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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Palestinian right of return

US pundit Bill Maher speaks about Palestinian statehood on his HBO show, 'Real Time,' December 15, 2023. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 17, 2023, 9:20 pm
Bill Maher to Palestinians: Israel is ‘here to stay’
HBO’s ‘Real Time’ host airs a history lesson in Israel’s defense, says while it was ‘unjust’ that Palestinian people were forced to move, they need to ‘make the best of it’
By ToI Staff
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan launches a campaign to protest a UN decision to highlight the Palestinian right of return on the anniversary of 1947 adoption of the partition plan that saw the establishment of a Jewish state. (Shahar Azran)
November 30, 2021, 12:51 am
Israel protests as UN marks partition plan with Palestinian solidarity event
Ambassador notes that Jews accepted historic November 29, 1947, vote, while Arabs declared war; slams world body for calling for Palestinian ‘right of return’
By ToI Staff
Ra'am party leader Mahmoud Abbas (David Cohen / Flash90); The charter of the Southern Islamic Movement
April 4, 2021, 6:39 pm
Ra’am’s guiding charter backs Palestinian right of return, calls Zionism racist
While Mansour Abbas is being wooed amid post-election deadlock, the Southern Islamic Movement, of which his party is the political wing, takes positions most Jewish Israelis abhor
By Aaron Boxerman
US Sen. Dianne Feinstein speaks at an election night event in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
November 19, 2019, 8:50 am
California Democrats reject ‘highly flawed anti-Israel’ amendment to platform
65% of 2,500 delegates vote down proposal to include call for the ‘right of return’ for Palestinians, erase references to two-state solution
By JTA
Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib poses with the pro-Hezbollah, pro-Hamas 'right of return' activist Abbas Hamideh on Saturday, January 12, 2019. (Twitter)
January 15, 2019, 5:11 am
Rashida Tlaib poses with Hezbollah-backing anti-Israel activist
Abbas Hamideh, who heads a Palestinian ‘right of return’ group, posts photo of the two after reception and private dinner; Tlaib’s office doesn’t respond to request for comment
By ToI Staff
PA President Mahmoud Abbas delivering a speech on August 15, 2018. (WAFA)
August 30, 2018, 2:57 pm
As Abbas appears to soften peace demands, PA officials say his views unchanged
After PA leader voices support for demilitarized Palestinian state, tempers tone on refugees, Palestinian sources say his stance has been consistent since the 1970s
By Raphael Ahren
Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during a Security Council meeting on April 13, 2018, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
August 29, 2018, 5:22 am
Haley: Palestinian ‘right of return’ should be ‘off the table’
Signaling move towards major policy shift, US ambassador to UN questions Palestinian refugee numbers as Trump administration prepares to roll out peace plan
By Eric Cortellessa
Former MK Einat Wilf in Jerusalem, May 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 30, 2018, 2:31 am
A self-declared leftist wages war on the Palestinian ‘right of return’
In new book, ex-Labor MK Einat Wilf says the refugee ethos is the biggest obstacle to peace. She blames the international community, the Israeli government and the IDF
By Raphael Ahren
Saudi King Salman, right, receives Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas after he arrives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 20, 2017. (Al-Ekhbariya via AP)
July 29, 2018, 5:21 pm
Saudi king backs Palestinian stance on Trump’s peace plan
‘We will not abandon you,’ King Salman said to tell PA’s Abbas, rebuffing Arab fears Riyadh is aligning with Israel, US
By Michael Bachner and Agencies
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party in the Knesset, June 18, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 5, 2018, 5:46 pm
Liberman, Shin Bet chief clash over unification of Palestinian families
TV report says defense minister astounded security officials by shouting at Nadav Argaman during a not-so-private chat in Prime Minister’s Office
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
An ad for children aired on Palestinian TV promises a 'return' to homes in Israel. In this still, an elderly hand is seen passing on old house keys to the hand of a child. A title declares: "From generation to generation, there is no alternative to the return.” (PA TV screenshot)
May 20, 2018, 9:27 am
Palestinian TV teaches children there’s ‘no alternative to return’ to 1948 homes
Ad that marks ‘Nakba’ commemorations declares ‘Our return’ to what is today’s Israel ‘is certain, and Jerusalem is the eternal capital of our state’
By ToI Staff
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks on a question during a town hall meeting on April 4, 2018 with Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, examining economic justice 50 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
May 18, 2018, 9:36 pm
After issuing video, Sanders won’t say if he backs Palestinian ‘right of return’
Senator this week released clip highlighting Palestinian demand, which would end Israel as a Jewish state; his office says video neither endorses nor rejects it
By Eric Cortellessa
A Palestinian protester holds bolt cutters amid black smoke from burning tires near the fence during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, May 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
May 17, 2018, 4:28 pm
World must tell Gaza’s Hamas-abused masses the truth: There will be no ‘return’
Palestinians are being mobilized for a ‘right’ they do not have and a ‘return’ that will not happen. Why does the international community insist on helping Hamas delude them?
By David Horovitz
Palestinians march past a tent city toward the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, in the Gaza Strip, on March 30, 2018. (Mahmud Hams/ AFP)
April 9, 2018, 9:06 pm
Hamas vows Gaza protests to last until Palestinians ‘return to all of Palestine’
Terror group leader Haniyeh says demonstrations, in which at least 30 Gazans have been reported killed in border violence, brought Palestinian issue back to center of world stage
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Thousands of Arab Israelis join a protest on May 12, 2016, calling for the return of Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war. ( Dov Lieber)
March 7, 2018, 9:10 pm
Gazans plan ‘peaceful resistance’ tent protest near Israel border
Organizers hope six-week action to urge ‘right of return’ for Palestinian refugees will attract hundreds of thousands
By Sue Surkes
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