M O L E D E T . U S

SOLVING THE REFUGEE PROBLEM

The number of Arab refugees from the 1948 war of Independence remains close to three and a half million. In Gaza alone, an astonishing 800,000 of the 1,400,000 Arab inhabitants are refugees; these people live in squalid, subhuman conditions, within a thin strip of land that cannot contain such numbers.

These People are the victims of their own leaders, their status as refugees frozen despite the fact that all other refugees around the world from that era have been resettled. Arabs leaders continue to abuse their own people, making them promises and giving them false hope for the future.
It is on the basis of this false hope that they now blow themselves up, murdering innocent children and families. These people are living the illusion of a promise for a better future, when really they are pawns in political aspirations of their leaders.

Now, after fifty-five years of life in subhuman conditions, the international community must lift the ban on resettlement for these people. They must work to dismantle the refugee camps and build them new lives. The world cannot stand by silently while these camps stagnate, promoting hatred and suffering for them and others.
Moledet is the only party that consistently demands a solution to this problem. Member of Knesset Benny Elon is the only politician who continues to call for a clear policy that will deal with the refugees within the framework of any proposed peace plan. This is vital – Politically, strategically, and morally. Israel's allies must realize the enormous ramifications of avoiding a resolution of the refugees' plight, and the U.S. should join to work towards a viable international resolution that includes successful resettlement of these people.

IS THERE SUPPORT FOR TRANSFER?

YITZCHAK RABIN PRIME MINISTER:
"The refugee problem is one of the central problems to the Arab Israeli conflict. But Problems of this kind are solved by moving populations in one place or another. The USSR brought about changes in Eastern Europe's border, that led to the population transfer of three million people… surely there is no reason to use force, as was done in the USSR, but it is possible, in my opinion, to have population exchange on a basis other than force."

DAVID BEN GURION:
"We must first dismiss the preconception that this transfer is not feasible. It is no less than an act of justice to transfer the Arabs in our State to the Arab regions."

MOSHE DAYAN :
"Sooner or later, the Arabs will have to complete the transfer and absorb the 1948 Palestinian refugees in their lands. Israel will not accept them – not voluntarily and not by force."