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From: rao@utcsstat.UUCP (Eli Posner)
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Subject: Quote about overall situation in Mid. East
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Date: Thu, 22-Dec-83 14:15:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 22 14:15:22 1983
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Chaim Herzog writes:


	"Two large refugee problems were created as a result of the
	 conflict [48-49 war], each encompassing approximately 800,000
	 persons: a Palestinian Arab refugee problem and a Jewish refugee
	 problem, the latter created upon the establishment of the State
	 of Israel when the Jewish populations in Arab countries were exiled
	 from their countries. The Jewish people and the State of Israel solved
	 the Jewish refugee problem rapidly and re-established the Jewish 
	 refugees, primarily in Israel. But the Arab governments chose to 
	 perpetuate the Arab refugee problem, to use the Arab refugees as
	 political pawns over the years, and to allow generations to be born
	 and to	grow up in miserable refugee camps in the Middle East
	 supported by international charity. (It is sobering to reflect that
	 just one day's Arab oil revenues, even in 1949, would have sufficed
	 to solve the entire Arab refugee problem. But this was not to be.)

			-- quote from "The Arab-Israeli Wars",Chaim Herzog,1982

It should be read.



	Eli Posner
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