Capitol Hill in Washington was rocked late last month when the Senate Appropriations Committee approved an amendment requiring the State Department, for the first time, to do a "count" of Palestinian refugees.
- Haaretz.com
- הארץ
- TheMarker
- עכבר העיר
- TheMarker Café
-
00:35
Clashes erupt in Egypt over Islamist governors (AP)
-
00:16
Syrian warplanes strike rebel posts in Aleppo (AP)
-
23:11
Turkey's defiant PM says police to get more power against protesters (AP)
-
22:57
Bill Clinton to Peres: You are the world's social Einstein (Haaretz)
-
21:46
Netanyahu to Peres: Shimon, you are the man of peace, the man of vision (Haaretz)
-
21:22
Turkey's Erdogan meets top Hamas officials for talks on Palestinian reconciliation (AP)
-
20:27
France's Hollande open to Iranian presence at Syria talks (Reuters)
-
19:33
Ben Gurion Airport to be shut down to clear decades-old mortar found during renovations (Haaretz)
-
18:12
G-8 agrees on plan to promote Syrian peace talks (AP)
-
17:55
Suicide bomber kills 30 at funeral in Pakistan (Reuters)
-
17:33
U.S. officials say they will begin meeting with Taliban at new Qatar office within days (AP)
-
17:16
Taliban say will open office in Qatar to seek political solution to Afghanistan war (AP)
-
17:00
Ex-South African ambassador criticizes Israel, says it 'replicates apartheid' (AP)
-
16:34
EU nations grant more asylum, Syrians top the list (AP)
-
16:16
Two arrested in connection with March attack on elderly shepherd near West Bank settlement (Haaretz)
Israeli MK, AIPAC behind Senate bid to cut total number of Palestinian refugees
Newly passed amendment requires State Department to specify how many of the 5 million Palestinians who receive aid from the UN are refugees who were personally displaced from their homes in 1948, and how many are their descendants.
thank you
Your talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.
- LATEST
- MOST VIEWED
- HIGHEST RATED
- Open All
-
12 0 0
-
11 0 0Why pay the enemey who keeps attacking?
- By Stop the Palestinian hoax
- 12 Jun 2012
- 01:54PM
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close -
10 0 0About time and long overdue
- By DT
- 12 Jun 2012
- 01:39PM
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close -
09 0 0If the Descendants of Palestinian Refugees Shall Be Deprive of UNRWA aid
- By John Venes
- 12 Jun 2012
- 01:12PM
Israel has the moral obligation to let them return to Israel, their original home, so they can find livelihood there and live peacefully. If the descendants of the Jews living more than 2000 years ago claimed that they had right to return home to Israel, why the descendants of Palestinians living in Israel 60 years ago can not return home?
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close-
0
0
No such "moral obligation" to allow hostiles into one's country.
- By Jasper - Milwaukee
- 13 Jun 2012
- 02:13AM
Jews could not return immediately. What are you talking about. Give it a rest for about 2000 years, and then maybe we could talk about it.
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close -
0
0
one's country?
- By amalech
- 01 Jul 2012
- 06:02PM
It's their country, not yours Jasper.
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close
-
08 0 0who cares? US arent international law.
- By Ted
- 12 Jun 2012
- 01:07PM
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close -
07 0 0Why aren't the Arabs and Moslems stepping up to the plate. Why must the American taxpayer fund the oil-rich?
- By Binyamin Dissen
- 12 Jun 2012
- 01:04PM
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close -
06 0 0Clever fools. Eventually the US will realize UNRWA has no mandate over final status
- By talknic
- 12 Jun 2012
- 00:54PM
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close -
05 0 0Just who is running the US these days?
- By Ashamed
- 12 Jun 2012
- 11:59AM
Oh! wait a minute, I think I know.
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close -
04 0 0spend money on refugees? or spend money on the cause of the refugees?
- By [R]
- 12 Jun 2012
- 11:56AM
this says alot about america and its puppetmasters.
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close -
03 0 0abolish UNWRA
- By nadav
- 12 Jun 2012
- 11:48AM
then abolish the UN. it's an cold war relic that is no longer even remotely effective (e.g. Syria, Iran, etc). It is run by lunatic dictators, totalitarian states, and Islamists. it needs to be dismantled. period.
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close -
02 0 0so...in Israel every desecendents are welcomed
- By Zeev
- 12 Jun 2012
- 11:43AM
but not for palestinians? clearly show the illogic of the lobby.
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close-
0
0
You're missing the point
- By DG
- 12 Jun 2012
- 01:32PM
The Palestinians seem to be special. Why? For every other group of people, there is no such thing as a second generation refugee. If someone is a refugee, it doesn't extend to their children. Their children will be citizens of the country in which they are born (and will get all the rights owing to them) and will lose their refugee status. However, for some reason the Palestinians seem to be more special than any other type of refugee in that their status extends through the generations. Due to this there are now millions of Palestinian refugees whilst only a fraction of these people were around at the time of 1948 and 1967. Why are they better than the Sudanese refugees? Somali refugees? Afghanis? Etc etc
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close -
0
0
Re:
- By Kevin
- 12 Jun 2012
- 01:49PM
Because, in order to become a citizen of the country you're born in, there's the pre requisite of there being a country, which Israel and the US won't allow
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close -
0
0
RE: RE
- By DG
- 12 Jun 2012
- 04:58PM
The point is that millions of the Palestinian refugees were born in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the US, and other countries in the world. The majority were born post 1948 and post 1967 in those countries. As such, they should be Egyptian, Lebanese etc, just like any other refugee group's children would be. However, the Palestinians seem to deserve special treatment which makes them and their descendants Palestinian refugees. That's why the number of Palestinian refugees grow daily which causes unnecessary financial burden on the countries donating tax money to the UNWRA. It also puts these 'refugees' at a disadvantage as they cannot be citizens of the country they were born in, refuses to give them rights, job prospects etc.
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close -
0
0
Unklike the US law, you do not get automatically citizenship from the country, where you were born, but that of your parents most times.
- By Kris Lazar
- 13 Jun 2012
- 07:09AM
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close
-
01 0 0of course it is, just proves that there is a bias and that Israel have power over congress.
- By Fed
- 12 Jun 2012
- 11:41AM
thank youYour talkback has been submitted successfully.
If selected for publication, it will appear as soon as possible on Haaretz.com.Close
News: Diplomacy and Defense | National | World | Middle East | Features | Opinion | Israel weather | Maccabiah 2013
Jewish World: News | Rabbis' Round Table | The Jewish Thinker Culture: Books | Food and Wine | Arts & Leisure
Haaretz.com Blogs: A Special Place in Hell | West of Eden | Diplomania | Routine Emergencies | Jerusalem Vivendi
The Axis | Strenger than Fiction | East Side Story | Modern Manna | The Fifth Question
Haaretz.co.il: ספרים | ספורט | מפלס הכנרת | ביקורת מסעדות | בלוגים | חדשות חוץ | גלריה | מזג אוויר | חדשות | הארץ
FAQ | Contact us | Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy | Management | Editorial | Employment Opportunities | Advertise on Haaretz.com | Haaretz News Widget
Design by Roni Arie | Accelerated by cotendo
© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved


