Suchergebnisse

During the peace process that began in Madrid in 1991 - and remains frozen -, the material interests of the different sections of the Palestinian people were made incompatible. The diaspora Palestinians - most of them refugees from 1948 and 1967 - were relegated to the final status negotiations. The author reviews recent Israeli and Palestinian proposals advancing solutions to the refugee question and concludes that the peace-process is a "zero sum game" dictated by Israel and accepted by the Palestinian Authority "wherein so-called gains for native West Bank and Gaza Palestinians must be attained at the expense of real losses on the part of the refugees and the diaspora". (DÜI-Cls)