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Arabs support non-solution for refugee problem
“The Arab support of a non-solution for the refugee problem”
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Mordechai Ben Porat, who in 1983 served as Chairman of the Israeli Ministers Committee for the Rehabilitation of the Palestinian Refugees, said in 2007:
“The Arab countries made no effort on behalf of the refugees. They did everything possible to keep them in camps. When rehabilitation programs were suggested, they objected to them. They preferred to leave the refugee camps as is and the refugees as is, in order to present their suffering before the entire world.”
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Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) wrote an article in March 1976 in Falastin al-Thawra, the official journal of the PLO in Beirut:
"The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny, but instead they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland, imposed upon them a political and ideological blockade and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live in Eastern Europe."
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Ralph Garroway, former director of UNRWA, said in 1958:
“The Arab States do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the United Nations and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don’t give a damn whether the refugees live or die.”
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