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<h1 class="article-title">Right Of Return Coalition calls For Unity,
Rejects Arab Initiative</h1>
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<span class="article-details"><span class="article-detail"><img
class="icon" src="cid:part1.00010505.07030305@freedomarchives.org"
alt="author"> Wednesday May 15, 2013 03:29</span><span
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src="cid:part2.08060206.05050902@freedomarchives.org" alt="author"> by
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News</span></span> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imemc.org/article/65480">http://www.imemc.org/article/65480</a><br>
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<blockquote class="article-intro">The International Palestinian Right
of Return Coalition issued a press release marking the 65th anniversary
of the Nakba of 1948, and called on all Palestinian factions to achieve
unity and to remain steadfast without abandoning the legitimate
Palestinian rights, topped by the Right of Return of the refugees to
their homeland, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian
state with Jerusalem as its capital.</blockquote>
<p class="article">The coalition, that includes twenty institutions and
rights groups, said “as the Palestinians mark the Nakba day, when
Israeli armed forces displaced hundreds of villages and towns
displacing an attire population before Israeli was established in the
historic land of Palestine in 1948, the Palestinian leadership in the
West Bank must denounce any attempt to void the Right of Return.” <br>
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It added that the leadership must denounce the Arab League for
suggesting land swap with Israel, and for sending a delegation to
Washington to discuss the issue, and stated that the internationally
guaranteed Palestinian rights of Return and independence are
nonnegotiable. <br>
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The coalition stated that the Arab League and its Arab Peace Initiative
must quit granting Israel free concessions, must withdraw their
initiative, and focus their efforts on supporting the resistance and
the steadfastness of the Palestinian people facing the ongoing Israeli
occupation and aggression. <br>
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It further called on all Palestinian factions to reject all attempts
that aim at forcing the Palestinians to abandon their rights,
especially their rights in the historic land of Palestine, and their
rights to return to their homeland, to their cities, villages and towns
that were destroyed and depopulated by the Israeli forces. <br>
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“Arab leaders must understand that without the Right of Return, without
justice, there will never be peace in the region”, the Coalition said,
“The refugees cause is an essential cause that cannot be compromised or
abandoned”. <br>
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The coalition further called for the protection of the Palestinian
refugees wherever they are, especially in Syria amidst the ongoing
clashes in the country, and to refrain from using the refugees in Syria
as a tool in the ongoing war in the country. <br>
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“Palestinian refugees are the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine, the
majority of whom were dispossessed, were forced to run away or were
expelled when the state of Israel was created in 1948. <br>
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This dispossession and expulsion has continued since with the second
largest such event in Palestine taking place during the 1967 war, which
Israel launched on its Arab neighbors and which resulted in the
occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.”<br>
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“Palestinian refugees generally fall into three main groups:
Palestinian refugees displaced in 1948, internally displaced
Palestinians who remained within the areas that became the state of
Israel, and Palestinian refugees displaced in 1967 from the West Bank
and Gaza Strip. For the past 58 years, Israel has continued to deny
Palestinian refugees their right to return to their ancestral towns,
villages and homes.”<br>
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See more <span class="article-details"></span><a
href="http://www.al-awda.org/faq-refugees.html"
title="http://www.al-awda.org/faq-refugees.html">http://www.al-awda.org/faq-refugees.html
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</a></p>
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