European Union Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen says the union will be willing to provide unspecific “financial compensation” for Palestinian refugees who agree to give up the right of return.
During the founding of Israel, the mass expulsion of Palestinians turned generations of civilians into permanent refugees, either in the occupied territories or in neighboring nations. All the while, they have insisted that they have a right to return to their homeland, something Israel has ruled out ever allowing.
Instead of leaving the matter permanently unsettled, it has often been raised as possible that they would receive some sort of compensation, though this is the first time a top EU official has explicitly offered to cover it.
Faaborg-Andersen also promised broad EU aid for an independent Palestinian state to bring the nation, which is more or less in ruins after decades of Israeli occupation, to some measure of stability.
Israeli officials angrily rejected both ideas, insisting the comments were “too vague” and that the Palestinains would “never accept” such a deal. The Palestinians have yet to respond, though until there’s an actual Palestinian state the aid isn’t really on offer to begin with.
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Why doesn't the EU consider asking Israel to pay the expelled Palestinians, since it is Israel who expelled them?
because they know Israel won't.
….And the EU is an accessory after and before the facts.
What a sinister parasite Israel is. Yet again, some one else paying for Israel’s atrocities. The zionists did the ethnic cleansing. Let them pay the bill.
What a sinister parasite Israel is. Yet again, some one else paying for Israel’s atrocities. The zionists did the ethnic cleansing. Let them pay the bill.
Pardon me for asking, but why exactly should EUROPEAN taxpayers have to pay for something that was done by ISRAELIS? So Doug beats up Frank in a fight and then Joe has to pay for Frank's medical bills? How does that compute?
Because the whole issue could have been settled in 1945 by giving the zionists Bavaria and shipping the Bavarians off to refugee camps in Prussia?
I dunno. Maybe we could give the zionists Wyoming and ship the Cheneys off to a refugee camp in Guantanamo?
EU should pay for the removal of the Est. Euro migrants who have been making the Palestinian lives hell. Send them back were they came from and leave the Palestinians in peace, then US need not continue the $3bil taxpayer handout yearly to support an enclave of 6mil and Germany can end the $bils it pays in reparation for 5Y of Hitler concentration camps.
If they are going to do that why not at the same time offer Jews money to give up their right of return? Rhetorical question, because we all know that Israel MUST be a Jewish state. Why is Europe even contemplating such a blatantly unfair scheme?