Palestinian "Right Of Return" - The Polite Way To Say Israel Has No Right To Exist

The Israeli/Arab conflict can never be resolved until it is recognized that the so called right of return is not a realistic demand. The west keeps operating on the assumption this conflict is about land and territory, and even occupation, and if only the land is divided into two states, the conflict will end. For many Muslims, this is about killing and subjugating Jews, and the belief that every inch of what is now Israel can only be controlled by Muslims. The land was divided before into exactly what many advocates of the two state solution propose. Prior to 1967, Jordan possessed the west bank and east Jerusalem, and Egypt controlled the Gaza strip. Not once during that time did Arabs demand a Palestinian state on the west bank with east Jerusalem as its capital, and the Gaza strip. The goal was to destroy Israel. The two state solution many advocate is for Israel to return to the 1967 border. The heartland of Israel is only 14 miles wide, and if Israel returns to its 1967 borders, the so called green line, it once again becomes a country with indefensible borders. A two state solution is achievable, even if Israel returns to its vulnerable 1967 borders, with some negotiated modifications and land exchanges with a newly created Palestinian Arab state, provided there is finally true peace. But many Palestinian Arabs and others make a demand that everyone wants to ignore, and that will continue to doom all efforts at peace talks and a negotiated two state settlement to this conflict - the demand that all the descendants of the Palestinian Arabs that fled from Israel during a time of war when Israel became a state in 1948, be allowed to return to Israel. These Palestinian Arabs now number in the millions. Arafat said that any child from a Palestinian Arab father is Palestinian, regardless of the mother's ethnicity and religion. By this definition, there are millions of Palestinian Arabs. Under Islamic law, men can have up to four wives. It is impossible for Israel to absorb millions of Palestinian Muslim Arabs, and still exist. The right of return is simply another way to state Israel has no right to exist. The right of return means Israel instantly changes from a democratic nation with a Jewish majority into another Islamic state, of which there are already many in the world. When Israel became a state, there was a transfer of populations. Arabs, most of whom were Muslim, fled from what is now Israel. Debate still rages to this day as to why they left. Those that did not leave now form 20 per cent of Israel's population. But a greater number of Jews were forced out from Arab Muslim majority lands and sent fleeing to the state of Israel. Israel absorbed its Jewish refugees from Arab Muslim majority lands. Arab Muslim countries refused to settle the Arabs that fled from Israel, and now, over 65 years later, many live in permanent refugee camps. The rights of the descendants of the ethnically cleansed Jews from Arab lands are no less important than the rights of the descendants of the Arabs that fled from Israel in 1948. The ethnically cleansed Jews from Arab lands, the nakba they experienced, can no longer be ignored if there is to be a final settlement. Palestinian Arabs say their nakba, their catastrophe, demands they have the right of return to what is now Israel. The Jews that were ethnically cleansed from Arab Muslim majority lands, and that now form the majority population of Israel, have no right of return. Their catastrophe, their nakba, has never been addressed. They cannot return to the lands and homes where their descendents lived for centuries, even thousands of years, long before Islam became a religion. They will never be able to return to such places as Syria, Libya, Iraq, Egypt, Algeria, and so forth. They will be at best persecuted, and more likely murdered, with their women raped. Most of Jordan's population are Palestinian Arab Muslims. Already, millions of Palestinian Muslim Arabs live in the Arab Muslim world. If ever there is to be a two state solution to the Arab Palestinian/Israeli conflict, simple justice demands that the descendants of the ethnically cleansed Jews from Arab Muslim majority lands remain safe in the small state of Israel, and that the Palestinian Arab refugees are settled into the newly formed Palestinian state, and elsewhere in the vast Arab Islamic world. The right of return means nothing more than ethnic cleansing and the destruction of Israel. It is interesting how many hypocrites assert this right for Palestinian Arabs, but you do not see any of them leaving North America, Australia and other places in order to return the lands to the descendants of the native people that truly were ethnically cleansed. No one raises a voice about the hundreds of thousands of Jews that were driven out from Arab Muslim lands to the state of Israel. And if the world really wants to apply the right of return to all, then give the Jews and other non Muslims back the lands in Saudi Arabia and all over the middle east, Asia and Africa, including in what is now called the west bank, that have been stole from the Jews and other non Muslims by Arab Muslims and other Muslims over centuries right up until the present(ethnic cleansing is taking place right now in the middle east against Christians, Yazidis, Bahais and others by Islamists). Return all of the hundreds of millions of people that were forced to leave their lands from wars, persecution and ethnic cleansing, regardless of how many years have passed, and never accept the way to resolve conflict and war is not by creating new conflict and war.