Abbas poster 2

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UNRWA

Silke in the comments points to a UNRWA document showing the increase in Palestinian "refugees" since 1950. Here it is (transposed to make it easier to read): YearJordanLebanonSyriaWest BanGazaTotal 1950506,200127,60082,194-198,227914,221 1955502,135100,82088,330-214,701905,986 1960613,743136,561115,043-255,5421,120,889 1965688,089159,810135,971-296,9531,280,823 1970506,038175,958158,717272,692311,8141,425,219 1975625,857196,855184,042292,922333,0311,632,707 1980716,372226,554209,362324,035367,9951,844,318 1985799,724263,599244,626357,704427,8922,093,545 1990929,097302,049280,731414,298496,3392,422,514 19951,288,197346,164337,308517,412683,5603,172,641 20001,570,192376,472383,199583,009824,6223,737,494 20051,795,326401,071426,919690,988969,5884,283,892 20081,930,703416,608456,983754,2631,059,5844,618,141 If...

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From the Jordan-based Ammon News: Former advisor to late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, Muhammad Abu Tayr, called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to "stop distributing smiles in front of television cameras while Jerusalemite homes are being demolished every day before the eyes of the whole world by the occupying Israelis." In a statement distributed Wednesday, a copy of which was sent to 'Ammon News, Abu Tayr...

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Stuff

From MEMRI, republishing an article by former PLO ambassador to Vienna Dr. Ghazi Hussein,  in Al-Ba'th, the daily of the Syrian ruling party, "The ideological similarity between the two racist [movements] – Zionism and Nazism – as well as the persecution of the assimilated (non-Zionist) Jews by the Nazis and the signing of the Transfer Agreement between the Nazi economic authorities and the Jewish Agency, drove German and Austrian Jews to immigrate to Palestine in order to establish [the state of] Israel...

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