From: Ricshulman@aol.com

The US has proposed to settle the Arab refugees in several countries. What hope does it have of agreement by the Arab states, who always opposed a normal solution? On the other hand, these states may have tired of those troublesome elements. Troublesome they are, not only for having committed coups and mayhem but also for threatening to assassinate Arab leaders who don't support them.

The Arab states probably would force their Palestinian Arabs into the PA, anyway. The refugees, for all their talk about returning, may well fear the brutal PA police. They know that their kinsmen interrogated by the PA "returned crippled or not at all." But Arafat would not refuse them entree, as he really should, because his economy is too impoverished to take care of them. What economy, anyway? His PA is a base for racketeering and warring. The more people, the bigger his army.

The Arabs sent to Israel plus those who sneak into Israel and those who plunder Israel would severely strain the viability of a state of war-weary Jews. Does the State Dept. foresee the war and misery its plan would inflict? How could it not? Then it doesn't expect to help the refugees but foist some upon Israel. The PA's goal must be the elimination of Israel at non-US hands (Emanuel Winston, Jewish Press, 3/5, p.53).

The PLO Refugee Dept. said, however, that a PA state would be one of the host states for the refugees. The PA advocates that the refugees be returned to their homes in Israel AND compensated for deprivation of property (Arutz-7, 3/4).

They start a war and demand compensation for losing it!

3/9/99 ARABS & ISRAEL 2707:

Occupation In Yesha Over 1,350 years ago, Caliph Umar codified the relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, under Islam. The rulers reserved discretion over how much freedom and prosperity to leave Jews and Christians. The infidels paid a tax, "jizya," for a revokable right to hold property and for practicing their religions (Jewish Political Chronicle, 2/99, p.28 from Freeman Center, "Islamic Anti-semitism, 1/98.)

In view of such discrimination, no Yesha Jews should be subjected to a PA already condemned, even by the sympathetic State Dept., for civil rights violations of fellow Arabs.