how Palestinians became refugees in 1948, their experiences since that time, and their hopes for the future. It provides a conduit for rarely heard voices illuminating the malignant roots of the ongoing Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
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