Introduction: the Palestinian Refugee Problem As an Impediment to Peace
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Notes Introduction: The Palestinian Refugee Problem as an Impediment to Peace 1. Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine, Submitted to the Secretary-General for Transmission to the Members of the United Nations, General Assembly Official Records: Third Session Supplement No. 11, 16 September 1948, A/648. 2. United Nations General Assembly, 194 (III). Palestine: Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator, 11 December 1948, A/RES/194 (III). 3. M. Shertok to A. Eban, 15 July 1948, Tel.MH710, Yehoshua Freundlich (ed), Documents on the Foreign Policy of Israel (hereafter DFPI), Vol. 1, 14 May– 30 September 1948 (Jerusalem: Israel State Archives, 1982), p. 334. 4. Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine, 16 September 1948, A/648; M. Shertok to Count Bernadotte (Tel Aviv), 1 August 1949, 93.03/94/11, DFPI, Vol. 1, pp. 441–4. 5. Ahmed Shukairy, ‘The Palestinian Refugees’, Excerpts from a Speech at the United Nations, 1958, in Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin (eds), The Arab– Israeli Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict (New York: Penguin, 1995), pp. 119–21. 6. Abba Eban, ‘The Refugee Problem’, Excerpts from a Speech, 17 Novem- ber 1958, in Laqueur and Rubin (eds), The Arab–Israeli Reader (New York: Penguin, 1995), p. 138. 7. Article V: Transitional Period and Permanent Status Negotiations, Israel– PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, 13 September 1993, in Laqueur and Rubin (eds), The Arab–Israeli Reader, pp. 599–601. 8. The proceedings and offers made at the Camp David Summit of 2000 have been much disputed by participants and scholars alike, especially over the question of Israel’s offer to the Palestinian Authority. For firsthand accounts see, for example, Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace (New York: Farrer, 2005); Bill Clinton, My Life: The Presidential Years (New York: Doubleday, 2004); Madeleine Albright, Madame Secretary (New York: Hyperion, 2003); Mahmoud Abbas, ‘Reports of the Camp David Summit, 9 September 2000’, Excerpts Published in The Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. XXX, No. 2 (Winter 2001), pp. 168–70; Gilead Sher, The Israeli–Palestinian Peace Negotiations, 1999–2001 (London: Routledge, 2006); For the academic debate on the subject see, Jeremy Pressman, ‘Visions in Collision – What Happened at Camp David and Taba’, International Security, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Fall 2003), pp. 5–43; Shimon Shamir and Bruce Maddy-Weitzman (eds), The Camp David Summit–What Went Wrong? Americans, Israelis, and Palestinians Analyze the Failure of the Boldest Attempt Ever to Resolve the Palestinian–Israeli Conflict (Brighton: Sussex Aca- demic Press, 2005); Robert Malley and Hussein Agha, ‘Camp David: The 191 192 Notes Tragedy of Errors’, New York Review of Books, Vol. 48, No. 13, 9 August 2001; Benny Morris, ‘Camp David and After: An Exchange 1. An Inter- view with Ehud Barak’, New York Review of Books, Vol. 49, No. 11, 13 June 2002; Ahron Bregman, Elusive Peace: How the Holy Land Defeated America (New York: Penguin, 2005); Aaron David Miller, Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab–Israeli Peace (New York: Random House, 2005); Itamar Rabinovich, Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948–2003 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004). 9. Ross, The Missing Peace, pp. 719–20. 10. Ibid., pp. 720–5. 11. Legal Unit, Negotiations Support Unit to Dr Mahmoud Abbas, 2 January 2001, AlJazeera Transparency Unit, The Palestine Papers, http://www .ajtransparency.com/en/projects/thepalestinepapers/20121821232131550 .html (Last visited 08 July 2012). 12. Text: Beirut Declaration, BBC.co.uk, 28 March, 2002, http://news .bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/monitoring/media_reports/1899395.stm (Last vis- ited 08 July 2012). 13. Ibid. 14. ‘Israel to offer counterproposal to Arab peace initiative, Peres says’, USA Today, 20 May 2007, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-05 -20-mideast_N.htm (Last visited 08 July 2012). 15. Ruth Lapidoth, ‘Israel and the Palestinians: Some Legal Issues’, The Jerusalem Institute of Israel Studies, The JUS Studies Series No. 94 (2003), pp. 48–9. 16. ‘Jewish State Call Alarms Mideast Press’, BBC.com, 15 November 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7096108.stm (Last visited 19 February 2013). 17. NSU to Palestinian Drafting team, ‘The Precondition of Recognizing Israel as a “Jewish State” ’, 13 November 2007, AlJazeera Transparency Unit, The Palestine Papers, http://www.ajtransparency.com/en/projects/ thepalestinepapers/20121823145359921.html (Last visited 08 July 2012). 18. Colin Shindler, ‘Can Israel Really Call Itself a “Jewish State”?’ The JC, 11 October 2012. 19. Saeb Erekat, ‘The Returning Issue of Palestine’s Refugees’, The Guardian, 10 December 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/ 10/israel-palestine-refugee-rights (Last visited 08 July 2012). 20. ‘Abbas Calls for Return of Palestinian Refugees’, Jerusalem Post, 23 Septem- ber 2011. 21. Nur Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of ‘Transfer’ in Zionist Political Thought, 1882–1948 (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Stud- ies, 1992); David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch (London: Faber and Faber, 2003); Walid Khalidi, From Haven to Conquest: Zionism and the Palestinian Problem Until 1948 (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1971); Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (London: Oneworld Publications, 2007). 22. Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians. 23. Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch, pp. 253–4. 24. Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 165. 25. Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians, pp. 177–9. Notes 193 26. Morris, The Birth Revisited, pp. 164–5; This is slightly in contrast to Morris’ earlier study in which he called Plan D ‘a strategic-ideological anchor’, Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987) p. 63. 27. Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (London: Penguin, 2001), p. 31. 28. Ibid. 29. Yoav Gelber, Palestine 1948: War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestine Refugee Problem (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2001), p. 98. 30. Nadav Safran, From War to War: The Arab–Israeli Confrontation, 1948–1967 (New York: Pegasus, 1969), pp. 34–5. 31. Joseph B. Schechtman, The Arab Refugee Problem (New York: Philosophical Library, 1952), p. 3. 32. Ibid., pp. 55–7. 33. Jon and David Kimche, Both Sides of the Hill (London: Secker & Warburg, 1960), p. 124. 34. Morris, The Birth, pp. 84–5. 35. Ibid., p. 67. 36. Erskine Childers, ‘The Other Exodus’, The Spectator, 12 May 1961, pp. 8–11. 37. Walid Khalidi, ‘Why Did the Palestinians Leave Revisited’, Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. XXXIV, No. 2 (Winter 2005), pp. 43–8. 38. Morris, The Birth, p. 290. 39. Deir Yassin was a village that was attacked by Zionist underground forces on 9 April 1948 in which over 100 residents were killed (the original figure quoted and taken up by the Arab media was 254 dead) including women and children with incidents of reported rape and looting. For scholarly accounts see, Gelber, Palestine 1948, pp. 307–18; Uri Milstein, History of the War of Independence Vol. 4: Out of Crisis Came Decision (New York: Univer- sity Press of America, 1996); Walid Khalidi, All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992); Khalidi, From Haven to Conquest; Benny Morris, ‘The Historiography of Deir Yassin’, Journal of Israeli History, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2005, pp. 79–107. 40. Dan Kurzman, Genesis 1948: The First Arab–Israeli War (New York: Signet, 1972), p. 183. 41. Arthur Koestler, Promise and Fulfilment: Palestine 1917–1949 (London: Macmillan, 1949), p. 160. 42. Aharon Cohen, Israel and the Arab World (London: W.H. Allen, 1970), pp. 458–60. 43. Ibid., pp. 460–2. 44. William R. Polk, David M. Stamler, and Edmund Asfour, Backdrop to Tragedy: The Struggle for Palestine (Boston: Beacon Press, 1957), p. 290. 45. Ibid., pp. 292–4. 46. Morris, The Birth, pp. 114–5. 47. Nafez Nazzal, The Palestinian Exodus from Galilee 1948 (Beirut: The Institute for Palestine Studies, 1978), pp. 102–9. 48. Morris, The Birth, p. 123. 49. Rony E. Gabbay, A Political Study of the Arab–Jewish Conflict (Geneve: Libraire E. Droz, 1959), pp. 83–4. 194 Notes 50. Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch, p. 264. 51. Morris, The Birth, pp. 287–8. 52. Shabtai Teveth, ‘The Palestine Arab Refugee Problem and Its Origins: Review Article’, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, (April 1990), p. 214–9. 53. Efraim Karsh, 1948, ‘Israel and the Palestinians: Annotated Text’, Commen- tary, May 2008, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/ 1948--israel--and-the-palestinians--annotated-text-11373?search=1 (Last vis- ited 31 October 2008). 54. Ibid. 55. Morris, The Birth. 56. Gabbay, A Political Study of the Arab–Jewish Conflict, p. 54; Schechtman, The Arab Refugee Problem,p.3. 57. Teveth, ‘The Palestine Arab Refugee Problem and Its Origins’, pp. 219–20; Also see Shabtai Teveth, ‘Charging Israel with Original Sin’, Commentary, Vol. 88, No. 3, (September 1989), pp. 28–30. 58. Avi Shlaim, ‘The Debate About 1948’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 27, No. 3, (1995), p. 288. 59. Avi Shlaim, Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988). 60. Ilan Pappe, Britain and the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1948–51 (Basingstoke: MacMillan, 1988). 61. Benny Morris, ‘Politics by Other Means’, The New Republic, 22 March 2004. 62. Efraim Karsh, ‘Rewriting Israel’s History’, Middle East Quarterly,Vol.3, No. 2, (June 1996), pp. 23–6; ‘Falsifying the Record: Benny Morris, David Ben-Gurion, and the “transfer” idea’, Israel Affairs, Vol.