BK>>  If that were true, why has the Israeli govt established that
 BK>>  they will not let those Palestinians return?

 BA> Way back when those folks could have moved back, they - or
 BA> more likely their parents, I suspect a huge majority of the
 BA> inhabitants of those camps have never lived in Israel -
 BA> chose not to.

 Since there was no Israel before 1947, that was a given.

 And how do you know they *CHOSE* not to?

 BA> The reason Israel won't let them back now is that those
 BA> folks have been radicalized and no country wants a bunch of
 BA> radicals intent on destroying it running around loose
 BA> within its borders.

 Radicalized by being held in internment camps for 60 years? Do
 you have some reason we should believe Israel was willing to let
 them back in back in 1949?



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