![]() ![]() ![]() And as a consequence, even when neighboring Arab countries make an effort to integrate Palestinians and their descendants, they are counted as refugees. ![]() The United Nations has decided that the refugee status of the Palestinians passes down from generation to generation, so that children born today are classified as refugees in the same way their grandparents were-an attitude that is contrary to its policy for all other displaced groups. Since then, and unlike most of the world’s other refugee populations, the official number of Palestinian refugees has not declined, but exploded. During Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, as many as 700,000 Arabs fled or were driven from what had been mandatory Palestine. The so-called “right of return” is one of the the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s thorniest issues. Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Tweet Podcast: Einat Wilf on the West‘s Indulgence of Palestinian Delusions | By: Einat Wilf ![]()
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