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Abstract
This paper, based on personal interviews, analysis of Egyptian administrative regulations, and observation of practice of international and...
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The apartments are called ?containers" or ?barracks" and were built to be temporary housing for Palestinian refugees displaced by war more than three years ago. Some are made of concrete. Others are made of tin.
We don't see the sun here," said Yazmine Khaleel, who has lived with her husband and four children in a one-room barrack since she fled the fighting. ?They told me we would have nice temporary houses. It's only a container.
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INTRODUCTION
THE LEBANESE ARMY'S SIEGE OF THE Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, home to over 31,000 Palestinian refugees, initiated a second experience of...
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Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and UNRWA (the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) hosted a Sept. 23 panel discussion in New York City on The Final Hurdle for Mideast Peace? Because what happened to the Palestinians, according to Karmi, is the sequel and consequence of the Holocaust, their story is therefore inseparable from the Jewish narrative.
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"Due recognition," writes Charles Taylor, "is not just a courtesy we owe people. It is a vital human need." (1) The history of Palestinian refugees is...
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Israel will never compromise
RE "Obama to urge peace talks instead," news, Sept. 21: As one who was living in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1948, I witnessed the desperation of the Palestinian refugees who were forced to flee to surrounding countries because the newly created state of Israel had confiscated their property and bank accounts.
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After a 13-year hiatus in diplomatic relations, the re-opening of a Palestinian Liberation Organization office in Beirut could have been a dream come true for Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon, who desperately need a representative to effectively negotiate their numerous demands with Lebanese authorities. Despite the many differences dividing the Palestinian groups, however, there is a general consensus that the issue of who will represent Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is one that must be resolved.
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Proximity talks signaling the restart of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, which have been on hold for years, are beginning amidst an important remind...
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Abstract
Given the Palestinian refugees' precarious legal status in their host countries, recognition of the Palestinian right of return is not only...
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The Road Map to Peace supported by the Diplomatic Quartet (consisting of the United States, the European Union, the Russian Federation, and the United Nations) called for final status negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority to establish the boundaries of a sovereign and viable Palestinian State by 2005, to guarantee Israel's secure borders, to resolve the Palestinian refugee issue and other related issues.
"The President's support for Israeli annexation of large settlement blocks and his decision to bar further consideration of the right of return of Palestinian refugees is a de facto rejection of long-standing UN resolutions," said the Rev. Charles Rawlings, president of UNA-NJ, who released the statement.