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The Palestinian Refugee Problem and Its Historical Origins and Developments: Should These Issues Be Part of the Political Agreement? A New Approach to a Possible Solution

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Israel and the Palestinian Refugees

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  2. For a more detailed analysis of the Israeli policy towards the Palestinian refugee problem, see S.L. Fried, “They Are Not Coming Back” — The crystallisation of Israeli foreign policy toward possible solutions of the Palestinian refugee problem, 1947–1956: From the UN Partition Resolution to the Suez Campaign, in Hebrew, Thesis submitted for the degree Doctor of Philosophy, Submitted to the Senate of Tel-Aviv University, May 2003 (in review); and also idem, Precious Land-Israel’s Policy on Compensation for Abandoned Palestinian Property, 1947–1951: From the UN Partition Resolution to the Paris Conference, in Hebrew, Thesis submitted for the M.A. Degree in History at Tel-Aviv University, October 1998.

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  3. For a detailed analysis of these events, see S.L. Fried, “The Refugee Issue at the Peace Conferences, 1949–2000”, Palestine-Israel Journal 9 (2002), 24 et seq.

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  9. An interesting case study for such a model can be the German-Israeli experience after World War II. For that, see R.W. Zweig, “Restitution of Property and Refugee Rehabilitation: Two Case Studies”, Journal of Refugee Studies 6 (1993), 56 et seq.

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Eyal Benvenisti Chaim Gans Sari Hanafi

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Fried, S.L. (2007). The Palestinian Refugee Problem and Its Historical Origins and Developments: Should These Issues Be Part of the Political Agreement? A New Approach to a Possible Solution. In: Benvenisti, E., Gans, C., Hanafi, S. (eds) Israel and the Palestinian Refugees. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, vol 189. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68161-8_19

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