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By David Faber, published 29/8/2012Jordan is not Palestine any more than New Zealand is Australia. The sense of belonging to place, the idea of homeland is what is at issue here.
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Sadly, after every war in every country there have always been population shifts or transfers. The largest being between Pakistan and India in 1947 of between 10 and 12 million people.Although life is not all rosy between Pakistan and India the transferred populations are not claiming refugee status and wanting to return 3 generations later. They have moved forward.
The Palestinians are the only group of people to have ever claimed their future generations as refugees. If we applied the same rule to the rest of the world as the UN applies to the Palestinians then nearly the whole world would be refugees certainly (except for the indigenous population) all Australians would be refugees under this definition. It is time to move forward and build infrastructure. Instead of creating an atmosphere of hate and seeking out weapons and firing rockets daily. It is time the Palestinian rulers in Gaza taught peace, harmony and to love thy neighbour. Maybe then the way forward could be paved.