Comments on: Dead letter https://www.yourish.com/2008/10/17/5470 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:25:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Alex Bensky https://www.yourish.com/2008/10/17/5470/comment-page-1#comment-33884 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:25:44 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=5470#comment-33884 Olmert is hopeless but I think Israel can come up with a fair offer on the number of returning refugees it will accept: ask the Turks how many Ionian Greeks they will accept, the Czechs how many Sudeten Germans they will accept, the Russians how many Finnish refugees they will accept (this seems to be entirely unknown, but it’s estimated that about 400,000 Finns were displaced after the Russo-Finnish War), and India and Pakistan how many Moslems and Hindus who left in 1947 they will accept.

Once these figures are in, the Israelis should average those numbers and the result would be the refugees they will allow back in. I think that’s eminently fair and certainly would rebut that paranoid Israeli claim that the only refugees anyone worries about are those who left Israel.

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