{"id":63612,"date":"2018-08-26T17:05:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T15:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=63612"},"modified":"2018-08-26T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T08:22:28","slug":"31-05-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=63612","title":{"rendered":"Report: Trump Administration to Take Palestinian \u2018Right of Return\u2019 Off the Table"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Report: Trump Administration to Take Palestinian \u2018Right of Return\u2019 Off the Table<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Benjamin Kerstein<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport on May 23, 2017. Photo by Kobi Gideon \/ GPO<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The Trump administration is prepared to announce a new policy that effectively cancels the so-called \u201cright of return\u201d for Palestinian refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Israel\u2019s\u00a0Channel Two<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>, the policy relates to both the refugees themselves and UNRWA, the UN agency that serves them.<\/span><\/p>\n

UNRWA is controversial because it counts as refugees not only those Palestinians displaced in Israel\u2019s 1948 War of Independence, but also their descendants. As a result, there are now over five million registered Palestinian refugees, an enormous number of whom have never set foot in what was British Mandatory Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Palestinians insist the refugees must be allowed to return to Israel, which would effectively destroy the country and replace it with an Arab-majority state.<\/span><\/p>\n

Channel Two<\/em>\u00a0reports that the Trump administration\u2019s plan to solve the issue will be announced at the beginning of September and will have several stages.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, a report will be issued on the Palestinian refugees, which will number them at approximately 500,000, rather than the five million registered by UNRWA.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, the US will formally reject UNRWA\u2019s definition of refugee status as inheritable.<\/span><\/p>\n

Third, UNRWA\u2019s budget for operating in the West Bank will be cut.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fourth, Israel will be asked to reconsider allowing UNRWA to operate in the West Bank altogether, in order to prevent the Arab countries from making up the shortfall from the US cuts.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Channel Two<\/em>, the Israeli government sees the plan as a \u201chistoric step\u201d on par with Trump\u2019s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital and move the US embassy there. They see it as effectively taking the refugee issue \u2014 one of the thorniest in the Middle East conflict \u2014 off the table.<\/span><\/p>\n

The White House had no comment on the story, saying only that it would make its stance clear at the appropriate time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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