Category: Right of Return
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The Balfour Declaration
That (see above) is that; a short typewritten letter of three paragraphs. The key part is emphasised below: His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing…
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George Habash
Obituary Guerrilla leader who founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine by David Hirst | January, 2008 In his later years, George Habash, who has died of a heart attack aged 81 or 82, was often known as “the conscience of the Palestine revolution”. He had been one of the very earliest founding…
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I spoke to Palestinians who still hold the keys to homes they fled decades ago
Most of them were convinced – or thought they knew – that they would come back after a week or two and re-open those front doors, and walk back into the houses many had owned for generations Robert Fisk Thursday 28 June 2018 Keys must always be the symbol of the Palestinian “Nakba” – the…
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Hanthala
Naji al-Ali 1936–1987 Naji al-Ali, creator of “Hanthala’ in c. 1969, was born in al-Jalil (Galilee), Palestine, in the village of al-Shajara. When the Nakba (catastrophe) struck in 1948, al-Ali became a refugee, along with the vast majority of Palestinians, growing up in the south Lebanese refugee camp of Ain al-Helweh. In 1961, Palestinian writer and political…
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UN General Assembly Resolution 194
The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 is a resolution adopted near the end of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. The Resolution defines principles for reaching a final settlement and returning Palestine refugees to their homes. Article 11 of the resolution resolves that Refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their…