right-of-return

Can Lebanon come in from the Cold?

by Franklin Lamb April 9, 2010

By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz More than six decades after their expulsion from Palestine,  Lebanon’s unwanted refugees justmight be granted some basic civil rights… Part I: Hiba’s Story Granting even the most elementary and normally taken for granted civil rights to Palestinians in Lebanon won’t be easy and it may not be [...]

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Video: Palestinian homes on sale to ‘private buyers’

by Haitham Sabbah June 23, 2009

Ever ask what happen to the homes of those that become refugees in 1948? This 3 minute clip from Al Jazeera English sums up the latest Israeli actions to make sure the “right of return” becomes just as unfeasible as they have made a true 2-state solution.

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Abu Mazen: don’t mess with the right of return

by Khalid Amayreh September 15, 2008

  Palestinian refugees forced to flee their homes when Israel was established in 1948 (above), In refugee camps across the Middle East-1948 (below)      In recent days, the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas made two extremely worrying pronouncements with regard to the paramount issue of the Right of Return. Last week, [...]

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Return 2008!

by Haitham Sabbah March 18, 2008

To explain the initiative a website has been created: http://www.return08.com/Eng/index.html In the website it is proposed that the initiative is implemented on the 14th May, 2008 (to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the 1948 war). “Marking 60 years of dispossession and homelessness, it will be a day for the international community and the Palestinian [...]

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Liquidating RoR unveiled

by Haitham Sabbah December 4, 2007

PA-Israeli document liquidating RoR unveiled The Hebrew Haaretz newspaper has unveiled in its late edition on Monday a “serious” PA-Israeli document that aims at liquidating the right of return of millions of Palestinian refugees to their homeland in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands. [...] A number of alternatives were suggested by the document to solve the [...]

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Interrogation and Denial: How Israel Keeps Palestinians Down and Out

by Haitham Sabbah May 4, 2007

The following shocking testimony is a sample of what an uprooted Palestinian face if s/he wish to return home, Palestine. Nadia Hasan is a Palestinian woman with a Chilean passport. She is a human rights activist and translator. She visited Palestine once before, but since then, her only “sin” is wishing to set foot in [...]

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Doha Debate: 82% Support Palestinian Right of Return

by Haitham Sabbah April 20, 2007

This issue is one of the most intractable barrier to a Middle East peace settlement. Millions of Palestinian refugees will always fight for their right to return to their occupied lands and property that was occupied by Israel and now is called the State of Israel. In the latest Doha Debate, this issue was discussed. [...]

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