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Interestingly, for once the on the TF editorial itself are running mostly pro-Israel – at least the first 40 or so I waded through.

and how many realise that in Nablus under PA control there is the Balata “refugee camp” wired off from the rest of Nablus residents and without any of the rights enjoyed by those West Bank Arabs?
A camp that has no room to expand and without the civil facilities granted to ordinary Nablusites.
The Arab League in 1959 published their decree about refugees
In 1959, the Arab League passed Resolution 1457, which states as follows: “The Arab countries will not grant citizenship to applicants of Palestinian origin in order to prevent their assimilation into the host countries.”
The Arab Apartheid

Friedman still has his head in a cloud of pot and humming kumbayah!
“Two states for two peoples. We, the Palestinian people, offer the Jewish people a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders — with mutually agreed adjustments — including Jerusalem, where the Arabs will control their neighborhoods and the Jews theirs.”
What an idiot when Hamas has rejected that and some months back Abbas refused to consider a Jewish entity next door.
Of course Friedman thinks that Abbas and Hamas act independently of the Arab League and the Iranian axis and can do as they like without considering the “Three Noes of Khartoum”.
By the way here’s a bit of research about a British general connected to UNWRA (OT refugees) which came to the attention of the Senate Foreign Relations committee at the time.
A Tale of Two Galloways

On 25 May 1953 in testimony before the Subcommittee on Near East and Africa of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the Reverend Karl Baehr, Executive Secretary of the American Christian Palestine Committee stated:

The political picture within the Arab refugee camps is important to an understanding of the problem, and I must say it is of special significance to this committee.

In April of 1952, Sir Alexander Galloway, then head of the UNRWA for Jordan, said to our study group, and this is really a direct quote from what he said:

It is perfectly clear than the Arab nations do not want to solve the Arab refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront against the United Nations, and as a weapon against Israel.

Then, by way of emphasis he said:

Arab leaders don’t give a damn whether the refugees live or die.

This simple fact has been more and more clearly demonstrated as I have on repeated occasions visited the refugee centers. Close supervision of the refugee centers is being maintained by the Arab League so that the presentations from camp to camp vary in no detail. It is only as one breaks away from these formal presentations that one begins to get individual reactions and varied opinions such as those expressed by the preceding speaker. And most visitors have neither the time nor the inclination to try to dig beneath the emotional presentations.

The Senate reference:
Committee on Foreign Relations, Palestine Refugee Program, Hearings before the Subcommittee on the Near East and Africa of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-Third Congress, First Session on the Palestine Refugee Program, May 20, 21, and 25, 1953 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1953), p. 103.