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<\/a>The \u2018Right of Return\u2019 Isn\u2019t a Right \u2014 It\u2019s a Means to Attack Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nMicha Danzig<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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Palestinians pass by the gate of an UNRWA-run school in Nablus in the West Bank. Photo: Reuters\/Abed Omar Qusini.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIn the wake of the October 7th massacre and the war Hamas launched from Gaza, one might expect Western democracies to reassess their assumptions about the Israeli\u2013Palestinian Arab conflict. Instead, countries like Ireland, Spain, Norway, and Canada are rushing to unilaterally \u201crecognize\u201d a Palestinian Arab state \u2014 a move they claim is a step toward peace.<\/span><\/p>\nBut there is a fatal contradiction at the core of this effort, one that goes almost entirely unexamined: the Palestinian demand for a \u201cright of return.\u201d It is this demand \u2014 not settlements, not borders, not Jerusalem \u2014 that has repeatedly scuttled any possibility of a negotiated peace.<\/span><\/p>\nThat\u2019s because this so-called \u201cright\u201d is not a call for compromise. It is a weaponized fantasy, designed to eliminate the world\u2019s only Jewish state through a back-door diplomatic conquest. It is not about coexistence \u2014 it is about replacement. And in backing a Palestinian \u201cstate\u201d whose leadership still strenuously clings to this demand, Western governments are not promoting peace. They are underwriting the continuation of war by other means.<\/span><\/p>\nIn the obsessive international discourse around the Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict, \u201cright of return\u201d has become a sort of incantation. Palestinian officials brand it a moral imperative. NGOs declare it a human right. And diplomats in Brussels and Ottawa parrot it as a required ingredient for peace.<\/span><\/p>\nBut this \u201cright of return\u201d is not about justice or reconciliation. It is not even about return. It is a carefully constructed euphemism for a population-based dismantling of Israel \u2014 a strategy to undo what conventional warfare failed to accomplish between 1947 and 1973.<\/span><\/p>\nIt\u2019s the idea that the Jewish State \u2014 the only one among the 195 nations on Earth \u2014 should agree to import millions of hostile foreign nationals, the descendants of refugees from a war started by five Arab armies and multiple Arab militias openly trying to annihilate it. All while the actual Arab nations that initiated the war continue to hold most of these \u201crefugees\u201d in permanent limbo, denied citizenship and rights in their countries for more than 75 years.<\/span><\/p>\nThis is not a peace plan. It\u2019s the slow-motion implementation of the PLO\u2019s 1964 charter, which never contemplated statehood beside Israel \u2014 but rather statehood instead of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\nThe phrase \u201cright of return\u201d originates in UN General Assembly Resolution 194, passed in 1948 at the tail end of the first Arab war to annihilate Israel. That resolution was non-binding, conditional, and explicitly stated that refugees must \u201cwish to live at peace with their neighbors\u201d to be considered for return.<\/span><\/p>\nIt was intended for individual refugees, not for their descendants \u2014 and certainly not as a vehicle to reverse Israel\u2019s existence.<\/span><\/p>\nBut for decades, Palestinian leaders have mutated this non-binding suggestion into an inherited, irrevocable, and universal \u201cright\u201d \u2014 not just for those displaced by the war the Arab League started in 1948, but for their grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and even great-great-grandchildren, most of whom have never seen Israel, never lived in Israel, and whose ancestors often fled at the behest of Arab leaders who promised that Israel would soon be destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\nTheir goal isn\u2019t to return to homes that no longer exist. It is to settle in sovereign Israel \u2014 in places like Haifa, Jaffa, and Ashkelon, not Ramallah or Gaza \u2014 to end Israel\u2019s Jewish majority and destroy the Jewish state from within.<\/span><\/p>\nThose who advocate for this demographic conquest often argue: \u201cBut Israel has a Law of Return. Why shouldn\u2019t Palestinians?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThe comparison is not only false \u2014 it\u2019s intentionally deceptive.<\/span><\/p>\nIsrael\u2019s Law of Return enables Jews \u2014 members of an indigenous people who were exiled, persecuted, and nearly annihilated over the course of two millennia \u2014 to return to the sovereign state within their ancestral homeland.<\/span><\/p>\nCritically, Israel\u2019s Law of Return does not seek to displace anyone. It does not call for Jews to \u201creturn\u201d to Baghdad, Sana\u2019a, or Warsaw. It does not challenge another state\u2019s sovereignty. It merely provides a refuge and a home within Israel\u2019s own borders.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Palestinian \u201cright of return\u201d is the opposite: a demand that millions of non-citizens \u2014 people who are not from the State of Israel \u2014 be granted entry, not into a future Palestinian state, but into Israel itself.<\/span><\/p>\nThe Palestinian \u201cright of return\u201d is often framed as if it conforms to international norms. But no such norm exists. Many countries \u2014 including Greece, Italy, Ireland, Germany, and Poland \u2014 have \u201cright of return\u201d laws, granting citizenship or immigration priority to descendants of former citizens or ethnic diasporas.<\/span><\/p>\nBut all these programs apply to descendants returning to their own current sovereign state. No Greek descendant has the \u201cright to return\u201d to Smyrna (now Izmir in Turkey). No Italian descendant has the right to \u201creturn\u201d to Istria or Dalmatia (now part of Croatia and Slovenia). No family of a German refugee from K\u00f6nigsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) has the right to \u201creturn\u201d and alter Russian demographics.<\/span><\/p>\nOnly in the case of Israel is a concocted \u201cright\u201d weaponized to try and erase a sovereign country altogether.<\/span><\/p>\nModern history is replete with population transfers: Hindus and Muslims displaced during the Partition of India; Greeks and Turks exchanged en masse after the fall of the Ottoman Empire; Jews ethnically cleansed from Arab states between 1940 and 1965 \u2014 nearly 1,000,000 forced from places like Baghdad, Tripoli, and Cairo, their property stolen and their histories in those lands practically erased.<\/span><\/p>\nThe descendants of these refugees do not claim a right to \u201creturn.\u201d No international body insists that they should. And no one pretends that peace or even justice requires it.<\/span><\/p>\nSo why is the world still entertaining the delusion that five generations of Palestinians \u2014 most born in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, North America, or Brazil \u2014 must be able to \u201creturn\u201d to Tel Aviv?<\/span><\/p>\nPalestinian leaders, from the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini to Mahmoud Abbas, have always viewed Israel as a temporary aberration, not a neighbor. Abbas has declared repeatedly: \u201cI will never recognize the Jewishness of the State of Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nThis fantasy of return is how the war, which Haj Amin al-Husseini\u2019s violent rejectionism lost in 1948, is being kept alive in diplomatic lobbies and UN chambers.<\/span><\/p>\nThat\u2019s why Palestinian leaders rejected Ehud Barak\u2019s peace offer in 2000 and Ehud Olmert\u2019s in 2008. Both offered a contiguous Palestinian state in nearly all the so-called \u201cWest Bank\u201d and Gaza. Both offered shared control of Jerusalem. And both were answered with \u201cno\u201d \u2014 because they required Palestinian leaders to give up the \u201cright\u201d to flood Israel with millions of non-citizens.<\/span><\/p>\nThere is no \u201cright\u201d to undo another nation\u2019s existence. There is no international principle that compels one people to surrender sovereignty so that their state can be destroyed \u2014 a state created as a haven for a people nearly annihilated, and after a defensive war they won.<\/span><\/p>\nUntil the Palestinian leadership abandons this claimed \u201cright of return,\u201d there will be no peace and certainly no two-state solution. Because the refusal to abandon this made-up \u201cright\u201d means they don\u2019t want two states. It means they want one. And they want the Jewish state to vanish.<\/span><\/p>\nPretending otherwise is not peacemaking. It\u2019s dangerous enabling \u2014 designed to ensure the conflict never ends.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nMicha Danzig<\/strong> is a current attorney, former IDF soldier & NYPD police officer. He currently writes for numerous publications on matters related to Israel, antisemitism & Jewish identity & is the immediate past President of StandWithUs in San Diego and a national board member of Herut.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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In the wake of the October 7th massacre and the war Hamas launched from Gaza, one might expect Western democracies to reassess their assumptions about the Israeli\u2013Palestinian Arab conflict. Instead, countries like Ireland, Spain, Norway, and Canada are rushing to unilaterally \u201crecognize\u201d a Palestinian Arab state \u2014 a move they claim is a step toward peace.<\/span><\/p>\n But there is a fatal contradiction at the core of this effort, one that goes almost entirely unexamined: the Palestinian demand for a \u201cright of return.\u201d It is this demand \u2014 not settlements, not borders, not Jerusalem \u2014 that has repeatedly scuttled any possibility of a negotiated peace.<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s because this so-called \u201cright\u201d is not a call for compromise. It is a weaponized fantasy, designed to eliminate the world\u2019s only Jewish state through a back-door diplomatic conquest. It is not about coexistence \u2014 it is about replacement. And in backing a Palestinian \u201cstate\u201d whose leadership still strenuously clings to this demand, Western governments are not promoting peace. They are underwriting the continuation of war by other means.<\/span><\/p>\n In the obsessive international discourse around the Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict, \u201cright of return\u201d has become a sort of incantation. Palestinian officials brand it a moral imperative. NGOs declare it a human right. And diplomats in Brussels and Ottawa parrot it as a required ingredient for peace.<\/span><\/p>\n But this \u201cright of return\u201d is not about justice or reconciliation. It is not even about return. It is a carefully constructed euphemism for a population-based dismantling of Israel \u2014 a strategy to undo what conventional warfare failed to accomplish between 1947 and 1973.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s the idea that the Jewish State \u2014 the only one among the 195 nations on Earth \u2014 should agree to import millions of hostile foreign nationals, the descendants of refugees from a war started by five Arab armies and multiple Arab militias openly trying to annihilate it. All while the actual Arab nations that initiated the war continue to hold most of these \u201crefugees\u201d in permanent limbo, denied citizenship and rights in their countries for more than 75 years.<\/span><\/p>\n This is not a peace plan. It\u2019s the slow-motion implementation of the PLO\u2019s 1964 charter, which never contemplated statehood beside Israel \u2014 but rather statehood instead of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n The phrase \u201cright of return\u201d originates in UN General Assembly Resolution 194, passed in 1948 at the tail end of the first Arab war to annihilate Israel. That resolution was non-binding, conditional, and explicitly stated that refugees must \u201cwish to live at peace with their neighbors\u201d to be considered for return.<\/span><\/p>\n It was intended for individual refugees, not for their descendants \u2014 and certainly not as a vehicle to reverse Israel\u2019s existence.<\/span><\/p>\n But for decades, Palestinian leaders have mutated this non-binding suggestion into an inherited, irrevocable, and universal \u201cright\u201d \u2014 not just for those displaced by the war the Arab League started in 1948, but for their grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and even great-great-grandchildren, most of whom have never seen Israel, never lived in Israel, and whose ancestors often fled at the behest of Arab leaders who promised that Israel would soon be destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n Their goal isn\u2019t to return to homes that no longer exist. It is to settle in sovereign Israel \u2014 in places like Haifa, Jaffa, and Ashkelon, not Ramallah or Gaza \u2014 to end Israel\u2019s Jewish majority and destroy the Jewish state from within.<\/span><\/p>\n Those who advocate for this demographic conquest often argue: \u201cBut Israel has a Law of Return. Why shouldn\u2019t Palestinians?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The comparison is not only false \u2014 it\u2019s intentionally deceptive.<\/span><\/p>\n Israel\u2019s Law of Return enables Jews \u2014 members of an indigenous people who were exiled, persecuted, and nearly annihilated over the course of two millennia \u2014 to return to the sovereign state within their ancestral homeland.<\/span><\/p>\n Critically, Israel\u2019s Law of Return does not seek to displace anyone. It does not call for Jews to \u201creturn\u201d to Baghdad, Sana\u2019a, or Warsaw. It does not challenge another state\u2019s sovereignty. It merely provides a refuge and a home within Israel\u2019s own borders.<\/span><\/p>\n The Palestinian \u201cright of return\u201d is the opposite: a demand that millions of non-citizens \u2014 people who are not from the State of Israel \u2014 be granted entry, not into a future Palestinian state, but into Israel itself.<\/span><\/p>\n The Palestinian \u201cright of return\u201d is often framed as if it conforms to international norms. But no such norm exists. Many countries \u2014 including Greece, Italy, Ireland, Germany, and Poland \u2014 have \u201cright of return\u201d laws, granting citizenship or immigration priority to descendants of former citizens or ethnic diasporas.<\/span><\/p>\n But all these programs apply to descendants returning to their own current sovereign state. No Greek descendant has the \u201cright to return\u201d to Smyrna (now Izmir in Turkey). No Italian descendant has the right to \u201creturn\u201d to Istria or Dalmatia (now part of Croatia and Slovenia). No family of a German refugee from K\u00f6nigsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia) has the right to \u201creturn\u201d and alter Russian demographics.<\/span><\/p>\n Only in the case of Israel is a concocted \u201cright\u201d weaponized to try and erase a sovereign country altogether.<\/span><\/p>\n Modern history is replete with population transfers: Hindus and Muslims displaced during the Partition of India; Greeks and Turks exchanged en masse after the fall of the Ottoman Empire; Jews ethnically cleansed from Arab states between 1940 and 1965 \u2014 nearly 1,000,000 forced from places like Baghdad, Tripoli, and Cairo, their property stolen and their histories in those lands practically erased.<\/span><\/p>\n The descendants of these refugees do not claim a right to \u201creturn.\u201d No international body insists that they should. And no one pretends that peace or even justice requires it.<\/span><\/p>\n So why is the world still entertaining the delusion that five generations of Palestinians \u2014 most born in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, North America, or Brazil \u2014 must be able to \u201creturn\u201d to Tel Aviv?<\/span><\/p>\n Palestinian leaders, from the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini to Mahmoud Abbas, have always viewed Israel as a temporary aberration, not a neighbor. Abbas has declared repeatedly: \u201cI will never recognize the Jewishness of the State of Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n This fantasy of return is how the war, which Haj Amin al-Husseini\u2019s violent rejectionism lost in 1948, is being kept alive in diplomatic lobbies and UN chambers.<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s why Palestinian leaders rejected Ehud Barak\u2019s peace offer in 2000 and Ehud Olmert\u2019s in 2008. Both offered a contiguous Palestinian state in nearly all the so-called \u201cWest Bank\u201d and Gaza. Both offered shared control of Jerusalem. And both were answered with \u201cno\u201d \u2014 because they required Palestinian leaders to give up the \u201cright\u201d to flood Israel with millions of non-citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n There is no \u201cright\u201d to undo another nation\u2019s existence. There is no international principle that compels one people to surrender sovereignty so that their state can be destroyed \u2014 a state created as a haven for a people nearly annihilated, and after a defensive war they won.<\/span><\/p>\n Until the Palestinian leadership abandons this claimed \u201cright of return,\u201d there will be no peace and certainly no two-state solution. Because the refusal to abandon this made-up \u201cright\u201d means they don\u2019t want two states. It means they want one. And they want the Jewish state to vanish.<\/span><\/p>\n Pretending otherwise is not peacemaking. It\u2019s dangerous enabling \u2014 designed to ensure the conflict never ends.<\/span><\/p>\n Micha Danzig<\/strong> is a current attorney, former IDF soldier & NYPD police officer. He currently writes for numerous publications on matters related to Israel, antisemitism & Jewish identity & is the immediate past President of StandWithUs in San Diego and a national board member of Herut.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em><\/span> . The \u2018Right of Return\u2019 Isn\u2019t a Right \u2014 It\u2019s a Means to Attack Israel Micha Danzig Palestinians pass by the gate of an UNRWA-run school in Nablus in the West Bank. Photo: Reuters\/Abed Omar Qusini. In the wake of the October 7th massacre and the war Hamas launched from Gaza, one might expect Western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[33,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123253"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123311,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123253\/revisions\/123311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Palestinians pass by the gate of an UNRWA-run school in Nablus in the West Bank. Photo: Reuters\/Abed Omar Qusini.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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