This is an Israeli site, but it does appear to explain the situation in objective terms and give the reasoning for both sides. I thought it would be helpful since you seem to be asking Tom a lot of questions that this site can answer.
http://www.mideastweb.org/refugees1.htm
Map here: http://www.mideastweb.org/mrefugees.htm
Weirdly enough, I did post this link to the list once before (many moons ago) when someone here had said that they had no idea that any Palestinian refugee camps had existed in arab countries.
Jon
From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Where are the European hypocrites? Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:14:13 -0400
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 02:08:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's kind of late to worry about that now.
I have trouble reconciling that statement with someone who has an interest in understanding history.
> Come one, how many subjugated peoples in the entirety of world > history got to vote on who ruled them? They had never "voted" to be > part of the Ottoman Empire, either, so what right did the Ottoman > Turks ever have to rule them?
That sounds like a Gautam-style argument!
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