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Reader comment on item: Bush Promotes a Palestinian "Right of Return"

Submitted by mark goldberg (Kenya), Jan 16, 2008 at 03:05

many arabs lost their homes during the 1947 war: if they return, Israel as we know it is dead. Israel is about Jews and no one else.

Lets face it: such matters are never settled in negotating tables but in the battlefield. Only one side needs to win completely and convincingly militarily for this issue to be resolved. One side wins, the other accepts the will of the winner.

Forget about smooth-sounding words like PEACE-PROCESS and NEGOTIATIONS, it is about who is stronger to impose their will on the other.

The right only rests with the strong not the weak.

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