Middle East Studies
Excellence in Scholarship and Learning
Excellence in Scholarship and Learning
Peace Politics in the Middle East
The Palestinian Refugees
Old Problems – New Solutions
In the series
Peace Politics in the Middle East
Joseph Ginat, a cultural-political anthropologist, was Vice President of International Relations and Research at Netanya Academic College. He was the author of Blood Revenge: Family Honor, Mediation, and Outcasting, and editor of Sussex Studies in Peace Politics in the Middle East, as well as numerous contributions to social anthropology in the field of Mormon studies, and Arab culture.
Foreword by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
Preface by David L. Boren, President of the University of Oklahoma
There has been little progress on the refugee problem
because of official Palestinian public positions, other Arab countries’
approach to the “right of return” of all Palestinian
refugees, and the contrasting Israeli public policy of not allowing
any refugees to return to Israel. Such polar-opposite approaches
can never resolve this difficult and longstanding humanitarian problem.
By working collectively, the world’s leading experts from
Arab countries, the Palestinian Authority, Israel, Europe and the
United States have developed a chessboard of proposed solutions.
The volume in part reflects the
polarization that exists on the issue, and in part moves away from
the political slogans of both sides, toward concrete proposals for
negotiating a comprehensive agreement. Topics include: the historical
background; the “right of return”, repatriation, compensation,
and resettlement; the Jordanian viewpoint and national identity;
the economic capacity of the future Palestinian state to absorb
the refugees; the Palestinian refugee problem in the eyes of the
Palestinian and Israeli–Jewish publics; and final status negotiations.
Published in association with the University of Oklahoma Press
| Hardback ISBN: | 978-1-902210-89-6 |
| Hardback Price: | £39.95 |
| Release Date: | September 2001 |
| Page Extent / Format: | 360 pp. / 229 x 152 mm |
| Illustrated: | No |
Foreword:
HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
Preface:
David Boren, President of the University of Oklahoma
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Traditional Positions and New Solutions
Joseph Ginat and Edward J. Perkins
PART I The Historical Background and the "Right of Return"
2 The Historical Background
Yoav Gelber
3
Between the Right of Return and Attempts of Resettlement
Mohamed Hawary
4
From a Doctrine-Oriented to a Solution-Oriented Policy: The
PLO's "Right of Return," 1964–2000
Menachem Klein
5 The Political Refugee Problem in the Light of the
Peace Process
Manuel Hassassian
6 Early US Policy toward Palestinian Refugees: The Syria Option
Joshua Landis
Comprehensive Solutions
7 Refugee Compensation: Responsibility, Recipients,
and Forms and Sources
Don Peretz
8
Refugee Compensation: Why the Parties Have Been Unable to
Agree and Why it is Important to Compensate Refugees for Losses
Emanuel Marx
9
Traditional Positions and New Solutions
Moshe Ma'oz
10 Actual Repatriation: A Minimal Israeli Gesture
Donna E. Arzt
Regional
Context Perspectives
11 From Refugees to Citizens: A Regional
Proposal
Joseph Ginat and Dale F. Eickelman
12
Palestinian Refugees in Jordan and National Identity, 1948–1999
Mohanna Haddad
13 Final Status Negotiations and Regional Cooperation
Taisir Amre
14 Refugee Resettlement in the Gaza Strip: Israeli Policy
Revisited
Norma Masrieh-Hazboun
15 Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon since 1982
Kais M. Firro
16 The Future of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
Laura Drake
PART II Policy Positions and Solutions
17 Solving the Refugee Problem – An Israeli
Point of View
Shlomo Gazit
18 A Predicament in Search of an Innovative Solution
Munther S. Dajani
19 The Historical Development of the Refugee Camps in Jordan
Hussein Ramzoun
20 The Role of UNRWA: Refugee Statistics and UN Resolutions
Abraham Badran
21 A Jordanian Perspective
Rateb Amro
22 The Refugee Question and Human Rights
Bahieldin Elibrachy
23 Obstacles and Opportunities: The Ideological Dimensions
Tahseen Basheer
24 The Economic Capacity of the Palestinian State to Absorb the
Refugees: The Employment Perspective
Onn Winckler
Public Opinion Polling
25 How the Palestinian and Israeli-Jewish
Publics Perceive the Issues
Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar and Tamar Hermann
Concluding Remarks
Joseph Ginat and Edward J. Perkins
The Contributors
Index
The editors note that the refugee debate is polarised between the Palestinian/Arab view that all refugees should be allowed to return to their original homes inside Israel, and the Israeli view that no refugees should return to Israel. The editors and contributors argue the case for ‘realistic proposals for solving the refugee problem’, but most of the contributors endorse at least in principle Palestinian maximal demands for a right of return … Shlomo Gazit is willing to financially compensate the refugees, but opposes any return to Israel … Yoav Gelber argues insightfully that the respective Palestinians and Israeli arguments about solutions are based on totally different cultural assumptions. The Israelis favour resettlement, which is the traditional European approach to refugee populations, while the Arabs favour repatriation, which is the traditional pattern in the Middle East.
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