[Ethnicstudies] No right of return, Bush tells Palestinian refugees
Jim Fujii
jafujii@uci.edu
Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:31:42 -0700
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Globe and Mail April 14, 2004
No right of return, Bush tells Palestinian refugees
U.S. President George W. Bush told Palestinian refugees Wednesday that =
they
can forget about ever returning to their ancestral homes.
Leaving Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon beaming at a joint press
conference in Washington, Mr. Bush appeared to negate any right of =
return
for Palestinian uprooted from what is now Israel.
Their future lies only in "the establishment of a Palestinian state and =
the
settling of Palestinian refugees there rather than in Israel," he said.
The U.S. President twice referred to Israel as a Jewish state, alluding =
to
arguments that allowing millions of Palestinian refugees to return there
would alter the fundamental character of the country.
Mr. Bush said that it would be "unrealistic" for Israelis and =
Palestinians
to negotiate based on the assumption of returning to 1949 armistice =
lines.
"The realities on the ground and in the region have changed greatly in =
the
last several decades," Mr. Bush said. "And any [political] settlement =
must
take into account these realities."
Mr. Bush did not explicitly say that the United States supported =
Israel's
keeping some of its large settlements on the West Bank - home to about a
quarter million Israelis - but he endorsed Mr. Sharon's unilateral plan =
to
withdraw the few thousand settlers from the Gaza Strip. He noted that =
some
small Israeli settlements on the West Bank had been cleared.
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of its=20
large settlements on the West Bank - home to about a<BR>quarter million =
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thousand=20
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