![]() ![]() The exodus of Palestinian Arabs resulted from panic created by fighting in their communities, by rumours concerning real or alleged acts of terrorism, or expulsion. The majority of these refugees have come from territory which … was to be included in the Jewish State. It is … undeniable that no settlement can be just and complete if recognition is not accorded to the right of the Arab refugee to return to the home from which he has been dislodged by the hazards and strategy of the armed conflict between Arabs and Jews in Palestine.Menachem Begin, Israeli politician, prime minister in a letter to US President Ronald Reagan, as quoted in the Observer (London, 2 January 1983).My generation, dear Ron, swore on the Altar of God that whoever proclaims the intent of destroying the Jewish state or the Jewish people, or both, seals his fate.Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, as quoted in the Daily Telegraph (London, 19 January 1989), on the Intifada.Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. ![]() Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, as quoted in the Observer (London, 7 February 1982).Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, as quoted in Time (New York, 11 November 1974).Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.These quotations relate to the Arab-Israeli conflict. They have allowed unremitting violence between Israel and the Palestinians with hardly an effort to stop that through U.S. ![]()
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